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Let them eat goats! And let the goats eat Mesquite. Mesquite can also be turned into flour. Maybe the government should invest in goats and mesquite-flour mills rather than the eradication of...

A little ambiguous. :blush:

Gaia's Garden specifically describes building a walnut guild. I can't remember, but I think it uses hackberry as a buffer plant and then plants around that. Yup, that's on the list above.
William

For teaching I think the three sisters polyculture would work well. Simple and the crops are very common. There's also a winter/perennial version of the three sisters that include sunchokes, chinese...

Permaculture is primarily a decision-making tool that can be applied at many levels.
-Toby Hemenway.

Try to use permaculture principles to design your kitchen. I think you'll be surprised....

It's the dark side of Permaculture. Use the force. ;)

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone has bought the dvds "Permaculture Soils" or "Urban Permaculture" and can tell me if there are english subtitles or other languages....

I'm an english speaker, but my...

Yeah. I would be ecstatic to be able to use urine on the mound of chips/twigs, but I don't think my wife or her friend (whose yard it is) would approve. <sadface>. The mound is covered with dying...

Could I pipe in here a second and get an example of fungal food? I need to break down woody things too.
thanks.
W

NJNative,
Nice.
Those bales look new. How is the rain situation? You might need to water them more than usual and/or add more soil on top if the soil you have washes down into the bales. I'd check...

It can be free if you feel room/board is something that you can provide.

I have worked for free on farms and I feel it was something I would have no problem doing again, under the right...

Perhaps what you need, Ludi, is not an easier way to work, but someone with the energy and strength to do arduous work. If you have the space but not the energy, I'm am nearly positive you could find...

There are books.
http://www.amazon.com/Have-Green-Thumb-Without-Aching/dp/0671640615/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1335982917&sr=8-3...

Two Words. Ruth Stout.
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Organic-Gardening/2004-02-01/Ruth-Stouts-System.aspx

I'm not sure that what you get is equal to what you put in. For me, I don't have access to that amount of biomass to really make hot composting work well. If I do hot composting, it goes from buckets...

I would not like to be the person saddled with the responsibility of feeding those 50 people.
William

As for grass, I'd compost that separately and probably by itself or near (or on) places you actually want grass to grow. I composted some neighbor's grass under a shady pine tree, which means no...

I didn't understand this:


As for increased seed germination, currently i'm only getting potato germination. It might have to do with the fact that I let it cold compost for at least a few...

Slightly off topic...what's wrong with cold compost? I love it.
William

At least in temperate climates I thought that was a long way of saying "Autumn" or at "August/September".

Good question!