Kyle Ignaitis

Then why do earthships have 90-98% glazing on their south facing wall? They experience 0' temps in northern New Mexico.

I find it hard to believe that 10% of my south wall should be glass, and 90% wall.

If by stucco you mean the earthen lime plaster! I don't know if that's what exterior plaster is called, but they have it. It "breathes" so it will not be a gold place for mold to grow inside your walls.

Thanks everyone! I just packet a 10lb 5g bucket and then some with the spike ball culprit. They are similar to forget me nots. Where the soft fuzzy fruit turns into a hard sticker.

I finally figured that pulling their taproot is easier than picking them out of our cats fur and sleeping with them in our bed sheets for months. And cheaper than a $500 mower that I don't really need yet.

Composting them sounds risky. I think I may have to burn them.

Still probably have another 5g to go, with the few elusive ones and ones still growing.

Thanks again for teaching me something, the internet is FULL of useless IMHO lawn care info and no permie stuff!

If I mow before seed, say for 10 years, grasses and weeds would only continue to pop up if wind blew them in from off site right?

Say I put up 4 infinite walls around my lush green property, and I mowed every spring before seed, would I be left with dirt and no bugs/life?

A good idea was brought up, to mow in sections, but even that sounds risky to me if I want to keep my bugs and majority of plant life (Besides sticker ball bushes which is what makes me want to mow them down!)

Thank you

-Kyle

Yeah, the 10 acre field across the street is all star thistle, but luckily I have none. Which makes me wonder how far seeds really blow. I have trouble trusting that method. I could buy ground cover seeds but I like the fact that the ones I have are true natives. And I bet I would miss a few to replace and completely lose that species.

I need some animals too. We border some type of uncared for BLM land with a tidal wave of poison oak crawling through my fence.

No defensible space on their side either. Makes me wonder if they are required to provide that?

Still trying to figure out nature. I have an acre, I am happy with all the wild native grasses I get in the spring, except one that turns into "sticker balls" in the fall, getting all over our cats and causing us to throw out entire blankets unless we pick them out for hours.

FWIW it's oak/pine woodland, 50" rain, 1700', Sierra Nevada foothills, California.

If I mow before they (and all others) go to seed, say for 5 years, that would minimize their return right? But then I would lose my miners lettuce etc? And how would the good stuff pop up if I always mow before seed?

I feel like I would be creating a desert. My only solution is hand pulling the ID'd sticker weeds that the spit bugs call home as I pull the taproot out of the ground.

The idea of mowing only seems to benefit the ground with the leftover unbagged clippings, otherwise it seems kind of destructive from a bugs POV. So I would like to avoid that.

Any advice? I was thinking possibly mow for one season and hopefully 2 year old seed would pop up? Is that how seeds work? Thanks, I'm new here

Haha nothing is preventing me from doing that. I will do it out of spite and to return it back to the earth. I've filled a 5 gallon bucket myself with wood pellets to cover it up. They work great and my cat now uses them!

I still have to have a septic installed if I want to build a house though. I have 3 neighbors within eyesight, with $300-500K houses... I have a feeling the only option for me is to play by the rules in the land of the fee!

Yeah dumpers are sickening. My dad and I would dig through illegal dumping piles for mail and turn people in haha.

I guess I just have to take the cowardice route, build a house, and cash out and move to BFE lol.

My other main concern is Plac3r county CA does not allow composting toilets. As if me composting my own waste as they did the past 10000000000 years is going to effect anyone on my acre of land. I'd pay $25,000 for an outhouse permit instead of a septic if I could!

BUT I have been researching this, and a town that I currently rent in is unincorporated (Newcastle CA) lots of infrastructure and good roads, but land for sale still has zoning restrictions etc. And if you built without permits, I bet local authorities would be all over you. So where is the line drawn?

Awesome video! I love the way he talks. Thanks for posting that