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I was wondering if anyone knew what this fungus was in my raised bed. It’s everywhere.

Hello, I am in Brittany (north-west France), I have a large, fairly isolated piece of land with already quite a few fruit trees and plants which produce flowers from the month of April. But now, I would need plants that produce flowers from March onwards. Every year, I see bees coming out in March, but as there isn’t much to forage, I don’t see many afterwards during the year. A neighboring plot of land is a conventional agricultural field. This fall the farmer planted rapeseed there. Except every time the rapeseed comes into flower, all the bees go there and die because of the treatments. I want to help them by sowing flowers now to offer them an alternative. What do you advise me? The land is clayey, compact and hydromorphic, sloping and exposed to the west. So at the end of winter, the earth is damp, cold and it is often windy. In March, temperatures generally range between -1⁰C at night and 15 to 20⁰C during the day if the weather is clear.

Hey, were moving to Catalunya soon from Finland, close to River Ebre. Any permaculture/food forest projects in the Area? Would love to see your places and what youve done there.

We bought 3 hectare olive grove with a house in the hills, getting irrigation water connected there but so far it’s dry olives with a few fig trees, a laurel or two and a strawberry tree.

Very little/no top soil so looking for some biomass plants youve had success with, tips on how to fix terraces etc.

Also would just like to meet likeminded people there!

Lately I’ve been having su***dal thoughts. Losing everything has left me hollow. I wish I had enough money to buy a piece of land, build a small strawbale house, and start a permaculture garden. It feels like the only thing that could save me, the last image of a life that feels peaceful. I can’t afford it though, so I do what I can. I’ve started studying, bought books recommended by off-grid experts, trying to learn everything.

But here’s where I’m stuck: how do people actually start? For those of you who have gone this path, what were your first concrete steps? Did you begin with renting or borrowing land, or did you save until you could buy? How did you make it real when you were starting from nothing?