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Anne Williams
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Worm castings are your idea of a great part favor.
 
Anne Miller
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Anne, welcome to the forum.

I'll play ...

You like dirt under your fingernails and the feel of grass under your toes.

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

 
Barbara Simoes
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You are on the hunt for fruit that you can add to your garden but don't yet have.  (I have over fifty types and counting!)
 
Barbara Simoes
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If you are riveted by videos that talk about how to build your soil, you might be a permie!
 
Timothy Norton
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You might be a Permie if you cultivate "Weeds"

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You might be a permie if you slow down to get a better look at what others have pitched at the curb.
 
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You might be a permie if you travel with a plant rustling kit.
 
Gaurī Rasp
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….your travel plans revolve around your compost worms & your seed starts…

gardener, homesteader

 
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One might be a permie by signing up to this website  wanting to learn from others, and...travel with a shovel (in my case, in the trunk of my car) in case there might be a plant in need of rescue into my garden from abandoned places. Legally!
 
Penny Harper
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You might be a Permie if it's hard to throw anything away. Maybe it could be used for compost or mulch, to feed the chickens, buried in the hugelkultur pit, start a woodstove fire, given to someone in need. Anything but send it to the landfill.

Penny Harper

 
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...if you spend your lunch time watching a video on how to make lye from hardwood ashes, even though you don't have a fireplace, don't have hardwood to burn, and you hope things don't come to this in the next several years...although it sure seems like it might!

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If when you're hiking your hubby becomes annoyed because you never look up - you're either
1). Picking up other peoples' trash,
2). Looking for plants you can't identify
3). Telling hubby which plants you DO identify, letting him know even though he's oblivious,
4). Picking up after your dog - and other peoples' dogs,
5). Or chatting about what projects you'd like him to help you with at home.
I mean, what's acreage for if not to have fun growing stuff?
Or suggesting (again) you really REALLY want goats (just
2... I swear!) to eat the invasives.
 
See Hes
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...you say Termites are GOOD, essential and useful for nature and take thankfully all Termite Nests from your neighbors.
In the morning you chop one up to see that you have no weak or small chicks when Termites are in the game.

But you told the neighbors, despite the termite infestation in our area, keep some nests in the ground so the termites are self sustaining...
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Termites give power and as long there are some on the tray even the smallest chick will not let itself push away from the bigger ones.
Termites give power and as long there are some on the tray even the smallest chick will not let itself push away from the bigger ones.

In modern times the only right way forward is to come back to nature.

 
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...if you keep big boxes and a rake in the back of your car, just in case you drive past a good leaf pile.
 
J Garlits
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You might be a permie if...

Every time it rains, your brain insists that you divert the runoff to where it needs to go.

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Tereza Okava
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You might be a permie if.....


your opinion of a certain person changes drastically when you learn she is a plant rustler too (and you eventually end up swapping seeds with her)

your dream ride is not a Porsche but rather any old banger pickup, for all those moments you see things laying on the side of the road for the trash (and make your partner nuts with your wailing of "BUT I COULD USE THAT!")

your local merchants save oddball things and/or waste for you, saying "I thought of you immediately"

you can't go anywhere without making all your companions nuts by constantly pointing out every single edible/medicinal plant you see
 
Ara Murray
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......you bore your fellow dog-walker with the names (common and Latin) and uses of the trees you are passing.
 
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-If you change insurance agents because the A**hole wants you to put your front yard back into lawn!  (40 sq. ft. Ain't enuf!)

Rick Valley at Julie's Farm

 
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You might be a permie if,

your wife calls out for a BBQ and all think a Goat would be nice.
Well knowing your farm team you go an buy 2 living goats and watching the sad faces because nobody want to slaughter them.

The two new hedge clippers do a great job pruning the trees and the female goat is now awaiting her first baby

In modern times the only right way forward is to come back to nature.

 
Joylynn Hardesty
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...you know at a glance what breed of cow this is...

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'What we do now echoes in eternity.' Marcus Aurelius
How Permies Works Dr. Redhawk's Epic Soil Series

 
Carla Burke
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Joylynn Hardesty wrote:...you know at a glance what breed of cow this is...



And, you're frustrated that you still don't have any real ones!

"The only thing...more expensive than education is ignorance."~Ben Franklin
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." ~ Plato

 
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got another one right out of the life...

you might be a permie if...


... your farm gang is catching eels in the drying out pond and you tell them the biggest eels are hiding in about 2-3 feet depth.

You do not bother the fish, but happily realize that they just found the best clay for a cob house right below the top soil in your own land.

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Nok catching eels in the drying out pond
Nok catching eels in the drying out pond
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Yeeehaaaw, clay, they found best quality clay on our land
Yeeehaaaw, clay, they found best quality clay on our land

In modern times the only right way forward is to come back to nature.

 
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