Roman Road Regenerative Ranch

Hello. Let's get into the intro,

we are getting jiggy with it and that is Colleen Liz Jared and Jack

let me go over what we gain from the

from the client interview.

Um This is a mix of you know your words and

our words and kind of where we see one tribes journey

and a little summary just why we're so excited about this new

property and how we think it can really help you search forward.

Mhm.

Now we've taken the liberties of coming up with

a name for the roman road property and a

goal statement for how we see it fitting into

the greater one tribe fan uh one tribe plan.

So I'm gonna read that now and then give you a second to absorb it.

The roman road regenerative ranch

cultivates a transparent regenerative ecosystem

that enables one tribe farm

to thrive through diversity

and give back to those who have given

and we've highlighted a couple of key words here

um ecosystem for one really stood out to me because

it encompasses the holistic nature of what we're trying to do

and getting back to those who have given

is another one that really resonated with us because

we feel that it aligns with your values and gives you a chance to

pivot and expand as you share the abundance that you've created.

Lastly I'm going to go over some of the design highlights

um One of important issues we were dealing with is what to

do with the big grain silos that are kind of hazardous.

Um we'll get more into that in just a moment.

We also wanted to

um come up with a good beautification and reuse of the existing spaces

um as well as

having the ability for the work. Uh The work

work share participants to

really have a say in what food they're creating an eating

and

let's move right along.

This is going to leave this up for a few seconds.

This is really our whole design plan and we'll come back to that again at the end.

So next up we have

the

echo housing

and that's going to be

I think is it Liz or is it Colleen?

Really

who? Okay, well,

composite.

So as we were saying, the eco housing is

primarily going to be inspired by

reusing the salvage material from the existing grain silos.

So that way we're turning trash into treasure. We're reusing um

a waste product and making it into something valuable.

Uh and here's some examples of that right here.

We've also got further resources in the handout and the email.

Um and so hopefully that's gonna be really valuable to you and we think

you can get really creative and have a great potential for these these sources.

Um We also thought the whole eco housing

idea was a great place to demonstrate sustainability

could be used for two demo different natural

building methods such as Kabore hay bale construction.

Um We thought perhaps you could incorporate a composting

toilet system which might um take some pressure off

the existing septic system and also be a demo

for the kinds of systems that we wouldn't encourage.

Um And then the whole thing is gonna be leveraged into

more space for uh community events and things of that nature.

Great. And so now we're gonna move on to water.

Yeah. Thanks Jack. So

the next big item that we thought about with

regards to the regenerative ranch site is the water.

It's one of the key energy that's flowing into and out of your sight.

And we know that regenerative livestock grazing and mob stock Grazing

is an important part of the overall one tribe system.

So we wanted to make sure that we incorporated a way to provide livestock with water,

but also a way to ensure that the pastures

themselves are able to remain vital and vibrant.

And so taking into account the existing water channels on

the west side and the east side of the property.

Um We and using the contour lines that already exist.

We recommend based on our initial design a

diversion channel that brings some water from the easterly

branch into a central pasture pond which you see in the middle

and then have an over overflow channel that

brings overflow water down into a southwest pond.

We also think there's an opportunity to harvest water rainwater from the roof of

one of those large barns that doesn't currently have and gutters on it.

Um And that could be done using a fairly

simple gravity system to bring the water over.

And if we click to the next slide, we can show you a little bit about how that could.

So the system is

rain falls on the large barn roof, there's a gutter to redirect runoff,

There's a downspout

and you can have a rain collection barrels or you can

also have a line like we have in the overall design,

channeling it to the pond system.

Now, overall, this just allows one tribe and the ranch designed to have better

um control and more efficient use of the water that's flowing in

and out of the property and we think that's really important.

So let's move on to the next item.

Alright, thanks Jared.

So now we have our social hub

and in this area is going to be the social area,

but also the kitchen garden for woofers in the veterans

and anyone else will be staying on the property.

Um an educational area

and uh will include also the parking area.

Next.

So this is our layout for the social hub.

Yeah.

Which one answer?

Uh huh.

All right.

Um All right. So you see this big building on the left, We have it as our event space.

Um and also our educational space behind that. We have our main parking lot.

Um and then if you look inside the circle

area here, we have the kiosk

which we were thinking could have one tribes

mission and also the goals for this site.

And specifically along with a sculpture. We were thinking

to honor the veterans have a local artists make a sculpture doing that.

And then also included in this area is killed.

Um A small gold.

One idea is potentially a fig tree. There are some cold hardy fig trees.

Um And that way you don't have like a big fruit tree that's dropping fruit all over the

dr way area. Um

And then some perennials like uh potentially come three dill rosemary.

Um

Then to the right of the main house we

have our kitchen garden and that includes herbs um

especially like oregano, rosemary, mints.

It also includes vegetables that are a little bit more labor intensive,

such as tomatoes,

climbing beans and peas than some perennials to attract the bees including your O.

B. Bomb

um etcetera.

And then

to the left of the house we have a pavilion area

which we're thinking could be made with some of the recycled wood

and that owned food benches, a couple of trellises on the side

and a path to the main house as well as a path to the bathrooms of their bathrooms

and there'll be a water spigot nearby

as well as shed for tools and

um other storage needs.

And along the main house we have the idea of planting some shrubs here.

Well there's already some shrubs by the

by the sidewalk, below the main house,

but also to the side of the main house planting some shrubs there.

All right, and that'll take you to the next area.

Mhm.

Yeah,

I hope so. I clicked off. Ok, so now guys, we're gonna move on to our production garden

and they stop

one of the permaculture designs is the keyhole design,

which is something that we've realized here

also doing a border and here where there's a natural um

like branch twig line fence, maybe something I keep getting stuck in my mind.

Um You're using other materials such as cinder blocks or bricks, bicycle realms,

welded into a fence and border to protect it from deer as well.

And here we'll leave it up to one tribe

for whatever anal production they would like to implement.

Um baby bean zucchini, um corn.

Mix it in with some perennials as well or medicinal is if they like.

We've got lavender, rosemary, you know, the possibilities are endless.

And a nice centerpiece there as well. Um

Yeah, so next.

Well, here's some yeah, there we go, complain, wildflowers and perennials,

like I mentioned vegetables, peppers, carrots, sorrel, etcetera, etcetera.

And we wanted to make

sure we kept it in the soil.

We have debated using raised beds versus in the soil,

but we always it's always big on promoting and sustaining soil health.

I would fight it in the ground is best.

I guess the education and outreach of permaculture design.

We wanted to implement,

implement an entire edible food for us with that we

wanted to make sure we hit all the seven different

layers of the food followers. So here we do have our upper canopy, lower canopy shrub

finds no basis in root plants.

Um you can see we're going to do the

a mushroom production which will be discussed later a storage and to

make sure we capture a lot more that water runoff.

We wanted to utilize horticulture beds as well.

And within them

we were going to design guilt as well.

Our guilt in the 30. Okay, awesome.

Yeah.

And here our guild recommendations.

Here's a nice demonstration of the korean pine with some blueberry shrubs,

the cranberry bushes,

correct? And daffodils.

Sunflowers, hickory guild is a hickory tree with asian pears,

Siberian pea shrub and swirl etcetera etcetera.

Within each one of these guilds, we wanted to make sure we

implementing a nitrogen fixer as well so that it's

pulling up the nitrogen that those plants really enjoy.

Next.

All right, so that leads us to our the mushroom growing operation

and this will be both indoor and outdoor.

Um

There

this will never use waste products compost

and can be grown on fresh coffee grounds.

Right next.

Yeah.

So far the indoor operation, we were thinking to grow oyster mushrooms in a pocket.

Oyster mushrooms are one of the easier mushrooms to grow.

Um This system works with

basically you need a bucket with a lid.

Uh oyster oyster mushroom, Greenspon substrate material, drill

and alcohol and water disinfected in a spray bottle.

And what you do is you drill holes in the bucket,

fill it with the substrate and the mushroom spawn

And then you incubate it and it takes about 10-21 days and you wanna have it at 64-75°.

Um And the buckets system very stackable.

Um They're reusable,

you just wash them out when you're done affordable, easy to find

and they won't take up. That's true.

And

then another idea for the mushrooms is growing that she

talked mushrooms on logs which will be the outdoor portion

with logs. You want to use hardwoods. Um Oak and maple would be good options

and trade them. You also need to drill.

And what you do is you drill into the wood, plant your spawn.

And that mushroom spawn is just like I see like a vegetable seed.

Um

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