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I have read up on permaculture,the next thing I want to do is gutters and rain barrels. I use a bucket and water my garden with as much gray water I can and collect rain water with buckets. I learned the hard way not to save seeds when I plant different squashes. This year I grew squashes that you couldn't eat so I have weird gourds .the goat is a wonderful composter the poop can go right into the garden. People might think it's gross but human urine is great for the plants. Organic is the way to go. I'm disabled and want to eat the best for my health. To bad we aren't neighbors, we could share produce. Have you tried to grow moringa? I have a small tree I have to bring in when it gets cold here. Thanks for the video and chat
 
Junochick said:
I have read up on permaculture,the next thing I want to do is gutters and rain barrels. I use a bucket and water my garden with as much gray water I can and collect rain water with buckets. I learned the hard way not to save seeds when I plant different squashes. This year I grew squashes that you couldn't eat so I have weird gourds .the goat is a wonderful composter the poop can go right into the garden. People might think it's gross but human urine is great for the plants. Organic is the way to go. I'm disabled and want to eat the best for my health. To bad we aren't neighbors, we could share produce. Have you tried to grow moringa? I have a small tree I have to bring in when it gets cold here. Thanks for the video and chat
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that is so awesome. I wish everyone knew about it!! I don't think it's gross at all, we are wasting resouces like the nitrogen in human urine and literally flushing it down the toilet with our limited clean water! I wish we were neighbors too! Every single one of the neighbors on my street has a turf grass lawn although they are starting to plant more plants one by one slowly...I'm familiar with moringa but haven't tried one yet. I've watched others experiences growing it here and it seems like it would like to be a little farther south than me, but I may try it in a hot spot one day. I have quite a few other plants that are just as nutritious though. I'm just a little too far north for coconuts and mangos too but that's ok. I can do some tropicals and some temperates here so it's like the best of both worlds :) Keep up the good work there too! xoxox
 
HeidiEmbrey said:
A dream come true, thank you :) It took a lot of people a long time. You know I had Just given up, and was planning on getting chickens anyway and hiding them, and let the city come try and take them over my dead body..when they lifted the ban lol
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Heidi, permaculture is a special thing. I was fortunate enough to find a place in the country where the owner many years ago worked the land into a permaculture setup. I have beautiful 6' swales set about every 20 feet of elevation, yes I live on a mountain. Unfortunately the last owner neglected the land for 13 years. It will take me years to get it back in shape. I'm looking forward to the challenge. My street is at 300 ft above sea level, my house 650' and the top of my mountain (btw, locals call it a foot hill) is 1019' above sea level. The bottom of my property including the Army corps easement is at sea level and sits on the Cumberland river. I hope you get your grant.:fl
 
rjohns39 said:
Heidi, permaculture is a special thing. I was fortunate enough to find a place in the country where the owner many years ago worked the land into a permaculture setup. I have beautiful 6' swales set about every 20 feet of elevation, yes I live on a mountain. Unfortunately the last owner neglected the land for 13 years. It will take me years to get it back in shape. I'm looking forward to the challenge. My street is at 300 ft above sea level, my house 650' and the top of my mountain (btw, locals call it a foot hill) is 1019' above sea level. The bottom of my property including the Army corps easement is at sea level and sits on the Cumberland river. I hope you get your grant.:fl
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This message really moved me for some reason..that someone created a permaculture system there before I even knew about it..the word permaculture was coined the year i was born in 1975..I'm 41 now so people have been spreading the word about it and fighting for it for so many years before I even knew about it. I've been an environmentalist forever and fighting explosive fuels etc but just started growing my own food for real around a decade ago and discovered permaculture then. My house is 3 ft above sea level. My yard is sand and it Was a grass lawn with plastic tarp burried a foot deep the entire yard they had that weed block tarp..took me a whole year to tear it out before i could plant anything.. Thanks so much for sharing and yes permaculture is special. I think it could easily save the planet if it can go mainstream :)
 

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