i will always have sprouts in the making, for the rest of my life. these are mung sprouts. my first ever. this is shana with my permaculture teacher doug. doug in from cincinatti. doug shana and her 2 children and i spent christmas together and ate amazing food. shana is a great cook

this is a picture of a swale and the very beginning of a food forest. so this land is sloped. what we did is dug a 1 meter deep hole , about 2 meters wide and however long, and threw all the dirt into a mound. trees and nitrogen fixing plants are planted on the mound. the water the flows down the land collects in the swale and penetrates into the ground. and also, the water reflects the sun onto the tress creating a micro climate.

this is me nervously explaing a compost toilet system for the permaculture design project i recently finished

i was in charge of designing the compost, compost toilet, food forest, and windbreak. here i was explaing how on this land the wind was coming from the west and that i would recomend a windbreak consisting of small shrubs, then slightly taller shrubs , then a tall tree then another medium sized shrub then a smaller tree so the windbreak would be triangular and better block the wind.

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the idea is for everything to have alteast 3 functions. a plant can fix nitrogen, be edible, and a be good mulching crop. this would be a permaculture plant.