permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>]

On 11/3/2011 10:35 AM, Thomas Paul Jahn wrote:
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Thomas:
Is this your blog? This is excellent though in Norwegian.
No till and chop and drop is what I now practice for maintenance; for 
cropping I use minimal till with hand tools. I will experiment with 
seedballs and no till drill planting by hand. It is amazing how my 
fields and gardens have recovered and now flourish now that no vehicles 
get near and most crop-predatory wildlife is gone due to fencing and 
guard dogs. The new and interesting plant communities are fascinating.
I am letting lambs quarters and wild millet go to seed as well as 
daisies that flower now and feed the bees, goldenrod and ragweed.
The wild bees have returned to my farm. I leave nearly empty jars of 
leftover honey out for them and I see hundreds swarming over them 
stocking up for winter.

This no till and chop & drop is a great topic to explore here and I hope 
others will join in.

Thanks for X-posting the blog link.

LL