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You know you're a permie when...


...you look down at 'Organic' because it isn't good enough.

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I just got on my land a few months ago and am so looking forward to hugelkultur! There are herbs growing throughout the rock croppings, but not much else.

 
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...when you eat your weeds!
Oh come on Pearl, lots of people eat their weeds...
But do they can them up so they can eat them later?
I have a date this afternoon with the canner and a bunch of violet leaves.
:D

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Pearl Sutton wrote:...when you eat your weeds!
Oh come on Pearl, lots of people eat their weeds...
But do they can them up so they can eat them later?
I have a date this afternoon with the canner and a bunch of violet leaves.
:D



I made a few jars of pickled milkweed earlier this spring and hope to can more in the future. I would like to try something less energy intensive but they always go mouldy when I try to dry them and I have a low success rate for fermentation excepting sourdough and yogurt.
 
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You know you're a permie when...

...you let a spider take over your outdoor sink for over a week, because you don't want to wreck its web...

sigh... I keep hoping they will find a new spot for a web, but not so far.

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…when “soup” means wapato leaves, homegrown garlic, mallow, clearweed and lamb’s quarters boiled together with some salt at the end.
 
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Also when you eat honeysuckle berries and find one bush with big red berries, taste them… “maybe after another generation of selection my mother would eat them!” And make plans to get some cuttings to root when the time is better, all the while pondering other places to scout out more good honeysuckle berry bushes.
 
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When trying to wash your work clothes requires tools to take them apart!!
Multiple safety pins doing various things had rusted, bent or wedged themselves places so bad I used my poketknife, my finest needlenose jewelry pliers and wire cutters to get everything so I could wash it. Only had to cut one.
That was a workout and I haven't even washed them yet!

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You're at a friend's for dinner when she asks if you'd like to cut off the tops of her Kale that's blooming in the hopes that it will put out some new side shoots. She thought my chickens would like it. Then I discover it's got green aphids on it, and my immediate reaction is, "bonus here - aphids - my girls will be doubly thrilled!"

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Maieshe Ljin wrote:…when “soup” means wapato leaves, homegrown garlic, mallow, clearweed and lamb’s quarters boiled together with some salt at the end.


When you get excited learning about a new edible possibility - wapato leaves. Really?! I only knew about the tubers. ....goes to check for more culinary possibilties of my water terrace plants.

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When you get excited learning about a new edible possibility - wapato leaves. Really?! I only knew about the tubers. ....goes to check for more culinary possibilties of my water terrace plants.



They are getting to be a new favorite green for me because of how abundant and tender they are (at least rolled up and small). I use them more or less interchangeably with water plantain which grows in a similar habitat nearby. I can never seem to find any quantity of tubers unfortunately.
 
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You know you are a permie when:
-  you proudly tell you friends that your blackberry are trying to gain sentience, so it can take over the world, and then proceed to make more room for it to spread.
- your forest floor has not only wildflowers and weeds, but also vegetables and herbs, so you can go forage for food in your own yard.
- you start vertical gardening, because you can out of room, but still has more plants you want to grow.
- you see beauty where others see chaos

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...when you pick up a pocketknife off the desk to break down some boxes, open it, say "EW! This was used for something gross!" toss it by the sink to wash and pick up another knife :D

Somebody around here needs to be washing their knives more often.

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...when you pull a couple hundred baby tomato plants out of the fall garden bed you planted. I guess that compost didn't get as hot as I thought it had!

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When you sweep the kitchen floor and dump the contents in the compost.

To be is to do …Kant
To do is to be ..Nietzsche
Do be do be do…Sinatra

 
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When you go to the garden center for more compost and do a little browsing, and come home with another tree. Then scratch your head, because you now have to find space for that, plus the other 3 trees you ordered and “forgot” about 😝.
I found a 4 feet high Yerba Mate for 15$ and could not resist. I also have a cherry tree waiting to be planted, once the temperatures go down, plus 2 sapote tree and an avocado, that will arrive sometimes in the next 2 weeks.
Since I am also starting seedlings for the cold season, my small indoor nursery will be very full soon. Hopefully the temperatures will drop early this year, so I don’t have to wait until December to plant then.

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You save the seeds out of your dinner to plant next year!

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tomato seeds spread on tissue to save for growing
Locally grown tomatoes - yum!

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When the paucity of garlic mustard is a source of great consternation.
 
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You know you're a permie when you build a wofati for your birds!

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…when you get an email from a local gardening group talking about bonfires for celebrating the harvest and burn piles and immediately reply, what about a biochar bonfire to celebrate the harvest?
 
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Also, when you bring boiled acorns to a potluck to pass around. (Everyone liked them even though I cut the leaching a little bit short.)
 
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it's storming like mad on the first day of spring, and you are practically outside dancing in the rain in happiness because.... it's raining on the first day of spring. we needed it so bad. things are going to grow well this year. fingers crossed.
 
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when you mend Hubby's boxer shorts for the third time because you just can't buy quality these days. After all, no one is supposed to be seeing him in his boxers except me anyway!

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You know you are a permie, when grasshoppers eat you produce, so you catch them and feed them to the chickens, thinking take that your …..
When your find peach tree seedlings and think yeah free trees. When you look at your garden and think, where can I fit in more trees.
When you start rescuing trees and plants from nurseries.

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When you collect and toss the pits of peaches and plums, and the apple cores from making jam/chutney to strategic places around the perimeter of your homestead.
Fingers crossed for a food forest hedge!

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when someone mentions they have acquired bizarre food (strawberry mayonnaise) by accident and are going to throw it away because they don't know what to do with it, and you firmly say STEP AWAY FROM THE TRASH CAN, GIVE IT TO ME!
And you know exactly what to do with it.

And you make everybody a chocolate strawberry mayonnaise cake, remembering an ancient chocolate cake recipe that used mayonnaise to make cake. And the cake is phenomenal, and everyone is demolishing it as we speak.
Waste not, want not!! nom nom nom
 
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.... I was at a thrift store the other day and they had 4 of these cute little jars.

cute little jar


I picked up all four, the lady said "They are 25 cents each." Absolutely fine with me.

Maybe I'll pour candles into the jars... but I bought them for the lids! The lids were worth 25 cents each to me. Why??

Because I'm a permie....

Here's a lid without it's plastic part.

Heavy smooth glass lid


Those lids make EXCELLENT easy to clean, boilable, stackable, fermentation weights!  :D
I got 4 good glass fermentation weights for a dollar the other day!

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wow, those are GREAT for pickle weights!! nice score!
 
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You know you are a permie when:
You put the grill pan out for the cats to do first clean, wipe what is left with old newspaper and ball up to put into toilet roll inners for fire starters.
When your guests ask what is for dinner and you reply: I will have to see what weeds are growing

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Paul, can Hunny make a meme out of that?  Please? The weeds one.

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Joylynn Hardesty wrote:Paul, can Hunny make a meme out of that?  Please? The weeds one.

Absolutely, love to see it ❣️

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