So here’s what I’m thinking for our hot water this winter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pnuyEkM0xg I love the calm, simple way “Hadley” explains his system. For the first couple weeks in our “new” house we will probably be heating water on top of the woodstove, but I hope to graduate to this system once we feel comfortable that …
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How to Use USGS to Create a Base Map
There was a time when I had no clue where to get started with making a base map. I taped together six to eight sheets of paper, trying to get something big enough to work with. I quickly got irritated, because I like precision, and I could not seem to get my sketch adequately accurate. …
Understanding and Encouraging Succession
Below is a short video with David Holmgren that is really helping me to understand how to encourage and implement succession: Revegetating and Reducing Fire Risk in Spring Creek Gully
Worm Check-Up
Dumped our second simplehuman bin-full of waste today into the 5-gallon bucket vermicompost system. The bucket is full. That’s what I thought would happen. The worms are still alive. That’s good. I wasn’t sure they would be. Last year I experimented with our 5-gallon bucket humanure with worms. I thought, Hey, why not? I’ll toss …
Worms and Composting
The 55-gallon worm bin I made a couple months ago is now full to overflowing. Moving should be interesting. I didn’t bother putting it on casters, because I knew we would need to lift it up into a truck anyway. When I originally transported them from Pike Valley Farm a few months ago they were …
A Permaculture Start
I fell into permaculture in 2007 after experiencing a physical ailment that put me on the hunt for healthy living. From that moment my curiosity was piqued, and I haven’t looked back since. At first, I devoured every YouTube video I could find and began reading a plethora of articles on the subject. Once I …
New Forest Farm and Mark Shepard
We only had a few hours at New Forest Farm, and I quickly realized it would take a lot longer than that to really begin to comprehend everything that is going on. My husband and I were mostly looking for inspiration, and we found it. Starting at the cider room/pole barn, we met Jen, Mark’s …
Planned Grazing and Holistic Management with Allan Savory
Hey Everyone, I presented this document that Allan Savory and I compiled from all the questions everyone asked him over in the Greening the Desert topic to Paul Wheaton of permies.com. It was a lot of work but very informative, and I hope some of you will find it useful and share it around. It is about …
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