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Calling all backs, knees, necks, elbows. Aston Fitness Class for Gardeners. Most gardener’s experience that when spring comes and we bust out of our cabin fever, the bodily aches and pains accompany our garden lust. Gardening is such good exercise—and it can be GOOD for the body if we know how to go about it.  Greens Leaf Wall Fall Leaf walls covered with Reemay Row Cover and plastic sheeting. This bed is approximately 25’ x 12’.
 Harvest Kale Dec Insulated wall made of used chicken wire stuffed with leaves. Yummy Dwarf Siberian Kale, Fennel, and Fava beans and Parsley are happy inside. Our greens were happy right through the stretch of 15 below weather we had last winter.
 Greens Leaf Wall Winter This design grew from our desire to keep our costs down. We had chicken wire, we had plenty of leaves. If we had used strawbales, winterizing this bed would have cost $200. This way, it cost nothing. STRAW-CLAY COLD FRAME  North Wall of the Straw Clay Cold Frame This Straw-Clay Cold Frame at Willow Way is designed to meet the demands of our windy winters with their wide temperature swings, here in Boulder, Colorado. It is built with wooden pallets that are stuffed with Straw-Clay.
 Straw Clay Mixing Straw-Clay is one type of “natural building” material. It is straw that is coated with a light clay slip, providing value both as insulation and as thermal mass.  The start of the Medicine Wheel Garden. Sheet Mulching is a very basic and important Permaculture skill. Sometimes called “blanket composting”, “no-work” or “no-dig” gardening, it is very representative of Permaculture in terms of modeling Nature. This is the start of the Medicine Wheel Garden. As you see, we are layering the Sheet Mulching right on top of the lawn. No need to dig or pull weeds. They become part of the nutrient base for the new garden. See full guidelines below.
 The Medicine Wheel in full bloom. The Medicine Wheel in full bloom. Other pics of the Medicine Wheel Garden if you want.
 Pond Late Summer We applied simple bioremediation techniques to allow the pond to purify itself. This is a “before” photo. Looking good, but not purifying itself. Then the Pond Work Team started to dig in — here are some of the pics and details.
 Pond channel party After removing the plants, rocks and old liner, we re-shaped the stream channel to make it optimum for the fungi, bacteria plant species involved in bioremediation.
 Medicine wheel greens, corn and beyond The yield from our sheet-mulching no-till, “no work” method. Check out the sheet mulching blog entry if you wnat to see what this garden looked like before we got started.
 Garden north, corn and greens Garden north, corn and greens
 Garden South 1 Here is a look at the south part of the Medicine Wheel Garden.
 Mushroom propagation outdoors requires some careful preparations. Site selection is important. In our valley, a shaded site that will retain moisture is critical. This site is under a large apple tree. It is close to a water spigot, to make it easy to keep moist.  there there little plant In Permaculture, we place plants together that will naturally support each other, mimicking that design.
 guilded In this fruit tree guild, the central element is a fruit tree, and each guild also has a beneficial insect attractor plant, harmful insect repeller plant, a nitrogen-fixer to help provide nutrients, and a food crop—in this case, squash.
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