For those of you who are beginning a sustainable tropical Permaculture farm, here are some links and books titles which will help you on your project:
(BTW: We offer none of this for sale, so you’re on your own finding hard copies)
Our website is: http:EveningRainFarm.com/ (see our nursery)
Here is the local Hawaii island forum website: http://sensiblesimplicity.lefora.com/
Start [...]
Ryan wrote me asking what I would plant right now, if I were settling on a small parcel in Hawaii, and I want to grow most of my food for my family on the land, and live somewhat sustainably.
My needs for a good combination of food crops is:
1) an abundance of calories, oils, protein, [...]
Some folks think that living simply is a moral duty. Some others think that living simply improves their quality of life. Either way, I will discuss our present money situation, and a few of our unusual lifestyle choices.
But first, I will tell you about two billboards I saw while driving down highway 580 in Oakland [...]
We’ve just made a pretty big update to our website which should help make things easier to read. We’ve also added a Facebook page here if you’d like to be a fan.
With this new website you should see many more content updates along with a slew of new photos.
Please leave a comment below if you [...]
Scott discusses easy to grow alternatives to some of our more conventional foods. What they are, how they grow and their nutritional value.
Just the other day, while I was eating my supper in one of my “doom and gloom” modes, it occurred to me that I have no idea what sort of a safety net [...]
Well, it’s been three years since we have written about how our food experiment is progressing at Evening Rain Farm. In these years, we have learned a bunch, and planted many more varieties of plants. We have gone way beyond what we need to meet our basic needs into an exploration of nearly every tropical [...]
Continue reading...These are the blogs that I frequent. The first three are filled with a blend of opinion, wisdom, proposals, perspectives. The fourth is a daily updated series of news links.
http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/
http://www.kunstler.com/blog/
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/BreakingNews.html
- Scott
Q: Will the commercial ‘factory farm’ breed of egg layers fare well in a free range environment?
A: The White Leghorns: I did a brief bit of research on them several years ago, and was inspired enough to buy a dozen day-old chicks for our free range flock. They are good layers, industrious, good foragers, and [...]
Q: How much land would a family of four need? Any wildly ranging estimates and/or completely blind guesses would be greatly appreciated.
A: In a lower Puna environment,which is where I live on the Big Island, a family can grow all their own food in a permaculture style orchard on a 3 acre parcel with no [...]
Q: I was thinking about you guys again, as my life becomes so unpleasant here, as I contemplate whether I could ever actually live a simple sustainable life, as you all do.
A: Firstly, I’m sorry you are unhappy with your life. I, too, spent over ten years feeling sad, scared, hopeless, and disconnected with my [...]
