Patricia Loofbourrow

Hi, guys!

I just now (like a few minutes ago) finished this: https://gumroad.com/l/TGEW#

Hope you'll come by, take a look, and let me know what you think!

Hope everyone is doing well. I've been insanely busy, but the garden is going great.

This is a great idea, Dan, thanks for the tip!

Hi, my third annual international edible front yard contest is on now through July 31st! All you need is four photos of your edible front yard and a description/explanation of what edible plants are there.

Winners get fabulous prizes! What could be better?

To learn more about the contest and see the fabulous prizes go to http://www.edible-landscape-design.com/front-yard-gardens.html

I live in Moore on 0.8 acres ... we moved here from southern California in late 2005. It was after that when I learned about permaculture and soon realized that if I wanted to do anything much in my HOA community that 1) it had to be ornamental as well as edible and 2) (more importantly) attitudes about food production needed to change. So in 2010 I started this website.

My yard projects are doing fairly well, after quite a few setbacks. The tornado didn't help much ... I had one new tree literally disappear, it had just been planted and is probably in the next county somewhere. But it's been a remarkably mild spring and my other trees and plantings are doing great, if I can only keep up with the weeds ...

Dan Boone wrote:Does anybody here in Oklahoma know where I can find a publicly accessible population of Arundinaria gigantea (cane) where it would be OK for me to dig some rhizomes for transplanting? The distribution map here shows it just two counties south, but I hate to set off on a road trip hunting for the stuff without any specific tips on where to find it.

Any suggestions gratefully received!

There is a lot of it in the Coyle area, we routinely go foraging for it in Jackie Dill's wildcrafting group (more info on the outings at http://www.oklahomawildcrafting.com/ )

joey tran wrote:very clever idea. gj on the site. I been struggling with landscaping my edible garden but i think you got it down very well =)

Thanks

If you need help with anything let me know.

Hi,

I run a website about landscaping with food plants at http://www.edible-landscape-design.com which has been going since October 2010.

My goal is to change the way growing food is viewed and move home edible gardens into the mainstream.

I just started a class called Tasteful Yard Design that I thought some of you might like.

There are also several ebooks on related subjects and lots of other information. We also have an Edible Front Yard contest every June. The photo is from this year's winning garden.

Thanks for the kind words Hibah and for the tip cd!

Yes there is so much here it's hard to know where to start ... plus I'm starting my first class on my website so I'm really busy! So I just look here when I have a break.

Hi, everyone! A friend told me about these forums a while ago but somehow I never introduced myself!

I've been organic food gardening since 1992 or so, and about ten years in we never had to go to the store for produce (and we didn't have a huge yard). My family and I moved to Oklahoma from southern California in 2005 -- some time after that I got the idea to re-do all my landscaping with food plants, not knowing much about it. After doing a lot of research and being frustrated that I had to go ten different places to find the information I wanted on anything, I started my own website about it in October 2010. I don't know if I'm allowed to link to it here but it's on my profile.

It was also after I moved here that I found out about peak oil and started prepping. I've always been more or less a frugal person, I have an MD and before that worked a couple years as an EMT, so for me there hasn't been much of a learning curve. In any case, learning about preparedness led me to permaculture. I've read some things about it (including my friend Bob Waldrop's book iPermie) but have never taken any classes.

Anyway, there's me and my husband, our three grown children, and two angora rabbits.

I like to spin, knit, crochet, sew (costumes mostly -- I like steampunk and SF stuff), and just about anything to do with food -- growing, harvesting, preserving. I usually freeze and dehydrate more than anything else, although I know how to pressure can and I used to make a LOT of jam/jelly when we lived in CA. I eat low-carb lately so I don't do much of that anymore. I've also taken quite a few classes on wildcrafting and foraging wild edibles, and know how to make wine and soap.

We live in an HOA so I can't get chickens or anything like that, but I'm building a new hutch for my bunnies right now and when that's done I'm going to get some meat rabbits.

The May 20th tornado came two blocks from our house. Nothing was damaged and no one was hurt, but that and the May 31st storm pretty much destroyed my garden. So I'm working right now on getting it back in order for the fall. I got some great red mustard plants in front which love it out there, chard, garlic, mint, rosemary, sage, daylilies, and two apple trees. In back I have a cherry tree, a fig tree, a lot of chard, two American persimmons, asparagus and a line of dewberries along what's left of our fence.

Looking forward to getting to know all of you.