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rev.hodl revhodl@cornychat.com 2 years ago
Pollarding the "weed" trees in the food forest image Inevitably, unwanted trees grow wild in the food forest but instead of cutting them down entirely to remove them, I pollard them. By pruning the tree back to the main trunk, I get food for the rabbits. If I kill the tree, okay but if it lives then it will grow even more food for the rabbits next season. image I do the same practice with the seedling apple trees that get too large to use as grafting rootstock. I didn't realize how convenient planting them next to the rabbit colony would be. Each year I cut all the branches of each of the trees and toss them into the rabbits. Each year the apple trees have more branches to cut. #permies #permaculture #homesteading #grownostr #meshtadel #selfsovereignty #forestgarden #foodforest #pollarding #returnsurplus #nonextraction View quoted note →
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rev.hodl revhodl@cornychat.com 2 years ago
Thanks, I like stringing notes together with the quote feature to share the progression of the systems throughout the season. Or like in this instance, I can use an old note to give context. I like how the strings of notes can take you down a mini rabbit hole directly in the main feed too.
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rev.hodl revhodl@cornychat.com 2 years ago
Thanks, it's still shocking to me how much things have transformed. 6 years ago the area where the food forest is planted was a corn/soy field with poor compacted soil. I could barely grow anything in it for two years but I just kept adding organic material and planting more perennials every year. Now, 6 years later it's starting to take off on its own and there is almost 1ft of top soil.
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MadGrowr madgrowr@getalby.com 2 years ago
Hi! I am amazed by what have you achieved (what I can see for few scrolls on nostr and X)! I was thinking to start similar project and document most of it with this npub -> @npub1kmv8...egks I have a small garden. Food forest is just too big at least for now. But all those relations between permaculture and bitcoin are planting seeds that are sprouting already :) I would love to have a chat sometimes to get some more of your wisdom with so much time ahead of me :)
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rev.hodl revhodl@cornychat.com 2 years ago
The rabbits in the rabbit colony cannabis garden are thriving. It seems that everything project on the homestead is providing a huge meal for the rabbits in the cannabis garden lately. image We have been experimenting with waiting longer to harvest. Before we were worried about over population but the cannabis garden is so large it can support more rabbits than we thought. However, with winter coming, it's going to be time to harvest all that are good size soon.
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Since we have been feeding them so much, there hasn't been as much fighting amongst the males. Maybe they are fighting less because they have made more burrows which are more well spread out in the colony too. This system has performed very well for us this year so far. I can't wait to tally up the total amount of cannabis and rabbits meat it produced. #permies #permaculture #homesteading #grownostr #meshtadel #selfsovereignty #rabbitcolony #rabbit #cannabis #weedstr #producenowaste View quoted note →
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