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Does he have a website? I'd love to read more about his place! I spent a couple of years traveling and living in remote permaculture communities before startin
by vinc 8y ago
Does he have a website? I'd love to read more about his place!
I spent a couple of years traveling and living in remote permaculture communities before starting my own project six months ago, so far I feel like I'm living the dream but I'm just at the beginning. Having some successful examples help a lot.
- vram22 8y ago>Does he have a website? I'd love to read more about his place! Yes. http://www.earthshipkaruna.net/ http://www.earthshipkaruna.net/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-leeor-2a3b8222/?originalSubdomain=in https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-leeor-2a3b8222/?originalSub... >I spent a couple of years traveling and living in remote permaculture communities before starting my own project six months ago Cool. Suggest you write something about that experience and share it. Also maybe check out Rico Zook (you might know of him already). A person I know, in the same town (Kodaikanal) somewhat near where Alex's earthship is (whose website link I gave above), is getting a permaculture farm and farmhouse done with consultancy by Rico or someone trained by him. https://www.linkedin.com/in/rico-zook-0abb3241/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rico-zook-0abb3241/
- vinc 8y agoThanks for the links! I'll definitely share the experience in the future. At the moment I'm still doing a tone of learning and trying to reproduce the basics of what I saw in the past years. There's so many things to do just to get through the winter and be ready for the next growing season.
- vram22 8y agoWelcome. And good luck. Yes, it's not easy. But it is fun. I have some past experience, early on in my career, with organic gardening, using a biogas plant, dairy farming, etc.
- CalRobert 8y agoWould love to learn more about what you're doing. I just read The Market Gardener and am getting a little bit of land, but still very new.
- vinc 8y agoI got the land at the beginning of this year, started living on it last summer (northern hemisphere), I'm not really much ahead of you! The first year you just watch the land, see what happen naturally with the seasons. And then oh shit, so many things to do to get ready for the second year!
- vram22 8y ago>I just read The Market Gardener What's your impression of that book? Asking because interested in that area, have done some on it (organic gardening in general, though not the intensive kind like in that book), and have read a similar book by John Jeavons: http://www.johnjeavons.info/ http://www.johnjeavons.info/ Excerpt from this page on his site: http://www.johnjeavons.info/john-jeavons.html http://www.johnjeavons.info/john-jeavons.html [ A political science graduate of Yale University, Jeavons worked for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Stanford University before launching his career in small-scale agriculture education. He is the author of the best-selling sustainable farming handbook How to Grow More Vegetables, Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible On Less Land Than You Can Imagine, now in its 8th edition in eight languages ]