Hugelkulture

Hugelkulture

Hugelkultur, pronounced Hoo-gul-culture, means hill culture or hill mound. We call them Huggies down in Carondelet.
Instead of putting branches, leaves and grass clippings in bags by the curbside for the bin men… build a hugel bed. Simply mound logs, branches, leaves, grass clippings, straw, cardboard, petroleum-free newspaper, manure, compost or whatever other biomass you have available, top with soil and plant your veggies.
The advantages of a hugel bed are many, including:
The gradual decay of wood is a consistent source of long-term nutrients for the plants. A large bed might give out a constant supply of nutrients for 20 years (or even longer if you use only hardwoods). The composting wood also generates heat which should extend the growing season.
Soil aeration increases as those branches and logs break down… meaning the bed will be no till, long term.
The logs and branches act like a sponge. Rainwater is stored and then released during drier times. Actually you may never need to water your hugel bed again after the first year (except during long term droughts).
On a sod lawn we recommend cutting out the sod, digging a one foot deep trench and filling the trench with logs and branches. Then cover the logs with the upside down turf. On top of the turf add grass clippings, seaweed, compost, aged manure, straw, green leaves, mulch, etc…
This one here is a Garlic ” Huggie ” located in the Forest Park area of St. Louis.

Bill Gates has warned Australia to be ready for the next pandemic, which could be man-made and far more brutal.

Bill Gates At Lowy

It is of concern to me that a man with so much money should be investing so much of it into garnering influence and sway over the unelected bodies (WHO, media, academic, medical and scientific institutions) and getting politicians on board with a planned response similar to the one that has just cost billions of dollars and millions of lives for a virus no FOI request to any institution has yielded proof of existence.

I’m not saying the people who got sick from what they were told was Covid got sick from nothing. What I am saying is that not one single person or organisation has provided proof that Covid as such exists.

But if a man with so much money invested in vaccine manufacturers is going around the world beating the drum for a “brutal” and “man-made” virus when we know bioweapons labs exist (the US government admits to sponsoring 36 in Ukraine alone) are working on gain of function research and have failed safety inspections, then it behooves us mere mortals to take note and perhaps make sure our health is in tip-top shape and we are genned in on how to handle preventative and remedial measures.

 

How To Capture Rainfall

 How To Capture Rainfall

The world’s aquifers are being depleted at an alarming rate. So much so that some writers are predicting “water wars” as countries fight over scarce water resources. A better idea would be to improve our soil management to retain more rainfall.

Your Future Self

I once heard an interesting dissertation on whether the present causes the future or the future causes the present.

“That’s ridiculous!” I hear some say.

Is it? I mean, we all know that if you hit your thumb with a hammer you will get a sore thumb. The present act of missing the nail and striking the thumb will cause future pain in the thumb.

But what about the desire to eat something in the future necessitating you work today to earn money to buy food so you can eat tomorrow. Did not the desire to be eating tomorrow govern what you did with your time today? Does that not make tomorrow cause over today?

I raise this philosophical point to ask you whether or not you have consulted your 2033 future self lately about the sort of shape you would like to be in health and fitness wise in ten years?

Or maybe I should ease into that question by asking you what are you grateful for today that you did in the past?

Maybe it is worth some time to make a few notes on where you would like to be in 10 or 20 years time with regards your health and fitness. What you would like to be capable of doing with your body.

I sometimes say to youngsters, “Ask your parents, aunts and uncles the degenerative diseases from which they suffer and, if they had their time over again, what lifestyle changes they would make to prevent those conditions from manifesting.”

Maybe ask your future self if they would like to dodge those conditions. Because it’s a lot easier to prevent a problem than it is to fix one. Especially health problems. They are far easier to prevent than cure.

There’s more than one old saying that recognises this.

A stitch in time saves nine.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

I encourage you not to put off doing this exercise as life all too easily gets in the way. Right now open however you allocate times and tasks for yourself and make a note to consult your future self.

When you have done it, if I can be of any assistance in helping you attain your dietary goals, call or write me.

I can guarantee you without a shadow of a doubt your future self will be ever so grateful you did!