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THANK YOU for sharing and please have an apple, I had not known about this!!!

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When you happily spend your birthday picking up free pallets for the many projects you want to make, and building a black soldier fly bin. Oh happy day.

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When you have a file in your computer labeled "Garden Porn" for things that are just awesome cool things I'll probably never do, but are SO NEAT for daydreaming about.

I was just on this thread large pile of concrete, rubble, stones ~ what to do
and added these pictures to my Garden Porn collection for later drooling over...

oooh! Doubt I'll ever do it, but OOOH!!
Just flat Garden Porn :D

Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!

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When you walking in your garden and you greet unexpected "weeds" like you would unexpected friends.

"Hi plantain! I'm so glad you decided to show up!"

"St Johns Wort, you are looking lovely today!"

"Hey nettle, that's not the best spot for you right now but how about we go inside for a cup of tea?"

"Oh hello, I don't think we've met before. What's your name? Do you mind if I take a picture of you to share with my online friends so we can figure out who you are related to?" Ok maybe that last one I wouldn't say to an actual person. 😂

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When you have an idea, start a thread with a question and end up spending money at Baker Creek Seeds.
Gotta love being part of a community that tells you to do good things (buy seeds!) instead of bad ones.
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Pearl Sutton wrote:When you have an idea, start a thread with a question and end up spending money at Baker Creek Seeds.
Gotta love being part of a community that tells you to do good things (buy seeds!) instead of bad ones.
:D
https://permies.com/t/189028/Crossing-Tomatillos-Ground-Cherries

Going to give those babies a try myself!

And because I must:

...you know you're a permie when you're out in the early morning peeing beside one of your summer squash plants and you apologize to the one a little further down the bed, promising to pee on that one tomorrow :D

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When I was thinking while I was working about an article I was reading on stress and depression, it asked various questions, including "Do you have meaningful conversations with your co-workers.?"
Why YES! Yes I do! Here's some pieces of the conversation from this morning:

You are on the wrong side of the fence, I'm over here now!
*MEOW!*
Well, walk around to the gate and come here.
*MEOW!*
Or jump the fence, I bet you can.
*MEOW!*
Gate! You know where the gate is!
*MEOW!*

Hey! Don't roll on my garlic!
*roll, roll, roll on the garlic*
You are flattening it!
*roll, roll, roll on the garlic*

*purr purr purr sniff! BITE!*
Hey! Why for you bite me?
*Don't rub my belly wearing gloves you have been killing stink beetles in!*
Good point....

Deep discussions with my co-worker :D

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When one of the most useful functions on your cell phone is the 360 degree level. I like having a camera in my pocket, but I LOVE having a level! Can do slope too!

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When you justify exposure to many things that other folks would call gross or dirty by saying that you're just making your microbiome more diverse and resilient.

When you need an infographic in order for "normal" people to use your (composting) toilet.

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When the neighbor can tell what you are doing today just by looking at you...
Out working in the garden, in work clothes (flowered pants that are muddy, blue camisole, glove pouch at my waist, sun hat) when a neighbor yelled. I walked over to chat. She said "What are you planting today?" "Oh, I'm trying to replace stuff that died in the heat. I am planting beets, rutabaga, and a leaf amaranth. Put in some bush beans and daikon radishes yesterday." She giggled, pointed at me. I looked down. When I have seed packs open, if I put them back in the glove pouch they get spilled, so I had them sticking down my cleavage so they didn't spill...

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Pearl Sutton wrote: When I have seed packs open, if I put them back in the glove pouch they get spilled, so I had them sticking down my cleavage so they didn't spill... :D

My chicken friend uses the same spot to store baby chicks if they need moving - nice and warm, but a bit ticklier than a seed packet!

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Jay Angler wrote:

Pearl Sutton wrote: When I have seed packs open, if I put them back in the glove pouch they get spilled, so I had them sticking down my cleavage so they didn't spill... :D

My chicken friend uses the same spot to store baby chicks if they need moving - nice and warm, but a bit ticklier than a seed packet!

When I am raising infant kittens I keep them down my cleavage or in a pouch when they are too little to be left alone. I'm a marsupial! My dad was talking to a guy once, said something about me, the guy said "That's the lady who was in here yesterday with the kitten down her bra?" Yes. That would be me.

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When you go shopping at an Indian grocery store, bring home new types of beans...
Go to put them away, hm, where they go depends on whether they are food or seeds.
I have them germination testing, so I know where to put them
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Pearl Sutton wrote:When you go shopping at an Indian grocery store, bring home new types of beans...
Go to put them away, hm, where they go depends on whether they are food or seeds.
I have them germination testing, so I know where to put them
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That was fast! We have germination! They are seed stock!

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Pearl Sutton wrote:

Pearl Sutton wrote:When you go shopping at an Indian grocery store, bring home new types of beans...
Go to put them away, hm, where they go depends on whether they are food or seeds.
I have them germination testing, so I know where to put them
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That was fast! We have germination! They are seed stock!

WOO HOO! Yippee Pearl! Congrats!!

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You know you're a permie when

You're overly excited that your brother is talking about the mycelium in his new garden bed!

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...your morning routine doesn't mean any fussing with hair or makeup, but you do spend a little extra time schlepping buckets and watering cans. Because there's a watering can in the kitchen that captures extra water from all sorts of things; plus a bucket to capture water in the shower. The bucket in the shower you also pee into! Then you take these outside to water plants before starting your day.

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... when even your garden stakes feel the urge to grow!

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If you can fix things with next to nothing. I was on my way home to have a permies zoom meeting when the throttle cable broke.

The best place to pray for a good crop is at the end of a hoe!

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when you're about to build something, so you look up pictures on the internet, and all the results for what you're looking for come from permies.com

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when you're about to build something and you think... maybe I could do that with round wood instead.

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You know you are Permie when your curb side 'waste' keeps shrinking and your gardens are growing.

L. Johnson

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Carl Schleg wrote:You know you are Permie when your curb side 'waste' keeps shrinking and your gardens are growing.

Welcome to permies Carl!!!

Sounds like you know you're a permie alright, and you know where we congregate on the interwebs! Enjoy the party.

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Raphaël Blais

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... when you are discovering that one of your neigbors has a mushroom farm and you're extra excited of all that mycelium waste you'll be integrated in your permie system !

Radis.
Living and growing on my small homestead near a project of permaculture school.

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Michael Moreken

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You take all mail (almost) take out plastic windows and bury in low spots on property, and cover with the dirt or clay you dug up.

Bless your Family,
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The table isn't for eating, it's for seed saving!

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Steve Thorn wrote:The table isn't for eating, it's for seed saving!

And for rooting cuttings.

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When it gets into your dreams...
Long complex dream that had a part where I was feeding a bunch of military guys, in a reality where planting crops anyplace but in the Duke's fields was a serious offense, I put all the seeds and pulp from all the squash I cooked up for them into big jars, was planning some intense guerilla gardening! About 3 gallons of seeds mixed with pulp. That's a LOT of planting to do! I was eyeing the highway edges....

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Haha, that's cool. We all work through problems and possibilities in our dream state; that's what it's for.

Except: you could put those hungry military guys to work, you know? Planting etc. Sgt. Pearl!

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...when your neighbors do their yard work with the phone. "Hey, you want to come get these pumpkins?" "yes!" "Good, saves me hauling them to the trash can!"
She had decorations out front, 2 normal jack o lantern type pumpkins, two other orange ones with warts, a big green cushaw, and a blue hubbard. The hubbard need to be cut, it's got damage. I think our pumpkin pies for thanksgiving will be made of blue hubbard :D

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When you are galvanized by posts that come up -- hey, that's just what I'm looking for! -- and discover you started the thread years earlier.

Wait, did I already post that observation in this thread? It's possible.

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When you look at the day and realize it was a great permie day!
I got leaves from a neighboring place, mulched my sunroots deeply with them, peed on my compost, and had a yummy dinner that involved 4 kinds of squash!
That's about as good as it gets!

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... you can't let guests leave your house without giving them something that came out of your garden.

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.. you regularly have baby animals living in your house, and you don’t even care when they poop and pee on your living room floor, because you don’t have carpet.

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You know You know you are a permie when...
You do such an odd project you don't know whether to post it in Fiber Arts or Cooking! So I settled for here.

I cut the last of the decorator pumpkins from the neighbor's yard. It had the oddest fibers I have ever met in a squash. Thick, stringy, came apart really easily, tough... And me being me I said "I bet I could comb this and twist it into rope!"
So I did!

Then, me being me, I said "I could braid it!!"
So I did!

And then I tried to cook the braids into cinnamon sugar breadstick type things, but so far they don't taste right. I baked the whole pumpkin chunk, and I'll post what happens if I get it to edible.

So where do I post this? In you know you are a permie when... your obsessions cross in odd ways!

:D

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I never managed to get it to taste decent when it was made pretty like that. It ended up in the blender and used for sauces. Ah well, I tried.

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You know you’re a permie when you catch the new landscaping crew scraping off 3 inches of “your” area and you make them put it back + get them to put all of the roof/gutter debri (pine needles) on said area. AND deter chemically gick “Beauty Bark” with a look. Next summer I’ll give ‘em glorious tomatoes!

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When you've just finished your PDC course with a design for your own garden! Yay!

I attached one of the drawings. Included fish, small poultry (like miniature chickens or quail) and a rabbit in the project, but currently there are only fish in the pond. Now that I have it all properly thought out, I decided to make the zones more permanent because I used to keep changing them, which made the garden a bit chaotic.

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It's in Polish because the PDC is in Polish too!

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... you start looking at plants and going through endless lists of possible combinations. Will Plant A give me yield and become a trellis for plant B, and shade for delicate fruit tree C? Will it seasonally stagger such that plant D grows during dormancy of plant A?

And then you wish you could read someone else's notes because said list of possible combinations is actually endless...

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You're picking up small pieces of trash in an area you're reclaiming, and your salvaged bucket is already full, so you grab a scrap of bark to use instead.

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The wishbone never could replace the backbone.

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... you finally bite on a deal for an on-line permaculture design course and find yourself changed forever.

I've only watched about 5 hours of the udemy course from Tagari featuring Bill and Geoff, but oh my... "I can see clearly now the rain is gone!" (remember that song or the advertisement that used it?)

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Edit: Won't show up as a video for some reason (sorry), but it's a adorable little girl who takes a polish hen to her birthday party.

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