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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Brock Tice wrote:Paid today! I am hoping to get help planning for next season as I start to do fall cleanup. Been listening to a lot of podcast backlog so I think I have a decent idea of what I’m getting into šŸ˜…. Email me at the address I paid from with further instructions I guess?



Hey Brock! Paul will have to get back to you when he gets notice of your payment email address. However, I have helped set a few of these things up for him.
A few things to know: the more you put into it, the more you'll get out. If you provide advanced information of climate, context, goals, plot features, as well as lots of images of where things are now and references things you might want to do, you can really cover a lot of ground. A great way to do this would be to start a thread in an appropriate forum to begin collecting this information to share during your consult.
Another thing to mention is that Paul likes to ask people if they'd be willing to do these sessions live for the public so that they can benefit everyone. That is voluntary, and up to you. Just throwing it out there for you to think about while we get the ball rolling.
Excited for your consult!

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!
2 weeks ago
Made some updates to the above hugel mulch materials chart for an upcoming workshop.
3 weeks 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?
1 month ago
I upped my backer amount to $65 because I want the chair course!
1 month ago
I love jumping spiders.  Such winsome beasts, and such a helpful houseguest.
1 month ago