permaculture

["Jerome Osentowski" <jerome@crmpi.org>]

Margaret,  Sounds like the site that Gastavo is restoring near Navarro, Ar.
It was and old powder milk factory farm.  By taping into the co-intelligence
model he has great sucess .  the land wants to heal.  His helpers were ,
locust, acatica, thistle.   Sounds like you have a friend there called black
berry.  Tom Atlee wrote two great articles on co-intelligence in PC activist
# 42 .  I wrote about  my experience at Navarro in the pc activist #43.
Check with your local pc group and teachers to have a workshop.
Co-intelligence to the rescue...   jerome
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Jerome Osentowski, Director
Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute
PO Box 631
Basalt, CO 81621   U.S.A.

Tel/fax (970) 927-4158    E mail: jerome@crmpi.org

For more information, please visit our web site at <<www.crmpi.org>>


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>From: Margaret L Wilson <booldawgs@cavenet.com>
>To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: Re: [permaculture] where you from?
>Date: Sun, Oct 27, 2002, 9:29 AM
>

>
>
> Hi,
> I recently moved to a 53 acre former cattle ranch in the Illinois River
> Valley in very SW Oregon.  We were actually looking for a smaller place
> when we found this.  It has so much potential that it is overwhelming.  It
> is reasonably flat and level.  It has been used hard and neglected for many
> years.  It is just amazing that the former owners would let such a
> beautiful old homestead get so rundown.  At one time the back 20 acres was
> forested but it was cleared to make hay fields.  The feral blackberries are
> trying to reclaim it.  Several wetland areas were cleared and attempts were
> maid to make them pasture.  All of the irrigation ditches are getting
> covered in blackberries and some wild roses.  We have 4 small ponds that
> are virtually dry now, 2 manmade and 2 natural, I believe.  They are spring
> fed and/or filled with irrigation from the distant creek
> We have numerous old fruit trees, apple and pear, and  I found 2 grapevines
> under the blackberry bushes.  We have gotten in a raised bed garden in the
> area that was fenced for one.  Unfortunately there are some trees that are
> keeping it from getting enough sun so we will need to move it.  We have an
> incredible old barn that is over 100 years old and one that is over
> 50.  The huge timbers in the oldest barn are just amazing.  The old timers
> did a good job because the roof is almost non existent and it is still in
> salvageable shape, we think.
> We are in our 50s and my husband is gone most of the time so it will take
> us some time to get this place back to a healthy self sustaining family 
> farm.
>
> We have 4 Dexter cows, 1 bull and 3 calves.  We have a mixed herd of about
> 30 Shetland and Jacob sheep, horse, mule,donkey, chickens, ducks and 4
> pigs.  They are producing a lot of manure to help improve the badly
> neglected soil.  We have a pretty good population of earthworms so I assume
> the soil is not completely dead.  They pastured down to the ground for a
> lot of years I think.
> I have been here since mid-May.  I am definitely feeling overwhelmed :-))))
> Margaret
>
>
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