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Pecan Media: food forestry and forest garden ebooks
Now available: The Native Persimmon (centennial edition)
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Tyler Ludens wrote:I would love to spend it on trees and seeds for my food forest, or maybe on two more infiltration basins where we could hold some runoff.
My online educational sites:
https://www.pinterest.ca/joelbc/homestead-methods-tools-equipment/
https://www.pinterest.ca/joelbc/mixed-shops/
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Charli Wilson wrote:
Any preferance on 'seeds and trees'? Anything you'd really really like to add t your food forest?
Idle dreamer
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Charli Wilson wrote:some luffa seeds
“The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.”― Albert Einstein
Tyler Ludens wrote:
What I hope for: Plum, pear, quince, persimmon, loquat, pomegranate, fig, apple, peach, apricot, palm, etc...
Moderator, Treatment Free Beekeepers group on Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/treatmentfreebeekeepers/
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"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
An important distinction: Permaculture is not the same kind of gardening as organic gardening.
Mediterranean climate hugel trenches, fabuluous clay soil high in nutrients, self-watering containers with hugel layers, keyhole composting with low hugel raised beds, thick Back to Eden Wood chips mulch (distinguished from Bark chips), using as many native plants as possible....all drought tolerant.
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Charli Wilson wrote:
Michael Cox wrote:More beehives!
Woo! bees are amazing. I hope to get into beekeeping one day.
Moderator, Treatment Free Beekeepers group on Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/treatmentfreebeekeepers/
Michael Cox wrote:
Just do it! It doesn't need to be expensive. And now is the time of year... swarm season is coming up.
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Zone 5/6
Annual rainfall: 40 inches / 1016 mm
Kansas City area discussion going on here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1707573296152799/
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Casie Becker wrote:If I had an extra thousand dollars of mad money, I'd probably try to hire someone to finish those odds and ends of little tasks that weigh on us, without actually getting completed. I don't know of any task that we're not capable of on our own, but sometimes we build mental blocks against simple things. Hiring someone else to do these would feel like buying some peace of mind.
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"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
Charli Wilson wrote:
Casie Becker wrote:If I had an extra thousand dollars of mad money, I'd probably try to hire someone to finish those odds and ends of little tasks that weigh on us, without actually getting completed. I don't know of any task that we're not capable of on our own, but sometimes we build mental blocks against simple things. Hiring someone else to do these would feel like buying some peace of mind.
That I can completely understand! I have a million and one little jobs that I'm perfectly capable of doing- but it is finding time and space to do them all! Having said that, my experiences with hiring tradesmen to do stuff for me has usually been dismal and given me even more work to do afterwards- but that's just my luck!
Charli Wilson wrote:
Casie Becker wrote:If I had an extra thousand dollars of mad money, ....
That I can completely understand! I have a million and one little jobs that I'm perfectly capable of doing- but it is finding time and space to do them all! Having said that, my experiences with hiring tradesmen to do stuff for me has usually been dismal and given me even more work to do afterwards- but that's just my luck!
That is also how I would spend my mad money [if I had any], Charli: Hiring someone to do the backbreaking things I cannot do anymore [because, you guessed, I've been doing them so far and my back is again out of whack]
When I first hired this man, he did not know how to plant a tree, a garden, take care of my bees or my chickens. The trick is to shadow your worker(s) until you are confident that they will do it correctly. Also, pay them right, either in money or in produce or combination ... and praises for everything he did well. I wrote him a recommendation and he had a job for a while. (He has to take care of him mom and does not "present well" for an office job, so he is not very employable. But he is a nice fellow and has become a hard worker.
He still needs directions, but he will dig new holes for the trees but the mentoring created a nice working friendship and I could not be happier. He appreciates a boss lady who pays on time, gives him praise, allows flexible hours...(Channel your inner teacher and mentor. Rarely does a worker come ready and trained) Courage!
$10.00 is a donation. $1,000 is an investment, $1,000,000 is a purchase.
Country oriented nerd with primary interests in alternate energy in particular solar. Dabble in gardening, trees, cob, soil building and a host of others.
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Life is too short or my list is too long, not sure which.
Wyatt Barnes wrote:If I had 1000 dollars drop into my lap I would pay down the things that got bumped because I paid a tad under a 1000 dollars for an emergency cat operation. That is not a euphemism, my cat needed a life saving surgery that totaled 958 dollars. Now I have to protect this cat from harm for at least 20 years to get my money back, sort of.
Life is too short or my list is too long, not sure which.
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Free means at no costs or restrictions, Freedom means choosing your own costs and restrictions!
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