base mapping and water analysis

2.  Sunlight on our garden area hits directly on the
east side of our house which is directly to our
garden area.This is always a great area to work
in the early mornings(see slide 3).
 Wind has always been a problems especially in
the early spring as we get the chinook winds. A
windbreak would do well in helping prevent
damage to our crops.
 Wildlife has not been a serious problem in our
field by the house, however we are in the
process of putting up some fencing.

4.  Noise and Pollution is not a big factor as we
are located away from the main highway

5. Get aYield or Harvest
“Our efforts to work with nature must bear fruit that can provide for
our needs” . Although we run a little farm one of the areas that we are
always striving to get better at is to use all the resources that are
available.When looking at yield across the farm there are so many areas
that we can get better at.This year for the first time we are doing green
manures to enrich our soil, and a second part of this is the no till process.
In doing these processes we are enriching and stabilizing the soil so that
it will produce a better yield.The other areas that we are working on is
composting our waste from the house as much as possible, to include
food debri, and ashes from the stove.We will get better at building our
soil up with the straw and chicken droppings from the chicken coop.(see
slide 6). Ultimately all of these practices can help this little farm enrich
the current soil and increase our yield.

7. Make NoWaste
I have heard it said many times during my life waste
not want not. If one does not waste they will not be
needy.This may go right into getting a yield.This year
we raised 6 cows and everything that we considered
waste was given to the cows(see slide 8).This helped
us in cleaning up a few fields this past year as cows
love pumpkins and we knew this was assisting in
putting weight on the cows. I believe as we move
forward we will continue to look at a lot of things we
consider waste and how can we use it to benefit our
homestead/farm.

9. 1. Precipitation for Fremont County is
approximately 13 inches annually..
This amount is spread out for most of the year
Our local watershed is the Upper Arkansas
Watershed 11020002
Our soil type is Loam
2. Water enters our property from two different
locations: 1. SouthWest side along street 2.
Southeast side by Garage (see slide 14)

10. 3.The main area where water leaves our site is
on the Northeast corner of our field
4. Highpoints are on the Southwest side of our
property
Low points are on the North East side
5. Gutters and downspots are located on the
NE, NW, SW and SE corners.
Well is located to the South East corner by
garage.

11.  Hose Hook ups located by well on SE side of
property
 Natural water sources – none
 Poor drainage when we do get water is the
North East Corner of the property(see slide 9
severe hail and rain storm, this was the first
time this happened in 17 years that we lived
here)
 If any area is exposed it would be the front NE
corner

15.  The Permaculture Handbook, Peter Bane
 All Pictures were taken by me