Find out why it is so important to grow your own food and how to install the easiest, and highly productive, home food propagation systems; mulch garden, potato box, herb's spiral, and more. You don't need much space. These are basic Permacultural techniques. These videos are from two design courses taught by Bill Mollison at the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Glen Rose Texas in 1994 and 1995. The following notes were found at http://www.desertgo.info/search/?searchTitle=Mollison+Fossil+Rim+Notes 04 Home Gardening *adding super phosphate ANNUALLY leads to cadmium and uranium buildup, and reduces (the essential) zinc, also elevated copper levels over time *all the nitrate put onto farms ends up in the rivers, [anoxic plum in gulf of Mexico/mouth or Mississippi] *bury unglazed pots in garden in place of a sprinkler, *Ruth Stout *edge high wind area garden with 4 tall tire of walls, *plant radish and carrots in same place at same time, radish sequence out first *herb spiral, 2x1 m, aromatics in sun, leaves on shaded side, *potato box *Sesbania_sesban *wild rice in pots, in water, harvest over 3 weeks as grain matures, 1 pound per pot ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Qd3VYbcrc

As desert is rapidly claiming vast areas of our planet, millions are on the verge of starvation. Yet, crops which occur naturally in arid land can provide all necessary nutrition for people and animals. The strategies discussed arise from years of observation in the deserts of Australia and from the peoples of Kalahari. These videos are from two design courses taught by Bill Mollison at the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Glen Rose Texas in 1994 and 1995. The following notes were found at http://www.desertgo.info/search/?searchTitle=Mollison+Fossil+Rim+Notes 14 Drylands (part 1) *Precipitation is about equal is semi-arid land, precipitation exceeds rainfall is a desert *subject to salting *water harvesting is key point, *mostly mesa and scarpe, areas of shattered rock are intake areas (where water infiltrates), near scarpe, *usually some rainfall each year, some places can be many years between rains, *drought cycles, ~20 year cycles, 4 phases, wet/drying/drought/recovery, *crop and cull depending on the cycle, carry capacity of the cycle can fluctuate between 1 and 1/16th. *Use large long term storage, grains, jerky, salt/dry meat, *African words for deserts used all over, charqui = jerky, kraal = corral, erg, sandforms, arabic words, geological terms, alkali = alkaline, potassium in latin = K, *alkoloids, cyanogens, and 1 other poison in drought, other poisons in wet phase, *don't feed/let out the cattle right when drought breaks b/c the poisons (6-8 weeks slowly move them back) *ph normally 8-11, minerals will be in deficit, lockout as carbonites/unavailable, *desert people have high copper blood tests, means lack of iron and zinc, lack of zinc = slow healing, no overy/testi, reduced sexual function, can't digest other food, 16 women to 1 man, coenzyme for breaking down other stuff, *testicles are high in zinc, desert oysters *seeds of cucerbit high in zinc, all developed in desert *maroxea melon, huge, hardy, lots of water, cross with watermelon, grown purely for water, cook food in melon flesh, porridge, doesn't taste good, but not bad, more no-taste, abundant seeds, half melons full of drying seeds *kiwano/jely melon, sweet cucumber, important desert plant, perennial, self seeding, cook by standing in ashes, steam, take top off like boiled egg and spoon them out, *excess salt/copper removes zinc, phytates in bran and beans, whole meal flour, removes zinc, wheat bran the worst, use a handful every 2 weeks to clean out cancerous intestine something, *if you don't eat meat in desert, you die. *Liver is good source of iron, just char it real quick not too much cooking, *use ash from selected bushes/(ear bones have zinc)bones in cooking as a source of minerals, *smokeless stoves will not give you access to ash, roll meat in ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHJ8pfILTNY

Canning meat at home is one of the easiest canning you will ever do! The only special items you need are a pressure canner (not a pressure cooker), jars and pickling salt. In this video, I will show you how to can beef and fish but this method works for just about any meat and it's SO EASY! For more details, check out my website: https://wp.me/p5wcY9-C6 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeRhkbEYMAA

Two main techniques: the chisel-plow, and the wonders of worms and how to cultivate them. The patterns described in these two videos can be replicated in any type of Permaculture system, and scaled to any size. These videos are from two design courses taught by Bill Mollison at the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Glen Rose Texas in 1994 and 1995. The following notes were found at http://www.desertgo.info/search/?searchTitle=Mollison+Fossil+Rim+Notes 11 Soil Conditioning *Animals concentrate and distribute rare minerals in the system, *1 sq meter has 1 million species of nematode, 6 km of hyphae, *worms bring dead OM and bring it into the soil, want worms that deposit their casting on top of the lawn, nitrate fertilizer kills worms, Lumbricus,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumbricus_terrestris , *Worms produce 25 toms / ac of casting, castings add to the upper 6" 5x more nitrogen/7x more phosphorous/11x more potassium, *produce 3" of topsoil / 15 years, poor soil 0.25 million / ac, fertile soils 1.75 million per acre, no animal manures 13k / ac, manure 1 mill / ac, worms love to eat manure, *compost over 125 F kills worm, *lime/manure/other fertilizers v. chop and drop legume/grass with worms, growing barley bluegrass, plot with worms had 5x the vegetation *worms breed better with a bit of dolomite, *chisel plow, basically keyline plowing, use drift to bring water out of valley, 1 foot / mile drop, *pasture sow = dandelion, chicory, turkey love thistle (cattle and goat do not), alfalfa, white clover (red for swampy), turnip (mainly sheep/goat, cattle choke on whole turnip), *enrichment comes from = white oak, honey locust group, legumes, nut bearing pines, (pinus maximilianus rare/large pincone from mexico, pinus monophylla, afghan pine, pinus sabianus, 30+ nut pines, come take very cold, can be valuable, bury unripe/developed but not open pinecones last for 12 months, roast and shake out nuts from cones, shishone, mexico, there is a flower that blooms and alerts you to when to harvest pines (), *nuts for turkey, squirrel, pine nuts are good crop, *plant corn when leave of oak is the size of a squirrel's ear, phenomenological time, *lupinus alba, good dry crop, nitrogen fixer *move cattle onto 9-10" pasture, *keep a field journal, ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6sWXdcaLHU