Permaculture PDC

I am sitting in my Permaculture Design Course and digressing at the moment. I need some goofing off. Wayne just gave a working definition of the term: the conscious placement of plants, animals and humans and how they live and what they do in functional relationship in the landscape. Works for me.

WHODAT?

I should be in bed right now. This week was intense as I tried to tie up loose ends before leaving tomorrow for my 8 day Permaulture Design certification course. I've had studying and webinars to do in preparation. I slammed out the numbers and a cover letter for the ag component of a renewable energy /ag grant proposal. If it flies we get to do a feasibility study on running 40 beef and 40 sheep across pasture followed by 1000 broilers in chicken tractors and 500 hens in egg mobiles! A grazier's dream if I ever did see one....[imagine "Cripple Creek" by The Band playing in the background]

But I guess I shouldn't count chicken tractors before they're skidding across the pasture.

This is going to be short and sweet. I just gotta say one thing before I sign off: WHODAT?!

To Everyone in New Orleans is celebrating Lombardi Gras this year!

Research Groupee

Hartman Group , a consumers research group loves the return of the local butcher in their "Big Ideas, Things We Like" report on 2010 trends.http://www.hartman-group.com/big-ideas/view/.

Who'd'a thunk that Farmer Paul was a trendsetter?

Icelandic Sheep Farm Field Trip + Lamb Recipes

We are researching lambs to purchase this spring. We ran into Laurie from The Lavender Fleece at the Small Farm Conference. http://www.lavenderfleece.com/ She raises Icelandic Sheep for fiber and meat. I see a field trip on the horizon. Want to go?

Laurie's website had a link to a cool blog with great lamb recipes. Check out this yummy sounding dish of Onion and Herb-crusted lamb ribs and grilled lamb steaks at http://foodiefarmgirl.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-to-cook-lamb-onion-herb-crusted.html. Great site with links to other wonderful blogs about raising and preparing our own food. Stay tuned as I learn more about how to do that on this site.