Trevor Piersol

Just out here tryna live in land-based community with family and friends, grow food, reconnect with the earth, remember how to be human

[Trevor Piersol @vaorchardist]

@joshrogin @ComicDaveSmith “But we believed his promises!” they say of the shallow vein pathological narcissistic con man reality star grifter who they made president

[Trevor Piersol @vaorchardist]

@cognazor Same. Unfortunately we’re looking at one night of hard frost next week how’s your frost forecast looking?

[Trevor Piersol @vaorchardist]

@ridgelinepath Same!

[Jason Snyder @cognazor]

Now that we're in the white collar job AI death spiral it's a perfect time to plant trees, cultivate garden, and tend livestock

[Trevor Piersol @vaorchardist]

I saw a 14 degree forecast for next week hoping it trends up!

[Trevor Piersol @vaorchardist]

Now that I have little kids, it’s amazing how much I can get done in one focused, uninterrupted solo day on the farm

[Trevor Piersol @vaorchardist]

Your scale will have a major influence on your no-till strategy. I recommend the work of @FarmerJesse_ as a good starting point. My 80’ x 50’ home garden is almost zero tillage we use tarps, cover crops, compost mulching, and broadforking to name a few techniques

[Dustin Woebbeking @ChannelGuy4Cy]

Do people no-till their gardens?

[Trevor Piersol @vaorchardist]

Yes! The all steel broadfork is so worth the investment - I’ve broken a few wooden handled ones in my day!

[Trevor Piersol @vaorchardist]

When old friends come visit the homestead, put em to work on the broadfork! An arduous task for me becomes a fun and educational experience for someone else

[Trevor Piersol @vaorchardist]

@macpermaculture @Polyface_Farm @DoomerOptimism Yup! Your dreads were the lower hanging fruit! Good memories

[Trevor Piersol @vaorchardist]

@macpermaculture Nailed it ! Proud former man bun rocker seen here giving herbal medicine talk @Polyface_Farm circa 2013. I think I’ll grow it out again and invest the haircut money in the farm @DoomerOptimism

[Trevor Piersol @vaorchardist]

My father and my son. Reminded this weekend of the irreplaceable value of inter generational living. I want to live in a community where all ages of life play, work, learn, and grow side by side. Is that too much to ask?

[Trevor Piersol @vaorchardist]

Evenings walks (runs?) on the farm are my favorite part of the day. Peepers chirping, smell of wet soil, spring is glorious

[Trevor Piersol @vaorchardist]

@macpermaculture I’m good for now thanks. I take the lazy beekeeping approach, my neighbor has hives right on our shared fence line and they pollinate my fruit and I trade him for honey - win win!

[Trevor Piersol @vaorchardist]

Out here blasting a cocktail cover crop mix of oats, ryegrass, buckwheat, sugar beet, daikon radish, white clover, and field peas!

[Trevor Piersol @vaorchardist]

Who else wants to “collapse now and avoid the rush”? I (think) it will even be more fun

[Jason Snyder @cognazor]

Our conversation with OG doomer optimist John Michael Greer on all things catabolic collapse, becoming a green wizard (5 ways to become resilient), the folly of both dystopian and utopian fantasies, potential retrotopias, and much more

[Trevor Piersol @vaorchardist]

Twitter is lit! Feel like I’m on Facebook circa 2006. No adults in the room let’s get loose

[Trevor Piersol @vaorchardist]

@macpermaculture @cognazor My theory, ya gotta be in it for the sheer joy not just the necessity, for it to stick

[Trevor Piersol @vaorchardist]

@macpermaculture @cognazor So true, last wave was post 2008

[Trevor Piersol @vaorchardist]

@quachelsey Many are working on the problem, including the good folks at in the Game B movement @JimRuttShow et al