Tyler Grace

I listen to full albums still but they aren't vinyls or CDs. Been collecting full metal albums in the form of MP3s since around 2001. It's mostly 80s-90s era death metal, black metal, thrash etc.. so the albums were still formatted to be listened to all the way through like a story, similar to rock and other genres at the time and previous. That trend seems to have died off but then again, I haven't really listened to newer albums.

I also collect classical MP3s, mostly string related, like violin concertos, string quartets and solo violin stuff.

They may be MP3s but it's still a "hard copy" that you can play on an MP3 player or device without an internet connection.

I gave up on jeans a while back. I mostly wear cargo pants or shorts for the added utility. 511, Dickies, Tru-Spec.

Les Frijo wrote:I personally don't really care for the term or box or whatever you want to call it. I would prefer the term permieculture as in it hopefully permeates into culture eventually.

I like using the term just to normalize the common title but when it comes down to it, permaculture is just returning to the human nature, or nature in general, that we all come from. That's probably another reason why it's so frustrating because the majority of the population has lost touch with this and it's so fundamental to our being.

I often find myself getting annoyed and frustrated when people ask me what permaculture is. I think the reason it's so hard (for me anyways) to define is because it's so vague. I will sometimes use the phrases, "being a steward of nature" or "working with nature, not against it" or something generic/cheesy like that. I probably display bothered body language while doing so and unintentionally dissuade others from pursuing the very thing I'm trying to promote. I think about not even mentioning that I engage in permaculture when people ask what I do, just so I don't have to define it for them... However, I WANT to spread the word and perpetuate the idea of it.

So how do you define permaculture to people that know nothing about it? How do you make it sound interesting and have fun while explaining it?

Ken Peavey wrote:If you like the taste of dirty old socks, it may be of interest to you.

Well, the species name is "I. Vomitoria", so I guess that's why.

Blake Lenoir wrote:Could we use repellents (natural ones) to stop rodents from entering in the mound beds?

I'd make stacks of rocks around the berms to attract snakes.

Blake Lenoir wrote:Also, how we keep our beds safe from being frozen to keep our soil enriched and fertile?

Not sure where you live but I'm in Colorado and it gets down to -15F sometimes. I usually add a good 3" or so layer of mulch, humus or leaves before the freeze, or cover crop them. Most of my berms are roughly 3' deep and 3' high, so about 6' total to the bottom of the trench to the very top. It will freeze but the core should be good. I've never ran into issues during the winter with my hugel berms. I also have poly pipe running down to the bottom of the trench and usually dump water into them once a year before the deep freeze just to make sure they are moist but that's not really necessary.

I'd also suggest adding spent mushroom spawn blocks if you can source them from a vendor. They often toss them out for free when they are done with them and they make a great soil amendment or can work as mulch. They still will contain mycelium and promote fungal growth.

I always chop and drop unless I'm intentionally trying to remove something permanently.

I'll also cover crop areas that I want nitrogen fixers to dominate.

Christopher Weeks wrote:I'm comfortable peeling those two out and tossing them but eating the rest.

I do that sometimes but usually when I am dealing with onions, I am slicing them up on the fly as I'm cooking, because I don't prep beforehand. So it's mostly just laziness and being unprepared.

I usually cut off the mold on fermented dairy because it's localized.

With veggies it usually depends. Sometimes I get rot/mold on onions that appears to be only exterior but I cut it open and it goes into the core. In that case I just toss the whole thing.