Sheri Menelli

Hi All,

A bit of an update. I started working with Rodger Savory (His dad is Allan Savory - Holistic Management). Rodger is
working on a project in the Salton Sea / Imperial Valley area.

We have 5 podcasts up now and a video at www.fixdesert.com that further describe the project.

We almost have the land that we want for the project.

Sheri

Hi All,

A bit of an update on the Salton Sea area.

I recorded something with Rodger Savory the other day. I thought I'd share it with you all.

My daughter lives only a few blocks away from Village Holmes - she is an Environmental Science major at Davis. I got to walk around once about 3 years ago but only had 10 min to see things. This spring I'll be up there to see my daughter and I want to spend at least an hour walking around the neighborhood.

Village Homes has come up several times in the last few days in books I was reading and videos I was watching.

It got me thinking. Are there any other communities like it? (I searched and got this thread). It also got me thinking that if I were a developer, how would I develop something like Village Holmes? What would I change to make it better? What would make it better?

I started rereading Brad Landcaster's books on Rainwater harvesting this week. It also got me thinking about the best way to start a homestead if you were to find yourself in an RV and a piece of really horrible land. I think there was a case study on a place they later called Running Rain ?

It let me to wish that Brad Landcaster had been on the show Homestead Rescue or someone else similar to him. Wish someone would produce a show with Permie people fixing homesteads.

Anyway, I degress but I would love to know what we would all do better if we could redesign village homes or create another, newer one?

Hi,
That was not an infusion that I drank for 20 years, that was copied from Susun Weed's website or maybe someone else's.

I have drank it before but I probably only do it a dozen times a year at most only because I usually forget about it. I just put hot water over crushed comfrey leaves.

Anyway, I really want to find a researcher or even start with an FFA or 4H kid who wants to try it on their animals and bring the results to a fair or competition.

This is amazing. I was thinking about how to get research done on Comfrey this morning - before I received 2 emails saying that people had responded to my 7 year old post!

Today my daughter goes to UC Davis to study environmental studies. I'm hoping that she gets connected to a few researchers this year.

I dont' believe this causes research and I believe the studies were so flawed but I want the whole world to see that it is safe through a few papers and good research!

I'm not interested in buying a few acres of land to live there. I actually have no interest in living there. My desire is to be involved with getting something to happen to restore it. I don't think we can wait centuries for someone to decide to do something.

How can we just ignore this when the air quality affects us on the coast of Southern California?

I don't personally have to have the money or personally know how to do it yet. I just need to help facilitate those in power to start looking at solutions.

Update: I never did buy land by the Salton Sea.

It has remained an interest of mine to do something for / about the area. It has gotten much worse in the past few years.

Still wonder if anyone has done a permaculture project out there.

I wish we could get someone to tour this and give us more info. I will re-watch the video. Last time it was incredibly inspiring.

I didn't see a link for the extra interviews / package - where is that?

Who else lives in Montana who would want to tour and tell us about this???

If you watch the movie, Need to Grow (you can watch the screening free until Oct 15th at https://grow.foodrevolution.org/screening/), you
will see them talk about Michael Smith's invention in Montana.

The AACT Organic Carbon Engine (OCE) is a biomass powered device that generates syngas, bio-oil and biocarbon (biochar).  
Residual heat and CO2, generated by the conversion process, is recycled back into the GPH system for the cultivation of
algae and its conversion into organic fertilizer and fuel.  The OCE is capable of processing up to six tons of biomass daily
as it generates two tons of biocarbon and 360 gallons of bio-oil

Biocarbon from the OCE is combined with the digested algae from our ABR to produce our proprietary soil amendment blends.

AACT’s adaptive behavioral controls sense and regulate the flow of thermal energy, carbon dioxide and biomass through the
entire system for the optimal production of biofuels, fertilizer and electricity.

https://www.algaeaqua.com/full/PBR.html

Just wondering if anyone has toured it or if anyone else has created something like this elsewhere. It seems that they are licensing the technology.

Please watch the movie. The beginning is slow about 20 min in it is really incredible to see the thing they built  in Montana. Truly this is MINDBLOWING. I wish we could make millions of his biodigesters and get them everywhere.