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Hello, I am looking to get my permaculture design certificate in the United States but want to do it in a program taught by American Indian practitioners. Any leads? Feed free to drop other PDC or other courses taught by indigenous practitioners outside US too. Thank you.

I’m exploring tools for crop damage assessment and would like input from this community.

• For those using drone-based imagery (e.g., multispectral, NDVI), what platforms/software have worked best?
• For satellite-based solutions (Climate FieldView, Planet, EOS Crop Monitoring, etc.), how reliable are they for field-level analysis?
• Has anyone here combined drone + satellite workflows for higher accuracy?

Crop damage assessement tool

Hi! We recently took down a dead tree and ground out the stump. We left the stump wood chips in place to decay, but still need more material to fill in the depression left by the tree. It’s my understanding that I need to add actual soil – not just do a ton of lasagna mulching etc.

1) Is that accurate? 2) What kind of soil do I need? 3) Do I need to buy soil somewhere or is there a better way – like create my own using sand somehow?

Apologies if this is a dumb question – I’m just a couple years in to gardening and just now starting to learn about ecosystem balance and soil health!

Hello everyone,

We have 10 acres of woods and fields — an overgrown former cattle farm that was essentially left to invasives since about 2008 — that we’re in the process of transforming into a native oak/hickory/food forest and a native tallgrass/wildflower prairie. This plan is in conjunction with state foresters and conservationists and will be carried out in phases over the next decade or so.

The only piece that we don’t have a solid plan for yet is about the 1.5 acres of fescue grass that we’re currently mowing around the house.

We’re looking into getting several types of seeds from this company but don’t know much about them or the process after we remove the grass that’s there. Has anyone here completed a project on such a scale? If so, what are some advantages we can look forward to — and pitfalls to look out for?

Thanks for any insight you might have!

Hi, I’m in the design phase for a community run food forest we will start planting next year.

I’m wanting to decide the size of the 2-3 cherry trees. I hope for trees that are easy to harvest (ie not too high) but also trees that don’t require babying hehe. We’re volunteer run and don’t have the resources to deal with loads of faff.

I will probably choose yellow varieties to deter birds and not do any netting.

Anybody got experience with either Colt (semi vigorous, 9m high) or Gisela 5 (dwarf, 3.5m high)? Or any others I can consider?

I’ve got a good climate for cherries generally, good amount of rainfall, nice soil (sand and clay loam).

Thanks!

Can I use clear plastic buckets to solarize woodchips? Or is that not effective or does it leach microplastics and chemicals or something? I want to get free woodchips from the county and kill any termites or invasive bugs. Hopefully the woodchips can be used as garden mulch and to grow wine cap mushrooms in.

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