The 2012 Permaculture Lecture Tour

[...] to seeing John Hiatt in concert.  I think John Hiatt is probably my favorite singer/songwriter after Bob Dylan.  Once when I spun out real bad on a [...]

[...] leaving Coast RV with our motorcoach in order, we headed to Fallbrook (sort of between LA and San Diego).  To get there, I had to drive on or by all the legendary LA freeways and streets I had heard [...]

[...] forward of the wheels, but offered that I would get used to it by the time we reached San Diego.  As soon as we set out, [Odometer: 63,395.7    Mileage: 0] I knew the Land Whale would [...]

[...] down the legendary Highway 101 to Coast RV to get the Land Whale serviced before we head to San Diego and then east to Phoenix.  Larry Thompson, the owner, allowed me to talk my way in to a service [...]

[...] better. If you are ever in Oroville, get something produced on the Chaffin Family Orchard farm operation and tell me if you don't agree they have latched on to something with some real bottom to it. [...]

[...] understand that their work is a knitting together of organisms in a way that forms a farm operation that produces abundant, healthy, tasty food.  The basic layout of their farm begins with [...]

[...] farm.  Today the bees (feral bees of naturally occurring stock) are a prominent part of the Farm operation and are doing well. Jacqueline needs a ladder to visit her "tree bees" Friendly [...]

[...] south and east.  I am writing this from the deck of the Land Whale docked here at the Chaffin Family Orchard outside of Oroville, California. I am in need of a little not-driving time to myself.  [...]

[...] While at the Chaffin Family Orchard Farm, and while I was taking some time for myself away from the group, I noticed a field [...]

[...] of the Land Whale After Larry headed home it was time to head West with the next part of the Permie Tour 2012.  It was over to the Coast to visit Steve Hekeroth near Albion, California. To get there [...]

[...] on the basis of a brother or a sister saying, "he/she is with me."  My band of Permie Tour 2012 folks  appeared with me and Jean said, "Welcome!"  We got dinner and [...]

[...] to head West with the next part of the Permie Tour 2012.  It was over to the Coast to visit Steve Hekeroth near Albion, California. To get there means crossing the Central Valley of California, no [...]

[...] and before I knew it, a lot of my snooze time had happily disappeared. Before we all left for Big Paul's presentation in Oceanside, our host, Paul, gave Eivind and me a tour of his property and the [...]

[...] recently slaughtered chickens to go in the freezer to be eaten over the winter. Starting with Big Paul (who was wielding a knife) and moving clockwise, we see Eivind (our fellow traveler) loading [...]

[...] long for Taco Del Sol on Higgins Avenue in Missoula.  They know how I like my fish tacos. Jimmy Pardo at the Cafe' Mundo As soon as he walked in the door, Jimmy spotted the stage and a [...]

[...] what he has to teach.  Upon leaving at long last, we picked up the last member of the tour, Jimmy Pardo, the guy who makes the outstanding music for Paul's videos.  It has been great traveling with [...]

[...] Pass and into the Big Sky Country.  Through the smoke of late season forest fires,  I showed Eivind Montana's beauty where it should have been. The Land Whale is parked on the street where I usually [...]