What is a Swale? Knowing what a swale is and how to create one is the foundation of permaculture and indigenous farming. Which is Harvesting water in the ground to improve the water table for viability, vitality and the future. Swale / swāl / – A Water harvesting ditch, usually on contour, designed to slow down water run-off and store […]
and the importance of becoming Permaculture Entrepreneurs Are you a Permaculture Entrepreneur? A permaculture entrepreneur is someone who lives their life to the fullest every fucking day by making sure they are doing what they love in business and in life. Don’t get me wrong their might be a day that sucks the life out of you and or be […]
A letter to a Rookie Beekeeper Dear Rookie BeeKeeper, Congratulations on deciding to help the bees and start your very first bee hive. Here are just a few of the basics of what you need to know in preparation for the arrival of your honey bees: Bees needs somewhere to live and here is what you will need to get […]
Take 5 for Friday 3-15-19 – A blog about permaculture, projects, people, podcasts, products, places and more. (1) The boomstead News: In preparation of the blizzard on Wednesday Guy drove back out to the property on Tuesday afternoon, boarded up the chicken coop windows and locked the chooks in the coop with water and food for the Bomb cyclone. 18 […]
Take 5 for Friday 3-8-19 – A weekly blog on all things permaculture, projects, podcasts, people, products, and more!!! A weekly blog highlighting Permaculture, Projects, people, podcasts, products and more but you have to join our email list to get full access to this weekly newsletter!! (1)What is Going Down @theBoomstead Projects – From Hot Water Heaters to Chicken Laying […]
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5 things you should know about Beneficial Insects and Companion Planting in the Garden: (1) Companion Planting, is the relationship between plants and insects in the garden and is by far the safest and most natural way to garden organically. Plants like people are “social” living things. They communicate and team up in their plant like ways with other plants […]
Planting a Garden is Fun but why not have a bed that actually serves more than one purpose? And did you know there are plants that attract along with deters different insects? In Steps the Mosquito Repellant Garden Bed. Here are 3 easy steps for you to follow so you can build your very own garden that keeps the Mosquitos […]
The Kindle, Amazon Synopsis:The Resilient Farm and Homestead is a manual for developing durable, beautiful, and highly functional human habitat systems fit to handle an age of rapid transition. Ben Falk is a land designer and site developer whose permaculture-research farm has drawn national attention. The site is a terraced paradise on a hillside in Vermont that would otherwise be […]
Taking care of chickens is a little easier in the spring/summer months because of not having to worry about their water to freeze, but here is what we have found out after keeping chickens for the past 2 winters. THEIR WATER WILL FREEZE, we don’t have the power to have a water heater on constantly overnight, so we rotate water […]
