Category: Permaculture attitudes
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More about Machinery and Permaculture
Some might not call it appropriate technology, but machinery may not be all bad when thinking about sustainability. The real test is the overall increased output over the life of the system. It is easy to think that a dam will last 1000 years and therefore becomes worth the immense amount of energy it takes…
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Nuclear Energy and Permaculture
It can be intoxicating watching u tube videos on Thorium and molten salt reactors. Not enough so I want to dedicate my life to it, but certainly enough to binge watch and change my general attitude toward ALL nuclear energy. Of course the whole molten salt reactor story seems to reinforce my general theory about…
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Mornings,
Taking away the pressure to “earn” a living puts me in a somewhat different mindset of what to do with my days. Watching projects unfold, keeping the rates of progress slow, making very careful observations as well as just mindlessly walking around in the early morning can guide and reveal and give perspective. Often it…
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More big advancements?
I do apologize for the lack of pictures in recent posts, hoping to rectify the snafu in software soon. Well, I bought a new , used, backhoe, so in theory things should start to move ion a more orderly fashion. The rental routine can be a nightmare with machinery consuming every second of the…
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Spring in full Swing
Here we are approaching the last frost (assuming there might still be one or two left) and I am just barely ready to start planting. A few nominal efforts to weed the strawberries, and I am more convinced than ever to start replanting them using a sheet mulch and fresh weed free soil on top,…
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Curve Balls.
It can be difficult sometimes to really see a clear choice when real life decisions about critical issues are somewhat nebulous. How do we make decisions when there is often no black and white answer? This is not just a question about life management, but also one that relates to Permaculture Design. In Permaculture, we…
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Winter Finally Here?
I’ll believe it when I see it. A month ago I would’ve expected at least one or two nights of killing frosts, but here we are, and one or two nights of a touch of frost on the car, but tomatoes still growing in the garden. Whether this has anything to do with climate change…
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Summer is Back Also
With temps rising to the 80s again this week and another spell of dry weather it’s starting to feel like summer again. Maybe it’s not in the 90’s and cools off more at night, but that just makes it even nicer than summer. The growing season gets a nice little boost and last minute projects…
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After the Climax what’s next with the Roof?
Ok, so maybe it wasn’t really such a thrill when that last rafter locked itself in place, but it certainly started the wrap up of work on the roof and upstairs in general for this season. As you know if you’ve read earlier posts, I have dozens of different areas to work in, each one…