Luke Welsh

I figured out how to log in to permies to throw all my internet enthusiasm behind this one. I’d love to learn a lot and do best in video form

Hi Angi, and thanks for gracing the forum with your presence! I'm interested to learn more about pressure cooking - it's up there on my list of permaculture skills to acquire. My wife and I just tried our hand at pickling and making fire ciders, and with our urban yard transitioning more land from sheetmulched-lawn to garden-space this year, we'll hopefully have the bounty to put some extra away for colder months.

Cheers!
Luke

We have four dwarf fruit trees that we planted last year. Yesterday we had a permablitz where we dug swales and sheetmulched the whole area to high heaven. I plan to plant yarrow and comfrey plugs by moving mulch, cutting a little area open, and planting into the soil. I'd also like to include perennial veggies (sea kale, miner's lettuce, rhubarb, cardoon, artichoke), borage, gogi berries (I have seeds), and groundnut or wild blue indigo to fix nitrogen. Is it too late to start by seed to establish perennials? Would I need already started plugs?

Some pics from the permablitz and the sheetmulched area here: https://www.facebook.com/kansaspermacultureinstitute/posts/1655664977976563

Hi Joseph!

My question feels pretty basic. I think I understand the philosophy but not the application. I bought varieties of tomatoes and cherry tomatoes from my local community garden organization. I understand that I'll use the seeds from their tomatoes as next year's tomato generation. But can I just take the tomatoes that the squirrels pull down and leave them on the ground for next spring? Do I need to collect the seeds in the summer and put them out the following spring, or start them inside even earlier?

Will the various breeds of tomatoes interbreed naturally by cross-pollination? Will I end up with a mix between a cherry tomato and a heirloom tomato that could be delicious or mediocre?

I started a monthly blog to write in the ballpark of where religion and politics can inform one another for a better world. And health from an Ayurvedic perspective (balance the elements, young Skywalker).

"Ayurvedic Constitutions: Kapha, Pitta, Vata" - https://lukewelsh.substack.com/p/ayurvedic-constitutions-kapha-pitta
"Changing Capitalism, with Compassion" - https://lukewelsh.substack.com/p/combating-capitalism-with-compassion
"Is Noam Chomsky a Bodhisattva?" - https://lukewelsh.substack.com/p/is-noam-chomsky-a-bodhisattva-221

I want to start conversations, so if this sparks ideas or resonates (or not) with something you feel, let me know!

Hi, and as the rest have said, thank you for being with us. I'm interested in balancing the qualities of food (sweet, salty, sour, bitter, pungent, astringent) in a diet as well as nutritional/antioxidant value and producing sufficient quantity. Do you know of any sour perennials to grow? What are your favorite perennial foods to grow in terms of ease, volume of production, and aesthetic value?  - Luke

Hi Crystal! My wife and I just got a quarter acre of land in the heart of the city, and we're excited to convert our lawn into the food forest dream. One question I have is if there's any way to use permaculture to reduce sun exposure to the house - I imagine a 30-foot metal trellis that sits 6" off of the house, and running a sun-loving vine with berries that birds eat all up it, as a way to feed the birds and hopefully save some more of the ground berries for us ground dwellers. Have you heard of anything like this? My other question is what to do with a 15x30 foot patch of the backyard that has grass now but has gravel all underneath it? We were thinking of doing clover and keeping it relatively bare for a play area and zone for classes. Thank you!