Spring 2021 and the Brunerform
Spring 2021 and the Brunerform
It was 14C in Ohio yesterday and this is my observation of spring 2021 and the Brunerform. Rick and I decided to go out and talk to Mezzacello and see what she might be needing. We saw a lot of trash (hidden beneath the snows) and many signs of life! It was a nice little jaunt.
Rick checked on all of his formal garden beds to encourage them. I checked on the pond, the potager herb beds and my #ProjectMartian beds. Oof! They need love, but they are thriving.
I let the poultry into the potager vegetable beds. They went crazy and TURNED everything over for me. Thanks! Mental note: Don't spend $50 on mulch to make the walkways between the beds look clean. Those birds turned EVERYTHING over. LOL!
But that is a natural sustainable system for you. The compost beds look terrific! I have 2,000 Liters of additional compost cured in the #ProjectMartian BioReactors. That will be added into the potager beds and into parts of Rick's gardens.
It's only fair, since his gardens provided a lot of the biomass. I snapped this quick photo of Rick and I. As per usual I am in my "Brunerform".
The Brunerform
One question I get asked a lot about sustainable #AppliedSTEM bio-engineered gardens is why I am always wearing a dress shirt and bow tie while I am gardening. It's an important question that deserves an answer; It's because I want to.
Everyone assumes that I wear expensive clothes. WRONG. That bow tie costs more than everything else I am wearing in this photo - including the hat and shoes. I wear Thrift Store clothes.
I prefer natural fibers that can be shredded and added back into the system or at the very least, re-donated. I am not insane. I am just aware that nature recycles everything, even beauty.
This is what I fondly refer to as my "Brunerform" You'll rarely see me out of it. In fact, amongst my friends and neighbors, they loudly complain when they see me out of it. It is my style and it has become my brand.
Every time I use the Hashtag #GentlemanFarmer I mean it. What is your impression you want to make on the world? Mine is classy and always #BattleReady in a boardroom or in a garden room, take your pick.