Hello from Spokane, Washington, USA

Hello everyone!

Truth is, I've been a permies lurker for a long time. For over twenty years now I have been reading about plants and gardening on the Internet and permies always comes up in the search results. I grew up with a little garden of my own, backyard chickens, and trips to the forests to forage. These days I have a much bigger vegetable garden and forage what I can.

Focusing on permaculture specifically I learned that the Cascadia region is a huge hotspot for meetups and I figure it's time to participate.

The photo is a close up of a cabbage grown from experimentally planting a core. That one core actually made several decent sized cabbages!

Welcome to permies Anne, thanks for coming out of the shadows I also get the impression that there is a fair amount of permaculture going on in your area - didn't Paul W get up there not so long ago?

Ooh - nice cabbage and what a satisfying story! So you just cut the leaves off and replanted the stem?

Welcome to the forum!

Welcome Anne, good to see someone from the Cascadia region. Foraging and backyard chickens growing up sounds like a solid foundation for all this. What does your vegetable garden look like now, mostly annual veg or are you getting into perennials?