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I moved into my new place this year and am starting to plan out my food forest. But the previous owners were pretty terrible stewards of the land — there are packing peanuts strewn across the field, random garbage piles in the forest and (as pictured here) remnants of metal garbage being burned.

Other than testing the soil for heavy metals, does anyone have advice for how to start remediating this space? And plants that are participating good for this process?

I was just gifted some Good Job Henry seeds. I see online that it’s recommended to cold stratify them for 10 weeks (!) and then move them to pots to start indoors 4-6 weeks before last frost, before finally moving them outside. I’m wondering if there’s any reason I can’t start this process soon, which would end with planting outside approximately late august or September. My goal is to get it established sooner rather than waiting another year to be on the typical schedule. Is there any reason I shouldn’t do this? Will it harm the plant having temperatures drop only a month or so after planting outside? I’m in Montreal, Canada.

I’ve watched that movie the biggest little farm MANY times. It’d be the ultimate dream to do that myself. Is it possible with putting in the effort that someone could get funding like that and make something happen ? I’ve started the beginning process of mapping out exactly what I want to do and what I’d want to have. Just curious to see if anyone else thinks something like that is a worthwhile venture.

Once covered in scrub spruce and pine, recently clearcut. Stumps remain. New England location, this is East facing.

hey guys, ive been working on organic farms/permaculture projects for over 15 years and im now a professional ‘eco’ gardener and have my own project, mainly around Portugal, france and some parts of spain.

in that time i’ve spoken and worked with hundreds of people and projects including lecturers and teachers in some pretty big organisations, e.g. tamera ‘peace’ village, vale da lama (Portuguese based!). i’ve found so many people to be insufferable fools, even ‘masters’ who run these super expensive courses seem to be so big headed and blinkered in their approaches and refuse to give anyone credit for hard work and toil needed to run these projects.

i’ve seen guys “penis measure” by trying to public humiliate the other for lacking in certain knowledge and many people who would give themselves a ‘guru’ title (mainly guys but some women as well). its extremely cult-like and egotistical, what i would call “middle class hippy dick waving” for want of a better word by people called ‘andrew love-and-light’, lol.

my question is does anyone find this about quite a few people in these communities as well? is it just me and i’ve had 15 years of bad luck? maybe its just the “ex-pat” scene i’ve been involved with?
dont get me wrong and think i don’t believe in permanent agriculture… just a lot of people involved seem to be dicks about it. what’s your guys thoughts?

“Buy it for life” probably isn’t realistic, but the last two pairs I’ve bought have barely lasted a day or two of work, and that isn’t in line with my goals for sustainability. Dress anyone have good recommendations for gloves that are reasonably sturdy?

Hello fellow earthroamers:)

I´m 24 and currently traveling Europe and about to finish my bachelor degree. It doesnt seem like I will settle in the next few years, but I for sure want to have a place to call home later and create a permaculture garden.
My question is, if you think that it would be good idea to buy some fruit and nut trees now and place them in my mothers garden so they can grow. I would love to have a variety of trees in the future, but since it take many years for them to produce relevant harvests, i was thinking about buying them small for a cheaper price and then transporting them to my garden, when I´m ready.
I´m not really sure, if a safe transport would be possible and if that would put too much stress on the trees. Its quite possible that they would have to withstand a 10 hour + travel until they could be planted in the ground again.

If my idea does make any sense at all, i was also wondering, if it would be better to place them in large pots to mature, so travel would be easier, or to place them directly in the ground so they can grow a bigger root ball.

What do you guys think?