How can we go about creating the new systems, business models, value systems and infrastructure of a regenerative society when much of that work is arbitrarily outlawed or supressed by the power systems that dominate our current culture? This post is for those of you interested in creating that world worth inheriting, whether or not…
Create Resilient Wealth and true freedom in time, health, wealth and spirit with the 8 Forms of Capital.
Simple DIY thermophilic composting instructions for homestead scale composters. 18 Day Berklee Hot Compost method for quick compost.
Welcome to Nutrient Cycling For Homesteads! This post series covers the many ways you can build fertility, create soil, cycle nutrients and take responsibility for โwasteโ streams on your property. These systems all integrate with one another to increase resilience, improve nutrition (for soil and humans) and save dollars. The posts are written from our…
Welcome to Nutrient Cycling For Homesteads! This post series covers the many ways you can build fertility, create soil, cycle nutrients and take responsibility for โwasteโ streams on your property. These systems all integrate with one another to increase resilience, improve nutrition (for soil and humans) and save dollars. The posts are written from our…
Vermicomposting methods for the homestead and farm. Build soil fertility, process waste streams on site, and create a resilient ecosystem at home!
The 4 Freedoms – Principle For Regenerative Lifestyle Design – Freedom in Time, Health, Wealth And Spirit.
DIY Air Pruning Beds – Grow Hundreds Of Trees With Well-Formed Root Structures In A Tiny Footprint What Is Air Pruning? Air pruning is a technique for developing healthy, fibrous, non-circling and non-girdling root structures in trees and and plants raised in a nursery setting that uses air to prune and shape root systems. Trees…
We finally made the investment in automating our microgreen growing set up and it has demonstrated immediate time savings of several hours a week (and we’re a small scale grower). Prior to building this system we had all of our germinated 1020 shallow trays with their own white, leak-proof bottom watering tray. This, not surprisingly,…
This South-facing hillside has a grade ranging from 55-65%. The soil isย very friable, dry and has little perennial vegetative cover. The slope was formed when the lot was graded for the house site and has been steadily slipping, its edge creeping closer to the house with each passing year. This post details how we took…
Got started a bit late with documenting the build, but these shots will give the basic idea. Pictured below is theย stone and stacked urbanite foundation with underlayment of old pieces of stone countertop from a nearby dump site. Several sections of the pallet wall have already been measured and attached in between 4×4″ posts. The…