marilyn klinkner

I love food forest.   Welcome to Zach Loeks.   I'd like to see a taxation system that taxes lawns as recreational and taxes food forests as agricultural.   In the near future...I hear 80 years we won't have enough food unless we change our agricultural system.   I vote for the food forest.   It also captures carbon maybe at a higher level than all crops grown close to the grown.     greetings to all.    Meriwether

I am thrilled that anyone is matching up people with land with people who have permaculture skills that are "certified" in some way, or "tested and proven"    .    Learning on the job, there is plenty to be said for that, but how cool is it to be teaching someone who already understands the vocabulary.   Please tell me more about the badges and other ways to match farmers with those who want to engage in some kind of cooperative arrangement .
I have been working on a prairie that i planted in Western Wisconsin.   Every early Spring we did a burn with the help of the local volunteer fire department.    I have not done this for a few years and now many small trees are coming in.   There are parts where sumac has taken over.  
I have other land adjoining that has a creek.   Currently we are using electric fence and lambs and a guard dog to eat down weedy patches so more prairie could be planted..    Originally the sandy land was praririe for we saw evidence of the kind of grasses and forbs that would grow on a short grass prairie.  

This land would support some smaller  animals like goats, sheep.    I have no outbuildings but we will build housing for the six lambs soon so they can get out of the cold.   Is there anyone who has an interest in preserving a prairie and creating new ones?    I have room for someone to stay while they build housing etc.    Maybe the person interested would not want the responsibililty of animals but would like to work on the prairie.    I have made a small living selling seeds to a local company and i know what is required equipment to make some money doing that.   in but i did this when I was driving to other sites that had wild plants, including empty lots amd roadsides.    At its peak the prairie here produced 25 pounds of lupine seed from planted seeds.       I wish i had something more concrete to offer but i do have 26 acres of land and about 10 acres of sand prairie and a small amount of tall grass prairie also.    

Above is a reply to new program of Badges, etc.

I love transplanting plants from the woodland areas of my land into descreet little plots for medicine, like solumon's seal but never thought of putting elderberries and other fruit bushes there.   Do you need to clear out space to make more sunlight?   And how would one keep deer from eating fruits if they are not right by one's house.