Black Sheep Rehab

🌱 Big News for Local Homesteaders! 🌱 Nick Ferguson — renowned permaculture designer, agroforestry expert, and the voice behind HomeGrownLiberty.comand RarePlantStore.com — is likely coming to consult on my farm as part of his Great American Tour: Summer 2025. If you've ever wanted him on your land, this is your window. He rarely makes it this far west — so if you're serious about water retention, food forests, silvopasture, or leveling up your land's productivity, this is a rare chance to get actionable insights from one of the top consultants in the field. 🚜🌾 📬 To schedule a visit, email Nick directly at nick@homegrownliberty.com with “Consulting” in the subject — and let him know Jack @white.horse.farm sent you. His tour just went out to the 300k+ audience of The Survival Podcast, and his slots won’t last long. Check his blog for details. Don’t have land yet? Or can’t swing a full-day consult? I’ll be offering a LIMITED number of auditor spots during his visit to my farm. DM me if you’re interested — details on timing and cost coming soon. Let’s grow a stronger homesteading community here in the Willamette Valley. 🤝 #YamhillCounty #YamhillCarltonAVA #WillametteValley #Permaculture #HomesteadPNW #NickFerguson #HomegrownLiberty #Agroforestry #RegenerativeFarming #FarmVisit #PermacultureDesign #HomesteadCommunity #Silvopasture #WaterManagement

Biochar burn this weekend. I keep wanting to build a retort to handle ongoing construction waste. But that’s a lower priority welding project, meanwhile the wood keeps piling up. Been doing small burns in the “best biochar kiln” to get a sense of how a burn goes. Stepping it up with a 3’x2’x12’ trench. The small amounts done so far have been awesome in the seed starter and garden this year. Time to up the scale. Did a property cleanup as we got into fall. 5 14’ dump trailer loads of wood run through a trench burn. Went quick, and burned hot. Less than 4 hours to burn through the lot. Even if I didn’t want the biochar, so much faster to burn that way than the traditional Agricultural burn pile. Quenched with 3 IBC totes of water. Need to find a good way to bulk crush it, mag sweep for metal and then screed it now. #grownostr #biochar #permaculture #yamhillvalley @jackspirko Jack you jerk, got me started down this biochar path. Now I have a better use for an existing waste stream.

GM All. Time for more digging. Working on doubling the size of my shop to create more storage space for the construction company and some parking below. This will free up the pad of my shop for more homestead projects. Then I’ll just need to free up some time. #construction #yamhillvalley #homestead #shop #construction