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I don't think that would bother anybody today.

We're going to be talking about the high cycle homestead or the high cycle approach today. And I don't know if anybody else has been throwing that term around.

I'll tell you where the idea for today's episode came from.

I am currently working on the Biochar course for home food systems. And as I do that, I work

through chapter by chapter by chapter. And Biochar is one of the elements that you can bring into

a homestead that really needs this approach.

So I have a whole chapter, and it just happened.

I was working on that chapter yesterday called the high cycle approach, meaning that instead

of making biochar and throwing it in the garden, for instance, we make biochar, then maybe

we put it in our pantry and we use it in a bin that we're storing something

like onions or apples in. And that actually extends the storage life of the food. And then maybe it

goes from there to the coop into the bedding. And then it performs a function in the bedding. And

then it goes from the bedding into the compost. and then it goes from the compost into the garden.

So it ends up in the same location, but it has to take a longer path through, and therefore it does more work.

Now, I know some of you might be like, this sounds like function stacking.

And it might be a little bit semantics to say there's a difference, because I don't know that there really is, but I can give you an example of a function stack that is not

a higher cycle method.

So that would be if we put in a pergola and we put some sort of food vining crop on it, and it grows up the

pergola and it provides shade in the warm season, and then the leaves fall off, and it lets sun

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