How to Clear Thickets

Obviously there are dozens of ways to clear thickets, the method usually relates to the type of thicket.  In our case this spring we are dealing with major thickets of honeysuckle and blackberries.  This is nothing new.  Every year one of our main back yard projects includes at least some clearing of honeysuckle, often mixed with blackberry and/or poison ivy.  The difference this year is scale.  Normally we don't get much farther than cleaning the raspberry patch but with so much clean up going on around here we've needed to attack a number of major thickets.

The Good Things Will Come . . . I Promise

If you are serious about beginning a move toward a sustainable life, there's one very important thing to understand.

This is a life of delayed gratification.

And when I say delayed gratification, I don't mean that you'll need to next week to get those back yard projects and those construction projects done.  I mean you may have to wait years (and years) to get those projects done.  If you've been looking at tiny houses on the web or in magazines and have seen how adorable they are in their pristine settings, I can almost guarantee that you are seeing one of four things.