Bever Branson

I'm growing indoors at high altitude, south window + solar grow lights. This winter 2025/26 features a TOTE chaos with old horse fym, grass cuttings, ASPEN LEAVES 2 yrs old .  It's set near woodstove.
 Last yr and prior year Aspen Leaves are outside commingling with more old fym, coop poop, Coors beer barley fields straw, and will go with me to New Mexico, my spot there is sandy, with pine duff so I will have to travel for deciduous leaves.
  The chaos tote is succeeding well I'm counting on it for staples going into long term living Colorado Plateau in New Mexico
This winter is pared down to best chances and succeeding with
*3 sisters
*Wheat grass successions
*Sunflower sprouts successions
*Cabbage leaves

I added a pot with burpee coir for wheatgrass thankfully obtained hard red winter wheat berries last week.  Sprouting in 4 days the south window is a big factor.  The Aspen leaves are doing a great job for us.

The wheat grass and sunflower sprouts have been a huge benefit for hens and my stirfry.  I was surprised at the beneficials of sunflower sprouts!

Jay Mullaky wrote:I'm wondering could you grow potatoes directly out off the bag? Just stick some in maybe with a shovel of soil, then when the spuds are ready you tip the bag and get spuds and composted leaves

I saw a video on this concept just yesterday.  The grower had spindly but viable plants, he amended leaves with some fertilizer.  The crop result was maybe 5/1 with 3 different types of potatoes but your added shovels of dirt will definitely make a big difference in the quality of the crop.

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 My hens and I share succession plantings of greens indoors all year round, wheat is so good and SO EASY, alfalfa seeds are hard to get so I buy alfalfa hay...
  I put fresh greens into stir fry all winter, hens get fresh cuttings to pick and peck.

Wowee!!!
 I was just shopping for manzanita for a New Mexico land acquisition!!
This is good stuff thank you!!!

[quote=Bever Branson][quote=J Schtucker]Forgive me if this isn't allowed... I tried looking for rules and couldn't figure out if I'm allowed to post this or not. So, delete if necessary.

If anyone is interested, my wife and I are selling some 1 and 2 acre parcels in Socorro County, NM. They're off-grid and have no building codes. (Technically the state has codes to follow, but they are not enforced in this area at all. County has no codes or zoning department or anything). My wife and I have already built an earthbag structure out there. The clay/sand ratio is perfect for earthbags, but you could do whatever building method you want. Some people in the area are just living in RV's, others have built with earthbags, others have built with strawbales, others are living in glorified sheds, and others have full on mobile homes. It's entirely up to you!

$2500 for 1 acre, $4500 for 2 acres. I'd love for these to go to someone who wants to do some natural buildings. Water needs to be hauled in, but I could connect you with a great guy who lives nearby who will let you haul water from his well in exchange for some beer and friendship. We always just hauled water from his house using a 300 gallon tote.

You can find more info at https://www.TuckerLandCompany.com[/quote]


Aug 2025
Wowee!!! I just spent 3 hrs checking the state websites for a Socorro Rio ranch spot.
Will you tell me if you pulled permits and how long ago and how much they were???

I have a number of questions if you get this msg
*Wind- prevailing year round
*Wind - prevailing changes seasonally?
*Wind - steady predictable?
I've seen remarks about up to 90 mph
Soil quality ? I would pay you for a copy of a soil report
Did you do a perc test???
Rio Grande Ever Flood Socorro areas?
Would you refer me to any neighbor?
I'm currently iced out of the FB pg probably maybe even over the weekend.

Bvr:
719-551-7665

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Have you got the Willow feeder information from on here???
I know the feeling of that stonewall from oversight land use... I have 2 spots in range of Rio grande river.  That watershed is so PRECIOUS, and needs so much goodwill and collective land use stewardship...

I'm counting on my willows and soil cleaning cover crops to keep safe the demarc lines on my property!!

Kdan Horton wrote:Hello Permies!  Been lurking for a while getting all kinds of great ideas, some of which are already coming to fruition!  I've got the property and am building a tiny cabin to live in on days off to work on creating my Permaculture Nirvana.  
Now I understand we're all common sense and permaculture fans here, so no one is really following the International Building codes adopted by virtually every political ruling body in the States, but if one was planning a grey water system on a new structure that you were permitting, hide it when the inspector comes by.  I bet in most places, he/she wouldn't recognize a grey water system anyway.  

That said we're building a composting toilet, IE; bucket, into the cabin, but when we build the thermal mass house I'll probably be going traditional septic.  Didn't end up in backwoods Tn anyway.  Found more/better land in North Georgia.  Somewhere nice and rural, with less banjo music than Polk County Tn.

I'm just sayin...

Already bought my first WILLOW!!!
I will get two more very soon.
Stockpiling a few materials and Found A Source for sawdust.  I mean a 20 ft high 40-50' long heap of sawdust ...
  I have basic plants practicing grow results for a first matrix fym mix palatable for baby plants, and of course the willows. All these will be growing over the winter as practice.  This is a MATRIX test for what all is going into the mixture for planting. Not HM, but one 5 gallon test humanure  will start in October for the soil cleaning cover crops .

There might be some New Neighbors on here!!!
Wowee

[quote=J Schtucker]Forgive me if this isn't allowed... I tried looking for rules and couldn't figure out if I'm allowed to post this or not. So, delete if necessary.

If anyone is interested, my wife and I are selling some 1 and 2 acre parcels in Socorro County, NM. They're off-grid and have no building codes. (Technically the state has codes to follow, but they are not enforced in this area at all. County has no codes or zoning department or anything). My wife and I have already built an earthbag structure out there. The clay/sand ratio is perfect for earthbags, but you could do whatever building method you want. Some people in the area are just living in RV's, others have built with earthbags, others have built with strawbales, others are living in glorified sheds, and others have full on mobile homes. It's entirely up to you!

$2500 for 1 acre, $4500 for 2 acres. I'd love for these to go to someone who wants to do some natural buildings. Water needs to be hauled in, but I could connect you with a great guy who lives nearby who will let you haul water from his well in exchange for some beer and friendship. We always just hauled water from his house using a 300 gallon tote.

You can find more info at https://www.TuckerLandCompany.com[/quote]


Aug 2025
Wowee!!! I just spent 3 hrs checking the state websites for a Socorro Rio ranch spot.
Will you tell me if you pulled permits and how long ago and how much they were???

I have a number of questions if you get this msg
*Wind- prevailing year round
*Wind - prevailing changes seasonally?
*Wind - steady predictable?
I've seen remarks about up to 90 mph
Soil quality ? I would pay you for a copy of a soil report if you are anywhere near 304 and rt 60...
Did you do a perc test???
Rio Grande Ever Flood Socorro areas?
Would you refer me to any neighbor?
I'm currently iced out of the FB pg probably maybe even over the weekend.
Any any person you know who might answer some questions... The area north of rt 60
  Within 10 - 15 miles EASTERLY of 304

Bvr:
719-551-7665