Dennise
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It's cold.....
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Good grief Dennise! I feel for you. 
Dennise
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That's actually my fella's home place in upstate NY.... I am much further south and it still is horrible but not that bad.... I have only been there once during the winter... it won't happen again....
Is Farming the Woods helping your planning? Have you established any goals? All those disparate features will make for an interesting Zone/Sector analysis when you get these. Such an exciting time, Winter gardening. No weeds, no planting, no sweating, no watering, just grand ideas, and seed catalogs.
You may want to check out: Eds. Zelov & Cousineau. Design Outlaws: On the Ecological Frontier.
Hoping you have a nice smooth thaw after all this. Peace.
You may want to check out: Eds. Zelov & Cousineau. Design Outlaws: On the Ecological Frontier.
Hoping you have a nice smooth thaw after all this. Peace.
Yes. A nice smooth thaw. I was thinking that very thing today on the bus.
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Your wife, a free spirit? Who would have guessed? A match made in Heaven.
I like your organizational plan for planting Rad. My mother used to do the same sort of thing every February.
It can stop snowing there any day now. We haven't gotten significant snow yet here, but were protected by a bluff to the south of the confluence of rivers that splits the weather and sends it around the metropolitan area. We did get the unending freezing temps though. That can stop any time too.
But your mom had the knowledge of prior years to draw upon!
I am starting from scratch here. Working with new plants, soil types, water patterns, local climate, and regional climate.
I can't believe I was hours off on the sun levels last year. Love and learn
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It's cold.....
Denise that is so familiar! My house would look like that if I hadn't broken icicles 5 times.
There was one icicle I busted up Wednesday connecting the main roof and a small roof over my back door.
It had a 24" waist.
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Farming the Woods got me excited and helped fill in some blanks with planning and analysis methods.
It also helped me decide I wanted to delay the food forest in favor of medicinals and soil building.
Sepp Holzer's Permaculture is chock full of grand scale (40 acre plus) ideas, and also practical methodology.
(Ideas such as plant the mushroom logs in a swamp edge to avoid watering issues - and presumably slug problems)
Growing and Marketing Ginseng, Goldenseal and other Woodland Medicinals. promises some in depth expansions on technique.
(Although Massachusetts is a marketing disaster for Ginseng.)
I LOVE weeds!!! The Wild Wisdom of Weeds looks to be a recipe book.
(My western and praire weed books are useless now.)
But all these plant books compete for time with occult reading, romance novels and
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Today, I woke up to fresh sticky snow and new icicles.
Since there was blue sky and above freezing temperatures, I decided to cut back the ice to expose the covered gutters.. check out the thickness of the ice.
Since there was blue sky and above freezing temperatures, I decided to cut back the ice to expose the covered gutters.. check out the thickness of the ice.
Ahh, a man and his axe. Be careful Rad. That's some serious ice. I think you guys have earned a break. Yeah.
I had the same thought Ranger. Then I thought "maybe he did that on purpose". 
Dennise
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I just couldn't do it I don't think... that pic is my fella's home place in upstate NY and I only spent one winter there when his Mum was still here and needed help and it was no where near as bad as this winter has been but it was absolutely horrible.... People still have to go to work and schools are still open.... In my state what is a normal tues afternoon snow shower to you guys would close this state down.... We are just not equipped to handle that kind of snow and especially this kind of ice.... The temps rose a bit today and have made a big mess and are now causing flooding but another arctic blast is coming in tomorrow and most of next week but no where as bad as last week they say... Farmers Almanac called it... said it would be one of the worst on record and we broke low record last Monday night by 26 degrees.....
Brrrrrr Denise. I shivered just reading that.
When you break a record by 26 degrees, you've really gone and broken a record. Smashed, crushed, annihilated, folded, spindled and mutilated all leap to mind.
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I had the same thought Ranger. Then I thought "maybe he did that on purpose".
I saw it Ranger. I left that typo in.
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Hugelkultur ( hoogle-culture)
Last spring I started dragging logs into my front yard and making a pile.
My plan had been to make a layer of logs. Then I read there is supposed to be a layer of sticks.
Then some folks turn it into multiple layers like lasagna gardening.
I stopped.stuck on the concept and moving on to back yard planting and building the pond.
Last month I read Sepp Holzer's "Permaculture."
Sepp started doing Permaculture style farming in the Australian Alps in the 70s, before the Aussies invented the word Permaculture.
He knows his stuff. He observes.
I love his logic. He had an issue where his cows would eat Tansy, get sick and spoil the milk.
Rather than remove the tansy, he replaced the cows with smarter cows! He went for older heritage breeds like Scottish Highland cattle, that were not only more adapted to wild living, but more fun to look at.
Anyway, here is a drawing and photo of Hugelkultur, Sepp Holzer style.
When these rows are correctly oriented, they provide functions of water retention, vertical stacking, and microclimates
Drawing from his book.
Photo probably from his property. Note the very steep slope and waist high mounds.
The wide spacing is because this is a wheel chair accessible demonstration garden.
More efficiently, they should be just wide enough for walking between rows.
Last spring I started dragging logs into my front yard and making a pile.
My plan had been to make a layer of logs. Then I read there is supposed to be a layer of sticks.
Then some folks turn it into multiple layers like lasagna gardening.
I stopped.stuck on the concept and moving on to back yard planting and building the pond.
Last month I read Sepp Holzer's "Permaculture."
Sepp started doing Permaculture style farming in the Australian Alps in the 70s, before the Aussies invented the word Permaculture.
He knows his stuff. He observes.
I love his logic. He had an issue where his cows would eat Tansy, get sick and spoil the milk.
Rather than remove the tansy, he replaced the cows with smarter cows! He went for older heritage breeds like Scottish Highland cattle, that were not only more adapted to wild living, but more fun to look at.
Anyway, here is a drawing and photo of Hugelkultur, Sepp Holzer style.
When these rows are correctly oriented, they provide functions of water retention, vertical stacking, and microclimates
Drawing from his book.
Photo probably from his property. Note the very steep slope and waist high mounds.
The wide spacing is because this is a wheel chair accessible demonstration garden.
More efficiently, they should be just wide enough for walking between rows.
Wheelchair accessibility is a good thing. You never know. Dale's proof of that.
This makes me wish I had a yard to garden again.
This makes me wish I had a yard to garden again.
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The day after spring equinox, it snowed again.
Pretty, but I am tired of the snow.
Pretty, but I am tired of the snow.
Oh Rad, that deep blue reflected in the pond griped my heart strings. It'll melt soon. We're into mild days west of the Alleghenys. Yours can't be that far off.
You live in your own little paradise.
You live in your own little paradise.
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