Quote: (03-09-2019 12:43 PM)debeguiled Wrote:
Still banging the drum for permaculture.
Shape the land to harvest and retain water, plant low to no maintenance food crops as a forest, integrate livestock to kill pests and weeds as well as spread manure, and plant many diverse food crops and nitrogen fixing plants for the soil which creates soil instead of depleting it.
This guy is building a kind of Eden on earth while his neighbors suffer from floods and droughts, he just keeps trucking with his micro climates and bio-experiments.
There are worse lives than this, being a farming mad scientist, observing natural processes and figuring out how to mimic and tame them for domestic use.
It's like being a grown man and still playing in the world's largest sandbox, playing with mud and carving up the land with earth movers.
What a life.
I'm also fascinated by this. Joel Salatin is an American farmer who writes and speaks extensively about permaculture/sustainable farms.