You know you're a permie when...

Tereza Okava wrote:when you make candied ginger and juice the peels for cooking. then you take the pulp from the juicer to make a bug spray for the garden. plans within plans!

Function stacking at its best!!

...when you gather an armful of twigs on every walk to strip and dry their bark for medicine, and take the twigs to dry and use later for basketry.

M Ljin wrote:...when you gather an armful of twigs on every walk to strip and dry their bark for medicine, and take the twigs to dry and use later for basketry.

and then, just as you are wondering why you collect so much honeysuckle bark, you start feeling nasty and decide to make yourself a strong cup of tea, and find that it took a sixth of the big jar you had collected. Time to gather more(?)