Well, one could just sit around getting fat... One can look at labor intensive projects as costing their labor, or saving them going to a health...
Before I met my wife, I actually was seriously considering going off into the forever wild parts of the Adirondacks. Not so much because I don't...
In the wild, predators go for the stomach first, and internal organs. They need their vitamins too - it is just they are not well suited to get...
I try to make sure that whatever animal protein I eat is to control the growth of the flocks / fish we have. Without having some predators that...
Pretty hard to grow sweet potatoes (camote in Spanish) here if you don't have something like a cat to keep the mice down who eat the tubers. And,...
I don't think anyone could imagine that we are suffering. And you are going to need a lot more earths if they count in the nearly 900 acres we...
Congratulations, you are living an ecologically conscientious lifestyle. If everyone lived like you do, we would need only 0.28 Earths. Now...
How do we prove things to people when we have scientific proof? If someone doesn't want to hear, what you say won't help a bit. The bigger problem...
I had a heck of a time controlling a fungus on a certain seedling - eventually it came down to using paper pots, instead of plastic. Fungus can be...
Cool, thanks for posting those. One of my focuses now is cacao because if grown monocrop it has serious problems with disease, fungus, etc but...
No doubt, Australia wins the award on poisonous snakes. Though a bushmaster is the largest pit viper in the world. What is funny is the older...
I am not fond of finding a fer-de-lance in the garden near our home or a coral snake. The small fer-de-lance snakes are more dangerous than the...
When I was a young adult (I am probably considered an old geezer now), I thought I had everything all figured out. Now, I know I don't. I know...
I think what you are saying here is on track, but I think there is a basic underlining concept. Systems that run out of control do so often due to...
In all honesty, I probably am not the person to be able to see a "fatal flaw" in permaculture. Perhaps being too complicated for the average...
Well, the safest place for my sheep is locked up in the fold... perhaps that is what they are thinking. Instead of locking up the criminals, lock...
Always remember too that your beneficials need something to eat. So, if you have these, then aphids now become a friend, right? It really isn't...
I have a theory. Without checks and balances, any system will go on until it is obvious what is the fatal flaw. (I was a software architect for a...
Here in the tropics, the people who garden who are locals, almost invariably follow something that looks very much like permaculture. Nothing else...
You just saved me thousands of dollars! We have plantations which are being converted slowly into forest, we run sheep who love certain kinds of...
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