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So here’s a discussion topic for you.

After Hurricane Helene, many people in Western North Carolina are still displaced, and many small farms and homesteads are still struggling to recover. But I believe we can salvage an opportunity from the devastation—maybe even build the foundation for… well, a new civilization?

The Homeseed Project is a long-term regional recovery initiative designed to re-create our region and guide our path forward. We’re offering safe, secure micro-housing opportunities for displaced individuals in RVs, campers, or tiny homes, and pairing them with small farms and homesteads that need labor to rebuild. There, they’ll gain valuable employment skills and heal as only Nature (and good, hard work!) can provide. Then, we’ll connect these revitalized operations with the local community garden network, business improvement groups, and agricultural support systems.

This is about sustainable community rebuilding on a grand scale. We’re creating replicable work/trade models that not only address immediate recovery but lay the groundwork for thriving, interconnected, long-term regional resilience.

And that’s how we’ll survive. Through compassion. Through working together.

Thoughts?

Hi all! Moved to a small city lot in Michigan, so not tons of lawn to convert to a food forest. I do have a screened in patio, however (not insulated). It gets only a few hours of direct sun in the winter (not a ton of sun in MI in the winter anyways). If I hung up thick plastic over the screens do you think I could get it to act somewhat like a greenhouse?

Can I collect a sample of water from my pond and nearby lake in jars and wait 1-2 days to test for DO? Or, does the test need to occur immediately after collection? I’m looking to buy this kit for my classroom.

Hey everyone. I’m getting my food forest together. I live very close to a river with a lot of carp in it. Bag limit is 25 per day. I’m right in the middle of a lot of commercial agriculture. Mostly irrigated with canals and the run off from these farms dump in the river. I know there is quite a bit of pesticides, fertilizers, herbicides, storm drians from roads end up in it as well. It’s common knowledge here not to eat any fish from this river due to contamination. They would be an amazing resource to add to my food forest as a natural fertilizer. But I am hesitant to bring them in because of the contamination. What are your thoughts on integrating these fish in my forest?