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on down.  around the corner and on down some more then,  up the rise to the left……

 


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B Garden Gate.      AND!!!!!  i remembered Hugelkultur!!!!!!   Wikipedia has a nice little picture.    at end of summer,  i'll begin building atop the faux raised bed.   PERFECT!   It can  work itsSelf all through Winter Rain.   This is so Exciting!     Tomorrow i'll look.  It's possible there is enough levelish space  behind the Scrub Oak in front of the grow baskets  at the front of the house frame.   Maybe?   I feel like taking the flash light and going to look now.  

Maria…where Are you?

 

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16 responses to “never lonely. AND!……..”

  1. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    I remember reading a book … Michael Pollan or maybe Barbar Kingsolver … about the cycle of livestock grazing making manure for bugs making feed for chickens making fertilizer for livestock grazing … and in the middle of all that, the making of eggs … Talkie must make the best eggs …

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  2. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Hugelkulture- oh, yes I remember when we talked about his and you researched and did it SO I went back into your archives and found on 1/29/2014 this praragraph that I think is so important to put here: Your wrote:
    ” i had read this, in Gaia’s Garden:
    “Most of the techniques offered in this chapter involve the decomposition of readily broken-down organic matter such as grass and kitchen scraps. But most of us generate woody debris, too. Tree prunings, logs, even rotten firewood or lumber scraps. Wood is decomposed mainly by fungi, which we welcome into the ecological garden for their superb ability to keep soil moist, break down otherwise stubborn substances, and produce disease fighting compounds. We can’t add much wood waste to a compost pile, but rather than burn or landfil surplus wood, we can use it to build soil, too. Here’s how. Hugelkultur. In the carefully tended forests of central Europe, no scrap of wood is ever wasted. Branches and brushy prunings are used in a gardening technique called by its German name Hugelkultur, or mound culture. To create a hugelkultur, pile up branches or brush a foot or two deep in a mound four to eight feet around. Stomp on the pile to compact it a bit. Then toss compostable materials…grass clippings, sod, straw…into the pile. Moisten the pile to that wrung out sponge stage, Sprinkle some compost on the mound and top with an inch or so of soil. Then plant the hugelkultur with seeds or starts. Potatoes really love hugelkultur. The decomposing organic matter raises the temperature just enough to boost plant growth. Another advantage, as the woody brush rots, it releases nutrients slowly, while it holds quite a bit of water. You don’t need irrigate hugelkultar very often.”
    This will be so good to do on the Hill.
    And Hello Maria, you are missed. How is the weather and how are you?

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  3. CatherinE Avatar
    CatherinE

    I’m excited to see your hugelkultur pile develop. I’ve wanted to make one for a while now, but we haven’t done it yet.

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  4. LaceLady Avatar
    LaceLady

    Such a marvelous “treatise” to wake up to – zzzzip! Your writing (and Maria’s) remind me of the phrase ““Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!” (attribute: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe).
    I have made several small “Hugel beds” ~ Hügelkultur (pronounced “hoogle-culture”) is German for “hill culture.” ~ in the past. The first were a fail, as I was using unsuitable wood. I have one very small bed started at this time. Where I currently live, there are many trees (and large shrubs) that are not suitable, such as black walnut, Doug Fir, cedar (red and yellow) etc. All I could remember of “suitable wood” until I went a-googling, was to ” use wood sprouting potential”. Without further “ado”, here is one link that I find useful, to me at least. https://bit.ly/3svyA8w
    https://bit.ly/3svyA8w

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  5. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    I’ve had good luck with the Hugelkulturs I’ve built… Love the company you keep. 🙂

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  6. maria Avatar
    maria

    Dear people of Windthread , i like to call you like that and you know why .
    here i am back , i had a long breack , i could nt walk had a worse knee and needed an new one / prothese , so , i was a few weeks self centerd ,… so i have learned a lot of me and having pain , not the best part of me .
    thanks for your attention and love

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    She does. Her eggs are the most superior of ALL EGGS
    when she makes them
    she is still on her winter light hiatus..????? and she is
    going into her 5th year….Every morning now, i look all
    the places she might choose to build this years nest if she does. But in the past…o…yes. Her eggs. and like so
    much these days…the most ordinary things can suddenly be seen as how they really ARE….a chicken egg. Food. a
    perfect Food. Given by a bird that has chosen to be part of a family. Stop and think about that.
    she chooses. the domesticity held in her genetics i guess, stronger than some other urge to keep wild as she is in all other ways…roaming with a herd of Goats, sleeping in a tree. But building a nest in a “public” place. Going there every morning to sit. Until an egg comes out.
    ??????? it’s crazy Beauty FULL.

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    ahhh, Marti…perfect. Where is that Book? Somewhere
    at Alyssia’s…..but the words are exactly BeautyFULL
    and for this moment in time
    This place is So ready for this…everything is here…
    needing Purpose
    Thank You for finding this. Thank You very Much

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    here i go. this is the next day. and i see a space
    where i can begin one now. I love that you can plant
    up the sides and along the top….both sides. I will
    look forward to you maybe trying too

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Thank You for these…and i think there is enough
    suitable wood here to grow for the WORLD…i may
    turn that “house” frame into a hugel Garden?????
    Why not?

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes. my kind of company. I think about that.

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  12. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    Good to see you back Maria 🙂
    Be well.

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    DEAR Maria….when someone suddenly is “gone”…i assume
    there are things in their lives they are tending and just
    wait, honoring that, but then at some point…i ask.
    I am so glad that you are on your way to WELL
    and how can we know ourselves unless we learn????
    From needing to?
    I don’t know much about how i would be with pain. But i
    think about it. I am 76. Someday…….
    I am so so glad you are here again….
    Love and Love to you and your new knee, Love to your new knee

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  14. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Thank you Maria for letting us know how you are and this may be silly but hugs to your new knee. You are always here, even when you cannot come because you are loved. May you continue to feel better and have less pain.

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  15. maria Avatar
    maria

    Thank you for respond and give love to my new knee , that IS work to do , to loving that part of my body and make it part of this 75 year old one.

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  16. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    Nice photographs capture an early hill Spring. The baby goats sure have grown up! They’re looking beautiful and healthy.

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