Mulch in Abundance
Tom Kendall stores excess mulch for leaner months.
Tagged: Organic matter
Cattle and water use
Zaia supports pasture fed beef growing as a more humane and environmentally friendly method than other “industrial” methods, and refutes the notion that beef production needs to use an excess of water.
Weeks End Wrapup
Tom Kendall talks about fungal activity in the garden and what happened with his week .
Strawberry Transplant Time
Tom Kendall transplants strawberry runners into a new garden bed.
Zone Four Chop and Drop
Tom Kendall manages his Zone Four Swale.
Potato Planting
Tom Kendall plants potatoes and manages his cow pastures.
Dung Beetle
Tom Kendall finds a new species on his permaculture designed property.
Transplanting lettuces
Transplanting self sown lettuces into a more convenient location, using compost made by the biodigester and the chickens from cow and chicken manure, and mulch cut on the property.
Geoff Lawton filming our farm
Geoff Lawton spends the day on our farm with his family, to film our many permaculture systems.
Bio digester slurry processing by the chooks
The chickens process the biodigester slurry into compost and prepare their own forage area in the stationary chicken tractor at Zaia and Tom Kendall’s permaculture farm.
The Sweet Potato Bed and an Abundance of Compost.
Tom Kendall uses chicken made compost to build up his sweet potato garden bed.
Swimming in my gumboots…
Sowing clucker tucker seed, grass for mulch, another biodigester pit emptied and a load of sawdust… Lots of shoveling today!
