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I'm covering half my lawn with leaves, woodchips, and hugelkulture. I also have many editable perennials like strawberries and raspberries taking over a large p
by foxhop 7y ago
I'm covering half my lawn with leaves, woodchips, and hugelkulture. I also have many editable perennials like strawberries and raspberries taking over a large portion of my old hillside lawn.
I'm building systems which hold and sequester large amounts of both water and carbon.
We should start a movement, I have an awesome domain name for the project, if anyone wants to join up, (unturf.com)
I'm using less and less gas each year on the remaining sparse lawn. Next year I plan to use my battery powered weed whacker for the majority of my lawn work (Christmas gift).
My long term goal is no use of gas to maintain my property, and I'm well on track.
For free woodchips, checkout CHIPDROP, it's amazing and growing.
On my 3/4 acre hillside plot I have a thriving baby orchard of 4 years with about 13 apple trees, 6 peach trees, 5 plum trees. My kids love it.
- alex_duf 7y agoI'd like to know more about how you're achieving that. Any pointers or plans to write up what you've done?
- foxhop 7y agoFollow me on Mastodon for real-time ideas, strategies, processes: https://social.unturf.com/@russell https://social.unturf.com/@russell I'll link to long form posts from there, planning a few soon. Here are a couple basic posts to show examples of whats to come: https://social.unturf.com/@russell/102787710856378930 https://social.unturf.com/@russell/102787710856378930 https://social.unturf.com/@russell/102787713603718588 https://social.unturf.com/@russell/102787713603718588 Here you can see me create both a garden path, and a new garden bed with nothing but a spade shovel and woodchips.