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[paul wheaton]

Owen Hablutzel will be making several guest appearances in my upcoming podcasts. He is part of Geoff Lawton's PRI USA team. Plus a certified Holistic Management educator (Alan Savory's stuff) and keyline guy.

This is a picture of a project that went from a huge expanse of cracked clay desert, to a field of weeds with doing nothing more than running a keyline plow on it. There is also a video of Owen giving a presentation at the international permaculture convergence in Jordan.



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[pebble]

Cool before and after photos!

From your link...

From the above video. Posted with permission from Owen (who is looking over my shoulder as I do this).

The land on the left was a conventional cotton farm for 30 years and then abandoned for 20.

Then it was keylined. No seed was planted. The second picture is a year after keylining.

Do you know what the rainfall is there Paul? (can't watch the vid at the moment).

[paul wheaton]

Nope. Owen ain't here right now. But it does look mighty dry.

[eco4560]

I love that video - watched it first after the Jordan meeting. But then I'm a bit of a geek and found all the science stuff on basins of attraction really interesting...

[Pakanohida]

Cool before and after photos!

From your link...




Do you know what the rainfall is there Paul? (can't watch the vid at the moment).

Montana, the Big Sky state get an average of 13.26" of rainfall per year but the state is so large I find this number to be inaccurate. Shame I can't follow the link due to ethics.

[paul wheaton]

As usual "pak", you are making errant assumptions and then presenting them as facts. I am grateful that our differing ideas on ethics keeps us typically apart and, thus, happier.

The picture is not from montana.

[Raymondo]

The picture says Southwestern NM so I guess Whirlwind Farm is in New Mexico.

[S.O.P]

For those with ethics issues:

PRI Link to the Video. It's a good speech, worth watching but from memory the cyclic system scared the hell out of me.

Owen was babysitting my kids but he said it was cool to post that link.

[Pakanohida]

The picture says Southwestern NM so I guess Whirlwind Farm is in New Mexico.

My bad; The average annual precipitation for New Mexico is 13.85". Even higher. Source: www.nationatlas.gov


Paul, I at least correct myself, & cite sources.

Sources such as:

Permaculture Designers Manual
1491
Edible Forest Gardens 1 & 2
Books by James Audubon & Henry David Thoreau

All of which you have claimed are too esoteric or wrong in your eyes with regards to Permaculture so I really don't care what you have to say. I am just glad you aren't a mod here.

[Pakanohida]

For those with ethics issues:

PRI Link to the Video. It's a good speech, worth watching but from memory the cyclic system scared the hell out of me.

Owen was babysitting my kids but he said it was cool to post that link.

Thank you.