Thanks for making permies so some of us can be weird together.
I also hope for optimization and diversification of the weird permie community path, with a decrease in personal independence focus unto an increase in success.
When you’re bonkers about permaculture, you might seem a bit crazy to your friends and family.
Twelve years ago, we came out with a deck of Permaculture Playing Cards.
The idea was simple: give these decks to people as gifts so you seem a little less crazy.
And it worked.
People loved them so much that they kept asking for another deck.
So we started a long list of ideas, over a hundred in total, and chose the best ones to bring you something new:
the Purple Deck.
Why It Works
Here’s the magic: You hand someone a deck, maybe that cousin who thinks you’ve lost it because of your bizarre gardening techniques. They open it up, pull out two random cards, and spend about seven seconds looking at each.
That’s all it takes. Two cards. Fourteen seconds. And suddenly, they’re hooked on permaculture.
Each card is designed to spark curiosity and share one fascinating slice of the gardening, homesteading and permaculture world, from rocket cooktops to willow feeders, from forage gardening to cleaners you can eat.
Judith Browning wrote:The first two are guesses, I can't see the leaves very well.
photo one.....maybe bitter weed...grows in all of the pastures in my area.
photo two...maybe flea bane....pastures also, prolific here this year.
photo three....something in the morning glory family.
photo four....this one I am certain is smart weed. Of all four of these this is the one I find beneficial. I have been letting it grow up in areas to out compete grasses, especially bermuda and it is not bad as a chop and drop mulch...and I think the 'flowers' are cute, always have:)
Judith, do you find the bitterweed to be a problem? Do your animals eat it?
Brock Tice wrote:Paid today! I am hoping to get help planning for next season as I start to do fall cleanup. Been listening to a lot of podcast backlog so I think I have a decent idea of what I’m getting into 😅. Email me at the address I paid from with further instructions I guess?
Hey Brock! Paul will have to get back to you when he gets notice of your payment email address. However, I have helped set a few of these things up for him.
A few things to know: the more you put into it, the more you'll get out. If you provide advanced information of climate, context, goals, plot features, as well as lots of images of where things are now and references things you might want to do, you can really cover a lot of ground. A great way to do this would be to start a thread in an appropriate forum to begin collecting this information to share during your consult.
Another thing to mention is that Paul likes to ask people if they'd be willing to do these sessions live for the public so that they can benefit everyone. That is voluntary, and up to you. Just throwing it out there for you to think about while we get the ball rolling.
Excited for your consult!
William Bronson wrote: ... elderberry ... Raspberry and blackberry ...
If they root, they become either welcome additions or sources of chop-n-drop.
Willow ...
This is almost another category - rigid structural bits that might also grow and become living retaining root structures and crops. I like it.
In my neck of the woods, though, they would probably have to be regularly cut back to keep them from becoming a hugel monocrop.
I'm experimenting with stripping the leaves from my volunteer catalpa trees to use as green manure.
The catalpa sphinx moth feeds on the tree an it is said to strip entire catalpa trees of foliage, without killing the tree.
I'm hoping the tree reacts to my stripping off leaves in the same way.
If so, they might be a good tree for horizontal reinforcement.
Cool. We have tons of catalpa. Let me know how it goes!
RENE DE JESUS GOMEZ LOPEZ wrote:Hello, I purchased the "Mike Oehler's Low-Cost Underground House Workshop & Survival Shelter Seminar - 3 movie +2 Books Deal " but I can't download the books. Are they still available for download?
What do you see at the bottom of the first post? The one all about the product, just below the purchase/upgrade/gift boxes?
I kinda think that if R. Ranson's book 'Clean with Cleaners You Can Eat' got some more mental real estate from the general public, the willow feeder would start making a lot more sense to a lot more people.
Anyone can peruse all the public forums without a permies account, but to post and have access to some of the other stuff (most of which is also provided at no charge) the agreement to get one-ish email a month seems reasonable, perhaps even outlandishly generous and abundant on permies' end.
A permies account comes with the option to unsubscribe from all of our emails, except the monthlyish. Unsubscribing from the monthlyish is kind of synonymous with closing your permies account.
Frankly, as generous as you have been to permies and Paul's endeavors, and as much as you have expressed support for the things we do, I am amazed that the one email per month thing would be too much for you. But, if that's your dealbreaker, we salute you and wish you the best.
I will ask my wife for a brief overview of the connection between the two tomorrow, and maybe that will give us some more to go on. She is the trained herbalist and the one who brought their similar usages to my attention in the first place. We have made extensive use of echinacea, but are interested in branching off into rudbeckia as it grows prolifically here, all over the place.
I am told they are very similar in terms of properties.
What are the major differences? Can they be used interchangeably without concern? Some questionable sources claim toxicity in Rudbeckia seeds, but I am skeptical.
I just discovered another of Paul's domains, sscce.org.
It appears to be a problem-solving and error-correction process for coding.
I kinda want to see a version of it made for permaculture. Does such a thing already exist on permies.com?
I like the idea at the end where, if someone who talks about a problem shows that they have done the work to understand the problem, see if the problems is already being addressed somewhere, and distilled the problem to its most essential relevant parts, then people are way more likely to feel inclined to help.
From sscce.org:
Why bother?
A very good question. Why go to all this effort?
Perhaps someone can understand the problem you describe from the description you give. Maybe it is one of those things that a thousand people before have stumbled on.
If you have already checked the FAQ, Googled the forum, read the ..flaming manual it is unlikely that an answer will pop up that easily. You have done those things, haven't you?
If wasting the time and bandwidth of the other members of a public forum, you risk members of the group delivering short sharp rebukes.
The people who contribute to the groups give a wide range of advice. Sometimes the advice works, sometimes it does not, but either way, the advice is free.
Contributors do so for a variety of reasons, including the nice feeling they get when they can pass on a piece of knowledge relating to their chosen field to someone who is learning.
Unfortunately, if someone asks to be spoon fed information that is contained in a basic tutorial, it is a strong indication that the questioner does not so much want to learn as get others to do work they should be doing themselves.
If there is a piece of code and you wish to have it written, finished or fixed by others, there are plenty of avenues to achieve that. For a modest amount of money, you can get most IT work completed (or done) through a number of internet based outsourcing companies. That is what such companies specialize in.
Free forums are for people to learn.
Having said that:
Let us assume you are indeed genuine in your learning, you have a huge, complex system with an occasional, unpredictable bug, and you have searched the FAQ & Group, studied the manual or documentation and not produced an answer.
Feel free to describe the problem to the group; perhaps it is a basic misunderstanding on your part that can easily be cleared up.
We are not proposing that every single problem needs a SSCCE in order to be solved. We are also not suggesting an example is, or should be, compulsory.
It will, however, make people much more likely to help, and will therefore increase the chance of finding a solution.
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