Planting Nuts

TTwo weeks ago a friend sent me a picture. “Know what these are?” he asked. “I believe those are CHESTNUTS!” I replied. Days later he delivered a container to me containing about 16 chestnuts.  He told me the whereabouts of the tree and said the owner believed it to be a purebred pre-blight American Chestnut…

Beginnings all the time

I don’t remember the first time I heard the term permaculture.  But as with most things I hear about, I dove in head first.  My foggiest recollection brings Joel Salatin to mind.  I probably saw him in one of the emergent food documentaries that can be viewed from online streaming services.  Maybe a public screening of…