Small suburban edible mushroom bed – eat the fruits of your compost!
Filed under: How To's, Permaculture, Sheet Mulch, sustainable agriculture | Tagged: Edible Mushrooms, Permaculture | 4 Comments »
Willow Coppice Math Fun
Posted on December 7, 2008 by onestraw
We are actively looking in to designing a Community Supported Energy system here in JEfferson County Wisconsin based on a wood chip gasifier powering a small co-gen unit providing roughly 30,000 kWh of electricity and enough BTU’s to heat 10,000 gallons of water for tilapia aquaponics similar to what Growing Power of Milwaukee is doing. [...]
Filed under: CSE, Permaculture, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Development | Tagged: CSE, Gasifier, Permaculture, Sustainable Farming | 12 Comments »
Camping, Golf’s, Appleseeds, & Terra Preta
Posted on September 2, 2008 by onestraw
The past two weeks have been insane. First we ran out to SW MN to nab our newest vehicle and less than a week later I delivered my beloved Honda Insight to its new owner (not so bad as he is the farmer that loans me all the land for my projects). Then Labor Day [...]
Filed under: Bio Diesel, Permaculture, Renewable Energy, The Natural Step, sustainable agriculture | Tagged: Biodiesel, Permaculture | 5 Comments »
Chicken/Rabbit Tractors: Sub Acre Ranching
Posted on February 15, 2008 by onestraw
One of the most perplexing challenges of my Sub Acre Agriculture project will be to consistently and sustainably increase fertility in the soils to optimize yields over time. While this can be done exclusively through green manure cover crops, it is more efficient to combine a planned cover crop rotation with livestock manures. [...]
Filed under: Market Garden, Permaculture, sustainable agriculture | Tagged: Chicken Tractors, Market Garden, Organic Farming, Permaculture, sustainable agriculture | 4 Comments »
Permaculture Concepts Video
Posted on January 22, 2008 by onestraw
Right.
So anyone reading this blog has probably figured out that I feel that in many ways overt and subtle, Conventional Agriculture as sold by Monsanto and ConAgra is destroying the very fabric of society on top of our ability to feed ourselves. When you look at the physical and social damage done in the [...]
Filed under: Permaculture, Sustainable Development | Tagged: Environment, Permaculture | 8 Comments »
Big Ticket Conundrum
Posted on January 11, 2008 by onestraw
Looking forward into 2008 at some of the Big Ticket items I would like to purchase, and frankly I am struggling. One item would significantly decrease our personal footprint, and increase the joy I have in our home, the other would potentially make me a greater asset to helping our community become more sustainable, and [...]
Filed under: Counting our Blessings, Green Living, Permaculture | Tagged: MREA, Permaculture | 17 Comments »
No Till and Hubris
Posted on January 3, 2008 by onestraw
I love the optimism of January for the gardener. The snows cover the gardens and allow the gardener to forget the mishaps of the past season and the smooth blank slate is a true tubula rosa for their hopes and dreams. This is the time of year where I get myself worked up into [...]
Filed under: Gardening, sustainable agriculture | Tagged: No TIll, Permaculture, Sub Acre Ag | 9 Comments »
