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Getting the new year off to a good start, I’ve launched a new web site, Permie.net. Permies are folks who practice permaculture, and my goal is to promote permaculture as a practice, permies as a people, and West Sonoma County as a locus of energy for permaculture in the United States.
The design is pretty [...]
In one of my happier moments of consumerism, I just ordered a pound of worms from Wendy and Mikey at Holy Scrap Hot Springs.
I’ve been looking for a good source of red wigglers (or Eisenia fetida, a species of worm prized for the rich compost (or “worm castings”) they produce. I’ve got my worm [...]
Today I helped with “Turkey Transition Day” with Slow Food Russian River.
I like to support the efforts of farmers who are raising heritage breeds of animals. Heritage breeds of livestock are often in danger of becoming extinct, because industrial livestock breeds create a monoculture of animals. Industrial breeds were developed for [...]
In case you didn’t already see it on my Citizen Science Projects weblog, I was a guest blogger on Science Cheerleader, with a post there titled Getting back to our roots as everyday scientists: Permaculture. (Yes, Science Cheerleader is Darlene Cavalier, a former NBA cheerleader; and no, you won’t see me in her promised [...]
I’ve heard that the Sonoma County Permaculture Guild has had about three incarnations over the years, and I’m really happy that it seems to be getting new life now. Thanks to Erik Ohlsen of Permaculture Artisans, Lenaya Pongan, and Angela Bohl, this past week featured the first meeting of a reinvigorated Guild, and the [...]
On July 2, I got five new baby Americana chicks to add to my existing flock of two Barred Plymouth Rocks, hoping to end up with about five hens total after the inevitable goofs in chick sexing. (Sure enough, I’ve got at least one and up to three roosters in this new batch of [...]
I’ve been slogging away at projects in the back yard, trying to transform it into a permaculture paradise. It’s been slow going, and sometimes it seems less than rewarding.
One project has been to try to use sheet mulching to reclaim a part of the yard that was quickly being taken over by blackberries. [...]
The Earth Activist Training Sustainable Skills Bus — the PermieBus — was pulled over by Minneapolis law enforcement and impounded, leaving the Wilson family standing beside the road with their chickens and dog and without any of their belongings (thankfully the police allowed the Wilsons to get their animals off the bus but would [...]
Geoff and Nadia Lawton have done extraordinary permaculture work, and Bay Area permies have the chance to hear them speak this Thursday evening. An Evening with Permaculture Designers Geoff Lawton and Nadia Lawton is sponsored by Solstice Grove Institute, Urban Permaculture Guild and Commonvision.
Geoff Lawton might be most famous for the “Greening the Dessert” [...]
I’ve always wanted to get to know draft horses better, and maybe learn how to work with them. After a lot of searching, I found a farm just down the road from us in Sebastopol where one can actually take lessons in driving draft horses. I got up the nerve to contact them [...]
