by Brenda NTP | Sep 23, 2015 | Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Farm, Permaculture/Homesteading, YouTube
For the last couple years we have been experimenting with movable pig pens (pig tractors) and cover crops in order to build the soil fertility, and plant diversity of our pasture. The results have been overwhelmingly positive! In just two years, we’ve...
by Levi Meeuwenberg | Sep 23, 2015 | Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Appropriate Technology, History, Permaculture/Homesteading, Plants, Podcast, Why Permaculture
Permaculture Realized Podcast Episode 2, The Permaculture Journey: Health, Apples, Fiber and Alpacas with Samantha Graves Episode 2, The Permaculture Journey: Health, Apples, Fiber and Alpacas with Samantha Graves...
by Brenda NTP | Sep 19, 2015 | Animal Husbandry, Farm, Permaculture/Homesteading, YouTube
This is one of our pig tractors at Realeyes Homestead. We built them out of salvaged lumber and pallets, on cedar skids so that we can drag them all around the pasture. This keeps the pigs healthy and happy because they always have fresh ground to root up and forage...
by Brenda NTP | Sep 7, 2015 | Animal Husbandry, Farm, Permaculture/Homesteading, YouTube
Inspired by Karl Hammer’s Compost-Chicken Hybrid system in Vermont, we began creating a compost pile inside our portable bird pen using food scraps collected from local restaurants and grocery stores. The chickens not only get to eat the fresh veggie scraps we...
by Brenda NTP | Jun 28, 2014 | Animal Husbandry, Farm, Permaculture/Homesteading
In our dream world, all animals on our farm would be free-range. They would just choose to stick around and provide for us because life is so good here. Well that’s how our egg-laying hens did reside here for over a year. But recently our hens began disappearing...
by Levi Meeuwenberg | Apr 22, 2014 | Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Blog, Permaculture/Homesteading, Plants, Uncategorized, Water Systems
Bryan Mets is a great friend, permaculture wizard, and founder of the Great Lakes Permaculture Portal, based in southern Michigan (Macomb). Last year he attended Mark Shepard’s Permaculture Design Course at Mark’s “New Forest Farm” in southwest...
