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transitions coming my way

10 Monday Aug 2015

Posted by Dusty Lynn Baker in blog, Uncategorized

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2015, August, country, expanding, forest garden, gardening, gypsy, knowledge, learning, permaculture, pets, travel

As life changes so often for all, so goes it for me.  Now is a time that I find myself moving on from my little budding forest garden and back into my gypsy life on the road and traveling around our beautiful country.

A determined gardener, I have always, and will yet again, travel with a mini-garden, pets, and an eye for learning and expanding my knowledge of gardening and permaculture.

Launch date is August 19th!  Hope you’ll come along for the ride!

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teaching in the spring!

10 Monday Nov 2014

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flowers, forest garden, gardening, Good Earth Master Gardeners, Indiana, Miss Dusty's Impartation, permaculture, Purdue Master Gardener, Salem Homeschool Academy, spring, summer, teaching, vegetables, Washington County

I’ll be teaching a 9-week gardening course in the Spring!  Info for the course is from my teaching blog, Miss Dusty’s Impartation …

Gardening Course (ALL proceeds to charity!)

NEW!!!  With permission from the Purdue Extension Office, I will be teaching this course with all proceeds going to charity!  Fees for the course will be split 50/50 between Salem Homeschool Academy and Good Earth Master Gardeners (a Purdue University Master Gardener Program) of Washington County, Indiana.  So come out and support great local charities while improving on your own green thumb!

Offering Spring 2015!  Explore the basics of gardening and horticulture with a focus on Indiana climates.  Learn plant basics, soils, plant identification, fertilization and composting, propagation, diseases, pests, and how to create gardens, and even forest gardens, while promoting sustainability and permanence.  Students will be able to participate in hands-on learning labs culminating with an end-of-course field trip.

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love tip #6: get your knowledge on

13 Thursday Mar 2014

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Alaska, books, forest garden, hugelkultur, insomniac, knowledge, lifestyle, Mother Earth, Nook, permaculture, Peter Bane, Ross Mars, sustainability, The Basics of Permaculture Design, The Permaculture Handbook

As a relative newcomer to permaculture, gaining knowledge for me is a must.  I’ve always been frugal and concerned for Mother Earth, but this is the first time since leaving high school that I actually have the opportunity and intention to put at least five years of work into a set amount of acreage.  And although I plan to spend a year of the next five in Alaska, by setting fruit trees and hugelkultur (mound) gardening up, I can leave my property in the hands of someone else with just the care for perennials and animals once I have my bases established.

The Permaculture Handbook, Peter BaneForever the insomniac, my Nook is always at my bedside and ready for searches for new books and magazines to bring into my library.  One of my favorites is The Permaculture Handbook by Peter Bane.  Published in 2012, it has the knowledge of a permaculture pioneer with modern reflections on legal and other variables affecting modern organic farming and sustainability and forest farming.

My biggest take in the first year of farming my land?  Knowing how to begin and not getting too dedicated to a specific process.  While I of course have big dreams, Bane stresses keeping things close to the property’s existing buildings in the first years so as to keep the work close at hand.  And he says, if things do get left undone, don’t worry.  The seasons and other factors will start and stop projects as you develop, learn, change and grow with the process.

The Basics of Permaculture Design, Ross MarsSo, when you check it out, don’t get sticker shock!  The book is about $35 but it is also over 600 pages of in-depth knowledge from a renowned permaculturist and educator.

A second book in my favorites is The Basics of Permaculture Design by Ross Mars.  Although published earlier (1996), Mars focuses more on basics of sustainability within 160+ page length.

So get to it!  It’s never a better time than today to learn, practice and live the permaculture lifestyle.

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