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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Is Keyline Geometry and Keyline Plowing A Powerful Land Regeneration Tool?
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. […]
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 […]
