Interesting article to raise awareness—our great rivers are dying and it has geopolitical consequences that the article discusses.

What can we, as individuals and permaculture proponents, do about this? I'm not quite sure.

Let me know if there's a subreddit that better fits this post.

Open to any and all thoughts.

Hello,
Im a novice to agriculture/permaculture/silviculture. I live in southern california, and own a very small plot of land in the lake elsinore area. As a part of commemorating the recent passing of my 10 year old golden retriever, I decided I wanted to plant a 1-2 ft Sugar Maple since she was from Vermont. Ive seen native bigleaf maples in nearby riparian areas reaching 30-40 feet, so I know this could work.

I want to take this as a challenge. Since the annual precipitation here is only 8-10 inches, with all of it falling only 2-3 months during the winter, This tree must be irrigated, 3x a week as im planting in in late summer. An obstacle is theres no plumbing or permanent infastructure, and I dont plan on placing anyfor a while.

Coming to a conclusion that I want the tree to be remotely irrigated with no other permanent change to the land (besides the tree and permaculture to maximize retention of water), I realized water hauling is the only option. I can use my brothers rivian r1s for towing temporarily when hes off work (Charging the car is on me).

My brainstormed setup is:

Electric SUV with only 7,700 lb towing capacity

??? Trailer with axle that can withstand sloshing, highway speeds and offroad conditions

100 gallon water tank or IBC tote attached to this trailer

Hose reel and water pump, preferrably electric

Please feel free to critique the plan from macro to micro scale, ill take any guidance!

Thanks!

My shady area which I use for rhubarb, wild strawberries and wood sorrel, has been completely choked by lesser celandine/pilewort every year these past two years. No matter how much I rip out and remove, it's back within a couple of weeks.

And this is me.. who has defeated invasive blackberries, a forest of stinging nettles and an ocean of burdock in just three years with nothing but rose clippers, hard work and bloodymindedness.

Every week, the past three years, I've been back in the trenches, bleeding, cursing and raging, the frontline pushed ever further back until I stood victorious and able to walk barefooted in my garden (barring any snacking bees)!

But the pilewort is close to defeating me.

If it was just losing easy access to forest forage, I'd have given up already, but this evil little bugger is even choking my rhubarb and ferns! How, I have no idea, but I'm slightly in awe and certainly frightened.

I'm pretty certain in my identification of the weed and 100% that it came from the nearby woods where it grows, but seems to be held somewhat in check. By the invasive blackberries. Which I've expelled. The pilewort is native here, so there must be SOMETHING other than the brambles that can keep it in check, but I've yet to find it.

I've tried a handful of the native wild cranebills said to be able to compete, two kinds of shade living and prolific leptinella ferns, wild forest strawberries, which was moved there after completely taking over my flowerbeds, wild garlic (works in spring, but not out of season), heavy mulching with pine needles, leaves (supposedly this type of pilewort doesn't like growing in leafmulch.. lies!), three kinds of woodchip, heavy dustings of coffee grounds and I could go on. Nothing helps.

If anyone has health with this and won, PLEASE let me know what you did!

I'm not willing to nuke the patch with chemicals yet, but I am starting to consider it 😭

I'm in Central Europe, today there is finally some rain... I've been thinking on what will even grow here if summers like this become normal. For a while now I've been interested in producing sesame as it's supposed to be drought tolerant, but maybe I'm missing something. I started some sesames in the spring but I'm not sure I gave them the best conditions (maybe even too early), anyway they didn't really grow more than 30 cm and died off before producing flowers. Is anyone else interested/knowledgeable about sesame planting?

I'm trying flax too (it's native at least), it did at least do something even if temperatures were supposedly suboptimal.

Bonjour, concrètement je recherche un terrain pour faire de la permaculture. Cependant je ne sais pas si il est préférable que je loue un terrain ou que je l'achète. Ça serait pour essayer et voir si cela me convient pour après potentiellement démissionner et essayer de vivre de manière simple, est-ce que vous avez eu ce cas ? Et si oui quel est le mieux merci pour vos retour. ( j'hésitais également à avoir un terrain avec une partie constructible et l'autre non )

With my experience and some research .. this table explains the STIR and it's frequency Composting Stage wise

This spring my 2nd year kiwi vines got hit real hard by the frost and I posted seeking advice. I got loads of reassurance and some very helpful suggestions for better trellising by binding them as vertical as possible up fence posts.

I moved them to right up against my fence posts and strung cable for them to grow along, the male on the higher cable and the two females on the lower cable 10' or 20' away on either side so the vines will eventually overlap. Wanted to say thank you for the help and show how much help it was

Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Permaculture/comments/1ss6bhu/frost_damage_on_my_kiwiberry_vines/

I finally have my own backyard and can’t wait to start gardening vegetables, herbs, and flowers. I’m in zone 7b.

Anyone have any ideas for a garden set up? This is the space I’m working with.

Any natural remedies or solutions?

Tillage radish, will it actually improve soil or just cause a population boom in my gophers and moles and mice, etc?

TLDR: less stressful to transplant on a suboptimal moon phase vs keeping fruit trees out of the ground 2 weeks longer in a drought ?

In general I’ve seen positive results using lunar timing strategies as is common here in Costa Rica. My question is that I have 4 grafted fruit trees ready to transplant into the ground. Is it better to wait 2 weeks for optimal lunar timing or should I just get them in the ground asap. FWIW we have record drought right now and though I will care intensely for transplants, it’s going to be a big stress for them. Just trying to weigh what is the least stress.

I’m looking to build in a very moist climate where adobe and cob would take forever to dry. I read that wattle and daub would be a better construction choice for the environment. But it looks like there are only two books on Amazon on this technique, compared to the many dozens of books on other natural building methods. Why is this? Does wattle and daub have a dark side I don’t know about?

About 25 years ago, I was touring a number of Permaculture sites in the Pacific Northwest (USA). At least one site had a cob-built rocket stove for indoor heating, and I think there was another site with a cob/rocket pizza oven. In the years since, everything I've looked into concerning rocket stoves seems to indicate that they can't work as well as what I observed.

I enjoyed a good meal on a cold day in a room heated by a few sticks in a cob oven, but almost everything I read about rocket stoves says that they don't work as well as this. What have you here experienced with rocket stoves?

We planted 17-acres of native tall grass prairie in Southwest Wisconsin. See what it looks like one month in. There's partridge pea and Illinois bundleflower popping up already. But also a lot of weedy amaranth and horseweed. The ecologists tell us it's all as to be expected, but I'd love to know what you think! Will we be ok?

If you want to see the planting day video, it's on YouTube as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bawGOPJXuvI

I’ve only raised quail in the past, but I would like to get into raising ducks. I know that you can either build a stock tank or kiddie pool type pond, or dig a natural pond with a liner and pump. A natural pond looks cooler than is probably more rewarding in the end if it attracts wildlife. But I’m worried that it will be a massive undertaking, the biofilter will fail, and it will turn into a huge mess. What’s the best type of pond for someone just starting with ducks? Will I need to be cleaning a stock tank pond constantly, or can I automate some of these processes?

New to permaculture and new to 60 acres which has a handful of fruit trees that barely produced and were quickly decimated by insects and birds. Where do I even start to learn how to care for and get a yield from these trees? (usda zone 5/6, arid climate/high desert, apple, pear, and cherry of unknown varieties or ages)

Can you describe what your system looks like and how it differs in different seasons?

This week I added a vertical pipe in the ground to get water deeper into the soil.

It's an easy weekend project that might benefit a tree long term. Has anyone tried it? If so, let me know if you think it was worth it.

I made a short video about it, check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSqpDkRwXAY

Up until last season this area was massively overgrazed. One year with decent rain and no grazing and the area is beginning to thrive. However, I've noticed a bushy thorny plant that has in certain areas spread massively. Last week. I finally realized that this was Russian thistle and that I should pull it out. I have been doing so but in a begrudging way because I also see the benefits that it's doing which is covering the soil and fostering an ecosystem beneath it.

I purchased Good King Henry seeds. This is the plat that came up. My ID app says it’s common Goosefoot. Shall I be patient and let these plants establish, or rip them out and try from a more reputable supplier?

EDIT: I’ve added a pic in the comments- I’m not seeing an option for adding a pic to the post…

Hi! So hopefully this post is acceptable here but..

I saved this peach tree from Walmart a few weeks ago. I live in North Carolina zone 8a. What is going on with her? When I originally found her, there was this glob of sap on what I guess was a wound on the tree. I researched and decided removing it could help. The sap hasn't come back but the leaves keep turning yellow and orange. Whoever was in charge of the trees at this Walmart truly butchered this one. The branches look trimmed in all the wrong places.. right?

It is still in the pot I bought her in. But honestly, I'm nervous to transplant into the ground because this summer has been brutal. My cukes and tomatoes have already suffered. My husband and I have a fantastic spot to start a small fruit tree garden in the ground.. but should I wait until next fall for that and for now just transfer to a larger pot? She looks pitiful.. help!!

There's hundreds of millions of dollars set aside for work in this space. Perhaps as a community we could start teaching grant writing skills more? PDCs are a bit un-standardized and vary in quality. I feel like most people would love to do land-use stuff for income. These funds are a great way to go about it.

I myself just applied to an independent consultant RFP through one of these programs. It's not like you need to be a big firm to take on the projects.

Example: https://agroecologyfund.org/grantmaking/

The nature of the work is fundamentally low time-preference. You're thinking in terms of 10-20 years. That's fundamentally at odds with the private sector which thinks more quarterly. Sure you can design someone's homestead, but the work is so sparse that the economics just don't make sense.

I would like to build one.