Miscellany Leigh on 28 Nov 2009
Archive for November, 2009
Friends at Larrapin Leigh on 22 Nov 2009
Permaculture Leaf Shredding
The situation: We have an over-abundance of oak leaves every Fall. We have a shortage of good topsoil on this rocky Ozark hilltop year-round. How to use one problem to solve the other? Why, chickens of course.
You may have heard me mention my great admiration for Permaculture, the system of designing landscapes, farms, homesteads, gardens—nearly [...]
Friends at Larrapin Leigh on 14 Nov 2009
Mid-November, no frost yet
Some days it looks like November around the farm. The wood pile, for one, is growing steadily. Since the ice storm of January brought down around 20 small to medium trees on our three acres, plus countless branches out of even larger trees, there’s been plenty of material to create an enormous wood pile that [...]
