Words or phrases that permaculture really needs!

Gallus interruptus:Gallus gallus domesticus is the biological name for chicken. I think we need this phrase because all too often when I'm trying to get Job A done, some chicken or other, gets in the way and derails me.

Examples of its use: 1) Today I went up field to collect the eggs. #2 Son experienced Gallus interruptus when I had to call him to get out to the field quickly as a chicken had managed to get herself stuck under the bottom pipe of her moveable shelter and I needed him to lift the shelter while I rescued the poor thing.

2) The other day I suffered Gallus interruptus when Dorothy got under my feet so that her sister, Blondie, could sneak past me into the goose shelter. Then I had to try to get Blondie out, without Dorothy sneaking in during the process.

What words/phrases would others like to add?

I'm not sure what the word would be, but it means "This is what I'm able to do at the moment, I have better plans!"
Anyone got a word for that?

Pearl Sutton wrote:I'm not sure what the word would be, but it means "This is what I'm able to do at the moment, I have better plans!"
Anyone got a word for that?

Procrastination?

Permitopic prelude.

"This raised bed is my permitopic prelude to the garden in my mind."

Amy Gardener wrote:Permitopic prelude.

"This raised bed is my permitopic prelude to the garden in my mind."

I love it!!! Thank you

Amy Gardener wrote:Permitopic prelude.

"This raised bed is my permitopic prelude to the garden in my mind."

Good one! I was thinking this describes a rather large subset of permaculture I would call "tempermaculture".

I thought of a chicken phrase a few months ago as a humerous answer in the affirmative. Example:

Person 1: "Does Paul Wheaton like permaculture?"
Person 2: "Do chickens shit on the porch!?"

Ploarder/ploarding:a person, or the act of hoarding plants.

George is such a ploarder - he's got 30 varieties of apples and came begging 3 more off of me.

Closely related to the ploarder is the seed banker.

Landscaper's Curse

When someone is in the landscaping business, their home landscape and projects are never done. Because all there time and energy is doing landscaping for other people and can not find good help.

Example:

"Why is Sam's grass long and everything is looking bad?"

"Well Sam has the landscaper curse."

T Blankinship wrote:"Why is Sam's grass long and everything is looking bad?"

Hmmm... I would have said it's because long grass shades the soil and provides more homes for micro-fauna, myself, but I get your point!

Jay Angler wrote:

T Blankinship wrote:"Why is Sam's grass long and everything is looking bad?"

Hmmm... I would have said it's because long grass shades the soil and provides more homes for micro-fauna, myself, but I get your point!

Yes! You are right! Long grass is great for a lot of creatures.

How can one judge the efficiency of something that requires 0 input?

Procrastination with the results you've been waiting for.

Tempest irratico: when the weather changes constantly, inconsistently, unpredictably, and too fast to cope with it!

I was trying to get all the chickens fed and the eggs collected, but as fast as I put my coat on because it was raining, the sun was out and I was over-heating. This tempest irratico is for the birds!

My favorite would be temporarily permanent.  

permgrimage

[perm-gruh-mij]
(noun)

1. A journey or trip to an ecologically viable, profitable, and harmoniously managed farmscape or area, not for the primary purpose of purchasing agricultural goods or services, but rather as a quest for knowledge, beauty, and soul-satisfying understanding.

Person 1: "Yikes, Sepp Holzer charges a whopping € 130 to take a day trip to Krameterhof.  Polyface was free!  Should I go?"
Person 2: "Take the permgrimage.  Just be sure to bring back some of that perennial rye, okay?"

2. A visit to see or hear a well-known permaculture artisan or guru.

Person 1: "I'm taking a permgrimage here in Tennessee on May 14th for the 'Homesteaders Of America' conference, wanna' come?  Joel Salatin is doing a hands on broiler butchering demo."
Person 2: "Yeah, I saw that Justin Rhodes is doing a 2 hour presentation, too."

3. The path or process one takes starting at or from a conventional agriculturally sustained world-view, towards an ecologically regenerative lifestyle which benefits life in all its forms.  A figurative permaculture journey.

Person 1: "I can't believe that some permies on this forum would advocate using that chemical fertilzer, ANYWHERE!  That stuff is poison!"
Person 2: "Seriously, relax!  The permgrimage takes time!  You're on Paul's Eco-Level 6, and they're still on  Eco-Scale level 2. That's just where they are on their transition right now.  It's just like Mollison's chart in the PADM on page 5, you know?"

plottery

[plɒt-(ə)ri]
(noun)

1. An portmanteau of "plot" and "lottery".   Short for "garden plot lottery".

2. When a lottery is held to determine which members of a community are allotted garden space to grow that year, especially in an urban community garden setting with a limited number of plots, .

We won the plottery!  Time to start some seeds ASAP!

burndoodle

[bəːn ˈduːd(ə)l]
(v)

1. A compound of burn and doodle.

2. To make scribbles, scrimshaw, drawings, or haphazard words phrases, or lettering into a project or sign via wood burning.

Person 1.  Um, why is there smoke coming from the outhouse?
Person 2.  Oh, yeah, that's Bob.  He's burndoodling a bigger sign for the door ever since someone walked in on him doing his business.

3. To casually or inconsequentially mess up a project, usually involving wood burning, often causing a "happy accident" in its design.  

Bob: This new outhouse sign I made looks like...um, well, like it belongs in an outhouse.  I really burndoodled it this time!

4. (n) An imperfection, usually in wood burning.

Person 1.  You've got some burndoodles over here, but not bad for a first try.
Person 2. Thanks, I'll get better with practice!

I like that word, permgrimage! Especially for the 3rd meaning. I am on my permgrimage for 7 years

To me, the most important word or phrase that permaculture really needs is:

Permaculture

I found the forums around January or February of 2016.

I have never heard the word spoken.  It is in my head and I write about it often though I wonder am I pronouncing it correctly?

I feel I am pronouncing it correctly: perma culture.

I ask Mr Google:

Sounds like: pur·muh·kuhl·chr

I feel the most important thing people can do is to talk about permaculture

When was the last time a person spoke the word permaculture in their daily life?

When was the last time you heard the word permaculture?

You've heard of the phrase "first world problems"?  That is, certain things that people in modern affluent nations complain about that most of the world doesn't understand.  eg, "How do I eat cheetos and use my iphone at the same time?"

Well, I think there should be something similar for people living in the country, "first rural'd problems".

For example, when it starts out as taking a nice date night with the missus, but it ultimately involves buying things like repair parts and straw bales because, "as long as we're in town..."

Or two guys are in a field.  One of them says, "I need to use the bathroom"... so the other automatically just turns around.

Or my fave, "I've been drinking from mason jars so long that my lips have developed threads."

Anne Miller wrote:To me, the most important word or phrase that permaculture really needs is:

Permaculture

I found the forums around January or February of 2016.

I have never heard the word spoken.  It is in my head and I write about it often though I wonder am I pronouncing it correctly?

I feel I am pronouncing it correctly: perma culture.

I ask Mr Google:

Sounds like: pur·muh·kuhl·chr

I feel the most important thing people can do is to talk about permaculture

When was the last time a person spoke the word permaculture in their daily life?

When was the last time you heard the word permaculture?

I agree. And that's one of the reasons why I use the word. Another reason why is: I am in a group with a community garden and we name our group "Permacultuur Meppel' (Permacultuur is the Dutch 'translation', Meppel is the name of this town). In our group we talk about Permacultuur 'all the time' (quoting Paul here ...)
And now I rent an allotment plot I have even more reasons to use the word Permacultuur. Of course in Dutch we pronounce it very different ...

Pearl Sutton wrote:I'm not sure what the word would be, but it means "This is what I'm able to do at the moment, I have better plans!"
Anyone got a word for that?

"This is what I'm able to do at the moment, I have better plans!"  is the plan

Sorry, I can't put it in a single word.

@ Anne Miller - I actually do hear it used by others occasionally in my region, although not nearly as often as I'd like. Many people at least know approximately what it means. Many people know that if they ask me about a garden/land problem, they'll likely hear the word.  (yes, Jay, your first answer will be to plant berry bushes around the larger trees and add more organic matter to my soil - this from older friends)

I tend to hear the word from 20-30 aged people - they're getting really worried about the state of the planet and feeling helpless about making enough impact fast enough, so they're looking for options and many have heard and use the words permaculture and hugelkulture. I've noticed more permies members identifying themselves as from my Province, but I would love to see hundreds more. Hopefully our current flooding issues will open even more eyes!

Jay Angler wrote:I actually do hear it used by others occasionally in my region, although not nearly as often as I'd like...  but I would love to see hundreds more. Hopefully our current flooding issues will open even more eyes!

Unfortunately, where I live the surrounding counties have a population of about 3,000.  Most of the people I have contact with are busy doing their jobs, just trying to earn a living, probably thankful that they have a job.

I am sure if I mentioned permaculture they would shrug their shoulders and go on about their business.

I just try to do what I can here on the forum.  And hope that others feel the same way.

"Permiesqueness"
(1) An enveloping sense of harmony and connected flow of effort that exponentially grows and expands reward and reduces waste. Brick by brick.
(2) Finding yourself in the state of meditative  permaculture: A taste similar to a dried salted plum, sweet, salty, sour rolling over the tongue like viscous honey with a hint of orange followed with a shocking aftertaste of wasabi (don't breathe out though your nose)  As you inhale you smell cut grass first turning to pine and then South Carolina low country sea grass and salty fishy sea air and the underlying swamp smell turning to clean fertile garden dirt. Desert air on your face as snow goes down the back of your neck feeling gritty sandstone on the left and a smooth barked aspen on the right. As you walk your left foot drags through sand as your right foot slips on scree. A calm state with hyper activated senses.

Treecycling

Tree recycling or "up-cycling".  The act of purposefully taking a dead tree and giving it a new life, through one or many means such as:

Mulch & compost

Hügelkultur

Arts and crafts

Woodworking or furniture

Mushroom growing

Person 1. "I'm not sure what to do with my Christmas tree.  Do I take it to the....uh...dumpster?"
Person 2.  "No no no.  The city has a collection program.  But if you want, I'll treecycle it for you in the garden."

I was musing in a different thread about the cross-section between art and permiculture, and asked:

If I become a man who grows/farms living/plant-based art pieces, would that make me an articulturist?

And I suppose I would be practicing articulture and further developing various articultural techniques.

John Warren wrote:I was musing in a different thread about the cross-section between art and permiculture, and asked:

If I become a man who grows/farms living/plant-based art pieces, would that make me an articulturist?

And I suppose I would be practicing articulture and further developing various articultural techniques.

And if you use artichokes in your articulture it gets complex!

Thank  you, I may be using that word. Good word, sir!

Pearl Sutton wrote:
And if you use atrichokes in your articulture it gets complex!

Thank  you, I may be using that word. Good word, sir!

You might even say it would be hard to articulate the beauty of such a thing...


Glad to know others like the word, thanks!

Permagedon: When when all the nonbelievers finally see the light.

John Warren wrote:... would that make me an articulturist?

...practicing articulture and further developing various articultural techniques.

Small update I thought was interesting... now that I've spent a fair amount of the day with these words tumbling around my head, I got curious about the idea of eventually setting up a website.

But the .com version of all 3 is already registered (though none are in use).

Articulture.com since 1996
Articultural.com since 2018
Articulturist.com since 2019

Kinda stinks, but maybe I can add something to the word or do a .net or whatever if I decide to pursue a website for it.

Humidserable.

(adj)

1. 🌦️+☀️=🥵

"I can't permaculture right now, it's downright humidserable out there."

Imperficulture.

Seems self explanatory.

Jay Angler wrote:Gallus interruptus:Gallus gallus domesticus is the biological name for chicken. I think we need this phrase because all too often when I'm trying to get Job A done, some chicken or other, gets in the way and derails me.

Examples of its use: 1) Today I went up field to collect the eggs. #2 Son experienced Gallus interruptus when I had to call him to get out to the field quickly as a chicken had managed to get herself stuck under the bottom pipe of her moveable shelter and I needed him to lift the shelter while I rescued the poor thing.

2) The other day I suffered Gallus interruptus when Dorothy got under my feet so that her sister, Blondie, could sneak past me into the goose shelter. Then I had to try to get Blondie out, without Dorothy sneaking in during the process.

What words/phrases would others like to add?

Could also mean when you pause the conversation to allow the rooster to finish crowing…

Pearl Sutton wrote:I'm not sure what the word would be, but it means "This is what I'm able to do at the moment, I have better plans!"
Anyone got a word for that?

I am not sure what word, would it be, but for sure it would have been in ancient greek the easiest and most straightforeward of
all the languges

I just came up with a word "animalyu", though its a little futuristic if not surreal, it basically means "an animal person", which considers that eventually some animals either by means of natural evolution or human tinkering, we would have around talking two legged dogs and other such new neighbors with animal and human traits combined.