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January 5, 2014 | #1 | |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Oklahoma
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The Red Baron Project year two
I am starting year two in a different forum because the project is growing and can now be considered a market project instead of a garden project. YEAH! For those following the project, don't worry. I still consider it an organic "green" permaculture project. But instead of "Gardening in the green", it is now becoming "Farming for market in the green"!
The first year can be found here: The Red Baron Project year one For my project I am using these 10 principles: Principle 1: No till and/or minimal till with mulches used for weed control Principle 2: Minimal external inputs Principle 3: Living mulches between rows to maintain biodiversity Principle 4: Companion planting Principle 6: The ability to integrate carefully controlled modern animal husbandry (optional) Principle 5: Capability to be mechanized for large scale or low labor for smaller scale Principle 7: As organic as possible, while maintaining flexibility to allow non-organic growers to use the methods Principle 8: Portable and flexible enough to be used on a wide variety of crops in many areas of the world Principle 9: Sustainable ie. beneficial to the ecology and wildlife Principle 10: Profitable I am still asking humbly that anyone else interested in helping to try it out themselves, even in a small test plot, and welcome them to post their results good and bad here. Quote:
I will start with 1 or 2 acres not to be overwhelmed, and there are plenty of other paddocks available for the future as my project grows. We have already walked off the first paddock and he will mow and build a cold frame in the coming days. Meanwhile I will be getting out the starting trays, seed starting greenhouses and heat mats to start that ball rolling. As with last year, I will be posting pictures and links to those people influencing my project as the season progresses.
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Scott AKA The Redbaron "Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted & thoughtful observation rather than protracted & thoughtless labour; & of looking at plants & animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single-product system." Bill Mollison co-founder of permaculture Last edited by Redbaron; January 5, 2014 at 02:38 PM. |
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