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K Eilander wrote: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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Oh, THAT'S simply ADORABLE!!!
(You know you're a permie when videos like this one are your favorites, and melt your heart before you even open them!)

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... you *really* want to capture some of the rainwater off the well shed, but don't have time to do it right...

Big Green to the rescue!

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Haha, excellent, I do that all the time.

But it takes an experienced wheelbarrowista to get all the water from point A to point B. You begin to know what a freight train feels like.
 
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Jay Angler wrote:... you *really* want to capture some of the rainwater off the well shed, but don't have time to do it right...

Big Green to the rescue!



Love this!

All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.

 
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You might be a permie if when your room mate has one of those pod coffee makers you cut open the (throw away)  plastic pods, mix the coffee grinds with the charcoal from the (throw away) little water filters and try a bit of that Terra Petra (spelling? Or another word?) charcoal charging of the soil in the little forest behind apt building. I’m stealth sabotaging the commercial landscapers attempts to constantly block the trees rebuilding of soil. Speaking of which, I gotta get dressed & go harvest pine needles off sidewalks for my mulch. Urban Guerrilla Gardening!

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leigh gates wrote:You might be a permie if when your room mate has one of those pod coffee makers you cut open the (throw away)  plastic pods, mix the coffee grinds with the charcoal from the (throw away) little water filters and try a bit of that Terra Petra (spelling? Or another word?) charcoal charging of the soil in the little forest behind apt building...

It's Terra Preta - close _ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta  The trees won't care that you got the letters in the word mixed up a little, because that's what the worms will do with that lovely treat you're preparing for them - mix it into better soil!

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I absolutely harvest coffee pods! Not so much water filter charcoal -- they concentrate stuff I don't want. There are better sources for char, even for an urban guerilla gardener.

But I love the idea! Doesn't matter where you are. You can make things better, a little at a time.
 
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You know you are a permie when your batch cooking for a busy winter weekend looks like this.

Tomato sauce made from the following
Home grown and home canned Upstate Oxheart tomato puree
Home grown Dehydrated oregano, basil, garlic scapes, green onion, summer squash, and wine cap mushrooms
Sweet Italian sausage from your friend's farm that used locally sourced food waste and raises the pigs in the woods.

Ham and potato soup.
Left over ham from our big family gathering
Ham and pork stock I pressured canned from the pig we get from our friend's farm.
Home grown potatoes stored in our basement
Home grown and dehydrated carrots, summer squash, lovage, green onion, and garlic scapes.
Heavy cream from the amazing grass fed dairy farm in town.  
A little rice flour to thicken it
Salt and pepper to taste
Grass fed, raw milk, cheddar cheese served on top.  

Chicken veggie soup.
Home pressure canned organic chicken thighs I bought on marked down at my local supermarket in the summer.
Home pressure canned turkey stock from the extra bones my husband brought home from helping a friend harvest their home grown
 turkeys.
Home grown and dehydrated carrots, parsnips, celeriac, kale, summer squash, wine cap mushrooms, green onion, thyme, lovage, and
  garlic scapes
Salt and pepper to taste.  

In less than 30 minutes on a very busy weekend  I have put together 2 gallons of soup and enough tomato sauce for 2 lasagnas that I will finish making on Sunday.

Next on the cooking list is dealing with the 8 dozen eggs our hens have gifted us,  



 
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Wow, Kate. I'm exhausted just reading your post. And hungry! Do you deliver?
 
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This is your favorite January reading material
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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” — Abraham Lincoln

 
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You know you're a permie-parent when...

Every week for church/every formal occasion, you have to hold inspections - because there'll be at least one kid who tries to wear muck boots.

If you don't "know enough"... try anyway! (Cuz that's how you learn.)

 
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If you are smoking bacon while at a permies.com meeting on Saturday morning.

 

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

 
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When you feel rich cleaning out your chicken coop.
 
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Have you ever had the dream where you are in a public restroom and on the toilet and you can’t get the stall door to close and darn it if you just have to go so badly?

You know you’re a permie when the
toilet in your dream looks just like the humanure toilet you use daily that your neighbor built for you for $30, three years ago.
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When you put so much garlic on your eggs that your wife's eyes water when she comes into the kitchen!  

"Honey, I know you love garlic, but you don't have to cry about it".  My wife is so emotional.

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

 
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Happy to see mole tunnels showing up everywhere in the yard. That means the soil quality has been improving and the growing worm population attracts moles to aerate the soil. Good sign!

Zone 6, 45 inches precipitation, hard clay soil

 
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May Lotito wrote:Happy to see mole tunnels showing up everywhere in the yard. That means the soil quality has been improving and the growing worm population attracts moles to aerate the soil. Good sign!


Although when the start chewing the bottoms off your root vegetables, you may find that your perspective changes from "welcome" to "dog food." Active rodents are not always friendly, and they breed exponentially. Just a heads-up.
 
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Gophers, moles, voles, i cant keep it straight which ones are the eaters of plants and which ones improve soil structure + fertilize from below. Don’t they have predators?  In my urban setting I don’t see the tunnelers, just squirrels. And likely rats & mice, but they don’t seem to bother my potted plants. Cats dig and defecate and kill birds, but hunt rats. Sometimes I’m not sure which processes to support. So I’m going with you might be a permie if you can find ways to feel guilt that your not-yet-convinced neighbor would not understand. Hmmm, more research!

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You’re in a mainstream restaurant and you see a sign like this, and you photograph it just to share on permies,
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Best luck: satisfaction

Greatest curse, greed

 
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Douglas Alpenstock wrote:

May Lotito wrote:Happy to see mole tunnels showing up everywhere in the yard. That means the soil quality has been improving and the growing worm population attracts moles to aerate the soil. Good sign!


Although when the start chewing the bottoms off your root vegetables, you may find that your perspective changes from "welcome" to "dog food." Active rodents are not always friendly, and they breed exponentially. Just a heads-up.



Moles don't eat roots unless they are starving, nor are they rodents. They eat insects and dig a lot. In fact they eat insects that would eat your roots, so they are protecting your roots (if they don't totally dislodge them!

Perhaps you are thinking of voles, which are rodents and love to eat plant roots. Gophers also.

Little house with a big garden in the city!
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." ~ J. Krishnamurti

 
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When you have just negotiated to plant a dwarf red dacca banana within your community garden by offering free suckers of it to members. Which said banana you pounced on with glad cries in the local nursery and were ready to do battle with all comers over, until you got it to the till and into the car.
And you also promised your labour and know-how to construct large compost bins... and did it all gladly... for the sake of not having to eat a shop bought banana.
 
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C Lundquist wrote:Moles don't eat roots unless they are starving, nor are they rodents.


Haha, you're right, fair comment. We don't have genuine moles here, only pocket gophers which deposit mole-like mounds and chew on my root veggies.
 
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When you finally get dish pan hands by putting bacon in the smoker for 24 hours!

My hands are soft, but the stains never seem to go away.

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

 
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This time of year I want all the green I can get. I made money in 2020 cutting my fruit back and starting new plants in my kitchen

When it is obvious that goals cannot be reach, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. Confucius

 
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You know you are a permie when you are planting so that there is food for the animals over the winter in Canada (especially in the city).
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When you talk your aunt out of sending you a Teleflora type bouquet of flowers for your birthday, and get her instead to send you money for a burn barrel to make biochar with! MUCH better! I have no need for dead flowers that don't even smell nice  
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Gardens in my mind never need water https://permies.com/t/75353/permaculture-projects/Gardens-Mind
Castles in the air never have a wet basement https://permies.com/t/75355/permaculture-projects/Maison-du-Bricolage-house
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.

 
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You know you’re a permie when your roommate can’t find the lettuce because you filled up the fridge crisper drawer with the arriving spring bulb order

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When you get your snail mail, and get a free gift...
Whoa! I didn't order ladybugs!! I ordered nematodes!
I have ladybugs in my fridge :D
Was a bit startling to see when I opened the package, you don't expect a bunch of bugs crawling around in your mail.
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Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.

 
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When you get super exited when you realize you have been dumping all the sawdust beside some willow trees.

I need to make signs!
 
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My wow moment today was when I discover all the wildflowers are blooming, and trees, too.

Spring is here, at least today.

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

 
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You know you're a Permie when ...
You  are happy giving your neighbor a "spare" rooster that they admire.


There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse. - Thomas Sowell
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. - Albert Einstein

 
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...when you look at this year's initial seed starts of tomatoes, eggplant, tomatillos and ground cherries.... and realize this is the last time till next winter that anything involving the garden will be under control. Everything from here on will do as it pleases!
Begin the chaos of the 2023 garden!!

:D

it looks so well organized right now....

Gardens in my mind never need water https://permies.com/t/75353/permaculture-projects/Gardens-Mind
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Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.

 
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