Using the characteristics of plants in ways that are symbiotic with other plants and that help the gardener and the garden is one of the foundations of permaculture. I learned this trick from some other people at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage who have been applying comfrey in this way in their gardens.
It gets pretty hot in Missouri during the summertime. And living entirely off renewable energy it doesn’t have to be a challenge to stay comfortable on those 90°F+ dog days. There are simple things you can do to minimize your use of air conditioning–one of the biggest contributors to climate change. Nature has provided us with many options to keep ourselves cool. We just have to make the connections and implement the systems.
This season was a drought year for the early 3 months or so. It was a struggle getting stuff established, and a bit frustrating to wait for rain and be disappointed so much when it didn’t come.
Everybody has to shit, but in our culture and economy, human waste is nothing but a liability and potential health hazard. And what’s crazier is that we mix it with our drinking water and create an even bigger problem.
Well, at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, we don’t have elaborate plumbing and water systems to cart all our human waste away to be treated in a plant or dumped directly into the local river or ocean. We keep all our human waste on site, where it becomes a benign yet beneficial resource for agriculture. We not only save millions in infrastructure expenses, but we save water, we don’t pollute our drinking water, and we end up with a valuable soil amendment.
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When I got back from being away for the winter I found that my water pump was no longer able to pump water out of my cistern. In my house, I drink and use rainwater caught off my gutters and stored in an 1100 gallon cistern underground. In this video, I try to figure out why I’m not getting any water. Was it the -18°F temps over the winter or something else that caused the problem?
Part of permaculture knowledge is plant propagation. Learn these skills and you might never have to pay for plant material again. It’s also incredibly fun to see the results of your knowledge growing and producing fruit. I love grafting and layering and taking cuttings of plants to produce more or to propagate varieties that I like.
