Matt Powers

Thank you for the inside look! I always benefit from seeing other teachers' methods - this was very cool! Thanks!

Mike Haasl wrote:Hey Matt, I followed the download directions but when I clicked to download it, my virus protection program went crazy.  McAfee classifies it as "Malicious Downloads".  Not sure why but I figured I'd let you know.

And I REALLY appreciate the headsup - that's been setup the same way for downloading for years now without complaint and I'm a solopreneur so I'm not double-checking systems setup years ago, so knowing Hightail has degraded is critical for me! THANK YOU!!

HighTail used to be a reputable sharing program - I need to fix that.

I'll just post it here for you all!

Nathanael Szobody wrote:Why look further that Molison's Permaculture Handbook?

Bill's work has outdated, out of print, and disproved science - I spent years with dozens of experts updating it. Even the new Italian translation of Bill's work required a lot of updating for it to be accurate and was done with Lisa Mollison's blessing.

If it's an academic work, it MUST be updated regularly with current research.

It's also standard practice to get peer-reviewers and to align things to standards. Both those aspects never were approached with Bill's work - his best book, the Designer's Manual, is rested upon 70s & 80s science. If you've been following science for the past 20 years, we've been having groundbreaking discoveries every few weeks.

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But with perennials, you would have to till it right? That would be a loss right there and extra work as well as it messes up the soil food web. With this annual mix, it can be chopped and dropped in place without tillage forming a new layer of organic matter and then soil that has no seeds in it IF you cut before they form OR if you flail mow it while the seeds are still green it will become soil without much of anything sprouting in it next season. It forms a clean slate.

Cowpeas - there was a study done with cowpeas and corn and cowpeas in a season provided the most nitrogen fixation and biomass production. Perennial legumes grow fast but retain most of their form each year: the cowpeas are annuals and give up their entire bodies but for seeds each year.

Yes all together they go. I'll make a video sowing them in the spring for folks

These are heavily broadcast - "throw sow"