Things have been going good on the farm, Saturday I graduate from my permaculture design course, I've got carrots coming out of my ears, the lizards are whoring around the neighborhood, my apple tree graft has sprouted along with the passion fruit vine, I have never eaten an artichoke, I'm counting my tomatoes before they're ripe, and my banana tree was showing some promise.
4 years ago I started a garden which led to a compost pile which lead to a couple fruit trees which lead to a grey water system which lead to permaculture. Saturday I will graduate from my permaculture design course, I have to say I am a changed person and better for it. If you want to change your life and the earth for the better I recommend taking a PDC.
Everyday for a month I've been pulling carrots out of the garden, I'm almost sick of carrots I'm thinking of pulling the whole patch out and giving them away. You wouldn't believe the strange looks you get from people when you offer them free carrots!
When we first moved into the house there were no fence lizards. It was really strange. When I was a kid I was professional lizard catcher, I had a 20 gallon aquarium full of fence lizards in my grandpas back yard. After 4 years of living here we have more fence lizards then you can count. I blame permaculture, if you hang out in the backyard for any amount of time, not only do you see giant fence lizards, you see alot of fence lizard sex. It starts out with a male latching onto a female by biting her tail, ( sound familiar)?
This has to be one of my proudest moments. Remember my apple tree graft, well it took and my Sundowner apple tree is finally growing.
The Passion Fruit Vine is flowering, it's the prettiest flower you'll ever see. The fruit is super sour, to be honest with you I don't even care about the fruit as long as these amazing flowers keep coming.
The Artichoke plants have taken off this year, to be honest I've never eaten an artichoke before, I've always enjoyed the flowers. This year I'm gonna eat one, how many do you see?
This years tomato crop is huge, I've got green tomatoes everywhere. Growing my own from seed was awesome. I know I shouldn't count my chickens before they're hatched but it's looking good out there. I also passed out a bunch of left over plants I had, to anyone who wanted them, and I'm getting positive reports back on those plants.
Finally my banana plant was doing great until the wind storm today which snapped the new leaf coming out of the main trunk. DAMMIT! Oh well it's still worth a BOOYAH!!
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