March 10, 2024 - Voles! Voles! Voles!

Early blooming for stone fruits this year
It’s lambing season on the west coast
- Mostly twins
- 1 set of triplets
- Using a stanchion to milk the sheep
West coast: greenhouse growing:
- Mustards
- Peas - eaten by rodents
- Lots of transplants ready
- Nettles are ready
Frost-seeding medium red clover in the tree rows
- Will use hand-powered grass-seeder to seed over mulch
- A seed-drill would be ideal, but finding out that fits in 12’ rows is hard to find
Blossom-time is too late to prune
Under-planting vs. grass for fruit trees
- For harvesting at scale, grass is much more convenient, especially for collecting drops
- For small-scale, intensive plantings it’s a lot more flexible
Taking a PDC?
- Permaculture Fundamentals at Cornell
- PDC at Oregon State
Voles! Voles! Voles!
- Tree guards / tree tubes
- Does mulching = more voles?
  - Anecdotally, no
- They seem to like to eat anything young
- Pawpaws seem to be untouched
Rooting cuttings
- Willow roots in-ground with baseball-bat sized branches — easy!
- Rooting elderberry cuttings: American seems to be easier to root: Can you stick it in the ground?
- Rooting willow, currant, elderberry cuttings (video)
Bamboo
- Grow from rhizome cuttings
- How can we make it grow taller?
- Campbell bamboo: 15 to 12’ high
  - Used for road screen?
Edible Acres: Living wall to block traffic and city lights

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