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Ac Baker wrote:

Kathy Gray wrote: I had 2 (Autumn Olive Shrubs)—-Service Berry …
Much to my dismay, one of my neighbors cut one of them down to the ground!☹️
They came on my property!

That is pretty scary.

What community support might you be able to find, to hold your neighbour accountable for such harmful behaviour?

I don't know about laws where you live, but here the neighbour could be fined (by the police) because he was on your property and cut down your trees! The only problem is: there must be proof that this person did it.

How to define 'weeds'? I think 'a weed is a plant growing where you don't want it'. With that definition there are no 'weeds I like', because they are only 'weeds' if they are in the wrong spot (and I don't like that).

There are many wild/feral plants I do like ... if they grow where I like them to grow. Even if I need to 'weed' them out of a garden bed often I can take them to the kitchen and use them as part of my food.

There are so many 'edible wild plants'!
A few I have growing here: purslane, winter purslane or miner's lettuce, hairy bittercress, chickweed, stinging nettle, ground elder, ...

And then there are wild plants with beautiful flowers too. I prefer to enjoy them growing in the wild.

The 'plant licorice' (we call it 'zoethout', meaning 'sweet wood'), I love the taste of it. But I can not just put such a stick (piece of root) in my mouth, it would break or harm my 'fake front teeth'.

I had a teeth problem in my youth and then got those 'crowns' on three of my front teeth. And two years ago it became an 'implant' with four teeth.

Because I like the taste of licorice root, I have it in tea bags, so I can make a 'tea' of it.

Thank you 'gir bot' for approving my BB

I love licorice. All Dutch people love licorice (and there are many different kinds of it here, sweet, salt, hard, soft, etc.). My favourite licorice is a soft one with laurel taste.

I don't even know what 'candy corn' is ...

Yeah! My bag is finished!
Here the needed photos.

Materials: fairly course natural linen thread for the warp, lots of leftovers of woolen yarn for the weft. Most of the wool is in natural colours or plant-dyed.  


My loom. A children's loom from the early 1970s (I have it that long and learned weaving on it).


Weaving the 'shoulder strap' in the 'back strap' way, with a plastic heddle bought in a thrift store.


Weaving in the short ends of the warp


Weaving in the longer ends of the other side of the warp


Weaving in the ends of the weft (where I changed colour)


Is the size right to take this book with me?


Shoulder strap attached to the bag (it forms the sides too)


Making the lining 'with two pockets' from what once was a duvet cover (linen-cotton blend fabric)


Finished! With lining, two pockets, woven shoulder strap and even a braided band with a ring to attach to my key-purse and a loop that closes around the mother-of-pearl button.
The book fits in one pocket and the other things (of course I need to take my glasses!) in the other one.


Showing the two pockets inside


The proud maker/owner (me) with the bag.

There are more photos in my personal thread: https://permies.com/t/200/147677#3600538

I read this thread to know more, because I grow flax. Every year about 1 square meter. Of course that will take many years before I can make a garment with it. My way of 'making thread' takes a lot of time too. But maybe I can speed it up a little, if I know I can get a BB for it.

Not that I'll ever be PEP certified ... and I'm too old to 'inherit property' too (and not in the right country). But I like to make things (especially textile related) and to show how I did it.

Rebekah Harmon wrote:A ridiculous question!!

If you were to make underwear from animal fur, would you face the animal fur to your skin? Or the opposite, with the fur facing out?

;D

I think rabbit fur feels nice to the skin ...
Probably Markus knows more. He does these long walks in prehistoric style: Markus Klek

Hah, I found another BB nobody (yet) has done!
Now I'll try to find out how I can make a garment out of leather I can use re-enacting Neolithicum (Late Stone Age), while it fits the description of this 'apron' too. I already made a dress, a poncho, a pair of (mocassin type) shoes, several bags and a pair of leggings (really two things, one for each leg), all of leather, sewn with leather strips or with sinew, no glue or other modern stuff  :-)  But didn't think of the BBs, so not the right photos of the making process.
But first finish my current project ...  

Maybe the pocket will be the problem. As  far as we know pockets on/in clothes weren't invented yet in the Stone Age. They had small bags, pouches, etc. hanging from their belt, it seems.

I believe my comment about "thinking" being the new in-demand workie job holds - there's a big push within the so-called "alternative" community toward healthy food and real, tactile experience of the world, and only thinking people will be able to produce this. From Montessori style schooling to "paleo" style diets, there's a definitive theme out there, and it's one that's driving an increasing demand for production of real food with real hands in a really contaminated world. Permaculture is the answer to this. The number of "social media influencer" and "podcaster" people that source most of their foodstuffs from the Amish community is a great example of the market demand, and that trend is only growing. Fake food is out and permie apples, land race sweet corn and free-range hams are in.

I am following the 'trend' of this growth (I mean: the growing interest in healthy foods and everything that's 'good for the environment') since the 1970s (yes, I am that old, I was a teenager back then). And, yes, I see there is some growth ... but I would like that growth to be much larger than it is. I even question sometimes if it's a real growth in percentage, or only in numbers (like everything is growing, because there are more people).

I do live in this 'bubble', where the other permaculturists, eco-gardeners and health-foodies are too. But I see what is 'growing' in the 'world outside' too, and I don't feel well about it :-(