Shownotes
Kelly was a guest in Episode 28 on the Organic Gardener Podcast.
What to take when you start a permaculture farm on a budget.
Kelly and her family are moving to Panama to start a Permaculture retreat and learning center she plans to call the The Eco-Wellness Retreat or maybe The College of Well Being which would translate nicely as El Colegio del Bienestar!
3 KEY Things To Take:
1. The key line plow which is a subsoil soil ripper, that goes down underneath the surface, and it lifts up the surface and breaks the hard pan of the surface allows the big rain events to soak into the earth and recharge the whole water hydration system of the land. You cut the lines just slightly off contour about 1-4 degrees. It moves the water out to the ridge lines or out to where it’s dry form the gulley areas, so it slows or stops the erosion in the gully areas and it helps these big rain events to to spread out where it dry.
2. A tree transplanter. This enables you to go along the key-line and just drop trees in. You can plant trees, fruits & nuts, berry bushes, etc.
Geoff Lawton‘s property checklist … running water, hydro-electric … Some sort of a slope.
3. Bio-construction Materials – Natural Homebuilding materials.
Earthbag and Hyper-Adobe building materials.
Miscellaneous Items to Take:
Electric Fencing from Premier 1 Fencing both plug in and solar
Thinking about taking a generator.
Shade screen, bug netting will order in Panama.
Seeds from Heirloom-Organics
Handtools – shovels, tree trimmer/pruner etc.
1000 Japanese Serrated Sickles for Permaculture Crossfit!
SOIL SUPPLEMENTS: Bags of Diatamatious Earth
Aquaponics Supplies – Friendly Aquaponics
Chain Link Fence Bender
Water Filtration – Berkey Filter
Trowel for stuccoing
Tools for Butchering
Loom or Textile producer
Serger sewing Machine
Medical Supplies – The Herbal Medic
Food Storage – things you can eat or grow.
Want to have the tools to form a company to do this installation on anyone’s property down there. If I have my tree transplanter or key-line plow we can set up a food forest of coffee plantation anywhere. The principles of Permaculture is you do a Poly-culture stack system. So you have your coffee trees under your fruit trees, under your nut trees, and then all of your medicinal underneath and then all your annuals between these belts of food forest that are grown on contour, or around the perimeter of certain paddocks, where you have your animals in a paddock in rotating paddocks. Called Holistic grazing management, or paddock shift system, or mob grazing. Really helps you identify any problem and learn any criteria that can help you solve it. What elements can I or can I not change. And how to scale that.
Electricity – Windmill/Solar Panels
Egg cartons
Bed Mattresses
Furniture
Shower – poly tubing/poly weaving
Sprinkler system drip tape
Dehydrator
Sterilization Equipment – Pressure cooker/canner and canning jars
Mushroom Production Tools
River Rafting Rafts and Pulley Systems for a Zip Line
Fly-Fishing Gear
Snappy’s have some powerful air pellet guns since you can’t take guns and security is a risk. Security systems.
Most American phones don’t work down there, but they have phones that allow you to Skype. In town they have internet.
Books (able to bring books for education)
Solar lighting and outdoor showers
Glow stones or Glow-In-The-Dark Paint
Solar lights
Climbing shoes from Second Hand Store
Beehives, bee equipment – Michael Jordan the Bee Whisperer
Post and Beam work – crimper for putting wires
Warm clothes/and long sleeve collar shirts to protect from the sun
Other Resources Kelly and I Discuss:
Duolingo app for learning Spanish
Jack Spirco’s Duck Chronicles.
Permaculture Podcast interview with Ethan Hughes
Paul Wheaton from Permies.com using a solar powered chain saw.
Permaethos website – Plant Propagation Course
International Surgery – A great Podcast resource for this is Healthcare Elsewhere
Airbnb – Garden Wellness Center
Willie Smits Ted Talk on How to Restore a Rainforest (Borneo)
Permaculture Research Institute
Tek Supply for shade screen etc…
Connect with Kelly on Facebook at Permaglobal.com
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