Alex Laker

What are the ways to "make money from" permaculture? I've realised this is the path I want to go down, but sadly money is required for my continued existance.

Is there any way do be doing permaculture and also making money at the same time?

From my basic understanding, methane in the atmosphere reacts with hydroxyl radicals to break it down into water vapour and CO2. Because methane has risen, without hydroxyl radicals also rising, there is a shortage of them in the atmosphere.

Hydroxyl radicals are created when waves of light interact with water and terpenes. Or, when terpenes interacts with ozone. Terpenes is mostly produced by plants- its what's responsible for the smell of herbs etc. Conifer trees produce them in particular (cedar, pine, etc)

Forests "eat the wind" literally. They eat methane. The air they clean carries the bacteria and other organisms that break down methane. This can be seen when water vapour rises from forests.

Beware, I could have some of this completely wrong as I'm still researching this. Just makes me wonder if methane sequestration is a thing? Like people making big pine forests or something? I'm trying to find info on this but can't find examples. Or maybe my understanding is wrong?

From the looks of it, anaerobic compost and no light is the way to go. I like the boiling water idea as well, I'll have to give it a try too. Thank you everyone for the suggestions, I learnt about many methods I have never heard of before

Jan White wrote:This sounds like an excellent plant for your sheet mulched area you're having trouble with. If you can get some established there, it will help cool the soil and block wind for other plants you want to grow.

You are a lifesaver. Thank you. I was actually thinking of putting some in that area! It's a relief to see another person have the same idea

My lawn is a literal patch of dirt blowing away in the wind. Sparse grass, barely a single weed. I want to put down a groundcover over this dirt so I can build soil.

Problem: seeds blow away in the wind and plants are killed by the sun.

Solution: I sheet mulched it

Next problem: I don't have unlimited sheet mulch, could only do 1/4 of it

Whatever: Grow groundcover on that mulch

Next problem: My family want to mow the lawn. I cannot convince them otherwise. Trust me I tried everything

Solution?: They agree to avoid my 1/4 patch of mulch and mow the rest

Worse problem: that mulch is now the only habitat for every single bug and pest you can imagine that eats up every single plant & seed & seedling. And IF anything survives, the sun nukes it

So yeah I kinda don't know where to start, I'm still new to this, does anyone have words of wisdom??

There are plenty of edible ones and they grow really well in my area, so I'm wondering, is it possible to just go all the way and do permaculture with succulents?

Obviously I don't want to strictly limit myself to them, just wondering if it's a thing or if there's any info on the subject of succulents in permaculture?

I'm racking my brain trying to think of more ways to integrate my rabbit into my permaculture system. So far the uses I've tried are:

- Friendship
- Poop as compost ingredient
- Selling the poop online
- Growing oats for rabbit hay -> leftover oats composted or used as mulch -> more oats grow from this cycle
- Ripping up paper for future use as compost ingredient (he has a box full of paper to destroy)
- Temporary weed management (rabbits dont rip out the roots)
Naturally there's also:
- Breeding and using rabbits for fur/pinkies/selling pets/meat

^I'm a bit more interested in uses that don't have me killing my pet rabbit or obtaining more. Just trying to think of more ways that a rabbit is useful

I've read a bit about how a hectare of elephant bush absorbs more carbon than a hectare of rainforest. It's absorbs CO2 at night, highly resistant to drought, edible, medicinal, can grow in rocks, one of the easiest succulents to propagate, no pests, can be trimmed to make hedges, the benefits sound endless.

I have one, its the only plant that survives the summer in Australia with 0 watering. I haven't watered it for 10 years and somehow it grew. I never knew it had all these uses. Is anyone using elephant bush for carbon farming?

Hi I just recently obtained 4 large black plastic bags of dry weeds and weed seeds (couch grass, wild oat, a prickly one forgot the name). I heard you can apparently make compost from it by putting the plastic bags in the sun.

Eager to do this right I hopped on google but then all the advice I read was like "avoid doing this when the weeds have gone to seed" and "you can compost MOST weeds" and "avoid the seed heads"

My bags are FULL of weed seeds. Also can't solarize them on concrete because it's windy as hell here and they'll just fly away. Is it actually possible to compost weed seeds or am I playing with fire? Will composting with worms work because they will hopefully eat the seeds or? (I'm in Australia)

L. Johnson wrote:I think when dealing with cultural properties sensitivities and permission are exceedingly important. From an objective point of view, it seems like you could use the information within such art for said purpose. Though I'm not sure why you would favor that information over modern GIS data, photos, and ground research which is often freely available.

Google earth, google maps, open street maps, all have very easily browsed map data including fairly up-to date satellite imagery in most cases. Localities will often have more precise contour maps, hydrology information, meteorological data and history, and photos.

Exactly with you on the permission aspect. I've been researching this a tiny bit more and it looks like too many people trying to read into the art just leads to more abstraction. Sensitive or forbidden knowledge is made abstract, simplified, left out, covered up etc and for good reason. Things like where certain plants were could be considered sensitive information sometimes. Like for instance, the location of an important medicinal plant being hidden (this is just my understanding from what I've read). I'm wondering if, even if I found an artwork that I could vaguely match to a satellite image, could I even properly read the artwork in the first place? Like, the more I read about art being used to pass down how to manage the land, the more I'm like "if my comparison to permaculture is true and these are maps for a similar purpose, then it's not my job to read & find out, it's not my knowledge to know" I'm probably totally misunderstanding in any case.

Main reason I got curious is because these are people who lived for thousands of years on the systems that permaculture was inspired by. And they have teachings that have been passed down. Its like, why redesign the wheel when people already did it in the past and they have all these stories and art about how they used to do it? And how the land used to be like before it was destroyed? The relationship that people had to the land? Just feels like I should be taking more pointers somehow rather than growing native plants and calling it a day.