thanks for the video and i look forward to taking the course soon and then sharing the information with others and putting it into action. and the guy being interviewed is correct: grace will follow because all we have is already under grace.
The high plains? Water catchment systems such as swales and ponds can be added to the landscape to slow water down. With good plant selection we increase overall biomass. An increase in biomass means holding even more water and an increase in organic waste material (leaves and sticks as humus) and a building up of the soil. Increase all these and you speed up plant growth further still. See Geoff Lawton’s video on TH-cam - Greening the desert. -- Bill Wilson
@oceanirons, I agree and we're trying to do more "showing" along with the "telling." For permaculture and related topics with more visuals on Peak Moment channel, see #68, "Bullock Brothers Homestead - A 25-Year Permaculture Project", #87 "How Much Food Can I Grow Around My House?", and #100 "Suburban Permaculture with Janet Barocco and Richard Heinberg". ~Janaia
@blueeggsitter It is important to study the high plains and understand climate, landform, water, soils, etc, and then mimic what you find. We can substitute high yielding plant cultivars that would do well based on the conditions that we observe in this particular landscape, that meet the climatic conditions for growth. We can also study the relationships that we find there and the natural succession of the plains, and then, plant accordingly.
@1EarthWays, corporate interests like Exxon/Mobil have paid for a lot of misinformation about climate change in the past couple of decades. And formulated a lot of astroturn "grass roots" groups claiming it ain't so. But the factual information from the planet says otherwise. Ozone hole over the arctic, melting ice sheets in Canada, hottest years in record -- aren't politicking. They're observable facts.
@smkymcnugget420 I live in MA, same weather as you.. climate change = loss of the wide temperate zone across US and = chaotic and great extremes in cold and heat. THAT is bad for farming and gardening. We will get much more deluge H2O events (BAD for ag), colder spring nights (bad for spring starts), hotter midsummer highs (= dryer and more H2O use as we have less and less)
@cresidue, report just out from NASA scientist James Hansen that last year was the hottest on record. Oil companies have poured massive amounts into a very skillful mis-information blitz against global climate change. Of course climate changes over time -- but the accelerated rate of CARBON in the atmosphere is coincident with our burning fossil fuels. Reduced glacial ice, reduced snowpack here in the Sierra, reduced arctic ice -- verifiable facts, not myths.
@smkymcnugget420 I have exactly zero interest in "debating" climate change and science with you. As a scientist, I delve into the this topic as I do all others, with critical thinking skills and attention to detail.
As I have been watching things "permaculture" over the last 2 yrs. I am impressed with the sincerity of the people. My kind of people.
thanks for the video and i look forward to taking the course soon and then sharing the information with others and putting it into action. and the guy being interviewed is correct: grace will follow because all we have is already under grace.
i took waynes class in DFW in summer of 2009, it was great. me and some friends from the class visited dayempur farm that summer.
nice discussion...
Kia kaha, Aroha..
The high plains? Water catchment systems such as swales and ponds can be added to the landscape to slow water down. With good plant selection we increase overall biomass. An increase in biomass means holding even more water and an increase in organic waste material (leaves and sticks as humus) and a building up of the soil. Increase all these and you speed up plant growth further still. See Geoff Lawton’s video on TH-cam - Greening the desert. -- Bill Wilson
@oceanirons, I agree and we're trying to do more "showing" along with the "telling." For permaculture and related topics with more visuals on Peak Moment channel, see #68, "Bullock Brothers Homestead - A 25-Year Permaculture Project", #87 "How Much Food Can I Grow Around My House?", and #100 "Suburban Permaculture with Janet Barocco and Richard Heinberg". ~Janaia
ditto !
@blueeggsitter It is important to study the high plains and understand climate, landform, water, soils, etc, and then mimic what you find. We can substitute high yielding plant cultivars that would do well based on the conditions that we observe in this particular landscape, that meet the climatic conditions for growth. We can also study the relationships that we find there and the natural succession of the plains, and then, plant accordingly.
@PermacultureProject I agree where do you live and have you any favorit plants that you have discovered. I live in zone 5
@smkymcnugget420 and you garden how much? and where exactly? How many years of experience do you have growing food?
@1EarthWays, corporate interests like Exxon/Mobil have paid for a lot of misinformation about climate change in the past couple of decades. And formulated a lot of astroturn "grass roots" groups claiming it ain't so. But the factual information from the planet says otherwise. Ozone hole over the arctic, melting ice sheets in Canada, hottest years in record -- aren't politicking. They're observable facts.
@smkymcnugget420 I live in MA, same weather as you.. climate change = loss of the wide temperate zone across US and = chaotic and great extremes in cold and heat. THAT is bad for farming and gardening. We will get much more deluge H2O events (BAD for ag), colder spring nights (bad for spring starts), hotter midsummer highs (= dryer and more H2O use as we have less and less)
@cresidue, report just out from NASA scientist James Hansen that last year was the hottest on record. Oil companies have poured massive amounts into a very skillful mis-information blitz against global climate change. Of course climate changes over time -- but the accelerated rate of CARBON in the atmosphere is coincident with our burning fossil fuels.
Reduced glacial ice, reduced snowpack here in the Sierra, reduced arctic ice -- verifiable facts, not myths.
@smkymcnugget420 I have exactly zero interest in "debating" climate change and science with you. As a scientist, I delve into the this topic as I do all others, with critical thinking skills and attention to detail.