200 Acre Permaculture Project
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. […]
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. […]
Water: Slow it, Sink it, Store it, Save it
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 […]
Bokashi 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 […]
Regenerative Land Design
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 […]
Azomite for Soil Amendment
Minerals, water, living soil, plants, animals, atmosphere, community, stewardship, and structures: These are the topics we the staff of Symbiosis Regenerative Systems will have the honor of sharing with the reader in user-friendly ways in the coming articles each month. We specialize in designing and installing hyper-local, resilient, and nutrient-dense food gardens and permaculture orchards […]
Fertilizer and Minerals
“Fertilizer is too expensive, so we couldn’t buy it this year”: “We have 70 acres in Central, Texas, and over the past 3 years fertilizer costs have gone way up. It was $3000, then $4500, then they wanted $9000 this year. At this point it isn’t worth fertilizing or irrigating.” -Anonymous farmer- I have heard […]
Keyline Geometry and Keyline Plowing
Keyline Geometry and Keyline Plowing Geometry and water harvesting? How are these related? I’ve been working in the field of land regeneration for the past decade and to be honest Keyline geometry was quite confusing for me to understand before I acquired a keyline plow and began using it in the Central Texas Hill country. […]
VIDEO: Food Forest Tour
In this video on the Symbiosis YouTube channel, Mike Wolfert takes us on a brief food forest tour of a Central Texas homestead. This food forest includes 5 berms and swales on contour with tons of fruit trees, pollinator plants, herbs, medicinals, and more. Some of the plants included in this post oak savannah food […]
VIDEO: Water Resilience Near Brenham, Tx
In this video, Mike Wolfert discusses some of the water resilience features being built into a project near Brenham, Texas.
