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Greg Martin

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Biochar maker, forest gardener/edible landscapist, plant breeding dabbler, forager.
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Mark Krawczyk wrote:
Also, if you'd like your minds blown - check out the ancient Japanese technique used for a type of cypress/cedar trees called daisugi - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisugi


Sooo cool!


Mind blown!  Also blown by how is this not how we grow and harvest wood all over the world today?  Seems like it produces superior wood with superior yields and allows the forest to be maintained fairly nicely.  What am I missing?
1 day ago
Lovely post.  Thank you.  Are they good samara producers and by any chance have you tried eating them at the young green stage before leaf out?  If so, what did you think of them?

I grew up under an elm and miss them!
2 days ago
Why was the botanist afraid of the club moss?
Because it was built Lycophyta!
1 week ago
I can't remember a time in my life that I was not a forager, but it was almost completely not on the lot I lived on.  Now I forage almost exclusively in my food forests.  One big change to my eating habits is with the pulses of new foods.  I end up heavy grazing on whatever is ripening.  Lots of spontaneous fruit gorging.  Just wrapping up now on kiwis and apples.  Sunroom is drying up herbs and a batch of chestnuts for flour making.  I need to process a mound of pawpaws and another of flowering quinces.  Autumn olives are begging to be made into fruit leather.  Besides so many new foods, the way I eat now has been strongly influenced by what is ready outside my door.  Less planning and more reacting.  More off the cuff cooking.

I do still eat from the store.  Currently dealing with mild food poisoning from a recall that was a day too late for me.  Hmmm.  Maybe my next permaculture food change is to give up on our food distribution system.  My food forest has never made me sick.
1 week ago
Although I'd love to visit the past and see what actually happened at so many time points, I think I would actually end up going forward in time about 50 years to try and see if what I had done made any difference.  And if anything I did ended up working out badly, I could then try and pivot.  Also I'd love to see how much more we've changed our understanding of reality.
1 week ago
Doctor Who just appeared and will take you on one trip to the time and place of your choice.  After the trip you will return to now and here.  When and where will you go?!
2 weeks ago
My cell phone accidentally took a 10 minute video of my feet.

It was some great footage.
2 weeks ago
Why did the apple go to the gym?  To work on his core!
1 month ago
Getting paid to sleep could be a dream job!
1 month ago