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  • From: Tripp Tibbetts <slowfoodguy@yahoo.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] manual tools for tilling?
  • Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 13:05:23 -0700 (PDT)

And don't forget about including cleomes, and perhaps some amaranth too, in
your "3" sisters guild!
 
Tripp



The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow.
-Chinese proverb
 

--- On Mon, 4/5/10, Charlotte Dion <cadion@verizon.net> wrote:


From: Charlotte Dion <cadion@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] manual tools for tilling?
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Monday, April 5, 2010, 11:55 PM


You might want to look at broadforks, aka u-bar tillers. We've convinced 
our community gardeners to give up the roto-tilling by having this tool 
available. We have a sandy/loamy soil and the broadfork requires a whole 
lot less human energy input than shovel or hand fork.
http://www.newedengarden.org/2010/03/19/to-till-or-not-to-till-revisited/

Your annual rye can be knocked down or mowed down to act as a mulch layer.

Digging in Spring is a happy thing!

-Charlotte



> On 4/3/2010 8:51 AM, Marjory wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I am about to start a good sized plot for a three sisters garden - about
>> 60'x40'.  The soil is a loose sand with a bit of loam.  It currently has
>> a good cover of annual rye grass.  As my husband runs off to find a
>> motorized tiller to prepare the ground I am wondering if there is a low
>> tech version of a tool that could do the job?  I've heard about the
>> Glazer wheel hoe being able to do some light cultivation with a plow
>> attachment.  I am wondering if anyone has any experience with this, or
>> any suggestions?  what tools would work to cultivate a plot this size?
>> I could do it with a shovel... but that would take a bit longer than I
>> am hoping to get it done in.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Marjory

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Cory, My husband, Howard Switzer, and I teach straw bale courses and have
wanted to work in the Pine Ridge community. Our website doesn't show all we
do (I'm not very web savvy) but you get an idea: www.earthandstraw.com

If you'd like to talk to us our number is 931-589-6513

Do you know what dates? What is the remuneration?

Katey

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Cory <cory8570@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I would like to offer a straw bale workshop this summer at pine ridge
> Lakota reservation and am looking for an instructor
>
> --
Katey Culver
www.earthandstraw.com

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and each other.”
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