Search...
Home Subscribe
Pie
Home Subscribe
Recent topics Flagged topics Hot topics Best topics
Search...
Search within meaningless drivel Search permies
Advance search Google search
Register / Login
gift
Rocket Mass Heater Manual
will be released to subscribers in: soon!
click here for details
  • Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
permaculture forums growies critters building homesteading energy monies kitchen purity ungarbage community wilderness fiber arts art permaculture artisans regional education skip experiences global resources cider press projects digital market permies.com pie forums private forums all forums
permaculture bootcamp sketch with tools DIY rocket mass heaters - instructional DVD set IC.org Building a Better World Book with earth bricks Paulasaur SKills to Inherit Property
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
master stewards:
  • Carla Burke
  • Nancy Reading
  • John F Dean
  • r ranson
  • Jay Angler
  • paul wheaton
stewards:
  • Pearl Sutton
  • Leigh Tate
  • Devaka Cooray
master gardeners:
  • Christopher Weeks
  • Timothy Norton
gardeners:
  • thomas rubino
  • Matt McSpadden
  • Jeremy VanGelder

The things people spend money on

 
r ranson
steward & author
Posts: 38513
Location: Left Coast Canada
13742
8
I like...
books chicken cooking fiber arts sheep writing
posted 3 years ago
  • Likes 13
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
What a savings
bargan.JPG
[Thumbnail for bargan.JPG]

how permies works
homegrown linen | crazy chicken lady grows yarn!

 
Anne Miller
steward
Posts: 16099
Location: USDA Zone 8a
4280
I like...
dog hunting food preservation cooking bee greening the desert
posted 3 years ago
  • Likes 7
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Since I see other flowers in the picture I bet they are for decorating.

Or maybe dip in a beaten egg, then bread crumbs, and fry them.

Rather expensive at $6.99 as there are cheaper things to eat especially if a person has trees in their yard.

Invasive plants are Earth's way of insisting we notice her medicines. Stephen Herrod Buhner
Everyone learns what works by learning what doesn't work. Stephen Herrod Buhner

 
Douglas Alpenstock
pollinator
Posts: 5007
Location: Canadian Prairies - Zone 3b
1357
posted 3 years ago
  • Likes 8
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Haha, that is awesome in its utter madness!

I recall tiny bundles of sticks at a garden centre for a very nice price. Anybody who drove there could have collected all the tiny sticks they needed for free from the roadside. It seems people cannot unplug themselves from the retail matrix.

BTW, the correct use for expensive oak leaves is to soak them in hand sanitizer and bind them to your face as you sleep, to reduce crow's feet and excess wealth. Pfft!
 
Cam Haslehurst
gardener
Posts: 461
Location: Northern Ontario, Canada
317
I like...
goat dog gear books bike building
posted 3 years ago
  • Likes 6
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Very interesting. I keep reading about mulching but I couldn't for the life of me find out where to get leaves to do the mulching. This makes sense, and is a great deal as well!


My journal documenting my time living on the Stone Baerm Homestead in summer 2021: https://permies.com/t/160807/Stone-Baerm-Adventures

 
Mark Brunnr
gardener
Posts: 1236
360
7
I like...
trees wofati rocket stoves
posted 3 years ago
  • Likes 11
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Ah the convenience of city living, where you can get all the handy decorations from a tree without having the bother of actually living near anything natural! Like driving 15 minutes then taking the escalator/elevator to reach the gym, so you can walk on the treadmill for 30 minutes!

The holy trinity of wholesomeness: Fred Rogers - be kind to others; Steve Irwin - be kind to animals; Bob Ross - be kind to yourself

 
Mark Reed
pollinator
Posts: 670
Location: SE Indiana
391
I like...
dog fish trees writing
posted 3 years ago
  • Likes 8
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I've made a few bucks from time to time selling Black Locust bark on eBay. It makes great media for growing orchids.

Nothing ruins a neighborhood like paved roads and water lines.

 
John Weiland
pollinator
Posts: 2556
Location: RRV of da Nort, USA
727
posted 3 years ago
  • Likes 3
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Douglas Alpenstock wrote:......

BTW, the correct use for expensive oak leaves is to soak them in hand sanitizer and bind them to your face as you sleep, to reduce crow's feet and excess wealth. Pfft!



Truthfully, using oak leaves....I really didn't notice any improvement.  With box elder leaves, however, vive la différence!!.....reduced crows feet and excess girth, all without cashing out my Cayman's account!



...

“The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.”― Albert Einstein

 
John Weiland
pollinator
Posts: 2556
Location: RRV of da Nort, USA
727
posted 3 years ago
  • Likes 6
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” -- Sherlock Holmes.

'Mulch'...'Fritters'.....'Facials'...... we're all missing the obvious.  It's kindling to start your RMH!....

“The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.”― Albert Einstein

 
Douglas Alpenstock
pollinator
Posts: 5007
Location: Canadian Prairies - Zone 3b
1357
posted 3 years ago
  • Likes 5
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

John Weiland wrote: 'Mulch'...'Fritters'.....'Facials'...... we're all missing the obvious.  It's kindling to start your RMH!....


... with a fraction of each purchase to support the Society to Promote Overalls as a Thing ...
 
Dan Fish
pollinator
Posts: 701
Location: Sierra Nevada Foothills, Zone 7b
154
I like...
dog forest garden fish fungi trees hunting books food preservation building wood heat homestead
posted 3 years ago
  • Likes 5
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
My wife works at a craft store. All the time people come in asking if they have any sticks for sale. We live in a forest...

Fish heads fish heads roly poly fish heads

 
Greg Martin
steward
Posts: 3427
Location: Maine, zone 5
1972
7
I like...
hugelkultur dog forest garden trees foraging food preservation cooking solar seed wood heat homestead
posted 3 years ago
  • Likes 5
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
My oaks dropped soooo many branch tips like that this year.  I didn't know why, but now I do.....they were trying to get me to start a side hustle!

Permaculture...picking the lock back to Eden since 1978.
Pics of my Forest Garden

 
Kenneth Elwell
pollinator
Posts: 1165
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
507
6
I like...
urban books building solar rocket stoves ungarbage
posted 3 years ago
  • Likes 10
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Greg Martin wrote:My oaks dropped soooo many branch tips like that this year.  I didn't know why, but now I do.....they were trying to get me to start a side hustle!



AHA! It's not just me!!!
It's not that people are stupid enough to buy leaves, okay it IS..., but that some Permie can identify and exploit a market for XYZ thing that just needs picking up and bringing to market.

I've been clearing a neglected bit of our property and taking the vines (Virginia creeper, bittersweet, porcelain berry, and Concord grape) and making them into wreaths as I pull them out of my way. They'll get sold as is, or with some other stuff like dried flowers or ribbons added...
Vines out of my way, "tangled up" into neat little circles, turned into $$$.
Residue income stream.

Nails are sold by the pound, that makes sense.
Soluna Garden Farm -- Flower CSA -- plants, and cut flowers at our Boston Public Market location, Boston, Massachusetts.

 
Douglas Alpenstock
pollinator
Posts: 5007
Location: Canadian Prairies - Zone 3b
1357
posted 3 years ago
  • Likes 4
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
You know, I'm cutting trails and have massive amounts of thin, straight hazelnut sticks with nice decorative bark. Also tons of saskatoon sticks that make nice tripods or trellises. Could be an option for crafty and garden-y folks.
 
Davis Tyler
Posts: 184
Location: Southern New Hampshire (Zone 5)
17
posted 3 years ago
  • Likes 7
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
saw bundles of dead corn stalks out front of a store, for fall decorations.  $5.99 a bundle - sell city folks the corn at the summer farmer's market, then sell 'em the dead stalks in the fall!
 
Mark Brunnr
gardener
Posts: 1236
360
7
I like...
trees wofati rocket stoves
posted 3 years ago
  • Likes 9
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Money doesn't just grow on trees- oh wait nevermind...

The holy trinity of wholesomeness: Fred Rogers - be kind to others; Steve Irwin - be kind to animals; Bob Ross - be kind to yourself

 
Carla Burke
Rusticator
Posts: 8593
Location: Missouri Ozarks
4560
6
I like...
personal care gear foraging hunting rabbit chicken cooking food preservation fiber arts medical herbs homestead
posted 3 years ago
  • Likes 7
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Apparently, I'm in the wrong business! There's a nursery in Tennessee selling "oak tree seeds" for - get this - $.39@!! Between the 29acres of leafy branches the wind blows down, and the acorns I'm constantly twisting my ankle on, I could make a mint!!

"The only thing...more expensive than education is ignorance."~Ben Franklin
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." ~ Plato

 
Douglas Alpenstock
pollinator
Posts: 5007
Location: Canadian Prairies - Zone 3b
1357
posted 3 years ago
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Mark Brunnr wrote:Money doesn't just grow on trees- oh wait nevermind...


Haha! 'Course, to convert leaves into money, someone has to gather the leaves, pick out only the pretty ones, put them in nice packaging, convince a retailer to give shelf/floor space, deliver or ship them, and the retailer will mark them up 300-400%. Depending on the arrangement, the wholesaler may not get paid for the ones that don't sell and end up in the trash. Doesn't sound like a big moneymaker to me.
 
John F Dean
master steward
Posts: 7001
Location: southern Illinois, USA
2556
I like...
goat cat dog chicken composting toilet food preservation pig bee solar wood heat homestead
posted 3 years ago
  • Likes 3
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
$7.00 a bag!!!   I paid over $10.00 a bag for my leaves.  Where did you find them so cheap???

At my age, Happy Hour is a nap.

 
Su Ba
pollinator
Posts: 2143
Location: Big Island, Hawaii (2300' elevation, 60" avg. annual rainfall, temp range 55-80 degrees F)
1064
I like...
forest garden rabbit tiny house books solar woodworking
posted 3 years ago
  • Likes 9
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Douglas, the trick is to cut out the middleman. ……and employ a cute kid.

When I was a kid our family use to spend July 4th at the seashore. Us kids would gather seashells as part of the fun. Dad loaded the good ones into the car trunk. At home us kids went door to door selling those shells. We did a brisk business even though we lived in a low income neighborhood. By the end of a week we felt like millionaires. I remember seeing those shells being used as decoration in my friends homes. And while my friends went to the shore too, at least once during the summer, they never brought shells home.

It's never too late to start! I retired to homestead on the slopes of Mauna Loa, an active volcano. I relate snippets of my endeavor on my blog : www.kaufarmer.blogspot.com

 
Douglas Alpenstock
pollinator
Posts: 5007
Location: Canadian Prairies - Zone 3b
1357
posted 3 years ago
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Su Ba wrote:Douglas, the trick is to cut out the middleman. ……and employ a cute kid.


Excellent!!!
 
Cécile Stelzer Johnson
pollinator
Posts: 1361
Location: zone 4b, sandy, Continental D
385
posted 3 years ago
  • Likes 4
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

r ranson wrote:What a savings



Frankly, I had to look at it twice: A handful of leaves [ugly red oak leaves at that] for $6.00 reduced to $4.00. I figured no way, someone is taking us for a ride [definitely the one selling the leaves is, if it's true!]
I live a good 10 miles from the next sizeable town. They have maples, oak etc. and must rake and place them on the curb so the leaves do not plug the storm sewers.
Every year around this time, there are all kinds of leaves, already bagged. huge bags, the 55 gallon type! I stop by, knock on the door and ask them if I could pretty please take their leaves for my garden. No one yet has refused to let me have their leaves:
Deep at heart, people are good, decent creatures who love to do a good deed: they make my day, but I make theirs as well as they have a sense of doing their civic duty by giving me leaves that would otherwise plug the municipal dump. Knowing that their leaves will help me raise a great garden, they don't have the heart to refuse.
So far, I have about 75 bags spread out and I'm going for another 20 today. the weather is going to warm up a couple of degrees this coming weekend, so this year, I might have a great crop of mulch. I put the best leaves [beautiful sugar maple leaves] on the garden and if I see a bag that might have weeds along with the leaves, I spread that bag around my apple/ cherry trees.  Some have 25-30 bags! I have to make several trips.
It is unreal what folks will spend good money on! But will complain endlessly about taxes and the price of [fill in the blank] Whatever!

$10.00 is a donation. $1,000 is an investment, $1,000,000 is a purchase.

 
Carla Burke
Rusticator
Posts: 8593
Location: Missouri Ozarks
4560
6
I like...
personal care gear foraging hunting rabbit chicken cooking food preservation fiber arts medical herbs homestead
posted 3 years ago
  • Likes 3
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I wonder what I could get for goat poop...

"The only thing...more expensive than education is ignorance."~Ben Franklin
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." ~ Plato

 
Dan Boone
gardener
Posts: 3545
Location: Central Oklahoma (zone 7a)
1259
I like...
forest garden trees woodworking
posted 3 years ago
  • Likes 4
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Carla Burke wrote:I wonder what I could get for goat poop...



Reminded me that "moose nugget" jewelry was a big seller to the tourists where I grew up in Alaska.  Did a search and there are currently 500+ listings on Etsy for "Moose Poop Jewelry" so I guess it's still a thing.  

Pecan Media: food forestry and forest garden ebooks
Now available: The Native Persimmon (centennial edition)

 
Tongue wrestling. It's not what you think. And here, take this tiny ad. You'll need it.
permaculture and gardener gifts (stocking stuffers?)
https://permies.com/wiki/permaculture-gifts-stocking-stuffers
reply
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
Boost this thread!
Similar Threads
More...