Archive for woodland care
Michael “Skeeter” Pilarski talking about the uses of maple trees. Depending on the region, maple trees could make the best wood for bows. Skeeter talks a bit about maple trees and primitive skills. There is mention of the tie in… Read more…
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Using wedges, mauls and sledge hammers to split rails. These started off as some really big, sick cedar trees. Useful for split rail fence.
Splitting logs for several hours. This video is just a taste.
Most of the split wood… Read more…
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Paul talks with Jack Spirko ofthesurvivalpodcast.com on lessons from the forest. Some points: 1. Contour is king. The healthiest trees on Jack’s forest were already on the contour lines. 2. The forest floor is a lake. There is about an… Read more…
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Paul reviews “The Man Who Planted Trees,” a beautifully animated short film, with Caleb and Krista. Paul gives a synopsis of the story. The film focuses on a man, Elzèar Bouffier, who by planting trees over the years brings back… Read more…
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Paul, Krista, and Caleb review the movie Roundwood Timber Framing with Ben Law. Paul says that he dislikes the word “forest” compared to Ben Law’s “woodland.” They describe some tools used to work with roundwood, such as a rounding plane.… Read more…
Paul Wheaton discusses the work of Sepp Holzer with a group that just watched the film “Farming with Nature” (see: permaculture presentation series by Paul Wheaton at the Missoula Public Library). The group discusses the colorado potato beetle, what “noxious”… Read more…
In this podcast, Maddy Harland, the supreme ruler of Permaculture Magazine talks with me mostly about permaculture stuff, and just a tiny bit about the magazine and books in her queen-dom.
We start off talking about her visit the mighty,… Read more…
I visit with Helen Atthowe, goddess of the soil. She has a new web site she calls veganic permaculture.
We talk about how we are going to not talk about pH and conifers. We do talk a bit about conifer… Read more…