Gratful Dead Hedge 2

cernunnos5 · 2016-03-02T16:33:44Z

I thought I would just restart this post from scratch to bump it up.Here is what I wrote in the first post..."I hate giving survival advice that I haven't proven over several years...but once again, I am problem solving. Permaculture means feeding the soil instead of just taking from it. Thus, animals and their management. Food comes out. Poop has to go back in. Animal management means keeping them where they can do the most good and keeping them out of your hard work that they will trash. Unless you are willing to be a 247 hearder...that means fencing...and expensive fencing material isn't going to be around forever. It may be around but lest say you cant afford it. So, what to do? Fencing has become ....top level survival information that we need to figure out. A few of my friends, independently, started doing traditional woven fences a couple years ago, myself included. I knew the materials wouldn't last that long in our climate...but you gotta work with what you got. I have a new section I want to fence so I can put the pigs into to till and fertilize (and keep the chickens...and dear out of) so what to do. I spent the day searching for long, straight, material today, to do another woven fence. Not enough for the job. Maybe if I copis the crap out of a lot of scrub trees and wait five years for it to grow back tall and straight...but I have to solve this problem now. So what do we have in abundance. Left over scrub wood. We have a rather large food forest. I can gather several tons of food from it...but no one tells you, you have to manage it or faster growing trees will choke out, kill and feed apon the trees you want to keep. That means a lot of scraggly waist product. Same if you cut your own firewood. All the extra stuff. This is where The Dead Hedge comes in. Using that stuff. I will give you folks photo documentation as I build one and report on my experience as the years pass."I'll Continue from there...Speaking of the Apocalypse..... Spring seems to have come a couple of months early, sooooo, I have been a bit busy. I only wanted to do a small fence around the solar panels. It has morphed into the great wall of china...but with twigs. Because the ground was frozen and I wanted to get a feel for the amount of effort it would take, I thought I would start with one section of the overgrown orchard, using the brush that was there so it would continue to grow becoming a live fence over time. I would put in real posts where needed later, to fill in gaps. First, I toped the trees and cut a channel, then started cutting back all the competing trees that were choking out the apple trees...then I just got alittle bit carried away....and decided to do the entire orchard with the hopes of using the pigs to completely re sculpt the landscape. It was still too miserable to do anything else and I was pent up from the winter anyhooo. Go, Go, El Nino.Here is some before and after shots

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Topic starter 14/03/2016 11:25 am

And here is some size context photos. It more than a month into it but its not like I worked on it every day or even for full days. This is what one man with a chainsaw and a fence hole digger can do. Albeit, a slightly obsessive compulsive person. A person with more time than money. I should add that I am around fifty and a heavy smoker.

We are only at about the half way point. The absolute minimum. Now I have to pack much more bulk into it and add twice as many fence posts...and a gate.

then we can get to planting the live stuff on the edges

I have a Tactical Harness and I have a Tool Belt. The Tool Belt is more Useful.

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