at the risk of offending and getting sent to the cider press.....
I think that this is exemplifies the "permaculture spirit"
by doing what you can, with what you have, for someone else
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/88-year-old-saskatoon-man-socks-1.3922778
88-year-old Saskatoon man makes thousands of socks for shelters
Bob Rutherford has made more than 10,000 socks for shelters across Canada using homemade knitting machine