George Mogil

Hello!

So I plan to partition pieces of growable terrain, remove manually any snow cover, place a black fabric that heats up the soil by absorbing the sunlight in an attempt to thaw out the soil still frozen down to the frostline. After this happens, work the soil and plant seeds or seedlings started indoors and hardened. To help the seedlings along, replace the black fabric with a commercial white fabric that protects during the cool nights by shielding and maintaining a higher temperature and removing it during the day.

In the event of a killer frost (sometimes either in early June or early August), smudge fires (in barrels) that produce a lot of smoke can be used.

The growing season here is 60 - 90 days June to August, postal code J0R 1H0 in Canada, but I'm in the hilly country about 1000 feet altitude. We have a 6 month winter season.

Anyone using this or similar technique, please comment and mention the type of fabric used (could it be burlap?), the brand or other commercial product or even a home made cover?).  

Hello Everyone!
For anyone who has an outdoor fish pond: how deep is it, would or does a pond aerator do the job, are the fish healthy and edible, do you need a gizmo to prevent freezing in the winter, do you bring the fish inside during winter and how big an aquarium or fish tank do you need, any other questions such as -
does the winter snow melt sustain the pond or do you have to add water manually if the rainfall run off is insufficient?

I tried other methods, including textile growing bags, and consider using smudge fires I first heard about used in California in previous centuries to protect fruit orchards from frosty nights.  A June frost two years ago killed the apple blossoms in my area; it lasted two whole nights.

There are large nets available that protect fruit tree crops from birds that I found while looking for protection from frost.

To protect from burrowing animals (groundhogs and larger squirrels) I use recycled car shelters, chicken wire and discarded metal roofing sheets placed around the perimeter of the structure. Field mice can still get in, but they don't do the damage (so far) that an earwig can do to the cabbage,

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Also thinking of using ground cover material to extend growing season a few weeks in zone 3a/b in the Laurentians, Quebec, Canada - this agricultural grade textile-like cover is light and can be easily removed in the morning or replaced in the evening. Has anyone used this or similar?

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Two proponents of Regenerative Farming or Permaculture On A Larger Scale

https://whiteoakpastures.com/pages/our-transition    or, in one article
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/will-harris-white-oak-pastures-regenerative-farming-cola    please see brief quote below:

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At White Oak Pastures, they’ve:

De-commoditized — Instead of relying on commodities, they produce five types of pastured red meats, five types of pastured poultry, pastured eggs and organic vegetables.
De-industrialized — Instead of operating as a monoculture that grows one destructive crop, like GE soy, they’ve created a living ecosystem that includes 10 species of humanely treated animals that live in a symbiotic relationship. All of their land is managed using holistic principles.
De-centralized — They were able to break away from the centralized food processing system, building their own abattoirs (slaughterhouses) to retain control of the quality of their products.
The industrialization of agriculture destroyed the land, while “centralizing agriculture impoverished rural America,” Harris says. “It caused it to be financially irrelevant. It just wasn’t needed anymore.”

The other source is  http://www.ridgedalepermaculture.com/ a farm run by Richard Perkins  https://www.richardperkins.co/about/

He offers a free course here:  https://www.richardperkins.co/get-started

Can anyone send me a copy? Thanks.
mogiljan_2 at yahoo.ca

Groundhog ate my red beets and broccoli leaves. Is the corn next?