The Avalon Organic Gardens, Farm, and Ranch Report

We are back and we have settled in the Santa Cruz River Valley, also known by the natives as the ‘Palm of God.’  Our newest exciting project is greening the desert.  Check out this video (recently updated), created by Geoff Lawton, the director of the Permaculture Research Institute (PRI) of Australia.  There is no doubt that these methods are a solution to many of the problems created by industrialized society gone wild.  He connected us with Owen Hablutzel, the director of the PRI USA.  This Monday, we are going to have a phone conference with him to see if our ideas are reasonable and who might be interested in helping.  We are planning to catch rainwater from a huge runoff created as a result of bad development in the middle of pristine high-mountain desert.  We are expecting, during a one-inch monsoon rain, to receive millions of gallons of water on our property.  We are starting the first digging for our food forest this month.  The whole area will stretch over 3 acres, to begin with, and can be expanded into a 15-acre site.  In addition to the food forest, we would like to develop two ponds for aquaculture created by the excess runoff from the monsoons.  The fish fertilized created as a by-product will be channeled into existing vegetable gardens below.

Yesterday, we met with Chris Haynes, a soil conservationist with the National Resources Conservation Service.  Since we are planning major water conservation practices, we might qualify to get financial assistance from this agency.  It’s very exciting!

Stay posted and we’ll let you know how it goes.  If you are interested, call us right away.  Peace be upon you brothers and sisters.

-Tarenta and TaliSeen

Change Agents and Destiny Reservists