What is up everyone? Kevin from Epic Gardening here. We are joined again in our final episode with

Brian from at Never Enough Dirt on Instagram. Highly recommend you check his feet out

and the story is some really good info there.

So today we're talking about permaculture gardening specifically in California, which is where

we both live, but the principles we're going to talk about are applicable anywhere

because permaculture is a philosophy that you use pretty much anywhere you live unless you live

I guess in Antarctica which hopefully none of you are listening

from Antarctica right now.

So Brian you had a quote that I really liked which was

harvesting sunlight and so could you kind of expand on that a little bit and explain what you mean?

Yeah, absolutely.

So basically, just the universe is just about the energy cycle and just transferring energy from one form to another and the sun provides a lot of energy.

We harvest it for solar energy to use as electricity. Plants use that to grow into things that produce us fruit and we can use plants to harvest the sun and we can use them to use as compost or green manure.

So in California we have a lot of the sun energy that we can harvest so if we plant every space we got with something we can use something out of it.

Yeah, totally. And so are you then doing green manure's anywhere that you have bare dirt that you're not cultivating actual edibles on or how are you approaching your green manure strategy?

If I have the ability strategy?

If I have the ability and time to get to every bare dirt, I would try to plant something, but we harvest weeds that we get for our pets, our ducks, and one other pet that we don't mention is our rabbit. He's like a little tiny goat and he he munes on weeds and turns out into manure for us.

And we're now getting into cuffle crops like buckwheat and crimson clover and just kind of so in there and also finding

plants that have wheat attributes like artichoke and they grow very easily here

and they can grow in our clay soil and if we don't get

art jokes out of them that's fine we're gonna take their dynamic accumulator

abilities and this is this concept where they have deep tap roots that go down to the ground, deeper in the ground

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