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Silvopasture By Addition: Planting Trees Into Actively Grazed Pastures
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Continue Reading: Silvopasture By Addition: Planting Trees Into Actively Grazed PasturesThere are two general methods to establish silvopasture – by addition or by subtraction. This post details a method for silvopasture by addition pioneered by Wyn Miller of Lick Skillet Farm for establishing high-value trees for livestock forage, fodder and shade in actively grazed pastures managed for commercial livestock production. Her method utilizes tree tubes…
Korean Natural Farming: No-Smell Pig Pens
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Continue Reading: Korean Natural Farming: No-Smell Pig PensWhen pigs are to be kept in a permanent or semi-permanent hard pen, a deep bedding system inoculated with indigenous micro-ogranisms (IMOs) should be used to improve sanitation for the animals and people tending them and to eliminate the smell of pig manure. This method for healthy, low-maintenance, pleasant smelling confinement pig rearing was developed…
Sovereign Energy > Moving Heat > Grid-Independent Cooking Systems
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Continue Reading: Sovereign Energy > Moving Heat > Grid-Independent Cooking SystemsIntroduction to Grid-Independent Cooking Systems Cooking food is an activity shared by all of humanity on a daily basis. We either do it ourselves or have someone (or increasingly, some thing) do it for us. It’s fun to cook hot dogs on a stick over a campfire, but it is hardly feasible as a daily…
Tater Biggums Is HERE
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Continue Reading: Tater Biggums Is HEREIf you’re seeing this in your podcast feed it means our first child has either arrived or is very nearly earthside! Sammy and I greatly appreciate your thoughts, prayers, and good vibes in this time. The podcast will be on an indefinite (though hopefully relatively short) break, while we welcome our first child into the…
Floating Wetland Gardens In Pantry Ponds For Resilience, Function and Yield Stacking ~Epi-079
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Continue Reading: Floating Wetland Gardens In Pantry Ponds For Resilience, Function and Yield Stacking ~Epi-079Floating wetlands are a “new” old technology that is well worth looking into if you are doing aquaculture at just about any scale – from small backyard tanks a few hundred gallons in size, on up to multi-acre ponds and lakes. Floating wetlands take the essential functions provided by wetlands and concentrated them into a…
Opt In To Nature To Opt Out Of The System(s) ~Epi-078
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Continue Reading: Opt In To Nature To Opt Out Of The System(s) ~Epi-078What do we mean when we say we want to “opt out” of the system? Firstly, it’s the system(s) – the means of production, transport, communication, value transmission etc that we have to interface with to acquire the things we need to live in the modern world. In general, the further the distance a product…
Designing For LIGHT At Every Level – Patterns For Incorporating Natural Light Into The Built Environment ~Epi-077
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Continue Reading: Designing For LIGHT At Every Level – Patterns For Incorporating Natural Light Into The Built Environment ~Epi-077Light is an essential human nutrient. So much of our modern built environment is built without regard to orienting and integrating natural light, and our health – physical, mental, spiritual, emotional and communal – suffers for it. The good news is that you can design your structures (or retrofit them) to bring natural light back…
Zone 0 Pattern Language Fundamentals – Designing Your Permaculture Kitchen ~Epi-076
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Continue Reading: Zone 0 Pattern Language Fundamentals – Designing Your Permaculture Kitchen ~Epi-076Join me today as we discuss designing functional kitchen spaces that people want to be in. Lots of people are inheriting kitchens designed more for magazine covers than for function – and where there is a lack of function there is a concommitant increase in friction, which means more stress and less joy. Kitchens are the…
A Primer On Hugelkultur
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Continue Reading: A Primer On HugelkulturA Primer On Hugelkultur What Is Hugelkultur? Hugelkultur is the technique of burying woody material and mounding it over with earth to create raised garden beds. When And Where Is Hugelkultur Appropriate? Hugelkultur is most appropriate in temperate climates with a pronounced wet season – often regions that are heavily forested – and is a…
Growing Mushrooms In The Forest
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Continue Reading: Growing Mushrooms In The ForestLog-based Mushroom Culture Preparing Logs Mushrooms can be grown on freshly cut, inoculated logs within a natural woodland setting. Logs are recommended to be cut in late winter to early spring and inoculated shortly thereafter. There are many methods to inoculate logs, some of which work better for different types of culinary or medicinal mushrooms.…
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