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. […]
How To Specialize In Land Regeneration For Central Texas?
In this video we give a brief explanation for what we do at Symbiosis and what makes us Permaculture & Land Regeneration Specialists in Central Texas. We are passionate & motivated. We take pride in our work. We are experienced and dedicated. We apply a balance of experienced practicality with vision and creative problem solving. […]
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 […]
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. […]
Fertilizers and Minerals, The Crux Of Our Food Security?
“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 […]
Symbiosis Regenerative Systems
Texas Permaculture & Regenerative Land Management Specialists We help our clients to create resilient, abundant, biodiverse homesteads, ranches & farms using cutting edge permaculture design & regenerative agriculture techniques! Symbiosis offers the benefit of years of hands-on experience, a wealth of lessons learned, context-specific creative problem solving and high quality customer service. Whether you want […]
Chop & Drop Made Easy For Texas Homesteaders
Chop and drop is a term coined by permaculture guru Geoff Lawton, and describes the act of creating passively-composting mulch in place while pruning and weeding. In this video, Mike shows us how he chops and drops ragweed, a pernicious, fast-growing weed common to Central Texas that many people are allergic to. It’s good to […]
