Growing and going full tilt No Till

[Paracelsus]

The prognosis is not good but tomorrow i will move the cuttings into some sifted Malibu LOS and home made worm castings/ soil mix. I just can’t look at Kinky all cut to pieces anymore, it is too depressing. I hope I get at least one to root.

On the upside I have finished my final Permaculture design for Genesis Community Garden Bronx and graduated the first semester with an honorable mention. I am going to share my work here along with the other honorably mentioned students Permaculture Designs from all over the world.

My “Nom de plume” in this case is Bicycle Joe.

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(“Hello all and thank you sooooo much for your participation in this class. It has been truly inspiring looking through your designs from all over the world and seeing all of the thoughtfulness so many of you have put into using permaculture for the betterment of your lives, your communities, and the Earth.

Many people are asking me about continuing access to the course and if they can have more time to complete the course. Although we cannot keep the course open past today, we do have all of the course content available as an "Introduction to Permaculture" downloadable ebook. This book contains all of the content and links from the course, but does not however give access to the design tools. I'm sorry if you would like more time with the design tools, but we will run this course again in the Spring of 2019 and you are welcome to take it again.

At this time we have just about 200 people who have earned their digital badges, which gives them access to a 10% discount on our online Permaculture Design Certificate Course. Congratulations to all those thus far who have completed every assignment in the course and earned their badge!

There were way too many amazing portfolios for me to highlight here. I'm really sorry if yours is missing from this list. It was just impossible for me to go through every single one, but this list represents some of those that I went through and wanted to share as examples of people who really put their hearts into their projects and came out with clear design concepts for their sites. Also I want you all to know that even after the course closes down, these portfolio sites will still be accessible so you can share and view them beyond the end of the course.

Melanie in Costa Rica

Anna-Karin in Sweden

Travis outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Kimberlee in Los Angeles, California, USA

Alberto near Ottawa, Canada

Andrea in Wyoming, USA

Cori in Oklahoma, USA

Bicycle Joe in the Bronx, New York, USA

Chloe in Halfway, Oregon, USA

Joy in the Philippines

Kaleb in Indiana, USA

Alice in Sydney, Australia

Detlef and Sally, near Dar as Salam, Tanzania

Teo Kok Kiang, Phui Village, Myanmar

Kai in Salisbury, UK

Guy in Bristol, UK

Chris in Zambia

Letitia on Martinique, Caribbean

Earth Harmony Farms, Wyoming, USA

Rishikesh in Jharkhand, India

Petranta on Kalimnos, Turkey

Sebastian near Brussels, Belgium

Christos in Greece

Leon in France

Nelson on the Gold Coast, Australia

Belinda in Canberra, Australia

Francisc in Romania

Mara in Belgium

Sumil in NW India

Meg in Victoria, BC, Canada

Beth in South Carolina, USA

Eli in Mali

Aaron in Southern France

Tami in Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Tracy in Trenton, New Jersey, USA

Nadia on Malta

Veysi in Bursa, Turkey

Martin near Gothenburg, Sweden

GREAT JOB everyone!

This week I released a new podcast episode that you may be interested in. I spoke with Dr. Paul Yeboah who is located in Ghana, West Africa, about his truly impactful work there. Here is a description of the episode and a link:

Episode 017 - Dr. Paul Yeboah: Region-wide Permaculture Economic Development

"This episode looks at the successful and ongoing story of the Ghana Permaculture Institute and their work in creating region-wide economic development using permaculture strategies. Dr. Paul Yeboah has not only restored the fertility and the water table of his 30 acre demonstration site, but he has created a processing system for a number of local crops to add value that is then returned to the farmers, improving their livelihoods and basic standard of living." “) end Quote

[oldjarhead100]

WOW I read your plan well written , I found it hard to picture the garden from the description but thats me not you ,between what I've seen of the garden and your plan is going to be one fine garden

[Paracelsus]

Thank you OJH, a Work in progress is what they say. Who the hell are ”They” anyway?

[Paracelsus]

the only viable Kinkette the others are konks
We will see, we will see.

[oldjarhead100]

come on kinky come on kinky

[Paracelsus]

Well it’s been a while since I’ve made a post, I’ve been lerking again, just nothing going on I’m that excited about or special to report to Y’all. Well another agency is doing another random inspection this Friday. That’s 4 in 6 months.
I am resigned to accept facts, I can’t really control this environment. I’ve put them all in a closet with 4 48”T5’s.

On a more positive note I have three possibly viable kinkettes still hanging on and looking like they might make it here are the visuals nothing to brag about

[Californiakid]

Glad to hear from ya buddy.

Next time them folks tell ya they're droping by, tell them you'll be away. Then "forget" they're coming and just hang around the house inyour birthday suit. They'll get a big surprise and not want to come over anymore lmao. 🤤🤣

Keep on keepin on little kinkettes.

[IslandColas]

City water through a R/O filter. I haven’t sourced the actual one I want yet, it has to be one that doesn’t have impeded Flow yet doesn’t create a lot of waste since I’m going to be recycling it in a community garden a few blocks away and up the hill. I believe the Herbin farmer is using water straight out of the tap after he lets it sit now.

If you’re looking for an R/O that doesn’t impede water flow and is truly low waste, you’re looking at a $15,000 industrial R/O filtration system. Anything underneath your sink or under a thousand dollars flows so slowly you’ll have frustrations during watering time. Anyway, if you’re doing no till organic soil there’s really no need for R/O water. R/O water is usually used when mixing nutrient solutions because it has a ppm of 0. This makes it a perfect base to build the EXACT nutrient solution you need. (Primarily used in Hydroponic gardening). Now, you can hurt your microbiology watering with chlorinated tap water and we all know how important every single organism in an organic soil is to its biological makeup. So what I’d suggest is a higher flow bud booster water filter. It’s designed to remove fluoride, chloramine, chlorine, and the carcinogenic byproducts of these. It will also remove herbicides and pesticides.
by using a unique combination of treatments that include activated alumina for fluoride and arsenic reduction, high purity KDF, potent catalytic carbon, and finally a 1 micron coconut carbon block filter. They’re absolutely awesome and they don’t require as much ph balance to find your sweet spot. I’d say better than R/O for an organic soil grow... just my 2 cents

Aloha!

[Paracelsus]

Hi thanks I'm responding to this three years later, I took your advice I had my water tested by the city for free and now I have a rain barrel sitting gassing off the water I never got a water filter.

[Paracelsus]

I found a straight R/O filter without the pressure of a storage tank which seems to be the component element that constricts the flow of water pressure. Surprisingly enough it is made by the Grow Boss Dude. ( A Man who’s style I despise but who’s knowledge I respect )

I found out since that my municipality does not use chloramines, I’ve had my water tested, it has zero lead. I’m using an 80 gallon barrel to store water and let the chlorine and fluorides evaporate.

Still much thanks for the information and I will take a closer look at the filter. Your water can’t be clean enough IMO

Growers Love

[Paracelsus]

Ps I will be giving away 50 rain barrels sponsored by my city council member in July so if your in the 5 boros shoot me a pm 🐝

[Paracelsus]

Besides works in my Community Garden 6 half days a week and conducting a full day Introduction to PermaCulture class in the garden all day Sunday, I have a fellowship with BeeKeeping NYC working 2 or 3 days a month. I have Been very BUZZY 🐝🚴🏻*♀️🐞🍄🐜 🕸🌏🌲🌱☘️🍃with my GWE project at home too.

Not much time for the inter web 🕸
Still I miss our daily repartee very much.
oldjarhead100D.A.A.S.69 GreenhouseEffect Tika and too many others to mention

Growers Love

[Tika]

Yes miss the back & forth but delighted with your. So derful activities🐝😎

[GreenhouseEffect]

Miss it to Paracelsus!!
Been gone last week, missed my GWE friends,and my garden, and it definitely missed me to!!

[oldjarhead100]

I'm definitely loving the community garden Paracelsus, I know what you mean about not much time if my wife didn't have the farmers market today I would already be gone but she will get up in 3 minutes so thats it for today lol

[Paracelsus]

I’m loving it, If real life didn’t get in the way I would be in paradise. Nothing is so important you can’t wait a day right? I’m sitting here with the birds singing to the left of me and if real life didn’t get in the way I would be in paradise. Nothing is so important you can’t wait a day right? I’m sitting here with the birds singing to the left of me and construction tractors and bulldozers behind me. Eight life grand construction tractors and bulldozers behind me. Ain’t life grand!

[GreenhouseEffect]

I have taken to calling the things that involve birds singing and stuff, the REAL life, and all the rest of it, fake life. It's the junk that gets in the way of us full filling our true life purposes, got ta get back to the actual real life sometimes, so we don't forget why we're hear!!

[Paracelsus]

Boris is in the closet.

[Tika]

Haha Boris🕷

[oldjarhead100]

So I have been able to get some work done in my veggie garden its all tilled (I Know I Know ) you are not supposed to till ,I am going from using black fabric for weed control to cardboard and mulch hay . the wife was planting and I was tilling lol ,most impotently I was able to prep the spot where I'm going to plant 4 black zombies

[Paracelsus]

So this is what I have been doing everything is still in veg. I have two kinkettes and 14 plants in my closet all in veg waiting for new lights to be installed.

[oldjarhead100]

wow I'm loving it Paracelsus I wish I still had the ability to get that all done but alas I can only be working for about half the day then pain overtakes me ,but hey we do what we can right ,You motivate me to do more though thanks

[Paracelsus]

oldjarhead100 I am volunteering in the all city nursery once a week, the Bee Fellowship about the same. I’ve joined a new garden with a once a week commitment that I am in love with. Then everyday I am in Genesis Garden at home. Yesterday we built hugglekulture beds from 1000 lbs. of cabbage

[Paracelsus]

This is the last kinky standing out of eight broken mainline branches that I tried to root. I am prepared now to say Bride Of Kinky lives!

Second picture is a Hugglekulture bed we made for the Genisis Garden to keep rain water runoff from the parking lot out of the garden.

[oldjarhead100]

come on kinky grow grow grow lol , I have one section of my garden set up with soaker hoses ,still have to do the second part so way behind the plants are in but no cardboard soaker hose and mulch hay. are you trying to block runoff water because it washes stuff away or is it harmful? I ask because I collect the rain from my drive way into those 200 gallon containers then water my garden with it . If I could I would do all that too sounds like a blast ,Now it seems my Garden is a full time job ,still a fun job but all I can manage so I will have to garden precariously though yours lol

[Californiakid]

Parking lots are worse off than a driveway. Potential for multiple vehicles leaking oil, transmission fluid, coolant, etc...
I'm guessing by comparison your driveway is clean.

[Paracelsus]

Yes a full time job oldjarhead100 We are building the Hugglekulture mounds to prevent/divertthe parking lot run off. I use mushrooms like a Cannary in a coal mine along the border and the runoff turns them grey.
Right now our focus in the garden is bio remediation

[Paracelsus]

FYI Please spread the word we will be giving away 50 barrels Saturday July 21st at my home garden in Morrisania in the South Bronx, NYC Details & RSVP GenesisGCGB@gmail.com

[oldjarhead100]

good deal wish I was closer ,The drive down would cost as much as the barrel lol I'm sure they will be gone by noon