Our end of the year report! Our planting season is March through November. Here's what we planted this year: 107 total!! From our own nurseries: transplanted, started from seeds: 3 Rocky mountain junipers 1 Argentina D'anjou Pear 1 Apricot 6 apples 4 Siberian C Peach (seeds were bought from a nursery in Kansas) 1 Asian Pear Plants purchased from Plants of the Southwest in Santa Fe: 2 Nanking cherry bushes 1 Kansas Hawthorne (Tooley's) 1 Hazelnut Rootstock from Willamette Vall

When we were deciding what sort of structure to build on our 3 acre homestead, we looked far and wide, considering our options, and...

Our deep apologies for not posting in some time! Summer is such a busy, busy time at LEGP! With Autumn here, we can reup our posts, and...

In the course of this thesis project, for the reasons described in the introduction, I have given more weight to the symbolic realm than...

Build an EcoHomestead and the People Will Come! As our overdeveloped civilization continues its downward spiral, an increasing number of...

Fruit Trees This pattern provides nutrition for both body and soul. Orchards give a sweet fragrance in the Spring and free food for...

Matysiak Pattern Language, Pattern 9-12 Site Repair Buildings must always be built on these parts of the land which are in the worst...

Matysiak Family Pattern Language Lists and Maps, Part 5 - 8 #5 Homestead Only fertile land in a social system can survive. The makeup is...

Matysiak Pattern Language Part 1 of 4 Selected Patterns from: A Pattern Language, as originally developed by Christopher Alexander, Sara...

Three Project Goals The drawing shows how our first goal of sufficiency, and our second goal of sustainability, give rise to our third...

Last blog we presented to you our Secondary Support Systems and discussed the use of electricity and fossil fuels within a paradigm of...

We have now presented to you all four of the Secondary Design Elements/Support Systems at Living Earth Garden Project. Before we move...

Composting In Practice Last time we looked at the principles of composting and viewed them as a form of alchemy. Now we will present how...

Creating Soil fertility through composting This installation of the practical blog is about Composting for Maintaining Soil Fertility....

Archetypal Symbols and the explanations of their meanings... NEW COLLEGE MANDALA This 6 petal flower design is based on the twin mantra...

Solar Showers! Solar showers will be a quick topic because, to be honest, we haven't made much progress on this design element. The Town...

These final design drawings were most similar to the kind of drawings I produced for EcoDwelling concentration assignments. They show...

About the time I finally realized that I needed to separate functions in my drawings, I was working at adapting the rough pattern...

Abstract Symbolic Design This process began with the creation of bubble diagrams, modeled after those presented in Designing Houses. The...

This is where our process began. As a family we developed a simple program based on the model presented by Lester Walker and Jeff...