Beau M. Davidson

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Beau Micah Davidson is a permaculturist and natural builder, lo-tech mycologist, herb farmer, acoustical and audio engineer, homesteader, tradesman, artist, husband, and dad. Prior to homesteading and permaculture, his experience included a successful career in the Nashville music industry, a painters and fine finishers apprenticeship in Melbourne, Australia, and an analog recording studio in the urban core of Kansas City.  This is where he met his wife, Kristen, and together, they fell in love with soil & microbes, started a family, and moved to Beau's 6-generation farm in South Central Kansas, where they now specialize in growing and wildcrafting culinary and medicinal herbs, mushrooms, and woodland goods.  Beau and Kristen serve on the Leadership Team for Estuaries, a ministry seeking to incite a cultural ecology that fosters spiritually holistic, emotionally healthy, and intellectually rich believers who are capable of engaging meaningfully with culture.  He holds a B.S. in Recording Industry Management: Production & Technology, with minors in Mass Communications and Film.
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William Bronson wrote: ... elderberry ... Raspberry and blackberry ...
If they root, they become either welcome additions or sources of chop-n-drop.
Willow ...



This is almost another category - rigid structural bits that might also grow and become living retaining root structures and crops.  I like it.

In my neck of the woods, though, they would probably have to be regularly cut back to keep them from becoming a hugel monocrop.

I'm experimenting with stripping the leaves from my volunteer catalpa trees to use as green manure.
The catalpa sphinx moth feeds on  the tree an it is said to strip entire catalpa trees of foliage, without killing the tree.
I'm hoping the tree reacts to my stripping off leaves in the same way.
If so, they might be a good tree for horizontal reinforcement.



Cool.  We have tons of catalpa.  Let me know how it goes!
1 week ago
Made some updates to the above hugel mulch materials chart for an upcoming workshop.
1 week ago

RENE DE JESUS GOMEZ LOPEZ wrote:Hello, I purchased the "Mike Oehler's Low-Cost Underground House Workshop & Survival Shelter Seminar - 3 movie +2 Books Deal " but I can't download the books. Are they still available for download?




What do you see at the bottom of the first post? The one all about the product, just below the purchase/upgrade/gift boxes?
3 weeks ago
I upped my backer amount to $65 because I want the chair course!
3 weeks ago
I love jumping spiders.  Such winsome beasts, and such a helpful houseguest.
1 month ago

paul wheaton wrote:does this work?




Ooooh, fancy.  I wanna try!

Going to see if I can adjust the frame parameters to show only the grid bit.

1 month ago