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Send us a textThriving School Gardens don't happen by accident! In this episode of School Gardens with Ease, I'm guiding you through the steps to create an impactful, sustainable, and educational garden at your school. Whether you're a teacher or a supportive parent, this episode is packed with actionable advice to help you avoid common pitfalls and set your garden up for success.What You'll Learn in This EpisodeThe Power of School Gardens: Discover how gardens enhance student learning, life skills, and environmental stewardship.Common Mistakes to Avoid: Learn why parent-led gardens, extracurricular projects, and overly complex setups often fail.The 2-Phase Solution: Start with a classroom garden and expand to an outdoor garden with confidence and ease.The Role of Lesson Plans: Understand why cohesive lesson plans are the key to connecting gardening tasks with curriculum goals and staying on track.Episode HighlightsWhat Doesn't Work:Parent-led gardens often lack educational alignment and become unsustainable.Extracurricular gardens demand too much personal time and lose focus.High-maintenance or overly complicated setups set everyone up for burnout.What Works:Gardens should be student-grown, teacher-led, and managed during class time to maximize educational impact.Starting with a classroom garden builds confidence and avoids summer maintenance challenges.Outdoor gardens thrive when designed with low-maintenance techniques like Hugelkultur, sheet mulching, and biodiversity.Steps to Success:Phase 1: Classroom GardenUse simple supplies like seeds, soil, and a sunny window.Write cohesive lesson plans that align with your curriculum and schedule.Plan ahead for what to do with seedlings at the end of the year.Phase 2: Outdoor GardenIncorporate smart design techniques to reduce maintenance.Engage students in every step, from planning to planting.The Oasis Programs:Oasis Classroom: Perfect for growing impactful classroom gardens.Oasis School: Supports both classroom and outdoor gardens with regenerative designs.Caja Oasis: Ideal for limited space, using sub-irrigated planters.Each program includes ready-made lesson plans, student resources, and personalized coaching.Resources MentionedFree Guides: My Recommended Seeds List for Schools:https://www.kidsgrowingcity.ca/get-seed-list-gift-for-teachersSeed Starting in Schools Guide:https://www.kidsgrowingcity.ca/offers/pZ2cNrYj/checkoutHugelkultur Guide: https://www.kidsgrowingcity.ca/offers/8WLA6Gpd/checkoutAnnual School Gardens with Ease 70-minute Webinar: https://www.kidsgrowingcity.ca/main-registration-page-school-gardens-with-easeOasis Programs Suite: https://www.kidsgrowingcity.ca/links-oasis-programsCreating a thriving school garden doesn't have to be overwhelming. With the right approach, you can turn your garden into a hands-on teaching tool that inspires students and transforms your classroom.

A discussion on all the favorite holiday plants to consider, plus a call about Hugelkultur and its benefits.

Host: Janet Wyatt Guest: Rhonda Dunlap Air date: Nov 06, 2024

"HOO-gel-kul-tur" Replicating a forest floor with a Hugelkultur on our allotment plots has brought both amazing soil conditions, lush growth and the odd field mouse or two. Karin's planning to build her's to a higher peak this year as she piles on logs, prunings, christmas trees, leaves and grass cuttings to make the most amazing mound for next spring's seeds.

Build a Resilient School Garden with Hugelkultur!In this episode, Leila shares an innovative and regenerative gardening technique that can make your school garden more resilient, water-conserving, and low-maintenance — hugelkultur! Leila discusses how this permaculture technique, which involves creating a raised garden bed with a foundation of buried wood, can significantly reduce summer maintenance needs and provide long-term benefits to both the garden and the learning experience. Hugelkultur is not only water-efficient and nutrient-rich, but it also extends the growing season, supports local wildlife, and serves as a hands-on educational tool for students. This episode provides a step-by-step guide to building a hugelkultur bed with your students and highlights how this method can make your school garden more self-sustaining.Topics Covered:What is Hugelkultur?Definition and translation of "hugelkultur" (mound or hill culture).How to create a raised garden bed using layers of wood topped with soil.Benefits of Hugelkultur Gardens:Water Conservation: Wood in the bed acts like a sponge, retaining water and reducing the need for frequent watering.Nutrient-Rich Soil: Over time, the decomposing wood enriches the soil, eliminating the need for additional fertilizers.Extended Growing Season: Heat from the decomposing wood helps keep the soil warmer, allowing plants to thrive for longer in colder climates.Biodiversity and Wildlife Support: Hugelkultur beds attract beneficial woodland wildlife and mushrooms, enhancing the ecosystem around the garden.Resilience and Low Maintenance: Fewer watering requirements and built-in nutrients reduce the need for summer maintenance.Science and Educational Value:Opportunities for teaching students about natural water cycles, soil health, decomposition, and biodiversity.Practical Considerations:Recommended wood types (avoid chipped wood, willow, and black walnut).Where to source whole, dead wood for building the bed.Tips for constructing a stable, tidy hugelkultur bed with students.Resources Mentioned:Guide to Building a Hugelkultur Garden with StudentsOasis School Program, which includes step-by-step gardening lesson plans and resources:https://www.kidsgrowingcity.ca/links-oasis-programsGuide to Setting Up a Watering Chest for Summer Maintenance Don't Miss Out:Leila shares her personal experience with hugelkultur and how it transformed her approach to school gardens. This episode is packed with practical advice and educational insights that will make your school garden setup a breeze!

In this final installment of our series on pitching your annual vegetable school garden, we're diving deep into two essential topics that will take your garden proposal to the next level: cost-effective garden design and budgeting strategies.Join Leila Mireskandari as she reveals powerful permaculture design techniques, like Hugelkultur and sheet mulching, that can transform your school garden into a regenerative, water-conserving powerhouse—all while staying within budget. Learn why curvy, natural garden designs outperform traditional straight rows and discover how to source materials like wood and soil for free or at minimal cost.Leila also tackles the crucial aspect of budgeting for your garden project. From seeds and soil to the often-overlooked need for high-quality lesson plans, she breaks down exactly what you need to include in your budget to ensure your garden is both educational and sustainable. Plus, find out which commonly purchased garden items are a complete waste of money and what to invest in instead.Don't miss this episode if you're ready to pitch a school garden project that impresses funders, engages students, and keeps costs low!Key Takeaways:Why you should embrace natural curves in your garden design.How Hugelkultur can drastically reduce your garden's water needs and build rich soil over time.The benefits of sheet mulching and how it can save you from digging up grass.Essential items to include in your garden budget—and what to avoid.The critical role of lesson plans in making your garden a true educational experience.Links & Resources:Download the summary PDF of this 5-episode series https://www.kidsgrowingcity.ca/how-to-pitch-your-school-garden-project.Learn more about the Oasis Series programs for ready-to-use lesson plans, student booklets, and classroom wall posters: https://www.kidsgrowingcity.ca/links-oasis-programsGuide to setting up a watering chest for your garden: https://www.kidsgrowingcity.ca/offers/c5FtFUCe/checkoutHugelkultur Guide:https://www.kidsgrowingcity.ca/offers/8WLA6Gpd/checkoutContact Leila at Leilam@kidsgrowingcity.ca for personalized advice or questions.Subscribe & Review: If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review! Your feedback helps us reach more teachers who are passionate about school gardens.

ERIN PRESLEY BIOA lifelong Wisconsin girl, Erin Presley grew up in the rural center of the state and has a bachelor's degree in Horticulture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has worked as a boots-on-the-ground gardener for more than two decades, both in the private sector and as a horticulturist at Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison since 2014. Her interests include native woodland plantings, sedges, low-maintenance and drought-tolerant gardening styles, recycling woody debris, and all things related to herbs, vegetables, and cooking. In addition to teaching at Olbrich Botanical Gardens, Erin loves talking plants and collaborating with herb societies, master gardeners, and local community organizations. Never shy when it comes to sharing the joy of gardening, she has appeared on the nationally syndicated podcast Cultivating Place and Wisconsin Public Radio's Garden Talk and is a contributor publications such as Fine Gardening and Edible Madison. Learn more about Erin by visiting her Instagram @presleyspreferredplants, listening to her interview on Cultivating Place, interviews on Garden Talk with Larry Meiller, the PBS presentation with Rita Peters, and visit Olbrich Botanical GardensTHE PLANTASTIC PODCASTThe Plantastic Podcast is a monthly podcast created by Dr. Jared Barnes.  He's been gardening since he was five years old and now is an award-winning professor of horticulture at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, TX.  To say hi and find the show notes, visit theplantasticpodcast.com.You can learn more about how Dr. Jared cultivates plants, minds, and life at meristemhorticulture.com.  He also shares thoughts and cutting-edge plant research each week in his newsletter plant•ed, and you can sign up at meristemhorticulture.com/subscribe.  Until next time, #keepgrowing! 

How do use and adjust a soil thermometer? Why is my soil pH so variable at different soil depths? How do you use cardboard to replace a lawn and start a garden?Those are some of the questions, along with scenic bypasses - of course - that we'll be tackling today. And there's a lot of great garden tips in those scenic bypasses today.It's all in Episode 346 of today's Garden Basics with Farmer Fred podcast! Brought to you today by Smart Pots and Dave Wilson Nursery.  Let's go!Previous episodes, show notes, links, product information, and transcripts at the home site for Garden Basics with Farmer Fred, GardenBasics.net. Audio, transcripts, and episode chapters also available at Buzzsprout.Pictured: Soil ThermometerLinks: Subscribe to the Beyond the Garden Basics Newsletter https://gardenbasics.substack.com Smart Pots https://smartpots.com/fred/Dave Wilson Nursery HeirloomRoses.com (with the FRED discount link)Other links mentioned in today's podcast:Soil ThermometersInstructions for Soil Thermometers (Australia)Soil Thermometer calibration (Wisconsin)Soil Temperature Chart for SeedsSheet Mulching with Cardboard (UCANR)What is Hugelkultur? (Oklahoma St. U)Understanding pH (UCANR)pH Test KitsUniversity Soil Testing Services: Texas A&M, Colorado State, UMass/AmherstGot a garden question? • Leave an audio question without making a phone call via Speakpipe, at https://www.speakpipe.com/gardenbasics• Call or text us the question: 916-292-8964. • Fill out the contact box at GardenBasics.net• E-mail: fred@farmerfred.com All About Farmer Fred: The GardenBasics.net websiteThe Garden Basics with Farmer Fred Newsletter, Beyond the Basics https://gardenbasics.substack.comFarmer Fred website The Farmer Fred Rant! Blog http://farmerfredrant.blogspot.comFacebook:  "Get Growing with Farmer Fred" Instagram: farmerfredhoffman Farmer Fred Garden Minute Videos on YouTubeAs an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases from possible links mentioned here.Thank you for listening, subscribing and commenting on the Garden Basics with Farmer Fred podcast and the Beyond the Garden Basics Newsletter.

Today’s episode of Friday Flashbacks was originally and was originally Episode-598- Paul Wheaton from Permies.com on Permaculture, Hugelkultur, Survival Housing and More and was originally recorded on 1-27-11.   This was Paul Wheaton’s first appearance on TSPC.  We discussed a huge variety … Continue reading →

Learn about the best wood mulches for fruit trees with Linda Chalker-Scott, Professor of Horticulture at Washington State University in this episode of the Orchard People radio show and podcast. Linda is the award-winning author of six books including How Plants Work: The Science Behind the Amazing Things Plants Do (Science for Gardeners). She also is one of the Garden Professors – a group of academic colleagues who educate through their blog and Facebook pages. Also check out her WSU page about horticultural myths!  Read the article linked to this podcast for lots more great information about The Best Wood Chip Mulches for Fruit Trees. Here are some links to peer reviewed studies on the topic of mulch:Black walnut trees and alleged alleopathic effectsMycorrhizae and how they workUsing arborist wood chips as a landscape mulchImpact of mulches on plantsMaddening Mulch!During the show, we also chatted with Bryan Kappa of ChipDrop.com. The host of the Orchard People radio show and podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com.  This show goes out LIVE on the last Tuesday of every month at 1.00 pm Eastern Time. After that you can download the podcast. To tune in LIVE (and submit your questions to our expert guests!) you can:Tune into RealityRadio101.com during the time of the live showOR watch the live stream on the Orchard People YouTube Channel.  Do you want to learn to grow organic fruit trees successfully? Sign up for OrchardPeople.com's premium online courses at https://learn.orchardpeople.com/. These show notes may contain affiliate links to products. We may receive a small commission for purchases made through these links at no cost to you. Thanks for your support!(00:00) - Introduction to the Benefits of Wood Mulch for Fruit Trees (00:37) - The Potential Risks of Using Diseased Wood Mulch (01:01) - About Linda Chalker Scott (02:07) - Understanding Different Types of Wood Mulch (02:53) - Mulch from Garden Stores (04:51) - Listener Questions: Is Sawdust a Good Mulch? (05:44) - Is Colored Mulch Bad? (06:20) - Is Mulch Chemically Treated with Pesticides? (07:21) - Deep Dive into Arborist Wood Chips (10:45) - Leaf Mulch vs Wood Mulch (12:29) - Straw, Pine Shavings and Chicken Manure as Mulch (13:53) - Do You Need to Add Fertilizer to Mulch? (15:12) - Disease Transmission Through Mulch (22:06) - Should You Mulch Other Types of Trees and Plants with Wood Mulch? (23:13) - Willow and Aspen Mulch and Fruit Trees (25:15) - Live Q&A: Anthrancnose and Wood Chips (26:15) - Fallen Leaves around Trees and Containers (28:02) - Should You Use Wood Chips from Ailanthus and Invasive Trees ? (29:36) - Commercial Break and Upcoming Guest Teaser (33:33) - Deep Dive into Arborist Wood Chips for Mulching (34:12) - Listener Questions: From B ooks to Mulching Practices (36:20) - Should You Layer Leaf Compost with Wood Chips? (37:42) - Vertical Mulching and Loamy Soil (38:54) - Protecting Your Fruit Tree from Insect Pests (41:55) - Extra Irrigation and Wood Mulch (43:13) - Introducing ChipDrop: A Solution for Wood Chip Needs (51:20) - Linda's Hints for Using ChipDrop (53:09) - Making Wood Mulch from Fire Wood (54:25) - Hugelkultur and Burying Logs and Sticks (55:46) - Wrapping Up: Final Thoughts and Resources

Embark with us as my friend, permaculture savant Michael Judd, guides us through the enchanting transformation of a sprawling 145-acre property into a bastion of sustainability. Our discussion blossoms with insights on how nut trees are not merely an environmental boon but a conduit for financial prosperity. Michael, with his inexhaustible knowledge, illustrates how permaculture and edible landscaping intertwine to foster a living space that is as economically viable as it is green. His stories, steeped in the profound wisdom of indigenous communities, serve as a testament to the intimate relationship between our own vitality and the well-being of our planet.As we traverse the symbiotic paths of eco-friendly living and personal wealth, the episode branches out into practical wisdom and the unexpected parallels with wealth management. I share my own revelation in planting over 500 nut trees, a journey that began with a passion for wildlife and morphed into an exploration of untapped economic potential. The conversation takes root in the rich soil of practical permaculture applications, like the creation of a Hugelkultur bed, while highlighting the importance of aligning investments with individual strengths and how an abundance mindset can cultivate both personal and ecological growth.Closing the loop, Scott offers a crucial perspective, framing our discussion with a reminder that tailored advice is vital when navigating the financial landscape. This episode, while steeped in the lush foliage of permaculture, is firmly grounded in the understanding that every investment, including those in nut trees, carries inherent risks alongside their rewards. So, whether you have your hands in the earth or your eyes on your portfolio, join us for an episode that promises to seed your mind with ideas for a more sustainable and prosperous future.Learn more about our guest, Michael JuddMichael Judd has worked with agro-ecological and whole-system designs throughout the Americas for over two decades, focusing on applying permaculture and ecological design. His projects increase local food security and community health in both tropical and temperate growing regions. He is the founder of Ecologia Edible & Ecological Landscape Design, Project Bona Fide, an international nonprofit supporting agro-ecology research, and co-founder of SilvoCulture, a Maryland based nonprofit which is helping plant 1 million nut trees in the Mid-Atlantic region. He is also the author of ‘Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist', and ‘For the Love of PawPaws'. Michael's work has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Yorker, and BBC. Presenter for notable institutions such as the US Botanical Garden, Smithsonian, and Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. Michael lives and his family live along the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains near Frederick, Maryland.Read more about Michael's books.Hear Past episodes of the Way2Wealth Podcast!https://theway2wealth.comLearn more about our Host, Scott Ford, Managing Director, Partner & Wealth Advisorhttps://www.carsonwealth.com/team-members/scott-ford/Securities offered through Cetera Advisor Networks LLC, Member FINRA/SIPC. Investment advisory servicesoffered through CWM, LLC, an SEC Registered Investment Advisor. Cetera Advisor Networks LLC is underseparate ownership from any other named entity. Carson Partners, a division of CWM, LLC, is a nationwidepartnership of advisors. 19833 Leitersburg Pike, Suite 1 Hagerstown, MD 21742. Opinions expressed by thepresenter may not be representative of Cetera Advisors Networks LLC, or CWM, LLC.

This week, Nathan talks about a strange practice of horticulture known as Hugelkultur. Many people in the permaculture and biodynamic gardening world are promoting this practice, but what is it and should you use it? Originating in Germany, "Hugelkultur" directly translates into English as "mound cultivation." Nathan talks about the murky history of Hugelkultur and talks about how to create a Hugelkultur mound. Then, he turns to what the science says about the details of this practice and tries to answer the question if we should be practicing Hugelkultur in our gardens and landscapes or not.

Learn how to cultivate thriving fruit trees and gardens even if you don't have the best soil by using the Hugelkultur technique. Tune in to this Tuesday's live radio show and podcast with guest Paul Wheaton from Permies.com.This month's contest prize is Garden Master Course by Helen Atthowe, an expert in "Beyond-organic" gardening. Valued at $85Podcast Prize Amazon Link: https://gardenmastercourse.com/The host of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com.  Tune into The Urban Forestry Radio Show LIVE by going to RealityRadio101.com on the last Tuesday of every month at 1.00 pm Eastern Time.Learn to grow organic fruit trees successfully. Sign up for OrchardPeople.com's premium online courses at https://learn.orchardpeople.com/. These video notes may contain affiliate links to products. We may receive a small commission for purchases made through these links at no cost to you. Thanks for your support!

Josef "Sepp" Holzer, born July 24, 1942, in Ramingstein, State of Salzburg, Austria. sometimes referred to as "the Siberia of Austria"growing up, Sepp had to walk two hours to school everyday. along the way, he would notice the plants, animals, and insects, and how they changed during the seasons. this attention to nature would stick with him throughout the rest of his life.In Austria, it's customary to give the land to your son when he turns 19, as his father had been operating it with some health problems. So in 1962, Sepp took over the Krameterhof, the family farm, At 3,600 to 4,900 ft altitude. initially, Sepp had followed his university's methods and would spray chemicals to ensure a good harvest. but this did not work well for Sepp. he quickly ditched conventional farming and focused on learning from nature to give the land what it needs.the day after his father signed the farm over to him, Sepp had an excavator onsite to install fish ponds. people would say "you're mad! you can't install a fish pond on the side of a mountain" at first, his father was in agreement with the people. in time and as Sepp became successful, his father loved to show people the farm Sepp had built. his parents found it risky. "they're whole lives they didn't spend as much as I did in a couple of years" Sepp saidhis neighbor had cleared the land of timber, then sold the property to Sepp, making the Krameterhof a total of 111 acres. it was required of Sepp to reforest the barren acreage by forest laws, so he terraced the land and planted fruit trees. this was not acceptable in the eyes of the forestry. so Sepp removed any tags indicating that they were cherry trees, implied they were berries and they okayed the reforestation efforts.his neighbor comments about how Sepp isn't careful with the land. Let me explain. Sepp looks to see where the land can tolerate a "wound" using the excavator, but these wounds heal exceptionally fast. A large focus of these restoration efforts is putting water back into the ground.Sepp has raised pigs, wild cattle, yaks, bison, and Scottish mountain cattle. when his neighbors start doing what he does, he stops doing it to prevent competition. if someone copies him, he changes what he's doing. this way, you keep things interesting and always learning, he sayshe started planting his fruit trees at the bottom of his Austrian mountain-side property, and they thrived! so he kept terracing and planting higher and higher all the way to the edge of the property and everything is doing well. he believes it could work at even higher elevations. Sepp harvests apricots to eucalyptus, figs to kiwi fruit, peaches to wheat, just to name a few.Sepp often refers to using raised beds in his terraces, but those raised beds are much different than you're probably thinking. he's using traditional Hugelkultur, burying timber and mounding soil on top at a steep pile, oriented 90 degrees perpendicular to the wind. A method to his madness is Sepp's plant guilds, using beneficial root systems and earthworms for support. "If the plants are healthy, then the animals and humans are healthy too. and that is our foundation. whoever destroys it and treats it irresponsibly needs to be told to his face promptly, that's a crime and has no right to act that way, and he's too dumb to enjoy life"Another technique for food production at high altitudes is his use of rocks. Sepp shows off a patch of pumpkins growing around a large rock. The rock absorbs heat throughout the day and radiates it out at night to help keep frost away. this acts as a thermal battery for plants and extend the growing seasonThe name Agro Rebel, or Rebel Farmer given to Sepp comes from a comment from a professor visiting the Krameterhof in the documentary titled "The Agro Rebel" from 2001. "People say about Holzer that he is stubborn headed. Which he can also be when necessary. but that this stubborn head demonstrates such a flexibility, well, basically, he is an agro rebel. you have to be when you take such an unusual path. He isn't eligible for any of the subsidy programs. He doesn't fit into any of the schemes of the bureaucrats in charge of farming. for this reason he's forced to rebel”In 2009 Sepp Holzer left the Krameterhof in the hands of his son Josef Andreas Holzer. Since 2013 Sepp Holzer lives on his new farm - the Holzerhof farm - in the Burgenland, Austria. Sepp is currently 81 years old.Long Live Sepp HolzerSource 1, Source 2, Water Stories, Agro RebelImage Credit: au.permacultureprinciples.com

After a mini tour of Karin's cosy shed, it's time to leave and take a saunter up to Vicky's plot - self professed organised chaos. The pair natter away about, layers of cardboard to suppress the couch grass, Hugelkultur developments, Vicky's plans for fruit trees and bushes and the inherited potato plant. Ps in case you're interested, the quote Vicky was trying to remember was : "He who plants a tree plants hope" - Lucy Larcom Thanks to Thanks to Alex Kizenkov for our intro and outro music.

The next monthly meeting of the Guadalupe County Master Gardeners is planned for Thursday, Feb. 16, where members and guests will hear from Two Hoes Gardening about “Regenerative Gardening and Hugelkultur.” The free program will be held in the AgriLife Extension Office at 210 E. Live Oak in Seguin. Doors open at 5:45 p.m. with a social followed by the business meeting at 6:30 p.m. The presentation will start at 7 p.m. For more information, visit https://guadalupecountymastergardeners.org.Article Link

Our good friend from The Midwest Terp Wizard rejoins the program for another jam-packed episode! Today the Wiz is here to discuss his recent pollination, growing in Michigan outdoors, harvest timing, and more. Wizard shares a story about how drying in the barn on his property led to some unforeseen pest issues when apparently a gang of rats infiltrated his dry space and ate a few thousand dollars worth of seeds! Terp talks about the strains that survived, and what's included in this next drop. He also shares an update on his gardens, where he is growing both indoor in tents as well as outdoor using organic hugelkultur practices to produce both cannabis and veggies. Terp Wizard also talks about hash rosin color, timing harvest, and more... *Join The Order of Cultivation - 100s of Hours of Bonus Content - Personalized Garden Support - Community Events - Members Only Discounts - Giveaways - Join The Order of Cultivation www.growcastpodcast.com/membership * FOOP BLACK FRIDAY SALE IS ON! BIG SAVINGS on FOOP products at www.thefoop.com OR order via Amazon Prime at www.amazon.com/foop PLUS code growcast STACKS! get it while it's hot! *Photontek Lighting - High efficiency, magnetic, water resistant grow lights! Use code growcast to save 10% on some of the most powerful and efficient lights around!*

Resident gardening guru Guy Barter gives the lowdown on slow worms, a fascinating and under-appreciated part of our garden wildlife. Organic gardener Anna Greenland sings the praises of lemon verbena, sharing some delicious and unusual recipes. Urban food grower Alessandro Vitale ('Spicy Moustache' of Instagram fame) explains hügelkultur - a low-cost and eco-friendly way to boost soil health.

Now that we know what Hugelkultur is and the benefits and drawbacks, check out this episode of Just Grow It, where we talk about how to make a hugelkultur bed.   The last raised beds you will ever buy-  https://glnk.io/vzw5/bigcitygardener Urban Gardening Blog- www.bigcitygardener.com Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/bigcitygardener/ Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/BigCityGardener/ TikTok- https://www.tiktok.com/@bigcitygardener?lang=en  

Do you want to save money when it comes to filling raised beds?  If so, check out this episode of Just Grow It, where we talk about Hugelkultur.   The last raised beds you will ever buy-  https://glnk.io/vzw5/bigcitygardener Urban Gardening Blog- www.bigcitygardener.com Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/bigcitygardener/ Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/BigCityGardener/ TikTok- https://www.tiktok.com/@bigcitygardener?lang=en  

Para contratarme lo tienes aquí: https://cursosdejardineria.com/#consulta Mi boletín aquí: https://claudiodoratto.com/boletin El canal de Telegram: https://t.me/jardineros -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- El correo: Hugelkultur, ésa es la palabra. En realidad, no sé pronunciar ninguna palabra en alemán. Tampoco en japonés, chino, coreano u otro por el estilo. Y eso que me gustan los wabi-kusa, las kokedamas, los suisekis y los Shinrin yoku. Si te gustan las palabras raras y aprender nuevas cosas, hoy va de diccionario para algunas. Empecemos por hugelkultur, es una técnica de cultivo muy curiosa y con muchas ventajas. Es de origen alemán y tiene el aspecto de un bancal elevado. Se practica una especie de zanja en el suelo de unos 50 cm de profundidad o más, se apilan troncos (de preferencia medio podridos) y luego en capas se va con ramas, restos verdes, compost. Se riega para que el material fino ingrese a los espacios vacíos. Se siguen agregando capas de material y al final se siembra. Es más complejo de lo que te cuento, pero ya le dedicaré un episodio del podcast para explicarlo en detalle. Los wabi-kusa, es un adorno realizado con plantas vivas. No cualquiera, sino plantas acuáticas sumergidas que se cultivan de forma emergida. Si quieres aprender sobre ello tienes el episodio Nº 90 de mi podcast. Las kokedamas, quién no conoce las plantas cultivadas sin macetas. Y lo digo así, a lo bruto, porque puedes aprender de ello en el episodio Nº 87 donde Marcela de “kokedamas de mamá” nos habló en detalle de ello. También puedes seguirla en su canal de Instagram @kokedamasdemama Los suisekis son adornos que no tienen plantas, son solamente rocas con formas. Maravillosas formas. Muchas recuerdan paisajes de montaña, pero hay más. Y hablo de ellas en mi libro “Jardines para cre-ser en familia” que puedes adquirir desde aquí, o en Amazon. Y la última por hoy los Shinrin yoku o baños de bosque. Un paseo terapéutico por bosques de árboles perennifolios con múltiples beneficios para la salud. Ya me conoces, soy un poco raro y me gustan las cosas que salen de lo común en mi cultura. Así que prometo no volver, pronto, con palabras o cosas raras (salvo que me lo pidas). Claudio. El jardinerista PD: Los suisekis se apoyan en unas maderas tipo mesitas talladas para ellas que reciben el nombre de daizas y también son suisekis las piedras que acompañan en los arreglos con bonsáis. PD1: Si te interesa mi libro te dejo el enlace para que puedas comprar tu versión en PDF, si quieres en Kindle puedes ir a Amazon al igual que para una copia en papel. Aunque de ésta puedes ponerte en contacto conmigo y te envío una autografiada. PD2: Hoy ya no construyo para clientes los wabi-kusa, pero sí paludarios.

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Regenerative Land Management * This blog contains a few links to products on Amazon.com I've found useful. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from any purchases you make through these links. It's a great way to support the show while greening up your lifestyle. Our earned commissions won't cost you a dime!   Hello and welcome to Part 4 of a 6-part recap series. It's been a humbling exercise to keep up with all the fun stuff that comes with producing a podcast. Creating new episodes is only one of them.   Interviewing a bunch of rebel back-to-the-landers was a pretty attractive introduction to the idea of starting a podcast and getting good ideas out in the open.  I've loved it and am excited to release the other episodes that I have edited and waiting for you.      Doing these recap episodes, however, has been another kind of adventure.     Don't get me wrong; it's been an invaluable practice for me to do these reviews.  I feel like I'm getting out of this podcasting adventure the education that I was looking for.    All the same, creating audio content from a screen full of notes that you've taken from what other people have said is a lot more difficult than just speaking off the cuff. We humans are intrinsically a part of the planet we live on, and we're as inseparable from it as we are intertwined with its other expressions of lifeforms we co-exist with.  We are all composed of recycled molecules that we cyclically share with bacteria, viruses, other creatures, and the soil itself.   There are plenty of religions that tell the story of how we came from the soil, and to the soil, we return.  Yet we continue to tell ourselves and teach our children, the egoic myths that lead most people to think that we can somehow live healthfully, independent from healthy soil, not to mention the life-enriching variety of other earth dwellers that we share it with.   It's imperative for us to weave our inherent interconnection with the rest of our planet's existence back into our culture. We're all part of an organic planet. Like the unimaginable number of different cells that we need for our bodies to function properly, our planet (our larger self) needs its cellular diversity to remain intact and cared for.  Like us, when the planet loses significant parts of its functioning body, imbalances occur that can be much more difficult to return from than if things were already in a more relative state of balance. This episode is all about land management and what we've learned from those who've been doing the work and measuring their results.  Building healthy soil is one of the most important things that any of us could be doing right now. I'm going to say it again; a healthy humanity depends on healthy soil.   I'm going to be a little honest with you. I'm not the plant guy of the family. I  enjoy planting things here and there, and I love preparing food with fresh harvest from the garden, but  I'm generally not the guy you can rely on to keep a seedling alive long enough to transplant it or make sure the fertilization schedule stays current.     This episode was a bit of a challenge for me to get into. I've had to shed a bit of my imposter syndrome to be talking to a bunch of plant-enthusiasts about something that I know very little about, compared to them. At the same time, that's the theme of this entire podcast.  While I certainly have a fair share of things I've learned and can teach newcomers to the farm, this has been my season to humble down, take notes and be a student.   Let's see what that's looked like.    I've divided this episode into three sections. First, we'll talk about the planning stages of land management, followed by a recap of some of our guests' soil-building tips.  Lastly, we'll wrap it up with some insights they've learned from working with the plants themselves.   Let's jump in... It all starts with a good design. Justin Dolan learned a valuable lesson about doing your due diligence and having your land surveyed. While he strongly recommends doing so before buying your property, it worked out to his advantage when he disputed his neighbor's practice of spraying herbicides too close to his gardens.  A little investigation taught him that what they both thought was the neighboring golf course's road, was actually on his side of the property line.  The circumstance drove the golf-course developer toward unexpected production costs, leading them to sell the property to Justin at a low-enough price that Justin was able to take it on and turn it into what's become the country club's 18-hole permaculture disk-golf course.     In telling his story, Justin recommends that when negotiating your land purchase, you can often get the seller of your new property to share the costs of that assessment.   Justin also recommends hiring someone to do a biodiversity study, upon buying it, to educate yourself on what you have living on your property.  How cool would it be to have a customized bird-watching laminate card for you and your visitors to relate to your neighboring critters with!?   He says that “real” country clubs should be taking care of the countryside.  What a concept!   Water management is a crucial element to focus on, for any land project.  Amidst that is to give sufficient focus on how we manage our wastewater.  Justin's greywater and blackwater systems are built to bioremediate toxins.    Bioremediation is a process where certain plants break down the molecular structure of certain toxins, transforming them into inert matter.   The methods he uses make both economic and ecological sense.  Some of the plants he uses include planting lana, hemp, fungus, and oysters to filter the water. He says that hemp is an ideal product to feed with these wastewaters.  He also uses plastic bottles filled with biochar to further filter out pathogens.   Esteban Acosta was another guest who's put some significant thought into optimizing greywater and blackwater.  His biodigester systems have been refined to a point where they produce cooking gas, by fermenting the kitchen and bathroom wastes produced from a small residential home!     The price of gas keeps going up, folks.  Investing in a design that can give you free fuel while creating garden fertilizer is an investment seriously worth considering, especially if you're still in the process of building or designing a new home.   One thing that Justin expressed that stuck with me was that if you design your communal spaces to be beautiful, people will want to protect and contribute to them.     Justin has an infectious enthusiasm for using his property as a living seed bank. He encourages us to share and propagate as many different seeds as we can find.    Like Nico Botefur from Essence Arenal, Justin encourages us to plant our houses by putting bamboo in the ground as early as possible. He boasts that it's like printing your own money.  Seeing the price you can pay for prepared bamboo canes in some places, I'd say he's right.Nico further reminds us to plant plenty of it and use it liberally in ways that the bamboo poles can be replaced easily. It's a renewable resource that can be fun to work with once you get the hang of it. At Finca La Isla, Peter Kring has designed his food forests in an impressively systematic way. His property is designed as a network of crisscrossing rainforest corridors that frame out a series of 1-3 acre lots. Each of these lots has a themed collection of fruit trees and exotic palms planted within them.  That way, the wildlife can pass through his property freely, and while he loses some quantity of food to these neighboring critters, they contribute to the health of the soil, and therefore trees, in very beneficial ways. The key's just to plant more trees!   His neighbor, Terry Lillian Newton, invites us to try and let go of our attachments to what we think the property should be and learn to appreciate its innate essence.   Terry reminds us that if you want to have horses, plan for plenty of open space and a diversity of grasses, herbs, fruits, and flowers. Plant them all around their grazing areas or along the perimeter. She recommends learning more about this method in a book called Paddock Paradise, by Jamie Jackson. Building Healthy Soil Switching over now to the topic of building healthy soil, we'll start with Ed Bernhardt, the guy who refers to the back-to-the-land movement as a “silent revolution.” Ed refers to himself as a deep ecologist who aims to live with the land rather than on it.   Ed provides us with several great recipes for making valuable items like fast compost, his “kombucha for the plants,” a kitchen-made insecticide that's suitable for chewing insects, and even a biosand water filter.  We've made a PDF with these recipes outlined out for you. You can find a link to it in the transcripts of this episode, as well as in the show notes of Ed's Episode (#002.)   Ed also reminds us to do what we can to recycle our waste. Shredding newspaper and food scraps into compost is a great start.  If you live in an urban environment, you can look into buying Compost Drums or Worm Bins to make transforming your trash into treasure, faster and tidier.   Justin Dolan makes his bokashi microorganisms in his livestock corral and uses his animals to mix it.  The process adds nutrients to the mix while creating beneficial bacteria that eat pathogens in the corral. Making bokashi in the animal corals and spraying a tea version of it around the coral keeps it disinfected and smelling great.    In Justin's bokashi-production video, we also looked at his method of sustaining moisture and nutrients in the soil by creating Biochar.  He digs a big hole, about  2x3 meters wide and a meter or so deep, and fills it with wood waste. He ignites it, covers it with a dense layer of palm leaves with some sand on top, and leaves it to smolder. He comes back the next day to remove the leaves, and he's left with a pit full of biochar - enough for the whole year!   His extra touch comes when he removes the biochar. He fills the hole back up with wood to make a hugelkultur bed.  Hugelkultur is this great method of mounting up wood logs and covering it with dirt.  That dirt is planted on, and the wood underneath goes through a slow decomposition process, providing long-term fertilizer for the garden.   Peter Kring mimics nature in the ways he applies mulch to his food forests.  He mulches heavily around the dripline of the trees, adding biochar and manure to the mulch.  That way, the biochar-inoculated-mulch bed slowly covers the area as the trees develop.   Peter also adds micro-organisms to the mix during wet times of the year. For more efficient use in your dripline applications, he recommends harvesting mulch from a nearby forest floor and hydrating it to extract the beneficial microorganisms before applying.   When taking harvest from our trees, he encourages us to put something back for the tree to continue to thrive.  Find out what minerals each tree needs and create a schedule of application.  It doesn't have to be a heavy fertilizing regiment.  A bit of calcium carbonate (or rock phosphate) mixed with some manure and worm compost can be very effective.  He recommends making it in large quantities and then adding your biomass, biochar, and micro-organisms, as needed, throughout the year.   For more information on biochar, Peter recommends checking out the documentary The Secret Of Eldorado - TERRA PRETA, on YouTube.   Esteban's businesses, Sembrando Flores and Viogaz, focus primarily on soil improvement.  Esteban has proven again and again that Biodynamic-preparation applications significantly improve commercial-scale coffee and wine production.   In his practice of working with other landowners, he teaches those coming from a more conventional background and don't trust organic methods to consider replacing a small percentage of their fertilizers with compost to start.  That way, they can measure the results and make decisions from there.   He encourages us to grow our biomass precisely where we want to plant our gardens and trees in the coming year. He primarily uses plants like Macuna & Mexican sunflower for this task. Plant it heavily where you want to plant, and chop it back just before it goes to seed.   This practice aligns with Esteban's approach of setting up conditions where the soil can feed itself. Healthy-soil biology largely replaces the need for soil amendments.  He recommends using small amounts of high-quality compost with high quantities of cheap biomass grown on the fields. Simply apply compost tea on top of the biomass. His Biogas installations provide multiple yields of gas & liquid fertilizer in quantities that can allow you to apply an abundance of that tea weekly, or even daily.   In Nico's YouTube video, he uses the water from his tilapia ponds to drain directly into his biomass pile, which composts down and is moved to the gardens for top mulching. He also has hoses to inoculate his garden beds with the tilapia pond water.  Nico shares the opinion of many of our guests of how building soil should be the #1 priority when starting a new project.    Now, onto the Wonderful World of Plants   My first guest, Suzanna Leff of Finca Amrta, is as passionately connected to her gardens as anyone I've met.  Planting and processing harvest are some of her favorite tactics for helping her volunteers experience the magical qualities of life. In Finca Amrta's farm tour video, one of her volunteers describes how they grow their vanilla beans by gently helping each flower pollinate itself.  So cool!   Ed Berhardt shared a valuable insight when he pointed out that many medicinal herbs often tolerate shade, making them great to plant near the house or amidst tall trees.   One of the most exciting things I've learned from Ed occurred when I went to his place a few years ago, and he taught me how to propagate bamboo by cutting down a culm and creating several 1-meter-long portions from the upper third of the cane.  You cut each piece so that it has at least four nodes.  In between each node, you cut a small square out of one side of the culm - big enough for rainwater to get to it.     You plant the cane laying down lengthwise, half in the soil, with the open windows exposed to the elements.  As the culm fills with water and hydrates, it'll send roots down at each of the nodes, as well as shoots that'll begin to climb to the sky.  It takes a little longer to get going than if you just dig out a more mature shoot from the side of a clump, but it requires much less effort.   Besides the hemp & lana that Justin uses for his blackwater bioremediation, he also uses Mexican Sunflower, a plant that he and Esteban use for Green Manure.   Another one of his favorites to plant around is a bush called Miracle Fruit.  He says that it's an excellent food for people with diabetes.  This miracle fruit removes your ability to taste the acidic qualities of the foods you eat afterward.  This results in sour foods like lemons and vinegar tasting sweet!  It's a great way to satisfy a sweet tooth with non-sweet foods!   Justin likes to play with different plants to create microclimates for other plants and his living spaces.  He uses vining plants to cool down the walls of his house and also uses them to create trellised wind-breaks or dappled shade for more delicate foods. He encourages us to rearrange our perspectives on what medicine is, or can be. He sets the example of planting herbs as a living first aid kit all around and outside your home.   He also encourages us to plant things like neem, hombre grande, madero negro, garlic, and chili, to be used as ingredients for natural pest control. In some cases, it might even be worth importing some beneficial insects like the praying mantis or ladybugs to eat more invasive species like ants and mites. Besides, who wouldn't love to see more praying mantises and ladybugs around, right?   While he recommends that we remove weak and dying plants to keep insects away, he also reminds us that intentionally stressing plants can build resilience in some cases.   Peter Kring is another master gardener who turned out to be a treasure trove of tips.  Most notably, he recommends that most fruiting trees should be pruned after their fruiting cycles.  You have to do your homework, though.  Some fruits, like rambutan, can be pruned back as much as 2 meters, while others, like the mangosteen, don't like to be pruned at all.   Peter's nursery operation consists primarily of grafted durian, chompadek, and other exotic fruits that produce better quality fruits faster when they're propagated as a graft.  As he explains in his YouTube video on the topic, it can shave several years off the time you might have to wait for the tree to bear mature fruits.   Another little tip that he gave us is that if you mix the variety of durian trees you plant in an area, they'll pollinate each other, and the diversity will increase your harvest seasons. I've seen similar things done with avocados.   While, like me, Lynx Guimond may not necessarily be Sailcargo's go-to plant-management guy, the tour we took on his farm really blew me away.  There are far more foods that can be planted near the beach than I ever imagined.  For any properties that need to conserve water, he's demonstrated, yet again, that greywater filtration is a powerful way to water your gardens in a nutrient-rich way.   I'll leave you with one final tip that I've picked up from my own land management learnings. It's in alignment with the principle often described as Value the Marginal. While planting food has its obvious value and importance, don't skimp on the pollinators.  We need to plant pretty things. If not for ourselves and the aesthetic pleasure of our guests, we need a diversity of flowers in our gardens to attract the ever-vigilant birds and bees that make our gardens an Eden.   With that, my friends, I bid you a wonderful rest of your day.  Remember to subscribe to the podcast if you haven't already, so you'll get notified when I eventually release our next episode on natural and sustainable construction methods.Until then, Go find a seed and plant it somewhere lovely!   P.S: Besides leaving a rating and review or sharing the show with someone who'd like it, you can support the show and yourself by visiting our Support the Show page. There, you'll find an array of helpful information, links, and products that I thought you might find useful.  Check it out! 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Samantha Ceci is helping create biodiversity in a monocultured woodlot by switching to Hugelkultur! Sam, a Master of Resource and Environmental Management Candidate at Dalhousie University, utilized the German horticulture method to increase biodiversity – and therefore create habitat for wildlife and pollinators, reduce carbon footprints at the school and generally be a really awesome educational opportunity. Sam joined The Switch to share how she developed the project and how people around the world can utilize this traditional method. The project was made possible in part due to a grant from the WWF Go Wild School Grant. Links Follow Sam Ceci with Conservation With Sam https://www.instagram.com/conservationwithsam/ Check out the CTV News Atlantic Clip with Sam and her Hugelkultur project: https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2265227 Want to suggest topics for The Switch? Reach out to us at DefenderRadio@Gmail.com, by visiting DefenderRadio.com or engaging host Michael Howie on social media via Instagram (www.instagram.com/howiemichael), TikTok (www.tiktok.com/@howiemichael) or Facebook (www.Facebook.com/DefenderRadio).  The Switch is produced by The Fur-Bearers (www.TheFurBearers.com), a charitable non-partisan organization whose mandate is to advocate on behalf of fur-bearing animals in the wild and in confinement, promote coexistence solutions in communities and protect the habitats of fur-bearing animals across Canada. You can follow The Fur-Bearers on Instagram (www.instagram.com/furbearers), Twitter (www.twitter.com/furbearers) and Facebook (www.facebook.com/FurFree). 

If you've never heard the term hugelkultur gardening you're in for a treat. This centuries-old method of gardening is making a comeback, and this podcast episode is filled with everything you need to know to successfully grow a garden using this German peasant traditional way of gardening. Learn its origins, the proper method, plus tips and tricks for success. For more information, links and shownotes visit melissaknorris.com/323.

Solicitor Alexandra Morrisey ditched her office job, linked up with her best friend Victoria Sala and, with a baby on the way, set up a veggie box business using the time-efficient no-dig method. They've dumpster-dived and upcycled to create their small market garden and packing shed on the outskirts of Masterton, building soil from sheep dags and coffee grounds, and, with a bit of social media savvy, their venture has taken off.

Getting Excited About Sharing Gardening Stories. In This Podcast: Kevin is passionate about gardening and driven to find ways to help others grow plants.  We are excited to have him return, this time to give us updates about both his personal and professional gardening endeavors.   Kevin shares stories of new digs, new products and a new book.  All of his stories share the common themes of ease and sustainability, and all of them are generously sprinkled with epic tidbits of gardening wisdom.  Don't miss an episode!visit UrbanFarm.Org/podcast   Kevin Espiritu began his business Epic Gardening as a way for him to present gardening information in a more modern, updated way to friends and family.  First came the website, followed by YouTube, a daily podcast, and finally his social media presence on Instagram, and Facebook.  Kevin is the author of Field Guide to Urban Gardening, and his new book is Grow Bag Gardening, both from our friends at Quarto Publishing.   Visit www.UrbanFarm.org/Podcast-by-episode-titles under the Farmer Fridays section for the show notes on this episode, and access to our full podcast library! Epic Gardening Growth.

In this, National allotments week, Gardeners' Corner celebrates those little plots across the country giving joy to many as well as a rich harvest of fresh food. Presenter David Maxwell visits the National Trust's community allotments at Springhill near Moneymore where one grower explains hügelkultur. Helen Mark visits the plots at St Columb's park in Londonderry and Amy Kelly comes live from Ards allotments which is throwing open its gates for an open day. Also on the programme, Bob Flowerdew on “bodging”; putting everything and anything to use in the garden or on the allotment. All that and experts Ann Fitzsimmons and Ciaran Mulholland will join David to take on listeners' gardening questions. Email – gardenerscorner@bbc.co.uk

This episode I'm speaking to permaculture designer, teacher, author Anna Locke. Anna is my favourite type of gardener, in that she walks the walk and has a wealth of experience in growing edible plants. Anna has recently published a book called The Forager's Garden, and in the interview, we talk about how to create an easy to look after yet productive space. Dr Ian Bedford's Bug of the Week: Crab spiders Thanks to Betakut for sponsoring this episode - visit https://www.betakut.co.uk/shop to find out more.  What we cover A forest garden is "a project to dip into and out of as time, money and opportunity comes along” (The Forager's Garden). Can a garden really be that little work?  Guild planting Grafting fruit trees onto wild hawthorns and blackthorn The theory behind Anna's 'keep it for now' policy Hugelkultur beds Ollas Advice for anyone starting a forager's garden from scratch How to ID the plants you have About Anna Locke Anna is a permaculture designer and teacher based in Hastings. She is also a community development project manger. With a solid background as a gardener, specialising in forager's gardens, she offers a bespoke design service or consultancy. She has planted over 50 forager's gardens of varying sizes, including a large ongoing project in Hornshurt Wood and in her own small-scale permaculture farm, both in East Sussex. She regularly holds workshops to empower people to plant their own, look out for- ‘How to Plant a Forager's Garden' on her instant courses website.  Links www.annalockepermaculture.co.uk  The Forager's Garden by Anna Locke 

Kathy Clugston hosts this week's gardening Q&A with a panel of experts. Pippa Greenwood, Bunny Guinness and Chris Beardshaw join Kathy to answer the questions sent in by green-fingered listeners. This week our panellists explain what a Hugelkultur bed is, and what you can grow in it. They share their garden memories and suggest some planting ideas for one listener's unique outdoor sculpture. We also join Dr Chris Thorogood as he learns about the history of botanical photography from exhibition curator, Alex Moore. Meanwhile, in the dead of night, Pippa Greenwood is delighted by those beautiful, fascinating creatures - glow worms. Producer - Jemima Rathbone Assistant Producer - Millie Chu A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4

¿Hugel… qué? El hugelkultur (palabra alemana que significa cultivo en montículo) es una técnica interesantísima que promete bancales que no necesitan fertilizante ni riego durante décadas. Sí, leíste bien, ni fertilizante ni riego. Simplificando al máximo, un hugelkultur es un bancal en el que se cultiva sobre madera enterrada (si esto te parece cada vez más extraño, entonces este episodio va a enseñarte mucho). En este episodio hablo sobre "hugels" con Renato Álvarez, ambientólogo, agricultor, formador y asesor en producción ecológica. Renato nos explica de manera muy detallada: Qué es un hugelkultur y cómo se hace.Por qué, una vez hecho, no necesita fertilizante ni riego en años.Qué se puede cultivar y qué no en un hugel.Cuáles son los errores más comunes a la hora de construir un hugelkultur.Cuáles son las medidas mínimas y máximas que puede tener un hugel.Y muchas, pero muchísimas cosas más relacionadas con este curioso sistema de cultivo (curioso para nosotros, ya que en otros países llevan siglos usándolo). Además de escuchar este episodio, te recomiendo que no te pierdas por nada del mundo el programa de TV que Renato grabó mostrando paso a paso cómo construir un hugelkultur desde cero. Espero que te guste la charla con Renato. ¡Yo aprendí muchísimo!

Hügelkultur is a centuries-old gardening technique using rotting wood as the base layer in raised beds. The concept has had a resurgence in popularity in recent years, but many gardeners still have questions about how and why to practice hügelkultur. Fortunately, my guest on this week's podcast, hügelkultur expert Paul Wheaton, is here to share what there is to know about hügelkultur to get off to a great start.

Josh Q&As with Taylor & Daniel of Briceland Forest Farm in Humbolt, CA about how their respective histories led them to grow cannabis alongside veg, how policy has affected the profitability of small-scale growers, intercropping veg and cover crops with cannabis, the importance of growing cannabis in living soils, hugelkultur/lasagna style bed considerations, being thoughtful about local sources of fertility, the shifting ecological balance in California, farming OFF-GRID WITH KIDS, and engagement. New episodes of Growers Live are brought to you by Farmers Friend. Order two or more caterpillar tunnels and get free shipping (as of podcast episode release). Also brought to you by YOU, our patrons and supporters. Follow No-Till Growers on Instagram or visit notillgrowers.com to know when the next episodes will go live. As always, patreons get first dibs on questions.

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Tonight on Comrades In Farms Justin Goodearth returns for a deeper discussion about Korean Natural Farming as well a Hugelkultur. Justin lives in Northwest Oregon where he runs a business doing horticulture and cultivation support for Cannabis farms and he is a licensed medicinal cultivator. Justin's You-Tube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/kevilrpm See the live stream on You-Tube Wednesday 12 AM Eastern Tuesday 9 PM Pacific here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6HVdu-1cOg&list=PL837tk-T71LjTQb1sXVtVWZlgnplv-Wor --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tfsncif/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tfsncif/support

Describes the hugelkultur method of composting

https://anchor.fm/selfsufficiency/message Click on this link to leave us a voice message with any questions you may haveToday we talk about growing your own food. We will be discussing the differences between agriculture/ mono cropping and permaculture/ poly cropping, micro nutrients in the soil, soil conditions and how to amend your soil, and composting. Also the word we were looking for when you garden on top of sticks, manure, and dirt is Hugelkultur.

This is Episode #64, and today we're back with William Padilla-Brown who was on the podcast last year sharing about edible algae, and today he shares about how he has set up his new hugelkultur mounds for gardening and what he is planning for a new spiralina pond. He shares some more details about how he is successfully growing, testing and harvesting this algae and how he eats it. Spirulina is basically one of the most nutrient rich and protein dense foods available used throughout history as a food source. And for those of you who haven't heard of Hugelkultur, it is a very old and intelligent gardening method using wood, compost and other layers that feed the Soil Food Web. William is an inspirational educator and adventurer, a talented guy interested in many things. He lives and works to create a more holistic world, and you can follow his work and life via his active instagram account @mycosymbiote. While you're on instagram, you can follow this podcast and me @getinmygarden and send me a DM to let me know what awesome things you are doing or learning about that I should feature on the podcast. Please subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen from if you like the show, and sign up for the newsletter on my website www.getinmygarden.com or via the facebook group I started called Soil Balance with Microbes, Minerals Fungi, Fertilizers and Bugs. It asks for your email when you first join. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/get-in-my-garden-podcast/message

After the facts and figures, we looked at what BIG realisations we've had in recent days about yourselves, our world and the future?Sources included:https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/portugal/https://www.portugalresident.com/payback-time-marcelo-tells-banks-its-time-to-repay-the-portuguese-who-bailed-you-out/https://jorgebranco.substack.com/p/great-lockdown-to-cut-gdp-by-8-andhttps://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data#charts

Emily + Taylor talk about the bright sides of some pretty serious lifestyle changes due to Covid - learning to be happier with less - and how Emily is starting "Hugelkultur" in her back yard.

Have you checked out our website https://journeyintopermaculture.com (JourneyintoPermaculture.com)? Go ahead and take a look! The webpage with all of our episodes and social media links also features a 2 acre hugelkultur farm that I made from scratch with the landowners. There are many benefits that hugelkultur methods provide for raised bed farming. One benefit from burying the downed trees after clearing the land to start the farm, the tree's wood are used in the long-term plans, which they provide nutrients for the plants grown in the beds. These 'hugels' offer more benefits that I can explain in one of our full episodes. This sustainable agriculture method may be a great addition to your permaculture design. The land is also slightly graded to allow water to fill up the pond naturally, and this farm produces everything that you would think a farm cultivates. I can't wait to grow with you as we Journey into Permaculture! Support this podcast

Join Nate of Brown Sugar Farm in Sacramento California. We go into Nate’s farming journey -How he got started -One straw revolution parallels letting my family backyard orchard die in drought -talk on working with kids -agroforestry -farming while black -what kind of IMO box is best? Could there be better kind for different areas?... listen to episode →

This is the second in a series of episodes about strategies for growing double the food with one tenth of the effort.Tilling can be a lot of work. And while the short-term benefits can be excellent, the long-term consequences are huge. Every time you till, you lose 30% of the organic matter in the soil and destroy the soil structure. There are strategies that lead to better growth and require less water and nutrients.To learn more about the book, visit buildingabetterworldbook.com.

Literary Gardener Rhonda Nowak discusses a permaculture design for gardens called hügelkultur.

In this episode, John Crand shares how a love of learning inspired his interest in the environment. He discusses his childhood memories: planting a garden; seeing a polluted river; and attending 4H camp. He talks about how these memories impacted his choices in life.Also, we hear the music Breathing by Spectacular Sound Productions [https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Spectacular_Sound_Productions/Breathing/#.XXPkv9cO7Dc.email]And, if that's not enough, you get to hear about my very first hugel!In John's follow up video, he takes us on a tour of an organic farm where they are practicing regenerative agriculture. Take a look https://youtu.be/7UrGAp8lLDw

Join Nicole and Andrea of Ramsgate Ranch as they discuss philanthropic gardening and hugelkultur garden beds!WHAT YOU’LL LEARNGardening for a stronger and healthier communityWhat are hugelkultur bedsSupporting food desertsChallenges of community gardensWhat are Cul De Sac Co-opsOUR GUESTOur guest for this episode is Andrea of Ramsgate Ranch. After traveling to remote cultures across the world, Andrea learned about many different cultivation practices. When back in the US, Andrea learned of the food deserts that plague communities close to home. From there, Andrea was driven to make a change and became an avid urban farmer- growing simply to donate food to those that desperately needed it. Now, Andrea is a strong supporter of philanthropic gardening and cul de sac co-oops to eliminate food deserts and bring fresh produce to all.RESOURCES & LINKS MENTIONEDRamsgate Ranch on InstagramEmail us! Ask@HeritageAcresMarket.comSUPPORT THE SHOWYour support helps us continue to provide the best possible episodes!View Our Favorites on Amazon*Shop HeritageAcresMarket.comFollow us on Facebook and InstagramJoin our Hens & Hives Facebook GroupJoin our VIP Text ClubCall our podcast message line and leave a question or comment! 719-647-7754Sign up and be the first to know about future episodes and updates!- http://bit.ly/2CMza8m#backyardbountypodcast #heritageacresmarketSupport the show (http://paypal.me/heritageacresmarket)

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Paul and Fred discuss the history and report on the progress of the hugelkultur berms at basecamp. The podcast starts out with a brief history of why the berms were created, how they were created, the components included in the berm itself, and the part the berms are playing in improving soil conditions. In the […]

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Your Gardening Questions covers the gamut of gardening questions from our Plant Talk Radio listeners. Over the phone, or by email, Fred answers them all. Facebook - planttalkradio www.planttalkradio.com fred@planttalkradio.com Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, iTunes, or http://www.subscribeonandroid.com If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in iTunes. Here's how -http://pleasereviewmypodcast.com/your-gardeningquestions. Discover more podcasts like this at Circle270Media Network - http://www.circle270media.com

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Hugelkultur is one of the most interesting and productive methods you can use for raised bed gardening. Learn what "log mound" gardening is and why it's so effective! Keep Growing, Kevin

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Links   World Organic News in the Australian Podcast Awards Click here   organic food shouldn’t be considered special. instead, cheap food made with harmful chemicals should be considered shitty. – crimson highway http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-etp   Hugelkultur: a first time for everything | Life, Death, & Radishes http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-eta   Here’s the link to: The World Organic News No Dig Gardening Book   ****   This is the World Organic News for the week ending 20th of March 2017. Jon Moore reporting!   This week we begin with spirited post from crimson highway entitled: organic food shouldn’t be considered special. instead, cheap food made with harmful chemicals should be considered shitty.   As I said this is a spirited piece and if you click through be aware of strong, even offensive language. The point though, is well made. As we have discussed in earlier episodes, the health costs of chemically forced, pesticide laden food are not included in their sale price. That zillions of carrots can be grown across a landscape and put up on your supermarket shelves for under a dollar per kilo is suggestive of something screwy.   Indeed on the matter of price, I have long wondered why oranges shipped across the Pacific from California should be cheaper to purchase than oranges grown a few hundred kilometres away. This questioning received a bit of kick along during this Irish sojourn. Not oranges but bananas being the focus. How could bananas from Coff Harbour, a mere six hours from home be more expensive than bananas in Ireland? Even when comparing bananas to bananas through currency exchange, they were still cheaper in Ireland. I was informed by the locals these Irish bananas were flown in from the Caribbean! A 13 hour flight away! So as I said there is something screwy in the price signals and market mechanisms when it comes to food. Then when we toss in the concerns raised in crimson highway’s post, someone somewhere is rent seeking and passing the costs on to someone else.   A quote form crimson highway: Quote: it should be the duty of the companies using harmful farming techniques to inform their customers of the destructive processes that go into making cheap products, and their products should be openly advertised as sub-standard. it’s backwards that shit that is grown normally is considered special and marketed as healthy. End Quote.   There is a pic that regularly pops up on my facebook feed with a basket of fresh fruit and vegetables and the words: Eat organic food or as your grandparents called it: Food!   Speaking of food, our next post comes from the blog: Life, Death & Radishes and is entitled: Hugelkultur: a first time for everything. Hugelkultur we have touched on before.   From the post: Quote: There are an endless number of ways to coax nature into working with you in the organic garden. So clearly my first choice was to pick the most labor intensive. Yes, I chose the one that begged for digging. End Quote   To start the system off does require some labour but so does every system in the setup phase.   Another quote: Quote: The German technique of hugelkultur is defined by the burying of wood, preferably wood that is already overcome by fungi and starting to get crumbly, but any wood will do as long as you give the bed or mound time to age before you plant it. And a little further on. You can dig a trench or hole to bury large pieces of wood followed by smaller sticks and twigs, then leaves, and finally top it off with soil. Alternatively, a hugelkultur mound begins by laying the stuff on top of the existing ground and working your way up to a giant about 6-8 feet high but I thought that would weird out the neighbors too much. End Quote.   So we either dig or pile. Your choice in the end. This is the case with Hugelkultur, it is the case with garden beds. You should know my preference by now! See in the show notes for a link to: The World Organic News No Dig Gardening Book   So Hugelkultur can be either ig or no-dig. The point of the timber and decomposing timber at that is the soil food it provides. Already decomposing timber means the wood won’t suck nitrogen out of the pile and will in fact continue to feed the soil life around it.   This is my last episode whilst on holidays here in Ireland. I’ll be putting together some of my thoughts from this trip and releasing them as supplemental episodes which will just appear in your feed.   And that brings us to the end of this week’s podcast.   If you’ve liked what you heard, could please follow the link in the show notes and vote for Thanks in advance.   Any suggestions, feedback or criticisms of the podcast or blog are most welcome. email me at podcast@worldorganicnews.com.   Thank you for listening and I'll be back in a week.   ****   Links World Organic News in the Australian Podcast Awards Click here   organic food shouldn’t be considered special. instead, cheap food made with harmful chemicals should be considered shitty. – crimson highway http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-etp   Hugelkultur: a first time for everything | Life, Death, & Radishes http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-eta   Here’s the link to: The World Organic News No Dig Gardening Book

On today’s podcast episode 58 I give my thoughts on a few popular food growing methods that seem to be the hot topics in homesteading today. Are these methods something you should be doing or are they just a shiny object that looks good on the surface but have no place on your homestead? Some of the food growing methods I will be talking about are: Hugelkultur – a composting process employing raised beds constructed from decaying wood debris and other compostable biomass plant materials. The process helps to improve soil fertility, water retention, and soil warming, thus benefiting plants grown on or near such mounds. Food Forests – a low-maintenance sustainable plant-based food production and agroforestry system based on woodland ecosystems, incorporating fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines, and perennial vegetables which have yields directly useful to humans. Making use of companion planting, these can be intermixed to grow in a succession of layers, to build a woodland habitat. Aquaponics – Any system that combines conventional aquaculture with hydroponics (cultivating plants in water) in a symbiotic environment. In an aquaponic system, water from an aquaculture system is fed to a hydroponic system where the by-products are broken down by nitrifying bacteria initially into nitrites and subsequently into nitrates, which are utilized by the plants as nutrients, and the water is then recirculated back to the aquaculture system. Straw Bale Gardening – Simply a different type of container gardening. The main difference is that the container is actually the straw bale itself, held together with two or three strings, the outside crust of the bale serves as the container. Once the straw inside the bale begins to decompose, the straw becomes “conditioned” and ready to plant. Tower Gardens – a vertical, aeroponic growing system, allows you to grow up to 20 vegetables, herbs, fruits, and flowers in less than three square feet. Wicking Beds – a garden bed with a waterproof lining that holds a reservoir of water at the bottom from which water is drawn upwards like a wick to the surface of the bed. Gutter Gardens – pieces of rain gutters as long pots to be used in order to utilize spaces that normally aren’t used for growing like along fences and up walls. Deep Mulch Gardening – “Back To Eden” Method – uses layers of mulch to crush weeds, keep the soil moist and add organic matter. Herb Spirals – A raised bed built into a spiral upward creating a variety of microclimates that accommodate a variety of herbs.

Links WORLD ORGANIC NEWS in the Australian Podcast Awards Click here   Five Notable Organic Gardening Methods | Garden Variety http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-ej0   Keyhole Garden Images https://www.google.com.au/search?q=keyhole+gardens&rlz=1C5CHFA_enAU695AU695&espv=2&biw=1296&bih=648&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjiyL_c8aTSAhXKjpQKHfEgCuQQ_AUIBigB   Hugelkultur Images https://www.google.com.au/search?q=keyhole+gardens&rlz=1C5CHFA_enAU695AU695&espv=2&biw=1296&bih=648&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjiyL_c8aTSAhXKjpQKHfEgCuQQ_AUIBigB#tbm=isch&q=hugelkultur&*   Lasagna Garden Images https://www.google.com.au/search?q=Deep+Mulch+Gardening&rlz=1C5CHFA_enAU695AU695&espv=2&biw=1296&bih=648&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiY7JD98qTSAhVDtpQKHQPbAWIQ_AUIBygC#tbm=isch&q=+Lasagna+Gardening   ****   This is the World Organic News for the week ending 27th of February 2017. Jon Moore reporting!   This week we focus upon five gardening ideas! These come from the blog post: Five Notable Organic Gardening Methods by  Garden Variety.   Four of these techniques are no-dig and one involves intensive digging. I assume by now you know my preference is for no-dig but I realise there are people out there happy to bend their backs and turn the soil.   We’ll begin with the digging system: French Intensive Gardening.  The post gives a good description of the process.   Quote: The French Intensive Gardening method was re-established in a two acre garden plot just outside of Paris in the late 1800’s. The purpose was to grow an abundance of vegetables year round in a several mid-sized growing beds for the home and markets. Generally, a wide bed (5ft in width) is dug approximately 12 inches in depth. The soil from this bed is placed to the side.  At the bottom of the trench, the soil is turned another 12 inches and then loosened with a sturdy garden fork and 1/3 yard of compost added. An additional bed is dug utilizing this same technique. After this is done, put the reserved soil from the first bed is placed back into the trench and mixed with 1/2 yard of compost (or manure). End Quote.   This double digging and moving soil about can be done within the confines of a single bed. A spade’s width of soil is removed at one end. The soil under it is dug and loosened. The next spade width of soil is turned onto the first and the second dug and loosened and so on until the end of the bed is reached and the first soil removed is added to the last spade width of the garden bed. Manures and compost being added throughout the process. As you can see this system requires a large amount of effort and it comes from a time when labour costs, let alone personal time costs, were much lower. The idea of double digging was to aerate the soil and to bury potential weed seeds. The bed was left bare to the elements until the plantings covered the surface area.   The system works and is productive. It provided food all year round and that’s a good starting point for any system. Sorry you listeners in Canada, the Northern parts of the USA and Scandinavia. I won’t even glance at our listeners in Russia.   The annual soil turning and the surface of the garden bed left exposed seems to point against this method. I’ve heard it argued that this a good first year technique, especially when the soil is compacted and/or a pan have formed below the surface. Masanobu Fukuoka, of The One Straw Revolution, faced just this problem in his orchard. He overcame this not by digging but by broadcasting daikon radish seeds and allowing this three foot monster radishes to loosen the soil for him. Your choice.   Now to the no-dig methods. We start with Keyhole Gardening. This system relies on a garden bed with a walkway cut into it. Usually circular in form The beds are uber raised to waist level. The post explains:   Quote: Keyhole Gardening was introduced in Africa by the Consortium for Southern Africa Food Security Emergency (C-SAFE) to help ailing and frail Africans grow their own produce with minimum effort by means of a specialized raised bed. The bed, which is waist high and in the shape of a keyhole, allows for standing and leaning for long periods and is built using stacked rocks, bricks, wood or pieces of concrete. A compost bin is placed in the center of the bed and as material breaks down, the resulting composted nutrients are added to the soil. End Quote.   There is much to recommend this system. The appealing circular nature of the beds is great for setting it’s size to the reach of the gardener. Circles aren’t overly efficient in space use but maybe you could interconnect hexagonal beds like a beehive? Anyway I’ve provided a link to the google images page for keyhole gardens in the show notes.   Now we come to Hügelkultur! Quote: Hügelkultur (a German word for hill mound) is a growing method that is believed to have originated from Eastern Europe thousands of years ago. Widely utilized by permaculture enthusiasts, it is based on the concept of natural occurring decomposition of plant material in forests; ergo fallen trees, branches and other plant material which over time has decayed and created a healthy biomass of rich hummus. The process of layered debris is continuous thus creating an organic, lush, green ecosystem teeming with beneficial life. End Quote.   I believe this system is also good for extending the growing season as the heat generated by the decomposing pile of organic material maintains a level of warmth into Autumn/Fall. I saw a man using these gardens in mountainous country when frosts can arrive at most times of the year. It takes some time and effort to set up a hugelkultur garden but the work tends to be maintenance over time rather than a re-start each year. I’m not sure how long these garden last but I’m assuming five years as a minimum. Again I’ve put a link to images of Hugelkultur gardens in the show notes.   Onto Deep Mulch Gardening.   Quote: The Deep Mulch Gardening method was made popular by gardening expert Ruth Stout in the 1960’s, offers a low maintenance-no work philosophy. Garden beds are covered in large amounts of hay, straw, leaves, pine needles, sawdust and vegetable waste periodically to create a barrier to deter weeds and enriching existing soil underneath as it gradually decomposes. When starting a new bed, it is recommended to mulch at least 8 inches thick over a planting area. End Quote.   This system can be used on top of the French Intensive beds if you’ve given up on digging. The idea is to mimic Nature, always a good starting point, by laying an 8 to 12 inch (20 to 30cm) layer on the garden bed as per the floor of a forest. Idea is to save the soil from temperature extremes and drying out alternating with flooding. The mulch acts as a sort of leveling tool for water flow. Mulch also attracts biota to both live within it and to assist in its decomposition. I’ve used urine soaked goat bedding as a mulch over yellow very sandy soil. Within one growing season the soil was black, rich in humus and at least 18 inches, (50cm) deep. I can, therefore, confirm this system works.   A variation on this system is the Lasagna Garden.   Quote: The Lasagna Gardening movement was conceived by Patricia Lanza and is a method of layering compostable material on top of a planting area to form a large mound which, over time, will decompose into viable and loamy soil and compost. The material normally used for layering is wet newspapers, peat moss, sand, compost, grass clippings, shredded leaves and wood ash. End Quote   This is a more formal version of the deep mulch system. First year production can be less than expected but not necessarily so. Either way, production increases each year as the material decomposes and feeds the soil. As with the other no-dig systems, Lasagna gardens need to be topped up each year with organic materials. This is a whole easier than double digging. If we let the soil systems do the work for us, we will find they do so 24 hours a day every day of the year. If we keep the soil covered, not with plastic but with organic matter, we will protect it, we will be nurturing it and it will support us in return.   A link to the google images page for Lasagna gardening is in the show notes.   And that brings us to the end of this week’s podcast.   If you’ve liked what you heard, could please follow the link in the show notes and vote for World Organic News in the Australian Podcast Awards Click here Thanks in advance.   Any suggestions, feedback or criticisms of the podcast or blog are most welcome. email me at podcast@worldorganicnews.com.   Thank you for listening and I'll be back in a week.   **** Links WORLD ORGANIC NEWS in the Australian Podcast Awards Click here   Five Notable Organic Gardening Methods | Garden Variety http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-ej0   Keyhole Garden Images https://www.google.com.au/search?q=keyhole+gardens&rlz=1C5CHFA_enAU695AU695&espv=2&biw=1296&bih=648&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjiyL_c8aTSAhXKjpQKHfEgCuQQ_AUIBigB   Hugelkultur Images https://www.google.com.au/search?q=keyhole+gardens&rlz=1C5CHFA_enAU695AU695&espv=2&biw=1296&bih=648&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjiyL_c8aTSAhXKjpQKHfEgCuQQ_AUIBigB#tbm=isch&q=hugelkultur&*   Lasagna Garden Images https://www.google.com.au/search?q=Deep+Mulch+Gardening&rlz=1C5CHFA_enAU695AU695&espv=2&biw=1296&bih=648&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiY7JD98qTSAhVDtpQKHQPbAWIQ_AUIBygC#tbm=isch&q=+Lasagna+Gardening  

Moving to a new homestead you get to start with a clean slate. So how do you decide what you need? This week, Liz and I share what animals and infrastructure we settled on for our new homestead. Listen Now! Subscribe to Small Farm Nation on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Google Play or TuneIn Welcome to Episode 19! This week Liz and I candidly discuss how we settled on what we needed on our homestead. Listen in as we discuss our animal and food choices: What breed of pigs we settled on, and why Cows, both dual purpose and specific breeds for beef and milk Meat chickens Hens German Shepherds versus Anatolian or Great Pyrenees Top bar hives and bees Garden area requirements We also cover all the infrastructure and building we've done in the past year, including: Raised bed Hugelkultur garden (click here for pics) Building a tall fence to keep deer out of the orchard/garden Integrating a play area into the garden space (click here for pics) Creating a medicinal herb garden Adding a metal building workshop Milling lumber and building a barn with hay feeder (click here for pics) Building deer blinds Building a dual dog house with center "warm" area Building shelves (so many shelves!) for pantry, craft area and homeschool room Building a homeschool room with bookcases, tables, etc And building a woodland trail and survival practice area (click here for pics) It was a fun discussion and I hope you enjoy it and find that it gives you a lot to think about as you prepare for your self-sufficient life. So grab some coffee and pull up a chair! Subscribe to the Small Farm Nation Podcast Make it easy on yourself and subscribe to the show, and you’ll never miss an episode:     Thanks for Listening! Thanks so much for joining me this week for Self-Sufficient Life. If you enjoyed this episode, please SHARE it using the social media buttons you see at the top of the post. Also, PLEASE LEAVE A REVIEW on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and I greatly appreciate it! Finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates! Resources Relevant to This Episode How to Make Money Homesteading by Tim Young Start Prepping by Tim Young The Accidental Farmers by Tim Young Production Credits Story written by Tim Young Music Credits Theme Song - Opting Out Today - Lyrics by Tim Young Other royalty-free music by www.bensound.com, Kevin MacLeod, Nicolai Heidlas & Audionautix

Great Escape Podcast is an audio version of the blog posts from Great Escape Farms.  These blog posts can be viewed at GreatEscapeFarms.com.  This week we cover the official launch of Great Escape Farms, Hugelkultur beds, and Lemon balm. We also cover topics on the following subjects: permaculture gardens, permaculture Maryland, forest garden design, creating a forest garden, edible forest gardens, forest garden plants, establishing a food forest, permaculture garden layout, permaculture garden design ideas, sustainable living garden, and permaculture plants. We will also delve into sustainability gardens, permaculture landscaping, permaculture garden plan, unusual things to grow your garden, unique edible plants, unusual food plants, list of things to grow in a garden, fruits to grow in a garden, forest garden plants, edible food forest, and permaculture forest gardening

On this episode of The Sample Hour, I am joined by the Duke of Permaculture, the Bad Boy of Permaculture and the host of THe Homestead and Permaculture Podcast. He is the owner of RichSoil.com, Permies.com, and CodeRanch.com. He also has a great YouTube subscribe and review. Mr Paul Wheaton. On this episode Paul and I continue our conversation and talk more about the origin of permaculture. Paul and I continue our conversation a discuss lasagna beds and how they are better than a lot of solutions but how they are not the ideal solution most of the time. We also discuss my plots of land and what Paul would do in my situation. Due to time constraints, I cut Paul off of why lasagna beds are bad and we finish out the show discussing all the wonderful things Paul has going on at Wheaton Labs. Download.

On this episode of The Sample Hour, I am joined by the Duke of Permaculture, the Bad Boy of Permaculture and the host of THe Homestead and Permaculture Podcast. He is the owner of RichSoil.com, Permies.com, and CodeRanch.com. He also has a great YouTube subscribe and review. Mr Paul Wheaton. On this episode I discuss with Paul his back story and how he made the transition of software engineering to permaculture. Paul and I also complain about skype, vimeo and other free service sites.Download.

-Key Takeaways: Hugelkultur mounds are usually positioned perpendicular to the wind. Sometimes used as a staging process to dispose of wood and build soil which can then be spread onto crop land. Think of a hugelkultur as a produce aisle raised bed. Make sure the design fits into how you live your life and how you want to live your life. -Hugelkultur Benefits: Soil building structure. Semi-permanent planting bed. It creates microclimates. Lifting the soil surface towards the sun and that adds degree days. with Javan Bernakevitch of Permaculture BC. Show Notes: permaculturevoices.com/82

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