YAY for food forests. That's a lot of work. Well done @nateonsteemit. Wish our ground was so soft. We have to get through shale and rock to plant. I'm really impressed with how ingenious and enthusiastic you are about your homesteading projects
YAY for food forests. That's a lot of work. Well done @nateonsteemit. Wish our ground was so soft. We have to get through shale and rock to plant. I'm really impressed with how ingenious and enthusiastic you are about your homesteading projects
Ooh, permaculture can fix all that rock!!!
Jack Spirko of The Survival Podcast lives about an hour south of me. His property had three inches of soil before it turned to a solid Rock slab over the span of his entire property. Now he has feet of soil in just a few years.
Geoff Lawton is working on a project called Greening the Desert where he's helping people in Jordan start their own food forests on solid rock. He says their chickens are producing a cubic meter of soul a week, and it's being used to constantly grow and expand into an oasis in the Jordanian desert.
It was a lot of work, but the enthusiasm of supporting life is propelling me forward. If little old Nate can do this on his little half acre, anyone can. These things are big and revolutionary and they can change the world. I believe they can even fix most socioeconomic problems around the globe, but I'm a radical idealist, so...