Workshops

Workshops on Kumbartcho Farm

It all starts with the water.

One of the new workshops we have created is working with the laser level learning how to create the swales for maximum water retention.

Looks easy, but can be quite tricky until you understand the way to move the soil so that you get water retention on both sides of the swale. Easy when you know how.

Biodynamics and BD500

Once you have sorted out the water, learning about Biodynamics and how to regenerate the landscape is beneficial to the state of the soils. Increase the soil carbon content, microbial activity and worm population.

Get you cowhorns ready.

Increasing Grass and Tree Diversity

Wrap your head around Syntropic Gardening, chop and drop. The tried and true way of increasing your ground cover. Remove those bare patches in the landscape. Not by doing more work, but working with the land the way Nature looked after the place before we got seduced by Big Ag and chemicals.

The S.T.U.N. Principal.

This one was pinched from Mark Shepard. It was that good I had to repeat it a number of times, to make sure I remembered it. Shear Total Utter Neglect.

It is a principal that he uses to develop the best trees, cattle, grasses and vegetables for his location. He oversows or overgrows, and whatever survives even though neglected becomes the source for next generation.