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Ken
Ken
11 years ago

Just a heads up….the second link is to the same YouTube content not Flickr

Jon
Jon
11 years ago

FYI, the flickr link leads to the YouTube channel.

laurence
laurence
11 years ago

Thank you so much for uploading these guys. Wish I was there.

Backwoods Engineer
11 years ago

That is a righteous beard you got going there, Jack!

This was a good peek into the class. Makes me want to take a class from Jack in the future.

Backwoods Engineer
11 years ago

Too bad we didn’t get to see the rotary level, so we could see how it compared to the A-frame. Still, like you say, if you’ve got gravity, an A-frame level will find the contour line.

Tiffany
Tiffany
11 years ago

Is there a list of plants you or someone can suggest planting for north tx area to create a small Eco system like you did? You named a few but I would love a list of plants in order of hight from ground cover options on up to large trees. Thanks for all you do! Love what I’m learning!;-)

Josiah Garber
11 years ago

Thanks for posting this Jack. Great to see what y’all were up to.

Jeff
Jeff
11 years ago

The nice thing about the rotary level is that we could calibrate it at one end of the premade bed and then go to the other end and start finding the contour from there – not just 4 feet at a time. The range on the laser was 700 yards.

Cryptozoic
Cryptozoic
11 years ago

Great lessons Jack, thank you.
A little good natured teasing:
When you call the Think line, don’t have a backhoe running in the background 😉

The New Mike
The New Mike
11 years ago

Thanks alot for posting these videos. I’ve been out of town the last few days for a wedding and now have to catch up. Perhaps I’ll watch these with the little lady tonight.

dawn s
dawn s
11 years ago

Bermuda grass, LOL! I have been wondering what you were going to do with that menace. It is not so easy to get rid of.

Josh
Josh
11 years ago

Jack,
I would have liked to been at the workshop. You say you are an advocate for a polyculture, which is what I saw in your ‘ecosystem’ bed. However, why don’t you do more of a polyculture in your vegetable beds? Alternating 2 different plants isn’t far removed from a monoculture.

The Prepper
The Prepper
11 years ago

Great videos! How is Jack irrigating his beds? It seems like the beds would dry out without supplemental irrigation in the Texas heat.

Lily
Lily
11 years ago

Wow, speaking after a bunch of rain in NH, your rainy days look kinda dry! Thanks for posting pictures, my imagination is terrible.