Randy Jamrok

I'm up in Northwest Indiana. Highland, near Gary.
I would love if we could create a more cohesive statewide permaculture community here in Indiana.
I know there is a Bloomington crowd, an Indy crowd, I'm working on a NWI crowd slowly...

Last year, I was at both the Michigan Perm Convergence and the International Permaculture Convergence in Cuba and wrote a booklet on the things I learned at the IPC.

PRI (Permaculture Research Institute of Australia) posted my description of it, and the booklet is available for free download.

http://permaculturenews.org/2014/01/20/bringing-permaculture-solutions-back-ipc-cuba/

Does anyone want to meetup in Indy sometime?
I'm usually there every 3rd saturday for a meeting with another organization I'm involved with.

Also, feel free to facebook me if you want to stay in touch.

Thanks ,
Randall Jamrok

Hey, fellow Permies!

I am now offering print copies of my booklet "Permaculture Solutions to Climate Change" in which I share what I learned from my recent experience in Cuba at the International Permaculture Congress 11. It is a tool communities can use to help them create bottom-up systemic change. I have a crowd-funding campaign on wethetrees.com where you can get a printed copy of the booklet, or follow a link to download it for free.

Please check it out if you are interested, the link is:
www.wethetrees.com/campaigns/permaculture-solutions-to-climate-change-booklet

Feel free to share it within your social networks for anyone who may be interested. This is a 30-day campaign.

Thanks,
Randy

YAY! They look really nice!

On being a sweet food junkie:
"Diabetes is the CURE--civilization is the disease!" (i.e. the problem is the solution)
(an adaptation of a quote from "truly cultured" by Nancy Lee Bentley, a book I am reading now about fermented foods and how they can balance our systems (as in having a craving for sweets). The original quote is from the founder of marcrobiotics: Cancer is the CURE--civilization is the disease.)
Check it out if you like, fellow Permie!

I just like stevia because you can tear off a leaf and have such an unexpected sweet taste, out of a leaf?!?!?

I have grown stevia in a pot for 2 years now.
Germination is very low, and I believe it prefers "poor" soil.
I overwintered it in the basement. It died back, and then resprouted in the late winter. Then, it died back again, and came back in full force in the spring.
I have attached a picture of it.
I am near Chicago, in Northwest Indiana.
Our climate is pretty much as humid and hot now as a tropical area anyway! Climate Chaos!