Earth-Magneto Methodology in an Orchard

In the extensive zone of the Permakulturpark am Lebensgarten Steyerberg (PaLS) it was necessary to find an alternative solution to the normal ways of planting and maintaining fruit trees because the fine sandy soil had so little or no nutrients. Additional compost or fertilizer would be quickly washed away by even medium heavy rain so deep that it would not be even available for the fine roots. This, one could say was the main motivation to get something like the Earth-Magneto method under way. As a practitioner of Radiesthesia (e.g. divining for water and ley lines) and Geobiology (e.g. ascertaining the interactions between the Earth and the biosphere), Declan Kennedy had quite a lot of experience in working with under-earth-surface electro-magnetic fields (produced by under-surface water channels and streams bashing against small stones and other obstructions). He was motivated to change the usually perceived negative effects of this phenomena (e.g. a ley line is bad news under your bed) to a possible positive effect: harnessing of the north-south electromagnetic field – which exits naturally everywhere – to improve the growth of plants. A special group around Declan within PaLS started this Earth-Magneto Project within the extensive zone in 2011. Here they decided – in the design process – to include a "no-work-gardening" experiment in raising fruit and nut trees. This suggestion was quite a challenge to implement in this fine soil. Their goal was to have a middle-sized orchard in poly-culture that, after a not-too-intensive planting period of a year or two that would take care of itself. They based it, more or less, on the experience of Gustav Winter from the 1930's.