This workshop was held in March. One of the participants came all the way from Reno, NV and has a great Permaculture website . We hope to schedule other hands-on workshops in the future. Since the workshop, we have planted fruit trees, herbs, and flowers in the front yard. We ended up growing grain since we used some hay from the local race track instead of all straw.
Drip irrigation is in place.
In 1999 we explored a method that seems to combine several techniques, biointensive gardening. We began the lengthy process of double digging garden beds. By of the end of May 1999, two 30 foot beds had been dug and one bed was planted. Several more have been laid out. A third bed was rototilled and planted with corn at that time.