Kolomona Myer

Update:

I was contacted by permies member Wez

He needed a steward for his property in Fiddletown, CA.

I took him up on the offer and now I'm staying in Fiddletown.

I'll create a new thread soon where I will be documenting my progress on making the place awesome.

Of course I will have many questions that I'll need help from all you wonderful permies to answer.

I wrote about the experience here https://libresults.com/c/walkabout-update-5-vegas-and-fiddletown-ca/

p.s.
I haven't forgotten about post my pics from my stay at Paul's. I will sort through them all and post withing a week or so.
Right now I have no internet service at the property and must drive about 20ish miles to get wifi.

I, for one, would like to see more photos that you took.

When I get into a place with better internet connectivity I'll post more pics.

I'm camping in Utah right now near the Great Salt Lake, and having a blast.

You can see my progress at https://libresults.com

I'm glad to see that the support beam went up! I shouldn't have been worried considering that you all were very careful, but I worried nonetheless.

Here's another shot of the butterfly

Hello everyone,

I've been on a bit of a walkabout for the past few weeks. I've been documenting my experiences on my website libresults.com

My journey began in Steilacoom, WA and I've made my way to Paul's Permaculture Haven.

I choose to sign up for the SEPPer program and pitch a tent. I choose the SEPPer program because it allowed me to be as lazy as I wanted to be.

I've been a listener to Paul's podcasts since the beginning and always thought that it would be nice to see all the things I'd been hearing about.

I never thought that I would actually make it here, but life circumstances being what they were afforded me the opportunity to finally make the trip, and here I am.

I arrived on Friday 9/10/21, set up my tent in Arakis

The first thing that blew my mind was the Berm-shed. from the point of view from the road it looked just like a vegetation covered hill but at the POV of the property it became this massive storage unit. It is very impressive.



This place is amazing, everything about it. The people are very kind, courteous and friendly. For the most part they are down to earth, very hard workers and a pleasure to be around.

I decided to not be lazy and help out with the boots.
Some of the things I did while i was were:

Participated in Sunday's "Cleaning Blitz"

Put mulch on the huge hugelkultur berms

Moved a pile of pea gravel

Helped unload a bunch of bricks for the upcoming Rocket Mass Heater Jamboree

Chiseled a notch for a support beam for the solarium they are building

Helped irrigate the hugels

Shoveled a whole bunch of dirt (thanks Grey)

Learned how to properly sharpen chisels (thanks again Grey)

Cut some rebar

Helped change out batteries and SD cards on the game cameras at the Lab

Posted game camera pics on permies

Cut veggies for Taco Tuesday

There are already a ton of pics on permies of the property so I'll just post a few.

For the most part I wanted to really convey the wonderful time I had here working with Dez, Mags, and Grey.

Also, Paul was pretty awesome for providing me with this opportunity. Thank you Paul!

If you're curious about where my walkabout will take me then please follow my progress at https://libresults.com


Shoveling dirt with Grey. Digging a trench to lay water line for the lab.

Here are some more photos from the Game Cameras

A hawk after something - Click on image to see animation

A young moose

A cute fawn

Some wild turkeys and a fawn having a party

Kim, Sorry for the late reply. Here you go Paul's Chicken 2.0 article https://richsoil.com/raising-chickens.jsp

Here's my submission.



This was made from the same dry alder that I made my Mallet.

It would've been much easier if the wood was green.

I don't have any good whittling tools, so I used a utility knife. It was a pain cutting in the bowl, but I managed.

The whole process took me about 2hrs or so.

It seems I'm unable to edit my original post. So here are the pictures that are no longer showing in the original.











Update:

I was never really able to implement the system as shown. Mainly because it was too much of a PITA I ended up creating a similar system of permanent paddocks and a mobile coop. This worked quite well until predators (Racoon) took out my flock.




Game camera footage of a raccoon amongst the carnage.

Here's my submission

Here is my 1st attempt at completing a sand badge bit tor the Permaculture Experience according to Paul.
This was made from an alder tree that my goats girdled and killed. (Damn goats)
At least I was able to make something useful out of their destructiveness.