#regenerativeag — Public Fediverse posts

Today was our first test-breeding with two of our doe rabbits! If the temps aren't too high for the males to be producing fertile sperm, then in a little less than a month we'll be welcoming our first kits to the Ranch.

Next week we're also expecting another baby chick -- our current broody hen is sitting on two eggs, but based on the last candling it looks like only one developed an embryo but was developing on track despite the heat, so we're optimistic! This is not the same broody that successfully mothered our other two new chickens, so we're holding our breath to see if she does a good job come hatching time.

#Farming #ClosedLoop #Sustainable #Sustainability #RegenerativeAg #SmallFarm #Permaculture #Homestead #CommunitySovereignty

📰 Ugandan Coffee Growers Shrug Off Drought Thanks to Regenerative Agriculture

🗒 "Practitioners of regenerative ag not only grow crops, but grow the topsoil through a mixture of mulching and cover cropping, or growing complimentary, non-food plants throughout the field."

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/ugandan-coffee-growers-shrug-off-drought-thanks-to-regenerative-agriculture/

#regenerativeag #regenerativeagriculture #permaculture #gardening #farming

📰 Ugandan Coffee Growers Shrug Off Drought Thanks to Regenerative Agriculture

🗒 "Practitioners of regenerative ag not only grow crops, but grow the topsoil through a mixture of mulching and cover cropping, or growing complimentary, non-food plants throughout the field."

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/ugandan-coffee-growers-shrug-off-drought-thanks-to-regenerative-agriculture/

#regenerativeag #regenerativeagriculture #permaculture #gardening #farming

We are officially back on WWOOF! We are accepting inquiries for visits beginning in September of this year and through May of next. We'd love to see you if you're interested in learning more about land stewardship, food production, or permaculture-based cultivation.

https://wwoofusa.org/en/host/53202

#WWOOF #RegenerativeAg #Rewilding #Community #CommunityFarm #Farm #Farming #Organic #FoodSovereignty #Gardening

We are officially back on WWOOF! We are accepting inquiries for visits beginning in September of this year and through May of next. We'd love to see you if you're interested in learning more about land stewardship, food production, or permaculture-based cultivation.

https://wwoofusa.org/en/host/53202

#WWOOF #RegenerativeAg #Rewilding #Community #CommunityFarm #Farm #Farming #Organic #FoodSovereignty #Gardening

We just released this season's Quarterly Update a bit early for the Solstice, as there is a lot going on in the next few weeks and we'd like the time to focus on Solstice prep and Practice in the time we will have.

https://rancholibertad.com/quarterly-updates-a-season-of-rest/

We appreciate, as always, all of you who are joining us in this journey and especially those of you who are supporting us in doing the work on the ground. If you benefit from reading anything we write, please consider subscribing at the paid tier for not only lots of additional value but also to help support our work. If you claim to care about #LandBack or #Indigenous sovereignty there's really no better way to do it than putting your money where your mouth is and supporting land stewardship efforts in place!

*Edit: typo

#MutualAid #CommunityResilience #Community #RegenerativeAg #Farming #Sustainability #ClimateJustice #Sovereignty

It's that time again! We would love to do another Quarterly Q&A if any of our paid subscribers have questions for us to answer in-depth! If you have them, please email them to us at [email protected] by 6/15 at the latest. If we don't receive any questions I will likely send out to our paid subscribers this month what I had planned for next month's paid post, which will remain a secret until such a time as it is meant to be revealed!

Thank you, and we look forward to reading your questions!

#RanchoDeLaLibertad #QA #Sustainability #ClimateJustice #RegenerativeAg #Homesteading #Permaculture

Welcome to Talking Tree Farm 🌿—a living poetry of soil, waste, and food sovereignty. Every cycle feeds our community and heals the earth. Join the dance! https://agroecologymap.org/l/453 #Agroecology #Permaculture #FoodSovereignty #Sustainability #RegenerativeAg

Welcome to Talking Tree Farm 🌿—a living poetry of soil, waste, and food sovereignty. Every cycle feeds our community and heals the earth. Join the dance! https://agroecologymap.org/l/453 #Agroecology #Permaculture #FoodSovereignty #Sustainability #RegenerativeAg

Discover the Nico Roozen Center: a poetic agroecological oasis 🌱 where permaculture, food sovereignty, and sustainability bloom. Regenerating soil, water, and life through diverse crops, livestock, and agroforestry 🌿💧🐄 https://agroecologymap.org/l/538 #Agroecology #Permaculture #RegenerativeAg

Discover the Nico Roozen Center: a poetic agroecological oasis 🌱 where permaculture, food sovereignty, and sustainability bloom. Regenerating soil, water, and life through diverse crops, livestock, and agroforestry 🌿💧🐄 https://agroecologymap.org/l/538 #Agroecology #Permaculture #RegenerativeAg

I'll also crosspost this with the updated figures from today's harvest for those of you interested. Since January first, we've produced on-site:

111 dozen eggs (that's 1,336 eggs approximately)
175.25 pounds of meat
21 pounds of vegetables
16.5 pounds of lard
7 pounds of animal fodder

This does not count the 100 or so pounds of unrendered fat in our freezer, nor does it count almost all of our spring crops that have yet to come to harvest (only the early season ones that we already harvested). We've given lots away, and we have lots in our freezer and canned for later.

Our inputs are minimal: once a year we make a bulk organic animal feed order, we use some well water, and I did order seeds last year (though often I save them from our own vegetables). No fertilizers, no mineral inputs, no purchased soil, no pots, no trays, no tilling, nothing. We've transformed about a half acre or so (and growing) of our six acres of previously landfilled, compacted, and completely soil-collapsed land into cultivable soil. It's taking time, but the momentum is building and it's getting easier every season to rebuild topsoil and produce more on-site with less inputs.

#RegenerativeAg #Permaculture #Farming #Homesteading #Food #SmallFarm #IndigenousOwned #Decolonize #IndigenousAgriculture #FoodSovereignty

I'll also crosspost this with the updated figures from today's harvest for those of you interested. Since January first, we've produced on-site:

111 dozen eggs (that's 1,336 eggs approximately)
175.25 pounds of meat
21 pounds of vegetables
16.5 pounds of lard
7 pounds of animal fodder

This does not count the 100 or so pounds of unrendered fat in our freezer, nor does it count almost all of our spring crops that have yet to come to harvest (only the early season ones that we already harvested). We've given lots away, and we have lots in our freezer and canned for later.

Our inputs are minimal: once a year we make a bulk organic animal feed order, we use some well water, and I did order seeds last year (though often I save them from our own vegetables). No fertilizers, no mineral inputs, no purchased soil, no pots, no trays, no tilling, nothing. We've transformed about a half acre or so (and growing) of our six acres of previously landfilled, compacted, and completely soil-collapsed land into cultivable soil. It's taking time, but the momentum is building and it's getting easier every season to rebuild topsoil and produce more on-site with less inputs.

#RegenerativeAg #Permaculture #Farming #Homesteading #Food #SmallFarm #IndigenousOwned #Decolonize #IndigenousAgriculture #FoodSovereignty

This month's newsletter release for paid subscribers is a compilation of the six biggest things we think you need to consider before going off on your homesteading, permacultur-ing, or back-to-the-land-ing dream.

While this might sound corny, we see you. We know that lots of you are disillusioned with the polycrisis and the economic and social institutions we live under and you wish for either sovereignty or an exit from capitalism or just to get out of your day job (or all three). Alternatively, we see those of you who are just trying to figure out how to reduce your own impact while seeking to solve some of the more structural issues, because let's face it: there is a possibility that all we can do is what *we* can do, because we know that the powers-that-be really might not care that we need change.

So we sat down and thought about what mistakes we made, and what mistakes others make, and what it is that people are ultimately looking to do when they try to get into a life like this. The result is useful, we think, and we hope that if you can spare $5 you'll look into it. Any contributions help us with our own sovereignty project, and help us feed others, and help us rewild this section of the Mojave and (we hope) a big enough section to make meaningful microclimate impacts one day.

If you read it, or contribute in any way, or share it, thank you very much. We appreciate you, and you're helping to keep us going.

#RanchoDeLaLibertad #RegenerativeAg #Rewilding #Homesteading #Permaculture #IndigenousOwned #Decolonize #ClimateJustice #ClimateAction #ClimateChange #Polycrisis #FoodProduction #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity

https://rancholibertad.com/6-things-to-consider-before-you-even-think-about-homesteading/

This month's newsletter release for paid subscribers is a compilation of the six biggest things we think you need to consider before going off on your homesteading, permacultur-ing, or back-to-the-land-ing dream.

While this might sound corny, we see you. We know that lots of you are disillusioned with the polycrisis and the economic and social institutions we live under and you wish for either sovereignty or an exit from capitalism or just to get out of your day job (or all three). Alternatively, we see those of you who are just trying to figure out how to reduce your own impact while seeking to solve some of the more structural issues, because let's face it: there is a possibility that all we can do is what *we* can do, because we know that the powers-that-be really might not care that we need change.

So we sat down and thought about what mistakes we made, and what mistakes others make, and what it is that people are ultimately looking to do when they try to get into a life like this. The result is useful, we think, and we hope that if you can spare $5 you'll look into it. Any contributions help us with our own sovereignty project, and help us feed others, and help us rewild this section of the Mojave and (we hope) a big enough section to make meaningful microclimate impacts one day.

If you read it, or contribute in any way, or share it, thank you very much. We appreciate you, and you're helping to keep us going.

#RanchoDeLaLibertad #RegenerativeAg #Rewilding #Homesteading #Permaculture #IndigenousOwned #Decolonize #ClimateJustice #ClimateAction #ClimateChange #Polycrisis #FoodProduction #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity

https://rancholibertad.com/6-things-to-consider-before-you-even-think-about-homesteading/

Outback innovation or just fancy goat herding? Farmers in WA built a 9km-long solar-powered smart fence trap on Murchison Station to quietly nab thousands of feral goats. Low-stress mustering via smartphone-closed gates, protects fragile landscapes from overgrazing, and the goats get sold for meat. Pays for itself in 5 years.
Feral goats are declared pests wrecking ecosystems, so this beats choppers + bikes for animal welfare + planet points. Nature's lawnmowers turned profit?

#regenerativeag #feralgoat #sustainablefarming #outbackinnovation #animalwelfare

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-22/nine-kilometre-feral-goat-trap-murchison-station/106368604

Outback innovation or just fancy goat herding? Farmers in WA built a 9km-long solar-powered smart fence trap on Murchison Station to quietly nab thousands of feral goats. Low-stress mustering via smartphone-closed gates, protects fragile landscapes from overgrazing, and the goats get sold for meat. Pays for itself in 5 years.
Feral goats are declared pests wrecking ecosystems, so this beats choppers + bikes for animal welfare + planet points. Nature's lawnmowers turned profit?

#regenerativeag #feralgoat #sustainablefarming #outbackinnovation #animalwelfare

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-22/nine-kilometre-feral-goat-trap-murchison-station/106368604

Food forests flip the script on farming. Instead of constant inputs, they build living systems that renew themselves—soil gets richer, water stays longer, and food keeps coming. Canopy trees are the long-term anchors of this abundance.
#FoodForest #Permaculture #RegenerativeAg #OpenSource

Food forests flip the script on farming. Instead of constant inputs, they build living systems that renew themselves—soil gets richer, water stays longer, and food keeps coming. Canopy trees are the long-term anchors of this abundance.
#FoodForest #Permaculture #RegenerativeAg #OpenSource

Apparently chaotic gardening that is actually quite intentional:

We are digging the greywater channel deeper after adding a charcoal & rock base biofilter. This aims to reduce soil salting by minimizing water evaporation directly from the channel and forcing the water to be pulled *up* through the soil via the plant roots. Current seedlings in this basin are getting top water but when their roots can be expected to be slightly deeper they'll be left to only seek water from the saturated soil below. Initially I wanted to optimize for a proper floodplain but now I think intentionally incising the channel may be a strategy so long as matting roots can hold the bank against rains - we'll just have to see!

The squash mostly killed off by frost was pruned back, and the volunteer plants are frequently cut back and their stems used for mulch - you can see the slight mulch layer being built from vegetation in this site. The squash is trying to put on baby leaves again but the weather has been erratic so I'm fine if it just decomposes in place and doesn't come back, another round of beans, squash, and corn has been planted nearby and if the weather is conducive to getting a head start on the season we will have much more to harvest this fall.

The other side of the basin was seed blasted and is being mulched over with animal bedding and manure.

For this season this basin holds mostly cover crops sown for animal feed or milling, but when we can afford to we will be starting a series of trees in this basin to establish more permanent cover. Ultimately this will do more to avoid soil salting and nutrient loss, but for now simply establishing roots and working on soil restoration is a good start, especially where we can get a useful yield and bring down the cost to raise our animals.

#permaculture #earthworks #greywater #RanchoDeLaLibertad #Farming #SmallFarm #FoodSovereignty #NativeOwned #Indigenous #RegenerativeAg #Gardening

Apparently chaotic gardening that is actually quite intentional:

We are digging the greywater channel deeper after adding a charcoal & rock base biofilter. This aims to reduce soil salting by minimizing water evaporation directly from the channel and forcing the water to be pulled *up* through the soil via the plant roots. Current seedlings in this basin are getting top water but when their roots can be expected to be slightly deeper they'll be left to only seek water from the saturated soil below. Initially I wanted to optimize for a proper floodplain but now I think intentionally incising the channel may be a strategy so long as matting roots can hold the bank against rains - we'll just have to see!

The squash mostly killed off by frost was pruned back, and the volunteer plants are frequently cut back and their stems used for mulch - you can see the slight mulch layer being built from vegetation in this site. The squash is trying to put on baby leaves again but the weather has been erratic so I'm fine if it just decomposes in place and doesn't come back, another round of beans, squash, and corn has been planted nearby and if the weather is conducive to getting a head start on the season we will have much more to harvest this fall.

The other side of the basin was seed blasted and is being mulched over with animal bedding and manure.

For this season this basin holds mostly cover crops sown for animal feed or milling, but when we can afford to we will be starting a series of trees in this basin to establish more permanent cover. Ultimately this will do more to avoid soil salting and nutrient loss, but for now simply establishing roots and working on soil restoration is a good start, especially where we can get a useful yield and bring down the cost to raise our animals.

#permaculture #earthworks #greywater #RanchoDeLaLibertad #Farming #SmallFarm #FoodSovereignty #NativeOwned #Indigenous #RegenerativeAg #Gardening

We poured a lot into this new post on pigs, and who doesn't love learning more about these intelligent, sniffy, chonky beings? Check it out:

https://rancholibertad.com/on-pigs-and-integrating-new-allies/

There's a LOT going on right now including us potentially needing to give up the land and move. If you're capable of upping your subscription to the paid tier it's just FIVE dollars a month and it helps us out a lot. We also still accept donations through our (currently slightly neglected) co-owner's ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/sigillosacro. We're offering a lot of good stuff for free and we do it because it needs to be done but also any contributions help us justify the time and energy we're spending doing this instead of other things that could keep us afloat.

Anyway. Love you all, stay safe out there, and thank you for reading and sharing if you do!

#RanchoDeLaLibertad #RegenerativeAgriculture #FoodSovereignty #RegenerativeAg #Homestead #NativeSovereignty #IndigenousOwned #IndigenousSovereignty #Community #MutualAid #Pigs #Farming

We poured a lot into this new post on pigs, and who doesn't love learning more about these intelligent, sniffy, chonky beings? Check it out:

https://rancholibertad.com/on-pigs-and-integrating-new-allies/

There's a LOT going on right now including us potentially needing to give up the land and move. If you're capable of upping your subscription to the paid tier it's just FIVE dollars a month and it helps us out a lot. We also still accept donations through our (currently slightly neglected) co-owner's ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/sigillosacro. We're offering a lot of good stuff for free and we do it because it needs to be done but also any contributions help us justify the time and energy we're spending doing this instead of other things that could keep us afloat.

Anyway. Love you all, stay safe out there, and thank you for reading and sharing if you do!

#RanchoDeLaLibertad #RegenerativeAgriculture #FoodSovereignty #RegenerativeAg #Homestead #NativeSovereignty #IndigenousOwned #IndigenousSovereignty #Community #MutualAid #Pigs #Farming

🌱 Huxhams Cross Farm: 34 acres of biodynamic regenerative agriculture in Devon, UK. Agroforestry, mob grazing & crop diversity create a living lab where soil health, biodiversity & community wellbeing thrive together.

🗺️ https://agroecologymap.org/l/367
📱 https://agroecologymap.org/mobile

#Agroecology #RegenerativeAg

🌱 Huxhams Cross Farm: 34 acres of biodynamic regenerative agriculture in Devon, UK. Agroforestry, mob grazing & crop diversity create a living lab where soil health, biodiversity & community wellbeing thrive together.

🗺️ https://agroecologymap.org/l/367
📱 https://agroecologymap.org/mobile

#Agroecology #RegenerativeAg

Sorting through the grubs in the greywater basins, and loving the squash vines

#Chickens #Chooks #Chickenstodon #Poultry #ChickensOfMastodon #Farm #Homestead #RegenerativeAg #Permaculture

We finally have an update for you all on what has been going on here! This gives a little info on why we've been so distant, what we've been navigating, and some very exciting additions to the Ranch.

https://rancholibertad.com/quarterly-updates-awaiting-the-return-of-the-light/

I hope to share some very fun pictures of our new animal residents soon, and I feel like I have a lot to say about this season as a whole that I'd like to share here rather than in a longer form newsletter.

Please email us your questions if you'd like to participate in this quarter's paid sub Q&A. Last quarter we were able to give some very in-depth answers to wonderful questions, so if you have something pertinent to your own project or goals now is a great time to learn from our experiences! Paid subscribers have also been promised a gift for the Solstice season, and if you're one of them please send us your address so that we may send you some goodies from the land.

I hope to be more active here very soon, I wish to catch up on all of your posts and updates and be a little more participatory in this community. It is almost the season, we have one more push before we'll be settling back into a routine and having more leisure time.

#RanchoDeLaLibertad #Community #RegenerativeAg #Livestock #Animals #Farm #Homestead #IndigenousOwned #MutualAid #CommunitySovereignty

Another update! These are the same locations as the previous post in this thread. Beans setting, squash setting fruit, gorgeous glorious nitrogen fixation and groundcover - all fed from the rain we were blessed with and very little supplemental water.

#Gardening #Permaculture #Food #CommunitySovereignty #RegenerativeAg #Alt4Me