#permiculture

We talk about a few of our winter crops that are going to seed as we are settling into spring weather. Get some tips on harvesting seed, ideas for your next winter garden, and some general knowledge! With

Our intern came out today and we were hard at work layering on cardboard and woodchips around all the newly planted fruit trees and nut bushes. We then moved on to layering on woodchips over a mini berm

We have set our sites out to certify Kindred Acres as a Certified Wildlife Habitat through the National Wildlife Foundation. We diligently made sure we could truly check off each and every requirement

I hired a painter to come power wash our house and gazebo and then paint it. I was very clear in informing him that we grow organic food all around and the gardens up against the house are medicine gardens,

We have recently returned from a lovely weekend away in North Wales where we stayed in a hand built cob round house in the woods on a permiculture farm. It was perfect, the round house was so well crafted.

This is a reposting of an interesting article on permiculture. The article and link do not belong to me.

Good Morning! I have had a rather great day yesterday, although I am still quite manic. I went to be at a decent hour, but only got about four hours of sleep. It was very hard to stay still after waking.

Living  in the Appalachian Foothills here in Southern Kentucky you come to know  God's wonder in the beautiful scenery he has created.  I cannot think  of another place I would

As  the outer bands of what is left of Hurricane Harvey reach southern  Kentucky our thoughts and prayers turn towards those who have been  devastated by flooding to the south of us.

If you have been following our story here on Steemit you will  remember our chicks that we got a few months back.  We started them in  the brooder and as they grew the moved to our

I posted awhile back about our mistake in planning or shall we say not changing our plans fast enough and the stress the garden suffered because of our failure to act….. See the post here…. We covered

Our weather here in Southern KY has been shall we say different, now  we have only lived here for two plus years so we don’t have a lot of  history with the area but the neighbors tell

If you live south of the Ohio River, you know what Kudzu is, it's hell!   It  is very hard to get rid of, extremely invasive, if you have it on your  property you will spend hours and hours

please click on photo for large image This photo was taken in my orchard on May 3, 2009. I cannot describe the feeling of walking beneath the trees of a cherry orchard in bloom after years spent growing

We  were asked a number of times about our small aquaponics set-up that we  have referred to a number of times.  But first, some background.  As you  may or may not know,

Working on the road this week just south of Rheinlander, WI. It is nice country up here, it reminds me a lot of my younger days. I grew up in the western suburbs of Chicago in a town called

As you may know, we decided to use the Straw or Hay Bale Gardening System this year. Our reasoning behind the change was as follows: Very poor soil conditions Pest issue, especially the squash vine bore

My wife and I have to make sacrifices so we can live out our dreams on a homestead. One of the sacrifices I make, is that I have to work on the road about 10 to 15 weeks a year depending on our workload.

Good morning from hot, hot, hot southern Kentucky!  Wow its been hot and muggy!!! Before  I get started into the update, I just want to take a minute and thank  the Steemit community

We have been making salsa for 30 years, we always look forward to that first large harvest of tomatoes & peppers.Just so happens that we were on our very last jar of salsa when we made