Hello Everybody.
I am very excited to be part of this and I hope we all make content of matter explode through our "new" common tool here (...well its very new for me to be honest). Let‘s see which way this community will take steemit. Very exciting times!
Sorry that the writing turned out so small :)
My name is Moritz Reichartz and I joined steemit.com to write about my very own experiences and my successes and failures that I am going to make on my mediterranean travel to a more senseful, more abundant and more sustainable life, lived with permaculture ethics and principles. I live with my wonderful wive and our two wonderful preschool kids where we spend lots of time together at home, as my wive and I are freelancers working from home and our kids do not have to go to kindergarden every day.
After having great interest in Permaculture already from the beginning of 2016, we bought a small piece of land of about 2000m² or 0.5 acres around June 2016 and as soon as Jan. 1st 2017 I was part of the hardcore intense Geoff Lawton online PDC 2.0 throughout the entire past year of 2017. And as my knowlege has changed, my life is changing and that is what I want to share here.
Here are two photo of our untouched land from june 2016. The changes until today are huge.... To be continued.
I started a blog about my journey to Permaculture already back in early 2017, yet it went dormant quicklly due to tons of studying and less action, but 2018 will be a year of sharing more Permaculture action supported by the theory of the long and intense PDC course from last year. Let me start out my steemit travel with weekly posts and also some "referbished posts" from my dormat blog. If you'd like a preview of what is to come here, feel free to visit: https://mypermaculturesite.wordpress.com/
Please enjoy the ride with me as I will enjoy it with you and feel free to share, to ask or to reply. I hope the words and images of this blog can be inspirational and hope very very much to be part of a thriving Permaculture / Homesteading / Sustainable and Sensful Life community on steemit. Le's make it happen!
Kind reguards.
Moritz
Welcome! Will follow your journey with interest, as it is quite similar to my own! Come join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/DcGa52F
Hi @bobydimitrov. Just commented on your simple compost article. Nice to meet you. What exactly is Discord and what means "join us". I am still overwhelmed by enetring steemit and I dont know if I will manage two new platforms in one day ;)
I know what you mean, I joined only two weeks ago, so I'm also a newbie myself :) Discord is a chat platform. The link I sent you will invite you to the Homesteaders on Steemit server. Meet me there and we'll continue :) Let me know if you need any help!
Is Discord something like "steemit.chat" that I read in the steemit FAQ?
Yes, but it's completely independent site. It actually started as a gaming chat platform. But everyone can make a server (a collection of chat rooms), not unlike Slack, if you're familiar with it. It now hosts the entire permaculture and homestead community chat, filled with steemians :) Including some of the most prominent members, that can be of a great help!
Oh. Sounds good! But why not steemit.chat, as it seems more connected? Sorry for my newby-questions..
and: do I have to create an extra Discord account, or can I access it with my steemit account?
Why not - I have no idea :) But the people are there, with plenty of different dedicated channels. Also, you need an an extra Discord account, just as well as extra Steemit.chat one :) Another thing - discord has a nice smartphone as well as desktop app!
Welcome @my-permaculture you are going to love the homesteading community. Now following. If you need something or advice just give a holler
Hi! Following as well! Very exiting here!
Welcome to steemit @my-permaculture, it's great to see more people who are living the permaculture way on here. I'm a big fan of Geoff Lawton. I never did his course, but did do a permaculture design course 7 years ago in Ireland. Look forward to hearing more from you.
Hi trucklife-family. Good to meet you here. I saw several Geoff Lawton videos on youtube right after the Permaculture Fever hit me. That was around march 2016. I got completely infected by the whole scene and signed up for Geoffs Friday Five newsletter later that year, where I got informed about the Geoff Lawton online PDC 2.0 which would premiere in January 2017. I signed up immediately and was fed excellent informations on a weekly base for over 7 months with weekly Q&A and an amazing group of classmates. I can highly recommend that "Geoff Lawton online PDC 2.0 - Trip" to anyone interested. Season 2 should start soon, so keep you eyes and ears open!
welcome!! let's support each other? :) exited to see your journey on here
Welcome here to Steemit!
Permaculture is really cool. Where my parentes live in Sweden does it live a couple that just live of their permaculture farm. They even have lectures and classes you can take if you want to learn more.
I hope you the best and hopefully 2018 can be a great year here on Steemit for you.
Will follow you on your journey
Thanks aderssinho. I had so much to learn last year, that I will need some years of putting that all to practice before I go back to study. LOL. Nice to meet you.
Welcome Moritz, look forward to reading more
Hi Mark. Likewise!
Welcome to steemit ! Nice paost ! I hope you enjoy here ! will give the vote to you, Please upvote & follow me
Welcome to steemit! I see boby found you before me! All I did was take a phone call and he swooped in... lol
Anyways.. great to see you in Discord!
Hello goldendawne!
Welcome to Steemit :-)
Moritz welcome i hope interchange a los of knowledge about homesteading, and pelmacultur, by te way do you read Masanobu Fukuoka.
I read has books there are amazing.
Well i publish in spanish but i will try to publish i n both languages, becausr is important to share our life in a homestead and foraging.
Best regard @galberto
Welcome again enjoy steemit.
Hi @galberto still did not read and books on Permaculture. The internet is so full, it already blew my mind. 2018 is ment to be the year of Permaculture action for me rather than input and theory.
About you posting in spanish: No problem. Images already say a lot and if I have questions I will ask (or use google translate :)).
Nice to meet you!
Moritz
Welcome to steemit! There are so many like minded people here. I've enjoyed Geoff Lawton's videos and I'm sure you have a lot to share from a year long PDC course. Looking forward to sharing journeys.
Hi soulturtle. Nice to meet you.
Welcome @my-permaculture! So glad to hear another success story inspiring more permaculture action. Looking forward to hearing about your homesteading adventures :)
Hi sagescrub! Well lts call it enthusiast ;) sucess needs to be proven :DD.
Happy to meet you!
Likewise, nice to meet you :) I like the enthusiasm!
Hi and welcome!! I found your post on discord and give your account a follow. My husband and I just bought 18 acres in Virginia and are already behind the learning curve when it comes to permaculture! Or at least it feels that way. We have a small orchard that was abandoned for years as the previous owners got older, and are installing an 1100 sq ft back to eden garden. I'd love to learn about how to be more sustainable and creative. Hubby wants to retire from the marine corps in 5 years and start a CSA...so we have lots to learn! Can't wait to share in your experience!
Hi aibell. Good to meet you. 18 acres. What a blast! The "Back to Eden" Method is a wonderful way to garden. It conforms with sustainable and regenerative earthcare practices and putting down 5 to 10 inches of mulch is hard work, but well invested very long term fertility. Make shure to put down whole chipped plants and trees, meaning greens and brown chipped up. That way you will have less trouble with the potential nitrogen lock up in the first 1 or 2 years and also make shure to just layer the mulch on top of the ground, please dont mix it into the soil, or else you need to wait a long time until things start thriving. In case of replacing grass ar lawn with this method, make shure to sheet mulch as first layer over the grasses. This is best done with cardboard or contractors paper. Newspaper will do fine too but multiple layers will be needed. In Permaculture systems its always a good advice to thoroughly plan the installation of a system and start small. When things take of the desired direction its time to extend the system. BermaBlizes are a good way to get lots of work done with help from your community or neighbourhood.
Have fun!
The Gardening Channel with funny James Prigioni is a good source for woodchips and Permaculture. He has recently published a few videos on that topic. https://www.youtube.com/user/ThePermaculturGarden
So much good info here! Thank you so much for sharing Moritz!
Thank you idyllwild. Sharing is caring. Its that how you say it?
Indeed!
Yes! We laid down cardboard, a few inches of aged horse manure and then the woodchips over tip. It's more shredded stuff from our yard than strictly woodchips. We are also getting wood shavings from our buddy who does wood working for the chicken coop. Then, when the chickens have finished with it, we add the wood shavings/manure combo into the garden as well. I'll have to look into BermaBlizes and the youtube channel you mentioned below!! Thanks for sharing!
Great to start. Over the years you should change to browner mulch for the orchyard. Trees love fungal dominated soils and the mycelium fungi strants always look out for decaying wood. Its really yummy for them and they love to create intimite bonds with the roots of your trees for symbiotic relationships.
And always layer everything, just like in nature. Local disturbances of mixing are also natural, imagine a bore howling through the first 8 inches of soil, but layering is the way to go.
Welcome to Steemit!
There is already a strong homesteading community here but I am starting to see more and more permaculture folks around too so you should fit right in!
Hi @canadianrenegade. Nice to meet you. Homesteading and Permaculture are almost the same for me. Its all about self sustaining and life in tune with nature. I am very happy to become part of this community here on steemit!
Welcome, Moritz, and thank you for saying hi on my welcome post. Indeed, we do share similar paths and you're right on to join SteemIt as from what I hear, there's a great permie group here. It's heartening to see more permies on here as I believe the social change we'll see in the next few years in the digital world will need a balance in the physical world. @sagescrub wrote some very thought provoking posts on the parallels between seeds and tokens if you're interested in the topic. Glad to meet you and read more from you!
Hi idyllwild. Sorry, only saw your comment now. Thank you for your warm welcome.
Welcome to steemit! That's a beautiful property! I look forward to more posts from you on permaculture and as you develop your land ^_^
Hello wisewoof.
I got heavily infected with Permaculture in the beginning of 2016. So we immediately bought that piece of land withthe wish to move there once. Yet that is a long way into the future but we try to work there as much as possible. Its a piece of land without acess, water, electricity.
Hey Moritz, looking forward to reading more from you. Where did you acquire your piece of land? Close to home, or in the Mediterranean?
Hi @lowestdefinition. Nice to meet you. This is not so easy to answer, but let me explain. I am German so, the Portuguese mediterranean is quite far away for me, yet my wive is Portuguese, so we are right where she is home. So its home and not home, but I also don't feel like a stranger here. As I said before: BINGO! ;)
Ahh, I see. That explains it! Sounds absolutely brilliant that you had the opportunity to acquire some land there and feel connected to the place :) Not to mention being able to escape the gray German winters. One can only dream.
Where are you from and also where at @lowestdefinition?
I'm from Germany and am still in Germany. Pretty boring, I know 😁
Haha. Why boring? Do you want to move away?
Ah no. I'm happy here. I live in Berlin and I do like to live in bigger cities :) It's just quite uneventful having been born here and still being here.
What I'd like to do though, is spending at least the cold and dark months of the year in a sunny region. Portugal is a lovely country, so that would be far at the top of my list :)
Finally got around to checking out your intro post. Very nice! Quite excited about reading more updates. And welcome down the rabbit-hole of permaculture. If it already feels like it's all amazing, I can only say: it's just gonna get better. Especially if you've got your own piece of land to experiment on! Good luck with everything!
You say it. The rebbit hole is deep. Not only the one of Permaculture that I went down already very far in terms of theory and some action, but also the rabbit hole of steemit.com is deep and seductive. All I want to do is upvote evry nice comment and good post, but the masses of good stuff here made me use up "all" my voting power in the first day and a half. Still need to figure out so much about this platform.
A warm thank you for your warm welcome @stortebeker.
Im a hobbit like you we like to grow things