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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!!

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...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.

One can never be too kind to oneself or others.
Never our fault, always our responsibility

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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(?)

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Pearl Sutton

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... when the neighbor calls and just says "Can you come help me?" so food gets shut off and left on the burner, and I go over. "Can you get this tree root out?" Oh fun! Dig dig dig, move some bricks dig dig clip clip, yay!!
When I left I thanked her for "good fun!!"
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... when you walk through one of the largest shopping malls in the world and can't find a damn thing you need except a cup of coffee.

And then ... you walk through the freecycle zone at the local recycling centre and fill the trunk with all sorts of stuff you DO need.

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Douglas Alpenstock wrote:... when you walk through one of the largest shopping malls in the world and can't find a damn thing you need except a cup of coffee.

And then ... you walk through the freecycle zone at the local recycling centre and fill the trunk with all sorts of stuff you DO need.

Hahahaha... yes! I don't drink coffee, but the rest, yes. nothing interesting at malls. LOTS interesting in free or cheap places!

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... when the "baby pictures" your friends send to you, are of baby plants.

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When you do a search for organic farming singles website and premises.com pops up! 😊

Tereza Okava

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You know you're a permie when you have a day off and you dreamily look forward to spending it WEEDING!!! (and have plans for the weeds...)

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Not sure if this one belongs in "you know you are a permie when.." "you know you are a reuser when..." or in a non-exstient thread "Technology misuse in the path of a more permie lifestyle..."
BUT!!
I need to clean my dehydrator trays, been way too long, they need a good soaking. I use the round ones in my electric dehydrator. I generally throw them in the tub, but my back hurts today, I don't want to deal with that today.
AND!!
If you are a lunatic, you can take the agitator off the shaft of the kind of clothes washing machine I have, an older toploader, and then you can thread trays right down it :D
I have a washer full of dehydrator trays soaking, another stack of the other half of them to be the second batch after these soak well.

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... when you don't care that your compost pile isn't running hot.
It's full of LIFE!
I went to dump the kitchen scraps and the whole pile was seething.
Good critters. Eat it up! Poop it out! Make more critters! Do it do it do it!! :D

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My wife has been bugging me about some work that needs to be done in the front yard. As I am standing on the porch with coffee in hand, a deer walks up to me and calmly nibbles on the grass a few feet away from me. I am not sure if she didn’t notice me or didn’t see me as a threat. Anyway, I stood still until she moved on. A nice way to start the day.

The First Axiom of Life: Don’t do dumb things.

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I know my son's a permie because he asked me to pick him a 1/2 liter of raspberries from my patch, for his birthday today! A present I was happy to give!

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... your daughter-in-law shows up with a treat for you, and in the bag with the treats are two pits from fruit they bought and they're hoping I will plant them and see if they will grow!

Alas, I didn't recognize the name of the fruit, so it didn't stick, but I will ask again and write it on a label, so I can look it up and see what the babies will need if they germinate.

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Tereza Okava

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you come home from dog walkies with your pockets full of fallen fruit and "look at this weird thing I found" treasures (to be incorporated into the next project)

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A young friend of mine was picking a bouquet of flowers for his new wife. I was busy picking tomatoes from my garden bed.

I told him to give her a tomato from me! Fresh picked and vine ripened. I hope it gets there safe and sound...

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Pearl Sutton

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I was out pulling weeds by the road, a neighbor came by, walking her dog. We were chatting, the dog was eating plants, and I told her "Oh, look at this cute bug!" and I lured a maybe 1.5 inch long caterpillar onto my hand, and showed it to her. "Isn't it pretty? Look at the colors! It's a swallowtail caterpillar, will be a a swallowtail butterfly." She admired it, I went to put it back, realized where I was going to put it needed the weeds removed out from under the plant. Didn't want to put it back just to traumatize it immediately, couldn't pull the weeds with one hand, so I said "Oh. Will you hold this cute bug?" She laughed, we put it on her hand while I pulled the grass out from under the biggest parsley plant (they LOVE the parsley!) and then she gave it back to me and I put it where it would be happy and safe while I worked in the area.

She looked at me and said "You know, you are the only person who would not only tell me to look at a cute bug, but who would then ask me to hold the cute bug, that I would not only look at it, but hold it for them!! It's always weird to stop by when you are working in the gardens..."

You know you a permie when you can talk innocent ~~victims~~ people into holding cute bugs for you.... :D

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And a story that I can't find when I search, guess I never told y'all...
Spring of 2025 my mom's Subaru did something horrifying. I ended up having it towed to the house. The tow truck guy was wearing a pink safety shirt, was a nice guy. Got the car where I wanted it, then looked at the flowers by the driveway "What are those?" I named off several types including zinnias. He was staring at them like he'd never seen a flower before. I said "Pick some if you want." He kind of panicked, "Oh, I can't do that, you GROW THEM!" I said "Look, this zinnia matches your shirt!" He agreed that it did. I cut the zinnia and gave it to him. He looked stunned and awestruck by it, looked at it very closely. I have never seen that expression on someone's face, I don't think he'd ever been given a flower before (or honestly, I'm not sure he's ever even noticed them growing.) Was odd.

You know you are a permie when what's a casual zinnia to you is sheer shock and awe to others.

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...when you sometimes wonder "is my resume tattooed on my forehead?"
At a thrift store, had chatted with a guy about long underwear season coming, and up at the counter he looked at me and said "You know about juicers, right?" Not worded like "do you?" but worded like "I assume you do..." Why yes, yes I do. I looked at what he was buying and taught him how to not burn it out like he did his last one :D

It must be tattooed on my forehead "Ask me weird stuff! Of COURSE I can answer it!!"

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