Mossback Farm » Permaculture

Extreme tree planting

rich — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:18:28 +0000

I wish I had that tractor for the 3500 trees that we planted a few years ago

Extreme Tree Planting – Trees for Earth from Peter Hill on Vimeo.

Interviews

rich — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:40:57 +0000

Our friend Clare was interviewed on KBOO recently along with Joel Salatin…quite a coup. I found it especially interesting to hear Joel talk about the massive gullies that were on his land when his family arrived there, since we are dealing with similar legacies of past land abuses.

They talk about land, farm cooperation, and meat processing, as well as our favorite advice to meat buyers – meet the meat…Check it out.

A farm for the future

rich — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 04:15:21 +0000

I saw this link a while back, and finally found an hour to watch the video…

The Oil Drum also has a good commentary on it…the comments there are always worth a visit.

Farm Design

rich — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 20:21:57 +0000

Folks who are familiar with our farm and website know that I do some landscape consultations on the side, and that the design page for the farm has been idle for quite some time. I hope to change that soon, but here’s something to tide you over until then.

I’ve put together a farm design file, using ArcPublisher. The free ArcReader program can be downloaded from the ESRI website to view the file. Sorry dialup users, its 100megs, and requires registration with ESRI. Time to find a friend with broadband!

Click the link below to download the zipped farm design, extract it (keeping all of the files and folders intact), read the FAQ in the ‘design’ folder, and let me know what you think.

Download zipped ArcReader file (700k)

12 June Update:

By popular request, I’ve uploaded a couple of PDFs of the GIS output, one of the base farm layer, and one with the permaculture/landuse zonation. They are ~1.2mb each.

While they aren’t interactive like the above file, they will save low bandwidth users from computer collapse, and give Mac users something to look at.

Download Basemap (PDF)

Download Land use / Permaculture Zones (PDF)

{Download tip. On big PDFs like these, I usually try to Right Click – Save As to save the file to your computer. There’s less chance of the file causing your computer to hang up. Unless its a Mac, in which case that doesn’t happen.}