When I Was First Building a Chinampas Garden
My motivation for digging this up was @stortebeker Woot! A fellow Chinampas enthusiast! Is Steemit great or what?
Obviously, the audio is poor. The location was in Northernmost Baltimore County, Maryland, U.S.A. (U.S.D.A. Zone 6B). A peninsula was being formed on a ground that technically was already floating. You may have picked up about the mentioning of planting cattails in the pond-ish area. Cattails are sacred among indigenous peoples and for good reason. The entire plant is used. Around the middle of June, pollen heads appear on the male plants. One has to be quick to harvest them as they can disperse in a week. And no... ...I did not make moonshine. On the other side of the pond, is where I planted Milkweed and Butterfly Weed.
This is an edit: this whole area was once a homemade paintball arena. It became dilapitated. I was still tearing it apart and burning the pieces; separating the metal in the ashes, when this was filmed.
Hello @aedroberts, I can see you liked my last issue of Look What I Found!, thanks for the re-steem. I thought you might like this most recent issue, since you are featured in it, more precisely, this post about your chinampa. Take a look: https://steemit.com/curating/@stortebeker/a-permaculture-consultant-a-chinampa-builder-a-coffee-grower-and-canadian-gardener-preparing-for-winter
Awesome! I'm so happy about your posts, @aedroberts! I have decided to go back to yesterday's article and overhaul it a bit. Coming back from the chinampa, I was in a bit of a rush, so I kinda threw together my post, using mostly the text and pics from my blog. So now, spurred on by your posts, I want to add at least a few references. Thanks for the encouragement.
By the way, that's what I found too here in steemit: the best articles are conceived through interactions in our comments and replies.
I wonder if I'll ever live somewhere where i can try to do this! It really opens up the possibility for a different variety of plants then I can plant
@jayjayjeffery I commented first on a blog post you made because imagination is what takes us to different nations to live. For years, I have had the privilege to be part of an awesome sustainable living forum. A good number have moved to various Latin American nations.
In 1994, in Malawi, the equivalent of one acre of land was going for the equivalent of seven U.S. dollars (read FRNs). During my time there, I had never felt so free in all my life. Anarchy is seldom understood, including by those who profess it. No one is attached to the borders that he/she was born. Before there were borders, there were simply people and families.
Where's the place closest to that ideal today?