Texas Hill Country, The Rise, Fall, and Repair: Regenerative Agriculture in Texas
The connection between humans and the land is a cycle of both giving and taking—a relationship that shapes our lives every day and will continue long after we return to the soil. Regardless of how we view our origins, we all depend on the earth. It’s where we build our homes, grow our food, and […]
Planting 3,000 Trees: A Hopeful New Beginning in Texas
Our Client Named This Project Arborgasm In the heart of Texas, a former olive farm is getting a fresh start. This 78-acre piece of land, once home to thousands of olive trees, is about to transform into a vibrant regenerative agriculture system. The journey begins with planting over 3,000 trees, aimed at restoring the environment […]
Texas Permaculture Gardening And Food Forestry Tips For March
March is when things really start getting exciting in Texas Permaculture Gardens! The official start of Spring is March 12th. Every year I feel a surge of energy, optimism and joy seeing my gardens come back to life after surviving freezing weather through dormancy. This Spring surge can be tricky to manage for multiple reasons. […]
Texas Permaculture Gardening And Food Forestry Tips For February
On February 1st there is a transition from the first half of Winter to the second. In Central Texas the second half of Winter can be a somewhat unpredictable time in terms of the weather. February will probably be the time of the last and most severe freeze of the Winter. Warm afternoons might lead […]
How To Revive An Overgrazed Pasture: 8 Simple Steps To Restore Health To Land
How to Revive an Overgrazed Pasture How Pasture Recovery Connects to Water, Soil, and Whole-Land Function Updated 2026. Part of the Symbiosis TX Education Hub on regenerative land management. Overgrazed pasture is not only a grazing problem. It is a water problem, a soil problem, and a systems problem. When grasslands lose cover and root […]
Texas Permaculture Gardening and Food Forestry Tips for January
In Texas Permaculture Gardens, we never really go fully dormant. There’s always something to do in your garden or food forest to help keep things an a good trajectory. One of the core philosophies on the care and maintenance of gardens at Symbiosis is that all the activities that need to be done to keep […]
What You Need To Know On Soil Amendment For Ultimate Success
Few elements are as critical to gardening success as soil amendments. “Don’t forget your fertilizer” is a great start, however, we can do more for our gardens than simply adding fertilizer. Let’s consider the elements that can help feed and develop your soil! Consider these qualities of a good amendment program for ultimate long term […]
Understanding Biodynamic Agriculture With Adam Russell – Where Hope Grows Podcast
Understanding Biodynamic Agriculture With Adam Russell – Where Hope Grows Podcast Join us for an insightful episode of the “Where Hope Grows” podcast, featuring Adam Russell, as the podcast delves into the world of biodynamic agriculture—a holistic farming approach that treats the farm as a self-sustaining ecosystem. Biodynamic agriculture, rooted in the early 20th-century teachings […]
Agnihotra & Land Regeneration with Adam Russell on the Strange Road Podcast
Mikey and Stoner get to finally reconnect with Adam Russell on this episode. We met Adam while working the 2018 Tribalize Event with our friend Chris. We were in between setting up for an interview and shooting a scheduled livestream when we saw Adam give a presentation about Agnihotra and Land Regeneration. Agni Hotra is […]
Structured Water, is it real and powerful or another scam?!
Water is water, right? Most people have heard of structured water but is it legit? We’ve done the research to try our best to help you decide for yourself… The water out of your tap and the water inside of the cells of your body and inside the cells of a plant are similar in […]
Seeding For Biodiversity and Endangered Species in Texas
As a brief review of the articles we’ve published lately, we’ve discussed the power of Basalt dust and Azomite as broad mineralizing solutions. The value of starting as high on your property as possible and slowing the water down so that it can sink into and be stored in your landscape. We have discussed the […]
Holistic Soil Health – Going Beyond NPK With Biochemical Sequencing
Saving money by understanding how to move beyond the NPK Paradigm Nitrogen – Phosphorous – Potassium (NPK) These are the names we are most familiar with when buying a fertilizer. The below method is how we save money and grow more nutrient dense crops that are less affected by insect and disease and have a […]
The Incredible Power Of EM1 In Soil Building
The harmonious interplay of beneficial microorganisms in healthy soil ecosystems facilitates the immune system of healthy plants. A balanced diversity of soil microorganisms mitigates the risk of soil-borne pathogenic diseases. Many soil microorganisms form synergistic relationships with each other and with plants, collectively breaking down organic matter into nutrient dense humus, activating biochemical hormones that […]
Learning Regenerative Land Design Principals That Really Work
This month we at Symbiosis Regenerative Systems care to share some of our design systems that empower us to find the right solutions. We work with a myriad of different types of client goals and properties that contain multitudes of diverse ecosystems. From high caliche hill country Juniper and Oak forests in the west, to […]
Look Inside A 200 Acre Permaculture Project in Texas
A brief overview with Michael Wolfert of what a master planned, 200 acre permaculture project in Central Texas involves. We’re using every tool in our tool box to achieve our key metrics of success. We’re using earthworks, keyline/ yeomans plow rips, no-till seed drilling, brush berms, log check dams, biodiversity plantings, rotational grazing and more. […]
Racing the rain to build this pond!
Time lapse video of our team racing the rain to build a 1/2 acre pond designed and built in collaboration with Pete VanDyck of Drought Proof Texas from 2018 in Brenham, Texas. We used a bulldozer and vibratory, sheep’s foot roller to build this pond in about 1.5 weeks. We were racing the rain to […]
How Toxic Is Round Up?
Have you ever had something in your home so toxic you actually could not dispose of it safely? Have you ever wondered what would happen if you were to come in direct contact with or even ingest something like that? Recently a client shared how they needed old barrels of Roundup removed from their property. […]
Land Regeneration Solutions for Central Texas
Land Regeneration in Central Texas: A Holistic Approach to Revitalizing Ecosystems At Symbiosis LLC, we specialize in land regeneration, focusing on restoring the natural balance of ecosystems in Central Texas. Since 2013, we’ve combined innovative permaculture design with advanced soil restoration techniques to create sustainable environments that thrive despite the region’s climate challenges. Our holistic […]
VIDEO: Protect Your Trees with Tree Cages (Deer Cages)
In this video we give a highly detailed explanation of how assemble your own Deer Cages. We’ve found this to be an essential component in establishing new plantings in the hill country and other parts of Texas where the deer are overpopulated and swoop in on new plantings. Watch the full video here:
Techniques For Broad Scale Water Conservation in Texas
In the Central Texas bioregion we have a flood our drought relationship with rain. So let’s practice some anticipatory design science and appreciate that the rains will come, and when they do, we will have anticipated their arrival and installed a variety of strategies to mitigate that rain so that it becomes an asset for […]