I live in the Intermountain West that is suffering from extended droughts and home to the overextended Colorado River. Snowpack from the Colorado's Rocky Mountains serves 44% of the landmass of the Lower 48 states, which would make one think maybe the Centennial State ought to be federally protected as a water source for nearly half of the contiguous 48. We who survive what's coming economically and environmentally--the Deplorables and Dissidents of all stripes including people like me--a former Democrat who drank the Blue Kool-Aid before realizing it was propaganda extreme--will get to band together and decide once and for all that this country shall be a democracy of, by and FOR ALL of the PEOPLE, and not a playground for the despicable ruling elite. So thank you William, I loved reading what you have to say, and look forward to seeing more.
Here is a succession-rotation gardening plan (well tried) for climate zone 8A, also "Born on the 4th of July". It's on my pre-Substack blog, which is still active, but occasionally censored by Google.
Yours is the first Substack I have subscribed to (which means I did it wrong the first time and I don't think my original comment posted...). I am also reviving some land (though on a much smaller scale, only a little over an acre), but I look forward to reading about your process and progress. And I look forward to reading your posts on other topics, too. Happy birthday!
Ahhhhhh, thank you, I sense I have landed among "my people." Originally from Illinois in the wide-open and Forest "Preserved" Chicago 'burbs, I now, and have for 30 years, live in Oregon's Willamette Valley. This place, this land was, for me, a paradise for decades. Temperate rainforest and mountains and oceans and rivers, lush and fecund, and benevolent. It is early September and my beautiful gardens, lovingly tended and amended over 30 years, look like a Colossus came through with a flame thrower. We posted our hottest August on record. It is scorched and I and the trees and the creatures of earth and air and water are grieving. I just had 2 units of mulch delivered this morning and will get to work covering this earth I tend; my miserable, parched, desiccated earth. I, too, Thornburg, am a former. It is painful to wake up from the dream. And liberating.
Thanks for this! I wil be following your journey. Especially interested in hearing how you revive those 80 acres and build a home. A lot of the things you mentioned might be beyond the influence of an individual, but doing what you can with what you have is powerful magic, indeed.
I live in the Intermountain West that is suffering from extended droughts and home to the overextended Colorado River. Snowpack from the Colorado's Rocky Mountains serves 44% of the landmass of the Lower 48 states, which would make one think maybe the Centennial State ought to be federally protected as a water source for nearly half of the contiguous 48. We who survive what's coming economically and environmentally--the Deplorables and Dissidents of all stripes including people like me--a former Democrat who drank the Blue Kool-Aid before realizing it was propaganda extreme--will get to band together and decide once and for all that this country shall be a democracy of, by and FOR ALL of the PEOPLE, and not a playground for the despicable ruling elite. So thank you William, I loved reading what you have to say, and look forward to seeing more.
Here is a succession-rotation gardening plan (well tried) for climate zone 8A, also "Born on the 4th of July". It's on my pre-Substack blog, which is still active, but occasionally censored by Google.
https://www.johndayblog.com/2016/07/liberty-garden-central-texas-climate.html
Yours is the first Substack I have subscribed to (which means I did it wrong the first time and I don't think my original comment posted...). I am also reviving some land (though on a much smaller scale, only a little over an acre), but I look forward to reading about your process and progress. And I look forward to reading your posts on other topics, too. Happy birthday!
Nice to see you're back since I used to read your old blog back in 2011.
Great read, looking forward to more.
Ahhhhhh, thank you, I sense I have landed among "my people." Originally from Illinois in the wide-open and Forest "Preserved" Chicago 'burbs, I now, and have for 30 years, live in Oregon's Willamette Valley. This place, this land was, for me, a paradise for decades. Temperate rainforest and mountains and oceans and rivers, lush and fecund, and benevolent. It is early September and my beautiful gardens, lovingly tended and amended over 30 years, look like a Colossus came through with a flame thrower. We posted our hottest August on record. It is scorched and I and the trees and the creatures of earth and air and water are grieving. I just had 2 units of mulch delivered this morning and will get to work covering this earth I tend; my miserable, parched, desiccated earth. I, too, Thornburg, am a former. It is painful to wake up from the dream. And liberating.
I am glad you are doing what makes you happy.
Thanks for this! I wil be following your journey. Especially interested in hearing how you revive those 80 acres and build a home. A lot of the things you mentioned might be beyond the influence of an individual, but doing what you can with what you have is powerful magic, indeed.
Happy birthday William.
Gardeming and writing are sacred acts. God bless you.