The Siphonaptera

Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum. And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on; While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on. [1872 A. De morgan Budget of Paradoxes 377]

One of my favorite poems that explains the fractal holographic nature of reality.

Hugelkultur dreams

is going to be the second post on my blog sorry it's been so long I'm being mean update this actually have a lot of updates coming but there's a lot of pictures of some sort through homestead survival http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=346208988764770&set=a.346208982098104.96334.189287804456890&type=1 post a link to another blog  http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles/johnson44.html and the article was actually on was on gardening in mounted piles of dirt basically polling in a bunch of dirt and build in the pile up airports in the works fairly well for him she did say that it did tim to dry out a little bit faster what he could have done was build up hugelkultur bed which basically uses a bunch of logs and smaller woody debris as biomass to be a sponge to hold of moisture in the soil and to help raise it up a lil bit more http://www.appropedia.org/Hugelkultur

an experiment i would like to try is to build 2 largish beds almost identical but on one use both a heavy rate of elm oyster plug culture on the logs and wood chip spawn mixed in the branches then compare how identical plantings and soil samples do in both beds over a couple years time i have a feeling that the oyster myc will perfect it the fungi eating the wood needs less N than bacterial decomposition would the myc will hold the soil together so you keep topping it and build it higher and steeper the myc will also pump water and nutes around acting like a cardiovascular system pumping the soils lifeblood around but thats my guess i could be wrong :) but even if i am wrong about all that and both beds end up about the same the mushie bed still wins cause once that sucker starts to fruit it ain't funna stop for 30-50 years half a lifetimes supply of mushies seems like a pretty good prize in and of its self

A new blog a new start

We'll here we go a new start of a blog. A chance to showcase what all
I've got growing on and am trying to do, its actually pretty simple this summer I'm going raw vegan(and mostly local) for at least 60 days in an attempt to increase my health lose weight and gain a new skill set 2 months seems like a good place to start a long enough commitment to be challenging but not so long as to be intimidating i don't know what I'll choose to do at the end if I'll switch back to omnivore vegan vegetarian raw palio or what but it should be interesting to see what i choose when I'm free of my current addiction to meats, fats, dairy, and processed sugar well gotta work in the morning so I'll go in to more details tomorrow