Our family farm stretches over 100 acres with a 250-foot elevation change throughout the property. At the highest point, the soil is tough clay and limestone rock—challenging to work with and always keeping us on our toes. But as you head towards the bottom of the property, the landscape transforms- the county survey describes […]
Nutrients from Plants for Composting Add minerals to your soil by adding these plants to your compost pile Name Binomial Nomenclature Na I Fl B Si S N Mg Ca K P Mn Fe Cu Co Alfalfa Medicago sativa x x Arrowroot x Bladder wrack x x x Borage Borago officinalis x x Bracken, […]
WE HAVE FUN! And that’s what’s up. Let me introduce you to our new farm. Along with our already seemingly busy suburban site, school, team, and consultations, we set out on a mission early on to have a suburban scale demonstration site as well as a farm demonstration site. That vision has come to reality. […]
If you are unaware of Soil Taxonomy I first recommend you read a quick tip I wrote on soil horizons here, then come back and finish this tip/article. Soil horizons are in depth information, but a fair warning here, soil taxonomy goes much deeper. If you are serious about your soil and especially how and why it […]
Learn how to build and make a keyhole garden bed from start to finish with Nicholas Burtner, the director of the School of Permaculture. And here is a vegetable garden growing guide for beginners – here ~We greatly appreciate your shares and likes. If you found something useful, please share. What next? (click below) Take […]
Nicholas Burtner gets a tour of Orella Ranch with Loren Luyendyk as he discusses the intricacies of planting a gray water banana circle-ish system in the Mediterranean dry lands. You can contact/hire Loren at: www.sborganics.com ~We greatly appreciate your shares and likes. If you found something useful, please share. What next? (click below) Take a […]
Nicholas Burtner shows uncovered (bare) soil and a covered soil right at the beginning of spring to show the “weedy”
The world’s leading soil scientist and creator of the Soil Food Web, Elaine Ingham, sits down to a fun and
(A busted and breached pond/dam wall) TYPE ONE ERRORS are classified as errors/mistakes on a site which will either cost you or the client a lot of time, money, or energy to replace, redo, or clear out of a system if installed incorrectly. There are very few TYPE ONE ERRORS in permaculture design – […]
Consultation and Design Services ~Make sure to check out our portfolio of permaculture work too! A permaculture project/site starts with a consultation and a blueprint design. Depending on what you have visioned and what the landscape allows we will create a unique site design that compliments both. A strategy for land development will be introduced as […]