Join me for a food forest installation AND gravity fed water transition at the Holler Homestead. Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and beverages provided. Camping included and available on site.
Instructors:
Nicholas Ferguson, Homegrown Liberty
Shawn Mills, Hack My Solar
Activities: Food Forest
- Principles for planning a food forest within your big picture permaculture vision
- WHY NOW?
- Earthworks done during class (weather permitting – we will do them before if it looks rainy that weekend. If this happens we will start with a tour of what we did and why)
- How to plant the food forest
- Hands-on planting
Activities: Gravity Fed Water System
- Why we chose this project as part of our big picture move to reduce dependence on the power grid
- How this new system adds resilience in power outages
- What function stacking projects did we add while the ditch was open
- WHY NOW?
- Actual plumbing of the system (Assuming we can source all the fittings)
Other Activities:
- Rocket Mass Heater Tour
- Solar Water Heater Tour
- Livestock/Fencing Tour
- Other pop up sessions as time allows
- Nicole Sauce’s Saturday evening birthday bash. (Halloween costumes welcome)
