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Johnny Cash's Permaculture Christmas

Matu Collins

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Location: Southern New England, seaside, avg yearly rainfall 41.91 in, zone 6b

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In the story Xmas is lean because of a lousy cotton harvest. The gifts they give and the attitude they have remind me of permaculture. I would totally wear a flour sack dress. Catch and store resources!

Tidings of comfort and joy, y'all.

“Enough is as good as a feast"
-Mary Poppins

Dan Boone

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That Christmas album (on 8-track, running off a car battery) was a part of my childhood. We actually had one Christmas that was just about that lean -- our staple foods that winter were salted fish from the Yukon, beans, rice, oatmeal, and home-made bread. But we, too, had plenty of kerosene.

Thanks, Matu, and Merry Christmas!

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Tyler Ludens

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Location: Central Texas USA Latitude 30 Zone 8

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Matu Collins wrote:I would totally wear a flour sack dress.

Once the flour companies realized folks wanted the sacks to make clothing, they started printing them with patterns to make the clothing nicer!

Why can't we think this way now about our "waste streams"?

http://kindnessblog.com/2015/05/06/flower-sack-dresses-from-the-flour-mills-historical-kindness/

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Eric Thomas

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Location: Northeast Oklahoma, Formerly Zone 6b, Now Officially Zone 7

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