The High Permaculture Entrepreneur Newsletter
Take 5 For Friday 3-22-19: A Blog Highlighting Permaculture Projects, People, Podcasts, Products, and More.
(1)Permaculture Boomstead Projects
Operation Keep Chickens Alive through winter has been successful even with us not really living at boomstead. The chickens all have their feathers back and we have 3 dozen eggs to eat a week right now between 10 chickens which isn’t too bad for off grid prairie birds dealing with frozen waterers and absentee farmers.
We had our 9th and 10th sauna day and it only gets more enjoyable and also just as difficult every 30 minutes we try to bear the 30 minutes of 220 F degrees. I keep dong a fly bye on my bees but still no movement, this weekend is suppose to be awesome and I am hoping to see their cleansing flight “first flight of spring”!
We had a cob oven pizza party last weekend and It keeps getting better each time. Between the sourdough pizza dough, our fresh microgreens from @milehighmicrogreens.info and _________(add any fucking pizza topping you want) this makes pizza day on the boomstead EPIC every time. My favorite pizza right now is Grass Fed butter, lightly cheesed with parmesan and mozzarella and then add Arugula Mile High Micro Greens when it comes hot out the oven ready to eat!!
(2) Boom Perma Garden Spring Projects:
We built, started and have been helping maintain my parents Parker Landing Child Development Center’s Preschool Garden since 2016 . So this will be year 4 in the garden we have a strawberry bed that needs help, a raspberry bed that was very successful last year and this will be our first year where we cut the raspberry canes back and we will wait to see if they come back in full force. The herb bed is fun to smell and its full of perennials to make it a maintenance free garden bed easy for a preschool to maintain. It is full of herbs like chives, we planted around the edges, sprawling chocolate mints, lemon balm and lavenders and every year a random kale pops up and if we have room in this bed we also a new herb in to the mix. We have an open bed for carrots, cherry tomatoes that also has a couple Perennial echinacea plant (Purple cone flowers) that comes back every year. We have a request for carrots, pumpkins, greens beans, peas and more!!!
Boom Bees in Denver – excited to be building hives this weekend at our friends house (1 hive for them and 1 hive for us) and this year we are going to be using foundation less frames which is suppose to more natural for the bees. I am excited to see the difference between these Denver hives and our boomstead hives. Tune in for our beekeeping adventures @traconanda @theboomstead @themommykeys
(3) Permaculture People of the ‘gram #shoutout
Mushroom eating plastic – yep you read that correctly, we should still have sustainable practices and cut back on one use plastics but if we have mushroom that will eat this stuff we can finally team up, start rebuilding top soil with plastics and take care of this giant problem we just label as “trash” and “landfills”
burning man – This company Ecozoic Resources is doing big things with our shit and all I can say is finally. I have been waiting for a company to come along and start making thing billion dollar industry come to life with our humanure!
3. @geofflawton
strawbale – Did you know you can build a house with straw bales? and when you need to todo a remodel the straw that you take out of the wall can be used in the garden. Talk about epicycle!
(4)Products that will boom your sleep:
Looking for an eco-friendly mattress. Look no further. I was in the market for a badass mattress that lets you sleep though the night with out all the fright. Fright? Ya who wants to sleep on a toxic pad the messes up your back and gives you cancer. I sure the fuck don’t . So in comes Avocado mattress No VOCs , made with your back in mind (cool new eco-eco-friendly spring system) , non-toxix, vegan option made with eco-eco-friendly tree rubber. Click here and get $150 off your risk free purchase. Avocado will let you test your mattress out for 100 days and if you don’t like it you get your money back.
(5) Quick tips to boom your Sourdough Bread baking skills :
(1)Find a Friend who will give you a sour dough starter
(2)Or make one yourself (we have not tried this yet but follow @deannakat3 and checkout her sour dough starter post and her blog Homestead and Chill she has a badass instagram page and click here for her blog post on making your own starter.
(3)Read the book Tartine and Follow a Recipe.
(4) Youtube sourdough bread recipes and go have fun.
(5) Follow our @theboomstead account for more insight on making and baking sourdough loaves and pizza in our cob oven!!!
P.S. The Urban Boomstead NEWs! We close this Friday 3/29 on our new house. There is rent back through the end of April. I hope they find a new house and move on. We are ready to move in and get this Urban boomstead growing!!
