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You know you're a permie when you save string from feed bags.

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Leigh Tate wrote: You know you're a permie when you save string from feed bags.  



And baler twine off hay bales...

Yours is MUCH neater than mine :D

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Leigh Tate wrote:You know you're a permie when you save string from feed bags.

and then send it to a friend's mom who does a 15 strand braid with it, then sends it back for me to tie up garden plants and trellises - lasts forever, washes well, is very gentle on the plants, and it's upcycling! My friend's mom doesn't seem to have any hobbies and doesn't speak much English - this seems to keep her hands busy and she knows how much I appreciate it.

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Pearl Sutton wrote:

Leigh Tate wrote: You know you're a permie when you save string from feed bags.  



And baler twine off hay bales...

Yours is MUCH neater than mine :D


And, when your feed guy offers you all the end pieces from his heavy duty baling twine rolls!

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If you have ever traded ammo for permies pie and sourdough starter from the other side of the country!  
If you have ever been told you have to many jars.
If you have ever been told you can't eat that.
If you have ever made a bow target out of your scrap wool and a feed sack.
If when done with the target you use it to keep the barn water junction from freezing.

The best place to pray for a good crop is at the end of a hoe!

 
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When you go on facebook, realize it's Super Bowl Sunday because that's all anyone is posting about, so you go and hide on permies because you know you'll find things that are interesting to you!

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…when you’re scrolling through your telegram channel feeds and you keep finding memes and quotes you want to post on permies.com

Though it seems a tad inappropriate, I still foun it quite funny.

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Alana Rose wrote:foun



= found/find

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When you decide one of your arbors is not where it works best. So you take out a tape measure to figure out what exactly you are doing, and as you do so, you also figure out where the big yellow and black garden orb spider eggs are, and the first thing you do when you start taking them apart is move the eggs to a safe place.

Those spiders are awesome, some of them were catching grasshoppers last summer!! Definitely a protected species in my world :D

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Susan Taylor Brown wrote:When you walk around the block and you see someone ripping up their cement driveway and you ask them if you can have their old cement.



What do you use it for?
 
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When you take your dog out to the yard to pee and you notice 5 things that you'd love to do to your plants while your passing by them.
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When you see an apple core in the hardware store parking lot and think, “I need that for my compost!”
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Angela Wilcox wrote:When you see an apple core in the hardware store parking lot and think, “I need that for my compost!”


Or you seed it...  

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And speaking of seeds...
You know you are a permie when you get emails with subject lines that make you laugh, that most people wouldn't understand...
"Spring encroaches and the cotyledon approaches"
(Email was from Sow True Seed)

Behold the cotyledon, my son,
       the leaves that sprout, the roots that grow!
Beware the chickens who dig with claws,
       who cluck and peck and scratch!


(Sorry, Lewis Carroll!!  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42916/jabberwocky )  

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howdy,

You get a notice saying  "someone liked your post", and you find yourself having to read all the new ones... yep, uh huh, yep, thats me, oh I could do that uh huh yep  and that one.... oh look at the time just one more...

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randal cranor wrote:howdy,

You get a notice saying  "someone liked your post", and you find yourself having to read all the new ones... yep, uh huh, yep, thats me, oh I could do that uh huh yep  and that one.... oh look at the time just one more...


You missed "Oh WOW, what a cool idea! I'll look up how I could do that too!"  45 tabs and 4 hours later "Nah, I don't have time to do it."

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Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
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What I am looking for is looking for me too!

 
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When your first reaction to news of the looming fertilizer shortage is to thank God you made the switch to organic.

And your second reaction is to try and think of ways to encourage the farmers and gardeners around you to think about alternate growing methods, so they won't be hurt as badly by the shortage either.
 
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When this is the first you've heard about a fertilizer shortage! And, it just makes you more determined to keep on duin whutcher duin!!

The only thing...more expensive than education is ignorance.~Ben Franklin

 
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When you're listening to a lecture on small farm profitability and you complain to the speaker that his spread-sheet on his small pig operation doesn't have a line for the value of the fertilizer produced by the pigs. For goodness sake, we've *got* to stop thinking of such things as "waste products" - our farming ancestors knew it wasn't!!!

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You know you're a permie when fellow permies are the only people who don't look at you like you are crazy, when you tell them you want a wool swimsuit, to snorkel in...

The only thing...more expensive than education is ignorance.~Ben Franklin

 
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I am concerned that Barbie(tm) this carrot promotes an unhealthy standard of beauty for women.

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(Yes, it is a real carrot. Yes, I found it that way. And, yes, I am easily entertained.)
(Yes, it is a real carrot. Yes, I found it that way. And, yes, I am easily entertained.)

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I bury all paper that comes in mail, keep out plastic windows, and shiny ads.   I bury them in the yard to build up soil.

Bless your Family,
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…when you have twelve little greenhouses sitting on your heated RMH bench with tomato and pepper seeds in salvaged gallon water jugs, a salvaged cardboard box under the jugs, and to close the jugs…salvaged shipping tape off of other cardboard boxes because you visit the local grocery and hardware store merely to source cardboard😁
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When you're making a coloring book for refugee kids, and all pictures are strangely related to permaculture and homesteading...
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Yay, it's raining apples and pies! Thanks everyone for appreciating my previous post! I think the coloring book turned out really well, although I'm still learning the machine (a riso printer).
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A coloring book, already in color.

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When you daydream about what you would do to your neighbor's/friend's/relative's yard if only they would let you and the idea of transforming a postage sized lot into a mini permie paradise is very exciting for the challenge it would be.
 
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Leigh Tate wrote:You know you're a permie when you save string from feed bags.

and tea bags!
 
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When you need to start plants in some pots you filled the other day, but the weather is vile, so you look for a good place to do so in the house... and end up using your bed as a potting bench.
To misquote John Lennon "I have potting soil on my comforter!"

Although, with the days I crawl into bed without cleaning up much, potting soil is possibly one of the better things in my bed  :D

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Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!

 
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…when your local farmers send you personalized messages about what you might want to make for dinner.

For anyone living in SoCal, I highly recommend Primal Pastures.

#shoplocal #knowyourfarmer #organic #regenerativefarming
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When you're planning to go to three different events in one afternoon, but you meet with your permie friend, and you spend the afternoon with her instead, cuddling baby goats, drinking tea and feeling spring in the air...
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How can I leave this sweet goatie face?!

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When you often find yourself busting your hump now, so you can mostly be lazy, later!

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.... when you have the absolute BEST permie excuse for skipping some of your exercises:  A wren built a nest on my cross country glider machine, right by the garden, and she eats bugs, and I'm not going to disturb her.

Not a permie anywhere who would dispute that excuse!

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Angela Wilcox wrote:…when you have twelve little greenhouses sitting on your heated RMH bench with tomato and pepper seeds in salvaged gallon water jugs, a salvaged cardboard box under the jugs, and to close the jugs…salvaged shipping tape off of other cardboard boxes because you visit the local grocery and hardware store merely to source cardboard😁



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When the top shelf of your closet has a grow light above it so you can start your veggie plants for the garden.  Never mind the clothes, they can be stored in a cardboard box under the bed or somewhere else.  

With appropriate microbes, minerals and organic matter, there is no need for pesticides or herbicides.

 
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When you think someone is pretty darn cool because they're willing to spend a chunk of their day looking at chicken poop under a microscope with you. Also, when you can't wait to get your own microscope so you can look at all the soil, plants and chicken poop you want!

“Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.” ~ Robin Wall Kimmerer

 
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Heather Sharpe wrote:When you think someone is pretty darn cool because they're willing to spend a chunk of their day looking at chicken poop under a microscope with you. Also, when you can't wait to get your own microscope so you can look at all the soil, plants and chicken poop you want!


When you find someone to share your chicken-poop-under-a-microscope-passion with, but now he won't give the microscope back...
 
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When you are arguing with Paul McCartney's music...

"Take me down to Junior's Farm. Let's go, let's go down to Junior's Farm where I want to lay low. Low life, high life, oh let's go. Take me down to Junior's Farm. Everybody tag along. '
Does Junior KNOW you are bringing a random crowd to his farm? That sounds very rude to me! And you want to lay low, so you tell everyone to tag along? I hope Junior puts the whole batch of ya to work!!

"Late at night when the wind is still. I'll come flying through your door. And you'll know what love is for. I'm a bluebird. I'm a bluebird, I'm a bluebird, I'm a bluebird. "
Bluebirds don't fly late at night!

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Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!

 
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Pearl Sutton wrote:Does Junior KNOW you are bringing a random crowd to his farm? That sounds very rude to me! And you want to lay low, so you tell everyone to tag along? I hope Junior puts the whole batch of ya to work!!


LOL! Yes, Junior (being wise) will hand out shovels and hoes and wheelbarrows, and separate the wheat from the chaff right smartly.

Edit: Those who work may eat. Welcome to nature!
 
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When you stop digging up dandelions and start letting go to the wind.   Chickens LOVE dandelion leaves.

Bless your Family,
Mike

 
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