PERMACULTURE

Cegu Valley Farm is not just any normal farm as you would usually understand the concept. You will not see a tractor, or crops all of the same type, planted in neat lines. You will see lots of trees, bushes, shrubs and a few vegetables in a rather tangled mess. There is pattern there, but it takes a practiced eye to see it. Mechanically speaking, you might see someone operating a Brushcutter (weed whacker). This is our main fossil fueled farming tool. There is lots of variety of vegetation as well as livestock. The landscape, once you get used to it looking more like a forest, is beautiful. The steep slopes of the valley are terraced and there are swales. You will see lots of tree and shrub branches lopped off and lying all over the place. If we’re good, they’ll be in neat heaps. We never burn anything…so there is lots of mulch in various degrees of decay.