Miniature Worlds: The Adult Playground for Ecological Thinking Remember when you were a child, building entire worlds in sandbox corners or arranging elaborate action figure (or dollhouse) scenes? Your childlike creative spark never left you. It just went underground, waiting for the right moment to resurface. What if I told you that spark could build real worlds now? Not imaginary ones, but actual living ecosystems that sustain themselves, teach you profound ecological principles, and fit...
12 days ago • 6 min read
How to Make Compost: The "on Steroids" Chicken Method to Make Compost Is it impossible to delegate compost making to the chickens? No, chickens can be deployed to make compost for you. It is a system that is guaranteed to work, and you can apply it at scales from small to commercial. They shoulder the hardest part of compost making, sparing you from doing some lifting or having to buy a machine, while producing eggs and allowing you to breed your own chickens. This is a flywheel in which we...
19 days ago • 7 min read
How To Make Compost - The Simplest Easy Method to Make Compost in 18 Days There are so many different ways of composting, but we try to keep things as simple as possible. There is a method as simple as it gets that is also effective, making rich compost in only 18 days - I call it Jet Fuel Hot Composting. Bill Mollison, the father of Permaculture, created this recipe based on his whole life experience. It’s a foolproof method. The great thing about jet fuel hot composting is that there are...
26 days ago • 7 min read
From Garden Hobbyist To Regional Food Producer (the long term game) Today, the only way to save our home planet is by producing what we need to live while taking care of it. However, farming and agriculture are destroying the planet, and consumerism is stoking the fire. It seems that we are trapped, because we are relying on the very thing we need to survive that is going to cause our destruction. The solution is both radical and simple, and it is right in front of us. We must save our home...
about 1 month ago • 8 min read
How to Operate the Advanced Duck Flywheel (The Anti-Fragile Duck Flywheel) - Part 3 So, you’ve designed your advanced duck flywheel with aquaponics integration, nursery coupling, or breeding modules from Part 2. You probably feel excited about the potential, but also slightly overwhelmed. The system looks sophisticated on paper, but how do you actually run it day-to-day? How do you manage seasonal changes? What happens when something goes wrong? The solution is to create operational rhythms...
about 1 month ago • 7 min read
The Advanced Duck Flywheel That Makes Beginners Look Like Experts - Part 2 Last week, we uncovered the Minimum Viable Duck Flywheel that transforms slugs from expensive problems into profitable assets using just 50m² and 4 ducks. But here’s what medical training taught us about systems: the most elegant solutions are modular and scalable. What if your duck flywheel could stack additional functions without requiring expert-level skills? What if the same system that eliminates slugs could also...
about 2 months ago • 7 min read
How to Turn Garden Slugs Into Your Most Valuable Asset (It Feels Illegal) - Part 1 Every spring, the same conversation happens in gardening groups worldwide. Someone posts a photo of slug-devastated seedlings with the caption: “What can I do about slugs?” The responses are predictable: beer traps, copper tape, diatomaceous earth, iron phosphate pellets, midnight slug hunts with flashlights. Each solution requires ongoing purchases, endless labor, or both. Most gardeners resign themselves to...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
The High-Agency Gardeners (How To See Opportunities Where Others See Obstacles) No one is at fault for holding onto things that seemed to work, but now we have accumulated enough evidence that we must change to thrive. “You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it.” That’s why you keep having the same setbacks and problems with your garden—snails, drought, plants withering away. You keep trying “new” solutions that are actually the same inefficient approaches that were, in...
2 months ago • 6 min read
Water Safety Measures for Your Backyard (Strategic Water Reserve for Any Garden Endeavor) Part 3 Don’t build a death trap. Bodies of water above your head can hold tons of liters of water, which equals tons of kilograms. If their walls break, you are going to be smashed and washed away. In a home garden, people usually don’t deal with this dimension of swales, water tanks, ponds, and dams, but you could face blowouts in your system. Catching water to create a strategic water reserve is...
2 months ago • 6 min read