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Udan West: May 2014
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Our homestead, reborn in the California hill country. All new adventures in sustainable living and permaculture. Thursday, May 1, 2014. With easily over a ton of acorns harvested last fall, I set out to establish whether and how I could contrive to feed them to my layers. making them more self-sufficient on the homestead and removing the imported grain subsidy. Here in CA I never see the big bags of popcorn in the movie theater dumpster, like I did in GA (these were my main poultry feed there). Permacult...
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Udan West: The Scythe Must Dance
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Our homestead, reborn in the California hill country. All new adventures in sustainable living and permaculture. Sunday, April 12, 2015. The Scythe Must Dance. It's a beautiful thing when an ancient hand tool can keep up with its motorized counterpart, and even do things a mower can't. At least not my wimpy electric push-mower. The scythe easily deals with a four-foot tall stand of wild oats which I would have hated to try to mow! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Know Where the Moon Is? Image: The dom...
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Udan West: August 2011
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Our homestead, reborn in the California hill country. All new adventures in sustainable living and permaculture. Wednesday, August 31, 2011. Miracles happen. Beauty happens. The world goes on, in spite of our meddling. Maybe it will be OK. Even if we stay on grid power till the farm in Georgia sells and we can set up solar and wind. Even if we have to buy firewood and food and whatever till then. Planet Earth has been through worse. Asteroid impacts, runaway climate changes. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Udan West: April 2015
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Our homestead, reborn in the California hill country. All new adventures in sustainable living and permaculture. Monday, April 20, 2015. Finally everything is gaining some maturity and here the dryland garden is looking quite happy. I have every Artemisia I can find except the one that grows locally in the wild-she won't grow for me! Sunday, April 12, 2015. The Scythe Must Dance. Barley, Wheat and Favas. John Barleycorn"-first crop of barley-more behind the grape trellis. Learning a bit about English his...
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Udan West: Acorns for ChickensToo!
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Our homestead, reborn in the California hill country. All new adventures in sustainable living and permaculture. Thursday, May 1, 2014. With easily over a ton of acorns harvested last fall, I set out to establish whether and how I could contrive to feed them to my layers. making them more self-sufficient on the homestead and removing the imported grain subsidy. Here in CA I never see the big bags of popcorn in the movie theater dumpster, like I did in GA (these were my main poultry feed there). Permacult...
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Udan West: November 2011
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Our homestead, reborn in the California hill country. All new adventures in sustainable living and permaculture. Tuesday, November 15, 2011. Hopefully this will be the last major basic fruit and nut planting of my life. Hopefully I will find my way up and out of transition and start-up mode, and settle in to deeper works and longer lessons. But we have a bunch of fruit trees on order for January, and I've been busy the last weeks getting the designated sites ready. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Hi everybod...
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Udan West: Yearly Catch-up
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Our homestead, reborn in the California hill country. All new adventures in sustainable living and permaculture. Monday, October 20, 2014. Time to play yearly catch-up. With more than enough projects to keep us busy, blogging doesn't happen much, but I thought I would post some highlights of the last 13 or so months. Glass Gem Corn 2014 harvest. Cherokee Purple corn 2013 harvest (with a. Bit of pollination from the neighbor's feed corn we think.). Various visitors to the site include our resident hawk wh...
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Udan West: October 2014
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Our homestead, reborn in the California hill country. All new adventures in sustainable living and permaculture. Monday, October 20, 2014. Time to play yearly catch-up. With more than enough projects to keep us busy, blogging doesn't happen much, but I thought I would post some highlights of the last 13 or so months. Glass Gem Corn 2014 harvest. Cherokee Purple corn 2013 harvest (with a. Bit of pollination from the neighbor's feed corn we think.). Various visitors to the site include our resident hawk wh...
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Udan West: July 2011
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Our homestead, reborn in the California hill country. All new adventures in sustainable living and permaculture. Sunday, July 31, 2011. So some of it came with me, and some was scrounged on site. Like an introduced exotic, my permaculture system strikes roots into a new place. Meanwhile, acacia, mimosa, and tagasaste seeds are sprouting! Friday, July 22, 2011. I wanted to share some photos. Here's one:. But it was easier to put them here:. Thursday, July 14, 2011. We found lots of rocks, really pretty.
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Udan West: April 2012
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Our homestead, reborn in the California hill country. All new adventures in sustainable living and permaculture. Thursday, April 26, 2012. A Walk by the Creek. Beyond the tamarisk (which had all flower parts in sets of four and not five.a diagnostic among them.Tamarix parviflora.another of those infamous invasive exotics about which much debate rages. I for one wish there were some on our property.if for nothing else than to burn and feed to goats! Fracturing, then having molten quartz poured through, la...
