PHOTOS!!!

Please enjoy our annotated photo album

First stop, picking some kumquats in one of CRMPI's legendary Climate Battery Greenhouses in Basalt, CO.

That's a big pepper.

Utilizing permaculture design by having worm composting in the pathways of the climate battery greenhouse.

                                      

A cow from the dairy at Sustainable Settings in Carbondale, CO.

CRMPI had a few surprises in store for us as we found 5-year-old pepper plants (yes, peppers are actually perennials) and key limes that turn orange when ripe (yes, limes get orange when fully ripe) in Basalt, CO.

 

Dang what a beautiful drive through Telluride, CO.

 

Check it out, Casey's in four states at once: NM, AZ, UT, and CO!

 

We got to wake up to this view of the sunrise coming over the Grand Canyon, AZ.

 

A beautiful desert hike accompanied by our healer friend Wayah and her dog Kaia in Phoenix, AZ.

 

Taking the 10 West to LA!

 

Took a quick pit stop at a sweet palm oasis in the Fringe-Toed Lizard preserve near Joshua Tree National Park, CA.

 

Goats n critters at Quail Spirings Permaculture in Ventura County, CA

 

Baby goats and Brenton, our guide for the day at Quail Springs.

 

Lounging on a bonafide, cob-made, rocket mass heater heated bench inside a yurt. This place was an artistic inspiration for cob builders.

 

Top o the watershed above Quail Springs.  

 

Driving through Ventura County, we stumbled upon an organic field.  It looked dry, crumbly, and dead.  Yes, we know organic is "better" than nothing, but it is a hard truth to swallow that organic does not equate to Earth friendly.  If you wish to know more, give us a shout. 

 

Chillen on the coast line of sunny Santa Barbara, CA.

 

Up a couple thousand feet above that coastline to watch the sun set over miles of the Central Coast at Gibraltar Rock, CA

 

So majestic!

 

Bus Collective!, working on a garden dig-in in South Los Angeles, CA

 

Educating the future with the Ron Finley project at the Coliseum, S Los Angeles, CA.

 

Home is where the bus is.

 

Yup, he's standing up in there Venice Beach, CA.

 

A lone Colorado turtle yearning for the ocean. 

 

Yes, this scene is in the middle of suburbia. Rishi has turned this typical home into a semi-tropical food forest titled The Growing Home in Diamond Bar, CA

  

We worked for the day building a system of berms and swales that will serve as a water catchment system, planting bed for papayas, and quail feeding ground. So integrated!

  

"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." Well said Mahatma Gandhi

 

Yes, the sign does say "Tree Collards." Those are not your average collard greens.

 

Rishi is in the process of implementing a wetland system that will use cattails to filter grey water from the kitchen sink to be returned to the garden.

 

Bet you've never seen a kale tree before.

 

In addition to The Growing Home, Rishi is managing a 1/2 acre farm. The system pictured above uses soil filled bags with plants growing in them as a retaining wall for the berm.

 

We're back!!! Thank you sign for welcoming us back to colorful Colorado.