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 […]
Is Bokashi The Best Composting System?
Composting is an essential first step in providing perpetual fertility to your soil. All food scraps can be turned into plant food, which can be turned into more food for the family. Composting your food waste creates a circular system of growth, moving away from overly extractive relationships which have led to the generalized degradation […]
How Do We Start A New Regenerative Land Design?
We are going to share some of our design systems that empower us to find the right solutions to challenging problems in unique contexts. We work with a myriad of different types of clients, goals and properties that contain multitudes of diverse ecosystems. From high caliche hill country Juniper and Oak forests in the west, […]
Why Is Azomite One Of The Best Soil Amendments?
Minerals, water, living soil, plants, animals, atmosphere, community, stewardship, and structures: These are the topics we the staff of Symbiosis will have the honor of sharing with the reader in user-friendly ways through the articles we write. We specialize in designing and installing hyper-local, resilient, and nutrient-dense food gardens and permaculture orchards with nontoxic means. […]
Being Self Reliant: Preparing for a Low Energy Future
In Permaculture, the main goal of the movement is to prepare for a global low energy future. The focus is on our present communities (locally and globally) for long term survival and thrival. In order to achieve the goal, homesteads are the first priority. “Homestead” implies self sustaining livelihoods; growing own food, capture and using […]
GMOs, Heirloom Seeds, and Who Really Owns Your Food
We work with seed and soil for a living, and the GMO debate has been raging for years. Everyone has a hot take. So here’s where we land. Most of the GMO argument gets stuck on one narrow question: is the modified gene itself harmful to eat? On that narrow question, the major reviews are […]