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Dear future self,
This is a letter post with notes to my future self as well as friends and visitors, logging thoughts and insights about what we did with mushrooms in 2024. I found we forget lessons and insights from recent years and maybe this will help!
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 My sister Sabine and her partner Lowie have 15 old-fashioned chickens. They scratch around in their half-acre garden, among woods, debris, grass, and flowers (grr!), munching bugs and greens Sabine and Lowie don’t feed them except the occasional food scrap bin; the garden sustains them just fine, even in the winter (they live in Belgium).
If these were modern chickens, each chicken would be getting 1/4 lbs of grain every day, or about 1,500 lbs of chicken feed per year for the flock. It requires modern agriculture about half an acre to grow 1,500 lbs of dry grain and soy. But wait, that’s impossible! Our hyper-productive, advanced agriculture system needs as much land to grow food for 15 chickens (with lots of fossil fuel input), as those chickens get just scrounging around and feeding themselves in a garden?! Somebody must be joking!  For people living near our farm, in Montague Village, Massachusetts, we have triple-win proposition: help a small local farm, the climate, and yourself!
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Babette WIlsBabette is a permaculture farmer in Western Massachusetts. She and people who are working with her on the farm are experimenting and learning on the go. Archives
September 2024
CategoriesHappy 2024!It’s 2024 and we are excited for this coming year. Lots of plans: integrating trees and livestock in silvopasture; working with other farmers in the area to promote agroforestry and make it a viable farming option; expanding our berry patches; and of course continuing our offerings at the Greenfield and Turners Falls farmers markets with our partner Just Roots!
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