Starting behind the 8 ball… This is my big garden out back. Fallow last year, 2014, due to campaign-burnout. Fallow this year due to a 3-4lb ‘watermelon’ growing in my gut, making me feel pretty bad, then watermelon removal on July 2nd. Said removal required a vertical incision bisecting 8-9in of muscle on my abdomen.
Believe it or not, there are many silver linings! The family has managed to keep 2 chickens alive for over a year and enjoyed the eggs of 1 hen. There’s a ton of biomass to add organic material to our still-heavy soil. There’s a ton of weed seeds to create voluntary cover crops next year and more biomass as I pull out the unwanted species. I’ve had more time to learn about permaculture and now realize that I need to make our gardens a little more self sufficient and perennial. I have a golden opportunity to rehab my body and ‘permaculture’ it as well.
All this has got me thinking about doing a blog. Starting with something that looks as bad as my garden and feels as bad as I did and charting the progress of permaculturing it all. Permaculturing life. Topics like, gardening, breathing, moving, eating well, micro biome, diy home and personal care, sunshine, dirt, etc. All with a little resistance-is-fertile spice!