Forlane McCoy

Awesome! Thank you for your reply's

Joel Hollingsworth wrote:
An important method is that he sows very thickly, and harvests very often & intelligently.

My impression is that he works to craft a mix that offers many seeds an opportunity to try out many situations, and lets the health of various species as they develop determine the mix that grows up out of what was seeded.

Can you explain what you mean by sowing thickly? From the looks of it in the videos it seems that our definitions of thickly might be different. I'm a complete novice when it comes to gardening so I think my preconceived notion of thickly is off.

Thanks in advance!

-Chris

So I recently started working a plot at a local Community garden project. I have decided I will be using Sepp's method of planting, mixing a bunch of seeds together and tossing them.

Everyone I have spoke to at local nurseries tells me this is a bad idea.

I have the plot sectioned off into smaller plots that are 8'x4' with a walkway between that is 12"

My question is...Is there a method to his madness? Does he only sprinkle certain mixes this way?

Any help would be much appreciated.

-Chris

I only used the term aqua globe just so people would understand the very basic concept of what I was trying to convey.

The concept is a type of water container that would release water into the soil based on need. If we plan on living in the Desert and cannot afford for a well to be drilled, or the water from the well is unusable I would like to have some sort of backup plan.

It seems you have had some success with this method Synergy, but the implementation may have needed some tweaking.

The idea would be to install the type of waterbox system after the swales were dug and put in place, but before the rain came, since there is on average only 4" a year it seems this might be necessary.

So one, 1 gallon, water bottle worked?

Has anyone tinkered with the idea of the Aqua Globes? Those glass blown water containers that you poke into the soil next to your plants?

Since we are considering moving out to the desert onto some Raw Land I'm not sure if we will have to truck in water. If we do I was considering Fabricating a device similar for trees and such that would hold one of those 5 gallon water jugs and would leak the water into the soil as needed.

Since I am new to gardening period my thought is that if it has a cover that is made from foil or even the car windshield reflector liners it would keep the water from evaporating too much and would keep the soil around the trees nice and moist.

This would also keep me from having to buy and set up a drip irrigation system that would probably have to be fixed/maintained (black plastic tubing) in the desert doesn't seem very logical.

Any ideas or input would be much appreciated.

-Chris

I couldn't agree more! While pictures and Poetry are "nice" I would rather put theory to practice devising sound methods of executing Permaculture that can in turn help starving people around the world starting with my local neighborhood.

Paul, I am an aspiring "Permaculturist" but I have no patience for frill and fluff. I want to learn about the technical stuff, fruit tree guilds and the how and why they work. Swales and imprinting for desert application. Sustainable living...I am having a hard time, breaking into the culture. Seems like the only way is to take a PDC or own some property.

I have found a local community garden that rents out space (owned by a church) I am in the Salad bowl of the world, Salinas, Ca and the church maybe has 8-10 plots (1/8th of their total space available) rented, at $25 a year per plot this seems sad at best. So chances of meeting like minded people interested in Permaculture seem unlikely.

Any advice would help immensely. I have even considered moving to Montana since I have family that lives a few hours East of Missoula. Land is relatively cheap compared to California. Anyone that isn't into spiritual dancing and lovey dovey hand holding, need an intern that is willing to get in there and get dirty and make things happen.

-Chris

His signature states he is in Missoula.

We live in Salinas, Ca the salad bowl of the world and our farmers market is about 20 stalls. With maybe 500-1000 people at most visiting.

I would check this thread out if you are still around.

http://www.homesteadingtoday.com/showthread.php?t=342651

Forerunner, the Author mentions some books that are the holy grail of composting.