Hugo Morvan

Did you take the security brake off. That thing on top you push close with your wrist?
I've seen people go ape-shit trying to start it and then it was just that simple security.

Awesome diverse grex Greg Mosser! You'll probably have some seed to share or do you like direct seed? Do you have brown fleshed ones as well?

What a clever idea Julie! Having people send their own seeds in avoids people just wanting free seeds. On GTS Europe there were quite some that just seem to want to get on the list for the Serendipity Seed Swap Europe or seed train. Whatever we've thrown at it, like could you tell us who you are and make an introduction post, some people seem to just want to do the minimal and not get engaged at all. Which is quite depressing when you do all to make seed great again. This is a great workaround. thank you!
We've started the Starter Kits and a Telegram channel about Adaptation Gardening where we speak low barrier of all things adaptation gardening and permaculture etc and show pictures of treasures etc. The Starter Kits you probably heard me bang on about, but for others reading are the seeds we have in true abundance that can be distributed without risk of losing something, like all cucurbitacea, but also parsnip and parsley to name a few.
We'll have a meeting in Croatia soon and speak of the future of the seed exchances, i'll definitely mention this initiative and see how people react.

Hi Eric, nice mulch mat! A shame of those beautiful grasses growing there. I guess you want to control it that it stays as it was? I wouldn't know if that is doable easily. We have something a bit similar to you which has a taproot and will pop back the next year. Check out if it has a deep root. Then you'll need to take them all out and remove the mulch. Hoping there's no seeds in there of it. And hot compost it.
Or do the 'lazy' way and plonk a lot of more grasses on top, hope it surpresses the evil colonizer enough and grow something that really covers it over summer. Like pumpkins or potatoes for a year.
Maybe another giant mushroombed will keep it down?
Or sowing a winterrye into it, which will shade it out over summer.
Just some ideas for this. Good luck!

Those saltlakespring seeds look very interesting to start a landrace covering a whole plot of land. I'd love to do this to gain land of grass to grow crops on it.
I dream of a covercrop of winter rye. plunk it down after harvesting a replacing quantity of seeds. Growing dry land pumpkins that need not a lot of soil nutrients that will cover the plot over summer by the foliage and then enter winter-seeds like the legumes you describe, fixing nitrogen and covering a decomposing mass of grass killing mulch.
It would make my gardening so much easier if there was less grass creeping in constantly.
I have the rye, and the pumpkins seeds, but so far seem out of luck with my neighbor farmer having flat tires constantly. They inner tubes he buys are chinese rubbish which seems to be all the market provides.

My farmer partner always has a lot of haybails he leaves around his fields too long. Then the cows don't like them anymore. So free mulch. It's quite the job, but i mulch all the pathways between the beds. And newly to colonize parts to add to the permaculture project i dump a lot of mulch to kill the grasses over winter and remulch in spring and then dump manure on it. Grow pumpkins. Or just put potatos in it.

This year the first grasshoppers appeared, and while I don’t like they ate my parsley, it makes me proud that the land has healed enough for them to return. It’s also good exercise chasing them, so I can give them to my chickens.  

That's a good thing i heard, you're moving up in this things called brix if grasshoppers show up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnNOvA3diDU&pp=ygUMYnJpeCBpbnNlY3Rz

Oh noes! So the birds are messing with it. I thought it was the ants!
Luckily for you chaos gardening is a thing. It confuses snails. They have to wait a day before they have their stomach adapted to new crops, do it ain't all bad.

Good idea. But for obtaining landrace seeds or adaptation agriculture movement as it has been dubbed now there is a worldwide organization that offers them. It's called GoingToSeed. I direct people there towards Permies site if i can, because to me permaculture and adaptation gardening fit hand in glove,reinforcing each other. They have a box travelling differing continents called the Serendipity Seed Swap or the European Seed Train in which people can put seeds that do well at their place and they can take what they like to try. I never had something boost my arsenal of crops i can suddenly grow as much as that. And i'm in Europe where we don't even have so many people's breeders as in US.
Exchanges is great, but i've just traveled an hour to one and there was one other man sitting at a table with scruffy envelopes of 2021. He was very pleased to see me though and so where the ten or so other visitors. my advice would be NOT to try to set up something apart, you know, like Permies only, but just pitch your idea to local seed swaps that already exist. Enthusiast gardeners are a dying breed and the grey hairs at those fairs are happy with all the younger people they can get to join and just have to come to terms with the fact that the younger generations see things in a much wider context than they do. Change goes slowly. First they laugh at you, then they fight you and then you win. There is a great book about Landraces by Joseph Lofthouse and there is David the Good who's done some great interviews about it as well.
We're also talking about breeding landrace shrubs, trees and cows and chickens, so this idea has come a long way already! You're not alone!

It's great information John! As a builder I'm always fascinated by those well thought out methods, and old systems that have proven to work for humans fascinate me. But before somebody copies this one to one i mention some points i have doubts about. That's all. Let the hive mind have at it.