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EDEN PARADIGM: LEARNING CURVES
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A JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF WISDOM THAT BRINGS ORDER OUT OF CHAOS IN THE NATURAL WORLD. Sunday, June 20, 2010. Momster Pumpkin growing between. Precious young Moringa trees. I learned some important lessons this last season. I had a favourite pumpkin go rotten before I had a chance to even cut into it. Desiring not to waste it, I hauled this mess into my new. Beautiful and useful Honeysuckle. I plan to use the berries of the Chinaberry planted along the border of my. PS: I have just learned that monkeys can b...
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EDEN PARADIGM: September 2009
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A JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF WISDOM THAT BRINGS ORDER OUT OF CHAOS IN THE NATURAL WORLD. Sunday, September 13, 2009. MULBERRIES, MULBERRIES EVERYWHERE! Another good quality about this tree is that it will bear fruit from quite young and small. The fruit are smaller than a more mature tree but are still available to eat. I have a favourite Black Mulberry that must be well over 15 years now and produces lovely big black fruit every year. That is one tree I want to get to before the monkeys do. Back to Mulberry t...
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EDEN PARADIGM: WHEN EVERYTHING SEEMS TO BE FALLING APART
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A JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF WISDOM THAT BRINGS ORDER OUT OF CHAOS IN THE NATURAL WORLD. Tuesday, June 1, 2010. WHEN EVERYTHING SEEMS TO BE FALLING APART. I have this dream so big in my soul that sometimes when I talk of it to people they want to come and see. I have learned to explain that my dream is still a work in progress : ) That it is not yet complete. And in all the struggles I have discovered that the journey is as important as those joyous results. Until next time,. June 1, 2010 at 9:00 PM. WHEN EVER...
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EDEN PARADIGM: April 2010
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A JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF WISDOM THAT BRINGS ORDER OUT OF CHAOS IN THE NATURAL WORLD. Wednesday, April 28, 2010. Lay out some plastic lawn and be done with it. What am I seeing? Wisdom brings maturity and rest. Until next time,. Friday, April 16, 2010. KEEPING IN STEP. AND ENJOYING THE MARCH. When taking a broad scale overview on how to start out establishing this miracle of farming sustainability - the Food Forest – those first chosen plants are important considerations. What do you have in your hand?
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EDEN PARADIGM: August 2009
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A JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF WISDOM THAT BRINGS ORDER OUT OF CHAOS IN THE NATURAL WORLD. Saturday, August 15, 2009. SMALL BEGINNINGS WITH MORINGA. Starting small. The best place to start. Give me a piece of land, a wide blue sky and the sun on my back. Add the birds, some trees and plants and I am smiling. God is smiling too. Moringa is also known as the Horseradish tree because of the sauce that can be made from the roots. This is done when the seedlings are about 60cm tall. The bark is completely rem...Both ...
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EDEN PARADIGM: March 2010
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A JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF WISDOM THAT BRINGS ORDER OUT OF CHAOS IN THE NATURAL WORLD. Monday, March 29, 2010. INDIGENOUS. EXOTIC. OR BOTH? I ask myself: This all sounds pretty good in casual social banter, but is this truly ecologically sound? Personally, the travelling involved rather defeats the purpose. How many locally indigenous plants will feed us? We are most often fed by exotics. We need to expand our vision to a wider perspective: How do we reduce pressure on planet wellness? Plant exotics that fee...
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EDEN PARADIGM: APPRECIATING MATURITY
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A JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF WISDOM THAT BRINGS ORDER OUT OF CHAOS IN THE NATURAL WORLD. Saturday, May 8, 2010. The Forest has to be, for me, the quintessential pattern of ecological success. Let it give some space to a wetland and the fringes giving support to various grains, and it is complete. But it is the multi-storey functionality of a forest that really fascinates me. Alive and clean. Who has not walked a forest floor and deeply breathed tof he living freshness? Everything that a forest offers I want to...
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EDEN PARADIGM: February 2010
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A JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF WISDOM THAT BRINGS ORDER OUT OF CHAOS IN THE NATURAL WORLD. Tuesday, February 23, 2010. ORDERLY CHAOS OR CHAOTIC DISORDER? This topic came up recently in a Permaculture discussion. An interesting conundrum. Previously I quoted something Bill Mollison said in one of his design courses:. Bill Mollison: Transcript for a Permaculture Design Course.]. Question: Which do you want? Lots of rows of tidy plants gasping out an existence in neatly weeded bare earth? I must admit to having had...
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EDEN PARADIGM: January 2010
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A JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF WISDOM THAT BRINGS ORDER OUT OF CHAOS IN THE NATURAL WORLD. Saturday, January 9, 2010. Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees. I used to hate the way the Chinaberry just popped up everywhere, but now I just think of it as a wonderful source of bio-mass. A year ago I think I would be amazed that I would actually be happy to see a Chinaberry coppicing. I have found that the Mulberry tree bouces. Back very readily too; a real blessing. Such a useful tree. And the l...Large...
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EDEN PARADIGM: November 2009
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A JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF WISDOM THAT BRINGS ORDER OUT OF CHAOS IN THE NATURAL WORLD. Thursday, November 19, 2009. WHAT IS A FOOD FOREST? The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. I have been reading and watching anything I can lay my hands on that would help me design my first food forest. Geoff Lawton’s film “Establishing a Food Forest (the Permaculture Way series) was the most helpful. I am not aiming to plant a lot of trees and call it a forest, but multiple sets of random ecolo...