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The Butternut Circle: Whole Systems Management

With what started out as a conversation during the covid years with my neighbor and fellow permie, has turned into a passion; growing butternuts. Daniel told me you gotta grow them because of their semi hollow stem and squash vine borer. I had done so much growing in dry places of the world, where there…

Tree Crops Connections: Goats, acorns, and honey locust pods

Video Above of acorn foraging and goats, Courses – Treeyo Permaculture to learn more, and blog below When you read the tall tales of J. Russel Smith’s foundational work, Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture (1929), you ponder in awe these times of slower life, less energy access, and robust systems.  These systems consist of plants,…

Baby Goats and Newness, Perspective

Fall 2025 Kidding Season pics, blog below I have been rearing livestock here on our 60-acre generational family land long enough now that I am starting to forget some of the names and lineages of the goats.  However, every time one of these bundles of joy comes into being here at the organic farm from…

New Class

Teaching: Back to the roots of what inspired me to become an eco freak. Learning ecology and the incredible biodiversity of this area. Who knew that in the four-season part of the world, this neck of the woods is a champion in biodiversity, especially amongst trees and shrubs. So i want to light that spark…

Soulstice Acres Nursery

Same great evolving nursery and finally branding it!  Our plants bring soul to your landscapes and help create a sense of abundance, place, and love for the land.  We grow with homegrown compost produced by our holistic systems management. Edible Nursery – Treeyo Permaculture Nursery Offerings: Nursery Price Sheet: Availability wanes quickly on some, while…

Classes, Tree Planting, Nursery, and Farm

On the Eve of the Spring equinox and the warm late winter, our busy season got busy quickly! We are dwindling down on pruning and upping on mulching, propagating, and planting.  Seeing the grass grow, the trees bud, the birds return, it really is a special time of the year. Soon the apricot and plum…

Winter Orchard Garden Doings

I love winter and four-season climates for the simple factor of change; dynamic interactions.  The rhythm changes and evolves as the days shorten and lengthen through the seasons.  Oddly enough, winter is a time of year when the day length lengthens, so while it feels like a time to go inward and rest, which it…

Bareroot Plants for Sale: A vision come true

With what started off as conversations years ago and continuous hard work the last few, it’s time to sell some of our wonderful bare root berry plants produced here at Treasure Lake (Petersburg, KY). For years we built out the orchard garden and field nursery within it.  We procured plants from other nurseries and grew…

Next Course: Rasing Goats and Sheep Orgaincally on the Homestead

After so much success, and a few failures, over the years of raising livestock, I am ready to impart my bit into the world on raising sheep and goats organically on the homestead. Homesteading organically with Sheep and Goats Course – Treeyo Permaculture I am hoping to speed your process along and give you the…

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