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Big Foot Food Forest Gardens

Documenting the making of a permaculture farm in the suburbs of Boston

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    • Short how-to article on feeding chickens with scraps
    • Meet our raised-on-compost chickens!
    • New old-fashioned chicken theory
    • Screw it!
    • A lot can happen in between seasons
    • Big Foot Grew!
    • A grand seasonal overview
    • We collect trash, throw it in the yard, and call it permaculture
    • Root magic
    • A grand seasonal overview
    • The keys to happiness
    • Raising the food forest
    • Four levels of learning: reading, sharing, doing, practicing.
    • We make paths
    • Shoveling dirt
  • Big Foot Builds

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Four levels of learning: reading, sharing, doing, practicing.

  The other day, David Homa came to work with Ruby and me for a day and walk us through a couple of aspects of building a permaculture food forest: amending the soil based on our soil tests, sheet mulch over an existing lawn, and building a hugelkultur.

Posted bybigfootgardensApril 19, 2018September 21, 2018Posted inUncategorizedTags:LearningLeave a comment on Four levels of learning: reading, sharing, doing, practicing.

Struggle, patience, peace

Early in March, Land of Plenty came and cleared the Norway Maples to make room for the food forest shrubs and trees.  Charlotte, Ruby and I spent a couple of days making permaculture piles of branches and duff. 

Posted bybigfootgardensMarch 24, 2018September 21, 2018Posted inUncategorizedTags:Learning, Motivation, PlanningLeave a comment on Struggle, patience, peace

Root magic

Root magic is when you take a little stick, or a little seed, and you coax it into making roots – the foundation of plant life.   No roots, no plant life. 

Posted bybigfootgardensMarch 19, 2018September 24, 2018Posted inUncategorizedTags:Learning, Plant propagationLeave a comment on Root magic

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