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  • From: Cory Brennan <cory8570@yahoo.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Food forest on the rez
  • Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 14:20:29 -0700 (PDT)

Hi, Darren,
Thank you for the advice. Common Vision is a good idea - didn't think they
traveled out of S. Calif but worth a shot. We still want our own bus as we
plan to use it as a mobile cultural and sustainability library for the rez
and "multiple function" it to bring sustainability in several formats - the
rez currently has NO public library!  
I hear you on cheap stocks, we do plan to graft and buy cheap - we have been
working on a shoe string budget and we're all volunteering here, and have
been getting a lot done, for the money. We constantly recycle, reuse, reduce.
 We have access to some fairly mature windbreak stock and already have
somewhat sheltered areas so we feel we can plant fruit trees this year, and
we have some very nice composted soil from animal manures, etc. We want to
get the nursery going so stuff can start growing now for next year.  We'll be
planting at least two food forests on the site (we have 42 acres), the first
one will be experimental to see what envelopes we can push and how we can
push them. We will of course use our tools and knowledge and do our best to
ensure maximal success. But we do need to push the envelope here. The reason
being, is that the situation here is somewhat desperate on the subject of
food and we really do not have the luxury of adding a lot
of time to this activity. So the sooner we get this going, the better. 

--- On Fri, 5/20/11, Darren Doherty <darren@permaculture.biz> wrote:

From: Darren Doherty <darren@permaculture.biz>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Food forest on the rez
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Friday, May 20, 2011, 11:31 AM

G'day,

Can I suggest that as a low/no cost option for establishing this system that
you look at the following options:

A. Contact Common Vision <http://www.commonvision.org> who are already doing
the bus thing and are very fine people....plus their main game is planting
fruit trees en masse...
B. Look to sourcing cheap rootstocks and/or growing seedlings from locally
grown fruit trees and then doing some grafting...

If you are growing windbreaks then you have the time to do point B. until
such time as these get established. Sometimes in exposed/new sites its a
good idea to do a year's preparation of soils and sites before you plant:
that's our experience though of course you can, with capital and materials,
push the envelope....but the can is being rattled so perhaps a more
deliberate, high quality job can be done....

All the best,

Darren



On 20 May 2011 15:35, Cory Brennan <cory8570@yahoo.com> wrote:

> We want to put a food forest on the rez (Pine Ridge Lakota reservation)
> this spring as a demonstration and propagation site, but we're also doing a
> large kitchen garden and some other projects that took up our budget, so we
> had put that idea aside - until someone made a Kickstarter video for us and
> it started raising funds. We got excited - we now feel we can do this!  We
> have the manpower and equipment to get the holes dug, windbreak trees in,
> swales put in, etc. We're planning a no-irrigation food forest that will be
> self-contained. We've been madly researching and want to experiment with a
> number of fruit species, using some microclimates to get them to grow in
> this relatively harsh climate. We are really excited about this because it
> is getting some interest and support on the rez and we think it will catch
> on. Along with the food forest will be youth tree planting events,
> education, outreach, etc. If we get enough funds we could get our
>  permaculture bus repaired and activated and take our show on the rez road.
>  Please consider supporting the project and forwarding to your friends!
>
> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/olceri/pine-ridge-food-forest-growing-food-security-on-th?ref=live
> Mitakuye Oyasin,
> Cory Brennanfacebook.com/olcerifacebook.com/permacultureguild4olceri.org
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