Dan Grubbs wrote:Love this idea. And R Scott, holla if you'd like a hand. I'd like to help and get a look at your subsoiler in action.
1 - Cut three new swales in our pasture to add to the two already built.
2 - Plant the two existing swales with the dozens of trees and bushes coming in April.
3 - Plant S. lespedeza in alley crop between two of our swales.
4 - Build five loafing sheds (three-sided sheds), one for each of our paddocks.
5 - Study to see if any EQIP funds are available for the work we're doing on our farm.
Zone 5/6
Annual rainfall: 40 inches / 1016 mm
Kansas City area discussion going on here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1707573296152799/
William, to me that's permaculture-food's just a part of the designWilliam Bronson wrote: Just got ourselves a bit of land, and with it some vision so...
-Fence the perimeter
-Pave the driveway
-Build a shed
-Capture water
-Build raised beds.
Damn, looks like planting food isn't even in the top five!
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Subtropical desert (Köppen: BWh)
Elevation: 1090 ft Annual rainfall: 7"
George Meljon wrote:1) Finish chicken coop
2) 200 feet of contour mini hugel beds
3) Start forest garden around pond
4) Seed lower field with sorghum
5) Hop towers
George Meljon wrote:
5) Hop towers - ?what was I thinking?
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Dan Grubbs wrote:
Dan Grubbs wrote:Love this idea. And R Scott, holla if you'd like a hand. I'd like to help and get a look at your subsoiler in action.
1 - Cut three new swales in our pasture to add to the two already built.
2 - Plant the two existing swales with the dozens of trees and bushes coming in April.
3 - Plant S. lespedeza in alley crop between two of our swales.
4 - Build five loafing sheds (three-sided sheds), one for each of our paddocks.
5 - Study to see if any EQIP funds are available for the work we're doing on our farm.
April 1 update --
1&2 - I have complete one more of the swales I wanted to build (now have three of five done). We're planting on it and the one just down hill on April 26. Here's hoping it's not raining that day as some friends are going to help.
3 - We planted our sericea lespedeza this past weekend between two swales which equaled about 1/2 acre. We're getting good rain this week, so I'm hopeful. The experiment for goats begins!
4 - We found a commercial loafing shed that is built on skids for a very reasonable price, so we're going to go that route and move it as we rotate paddocks.
5 - We applied for and received a farm number and have since completed our NRCS application for EQIP programs and now will begin to develop our Conservation Activity Plan.
I dont' have them all done, but getting close. Yay!
Zone 5/6
Annual rainfall: 40 inches / 1016 mm
Kansas City area discussion going on here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1707573296152799/
Subtropical desert (Köppen: BWh)
Elevation: 1090 ft Annual rainfall: 7"
Jennifer Wadsworth wrote:Update 6/28/14
1. Teach my first PDC Finito! The students' projects were really creative - I'm so proud of them.
2. Work on my "hedge fund" (as per this post) This is NEXT UP and will get installed in the fall with a little help from my buddies at Watershed Management Group and their Green Living Co-op.
3. Finish the earthworks in my front yard (infiltration basins) - see above
4. Attend the Water Harvesting Certification class in Tucson in March - become a certified water harvester - It's official - I AM NOW A CERTIFIED WATER HARVESTER! Wow - that was one of the hardest classes I've ever taken.
5. Do an internship with Geoff Lawton at his Greening the Desert - the Sequel site in Jordan in Oct/Nov. Due to limited vision and other stuff, I will probably be documenting the project for use as a manual or case study. This is off the table this year until my health improves which really bums me out. However, I can now participate in a few local activities such as the Green Infrastructure class that I would have missed otherwise. And I have time to be on the advisory council for a couple of local sustainability/permaculture non-profits.
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Burra Maluca wrote:Find a way of enticing the menopause fairy to visit and then hold her hostage for as long as necessary.
Convert the olive grove to a food forest.
Send my son across the pond to visit The Land.
Get the grid-feed solar panels up so I get a bit of regular income.
Finish writing my book.
Burra Maluca wrote:
Tickets booked for the Grand Adventure.
Base is ready for the solar panels, and payment is waiting to go through. Should be all done in a couple more weeks, but this is Portugal so there are bound to be delays...
A selection of trees and berry bushes planted in the olive grove, more to follow.
Manuscript is still sitting there waiting for chapter 5 to emerge.
Menopause fairy is proving elusive. Suggestions welcome.
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Mike Sved wrote:1-take ownership of our new land
2-clear access road/trail into the land
3-set up camper there
4-wake up there, brew coffee and then....
5-ponder the 26 acres of possibilities
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Craig Dobbelyu wrote:I keep a notebook with projects and it's always being added to. Here's five good ones I've got on the horizon.
1. Expand my rabbit production
2. Dig a few new ponds
3. Build a respectable outdoor kitchen
4. Build a smoke house for the six pigs I have reserved for spring 2014
5. Add a few hundred more feet of swales and hugels
"You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result”
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Owner, Etta Place Cider
Subtropical desert (Köppen: BWh)
Elevation: 1090 ft Annual rainfall: 7"
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." --Mahatma Gandhi
"Preach the Gospel always, and if necessary, use words." --Francis of Assisi.
"Family farms work when the whole family works the farm." -- Adam Klaus
Zone 5/6
Annual rainfall: 40 inches / 1016 mm
Kansas City area discussion going on here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1707573296152799/
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." --Mahatma Gandhi
"Preach the Gospel always, and if necessary, use words." --Francis of Assisi.
"Family farms work when the whole family works the farm." -- Adam Klaus
Zone 5/6
Annual rainfall: 40 inches / 1016 mm
Kansas City area discussion going on here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1707573296152799/
Dan Boone wrote:
1) build a couple of zone-1 raised garden beds and a compost bin;
Dan Boone wrote:
2) establish a clover ground cover and level harvesting surface under the two established/neglected wild pecan trees that I've already rehabilitated by removing competing understory trees and chest-high brambles;
Dan Boone wrote:
3) finish clearing young ash trees that are shading and competing for water with my ancient (it could be up to 100 years old, and looks it) Kieffer pear tree;
Dan Boone wrote:
4) clear away the underbrush from beneath at least six more wild pecan and persimmon trees before harvest time next fall;
Dan Boone wrote:
5) before spring rains, finish building two extremely modest (faggots/fascines and borrowed sod) water/sediment retention barriers in shallow erosion gullies.
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Peter Ellis wrote:1: get the house ready for the market
2: get the yard ready for the market
3: keep reading any and everything I can find about permaculture
4: keep reading about alternative building methods
5: keep researching the Washtenaw michigan area where we will be landing in another year
Part of getting the yard ready involves all sorts of gardening stuff. This next growing season will hopefully yield Jerusalem artichokes, bunches of garlic, peas, beans, potatoes, squash, lettuce, kale, Swiss chard, tomatoes, peppers. I have a load of work to do in the yard to make it presentable and the house is being massively renovated due to burst pipes in the crazy cold spell we had.
So, there is a whole load of design and execution to be done and walked away from, in order to get us to another, much larger, load of design and execution. Biting off so much. It is, in essence, a leap of faith.
John Pollard wrote:
This year:
Get gravel on our road/trail.
Finish electric easement.
get as much growing here as possible aside from the existing oak/hickory/dogwood.
Get some chickens for meat and eggs
Build my shop
If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
If I am only for myself, what am I?
If not now, when?
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