A Permaculture Lens: Learning to See the 12 Principles in All Things
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Permaculture is a design system which utilizes 12 guiding principles to help us craft more resilient, harmonious ways of living.
I would love to know what else you feed your chickens aside from scraps. Good to know that you can bury your bones! I'll be doing the same once the ground thaws!
My dogs are raw fed, so I am really scared of them finding and eating cooked bones. I use David Holmgrens solution of burning the bones after I have used them for bone broth. He reccomends having a bonefire (where the word bonfire comes from) a couple of times a year and burning them for about half an hour. We have a wood burning stove, so all winter I just throw the cooked bones in with the wood. It’s facinating to watch the bones burn; they burn just like wood! After burning you can break them up more with a hammer if you wish. Or just throw them out with the rest of the ashes. I use my ashes in the garden.
Korean natural farming also has a technique for repurposing stock bones into a liquid calcium phosphate solution used mainly as a foliar spray for plants going through the flowering/fruiting growth phase.
I didn't know you could just bury the bones as is – cool! Any tips for those of us whose ground is frozen for half the year? 🤔 I still haven't found any good resources for year-round rainwater and snow harvesting either. I'd like to figure out a solution (or solutions) to keep moisture on my property year round, and rain barrels seem like they have to be retired once it's too cold, even though in my climate we get major melts in the middle of winter and I end up losing so much of that melted snow! 😕
Super timely. I'm teaching my daughter permaculture & we are talking about "obtaining a yield" right now. I appreciate how you've added stacking functions in there too 🙂
"Obviously wishbone is for the kids." LOL
Can you do videos on ways to use the kitchen scraps that don't go into compost. Citrus rinds, meat, and such. I cringe when i throw into trash. I don't have animals.
I love processing old laying hens because there is so much yield from them. The eggs, the poop on the ground, the poop on the bedding in the coop for the compost bin, the meat (which I pressure can to make tender and the flavor is amazing!), then the schmaltz, the guts to the pigs, the bone broth, the feathers and blood for the soil, the organs, the list is extensive… so much goodness!!
I buried raw eggs under my tomato plants a couple years ago and a skunk – I think – dug them up. Have you ever had instances of buried bones etc being dug up by wily critters? I would love to do this in the future.
It's so satisfying to close loops like this. We started buying our bones last year and haven't looked back. The final frontier for waste other than unavoidable plastic films is finding a way to safely compost cat litter. We'll see.