At the end of January 2019, I attended the annual conference of No-Till on the Plains in Wichita.
Jim Schalles gave a standing-room-only lecture on Natural Building at City Sprouts on January 12. Here are my notes:
On November 15, I attended a "Zero Waste Seminar" in downtown Omaha held by Hillside Solutions of Gretna and catered by Larsen Supply Co. of Council Bluffs.
I attended the 10th annual storm water tour on September 20, 2018. Most of the people on the bus were professionals in the field, either civil engineers or industry reps. Here are my photos from the tour.
August 30 to September 3, 2018, I attended the second Indigenous Wisdom and Permaculture Skills Convergence (IWPSC) at the Oglala Lakota Cultural & Economic Revitalization Initiative (OLCERI) on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. It was a very eye- and heart-opening experience, and it's taken a while for me to wrap my head around it. Here are my notes from the sessions, with some commentary.
Author's note: It's generally accepted that the reason aerobic microbes weren't around to prevent the Great Oxygenation Event is because they hadn't evolved yet. It's very convenient that they evolved just in the nick of time to save all life on earth from going extinct. But I got to thinking, what if they had evolved earlier, and they just weren't invited to the party? Then the story starts to seem very familiar...
It's been almost 10 years since we moved into our house in Emporia, Kansas. Here's what I posted about my goals for the garden on January 8, 2009 (links updated):
(Originally published on Blue Boat Home, 4/27/2009)
The most common question that Jessie and I got about our house during the winter was, "What exactly are you doing in the front yard?" They'd never seen anyone intentionally bury the yard in 6-12 inches of leaves before. Here's what we were doing, and why, and what worked and what didn't.
