Permaculture Orchard: Beyond Organic -- Quebec, Canada

[610Alpha]

610, I love all the permaculture stuff that you post!

Do you practice permaculture on your land? I'm asking because it seems to good to be true.

I may have asked this before but I see in permaculture the use of honey locust trees as a nitrogen fixer, do they use thornless honey locust? I have a ton of regular honey locust but I hate the 4" thorns.

I thought the same way about Permaculture, but the more I see videos of permaculture systems (Geoff Lawton, Paul Wheaton, Jack Spirko, the Video in this post) the more I think it is possible. There is a site that is mentioned in the book "Gaia's Garden" (don't be fooled by the name it has a ton of great information), the site owner also teaches at a College in the Carolina's and you can see his recorded lessons and some of the videos are done at his site.

Honey or Black Locust can be used as Nitrogen fixers. You might cut down the Honey Locust, turn them into fence posts, tool handles, or firewood, and plant Black Locust, they seem to not have the long thorns. Locust trees make great fence posts because they have a natural fungicide, I heard its around 4% by volume, which means it takes a really long time for it to rot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinia_pseudoacacia

I will be taking an Online PDC class this fall. I have been doing a lot of reading from various permaculture authors, Ben Falk, Joel Salatin, and Mark Sheppard.

I am also waiting to hear if I get transferred to another office so I have put all permaculture ideas on hold.

[Benn Gleck]

610, I love all the permaculture stuff that you post!

Do you practice permaculture on your land? I'm asking because it seems to good to be true.

I may have asked this before but I see in permaculture the use of honey locust trees as a nitrogen fixer, do they use thornless honey locust? I have a ton of regular honey locust but I hate the 4" thorns.

[610Alpha]

Permaculture Orchard: Beyond Organic

https://www.permacultureorchard.com/en/the-film/

This is how Orchards should be. He hasn't fertilized since 2007. Biodiversity is how you strengthen crops, don't weaken them by Chemical or Organic sprays. Why do you diversify your retirement account?

If you want to watch the full feature length film let send me a pm. Tons of information in this video, how to prune/train your trees, how to create diversity, how to fix nitrogen in your soil using other plants/trees.