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Pat
Pat
10 years ago

Really enjoyed the walk around your place. It’s very inspiring to see all the work that’s been done on 3 acres, but know you have only begun your master plan. Thanks Jack for inspiring me to continue on my own mini food forest.

David
10 years ago

Gteat stuff as usual. Always getting ideas. I wish there was a permaethos podcast. Peracast maybe?

EricM.
EricM.
10 years ago
Reply to  David

Not sure if you heard on the Monday show, but they will be starting PermaEthos TV soon (before the PDC is released), and it will be free to anyone who signed up for the PDC until the PDC starts. That will definitely satiate my need for Permaculture talk. 🙂

PS Jack – do more Permaculture shows. 😛 I LOVED the shows this week, the Comfrey one and the Bison one were fantastic. My wife is so tired of me teaching her about how to raise Bison and Comfrey.

Ben
Ben
10 years ago

Awesome, ur my hero! With the spread of your audience we could network the development of heat and cold hardiness breeding one zone at a time much faster than any one of us in a single location (like the seaberry). Your plant with the purple flower is silverleaf nightshade (Solanum eleagnifolium) and the other is one of the nine species of groundcherry native to the region (Physalis). Some are toxic, others not. Go man, go!

Ben
Ben
10 years ago

I’m down with that. Ur name in history will be Jack the Obsoletist : )

Brent Eamer
Brent Eamer
10 years ago

That volunteer watermelon is huge, (so was the Comfrey next to it). My melon (Navaho Winter) can best be described in one word, cotyledon.

Long term when you are overrun with fruits and nuts, what is the plan for the excess?

Patricia
Patricia
10 years ago

I have a goji berry that lived and got established. It started smaller than any of the ones you showed. Four years later it is eight feet tall and has spread through my blackberries and into my raspberries. It now covers an area 12 feet long. I have never pruned mine which you can do. Just be careful. If you get some established which it looks like you have. They could over power some of your other berries. I do enjoy eating them though. And they are probably healthier for me than the raspberries and blackberries. This year I will probably dehydrate or freeze some for the winter.

Scott
Scott
10 years ago

I have really enjoyed these, thanks for the walk thru. One thing that was not clear to me however, where are the support trees? I know you talked about having three or four support trees for each main planting. Stuff that you were going to hack down after a few years once the fruit trees were well established. I would have thought to see a much higher density of trees in the ground based on the concept of 3-to-1 or 4-to-1, support-main, planting groups. Are they there, and I just didn’t realize it?

Rags Danneskjold
Rags Danneskjold
10 years ago

Hi Jack,

What you are calling swales… Little confused. So the swales were cut on contour, and the mounds- Are those the Hugelkuture mounds or dug woody beds that you made or just the dirt from the swale excavation? Would those mounds on a more sloping ground be the lower lip of the swale? I guess I’m confused because you are calling the mounds the swales and I thought that the swales were the ditch part. Thanks for all you do.

Rags Danneskjold
Rags Danneskjold
10 years ago

Thanks for the explanation. Looking forward to taking the Permaethos PDC next time around. Just bad timing this time for us in that we are moving from the burbs to an 8 acre homestead, and every penny counts as we are trying to do this with little debt. Count me as another in the list that you’ve helped find a better way to do this thing called life.

Polemic Turtle
Polemic Turtle
10 years ago

I loved the videos.
After hearing you talk about them for so long I’m wondering if you ever aregoing to put Muscovy ducks on your land?