Thanks Wilderness, will check that out and add it to my always growing book collection!
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Follow up, my Sepp Holzer book arrived yesterday and I have give it the first read, some things I am already doing but I can see a number of things in the book that I will give a try and see how they do in my area, thanks again for the review and recommend.
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Hey your welcome, he is my new Hero and I mean that, right up there with Billy Bishop and Terry Fox.
I am glad you like it go to my post on permaculture garden http://wildernessreturn.wordpress.com/2012/02/26/how-we-plan-to-make-the-permy-garden-soon/ and there is a listing for some other Permaculturists, including a Lecture Series on Permaculture.
The Lecture series is good because they do field trips to many similar sites to permaculture. Although his house is small and his yard is small he shows how you can change your footprint into a positive one, the best for his house is Lecture Series 5 or 6. That series is his trip to his house with detailed info on a frog pond and how it increases the biodiversity of his setup and how it interacts and enhances the permaculture garden he has set up.
Hi Wilderness
Question for you or any of the others that are wanting to do this on a larger scale.. to keep it simple, if you did the raised hugel beds for a acre, has anyone figured out the math to see just how much extra sqaure foot planting land you would get with this system? I am now going to have to go measure my own big bed, and do a math, but I am hoping that perhaps some of you have done this already in your own planning?
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My situation changed, the person who I thought was a friend allowed me to work there for a year, then he changed! So now not doing this except on paper again, looking for another winter abode, once a week per month abode for 2 yrs, then full time.
Raised bed like Sepp's would make more room, raised beds like the typical planter style less room. His ideas and designs are more vertical, so up and across, the other are just up, then flat. Ps I am not good at math anymore, after the incident so not the person to ask. Now I can post some dimensions and someone else can figure it out?
slanted rise Hugle bed;
4' up with a slope/incline of 45deg per side
other side
4' up with a slope/incline of 45deg
top ledge 6" across
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walkway in between rows of 3' wide
other dimensions recommended by him are up to 6' high similar angles, so??