Yurt circle
The yurt came the rest of the way
down on Sunday. (I figured if I used the passive voice, our
memory of the event would involve less lugging of waterlogged wood
through the trees.)
All that was left behind
was a bare circle on the forest floor. Too bad I'm unlikely to
walk by there with anyone who hasn't heard of the yurt --- it would
make a fun, crop circle, April Fool's joke.
I'm wracking my brain
for something useful to do with that bare patch of earth, but I think
it will just be an experiment in how fast the forest reclaims
ground. I feel like the spot is too shady and too deer-prone to
plant anything edible, but if you've got a bright idea, now's the time
to throw it out there!
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Hi Anna,
What a nice place to grow a mix of plants to see which plants that grow give us things we can eat. One of the seed ball ideas was to put in a mix of various seeds and see what grows by itself.
I have been wondering the same thing as I travel around NH. Can I just plant something(s) and come back later and harvest it? Maybe planted as a seed or poop ball?
I read lots of people who are long on ideas but don't have any success stories?
From what I read, some folks are planting various things on public land and coming back later to harvest. Why not food plants?
Maybe it would make sense to plant seedlings. But I think seeds would be easier.
Great question.
John