Jacki Perry

I used to post here alot years ago. Nice to be back.

 Is anyone familiar with how to build a traditional Chinese wood burning cook stove? I have a pretty good idea of how they work, but I'm not sure how to build one from scratch.
   Thanks in advance.


Leigh

Hello? Anybody still here?

I'm thinking about relocating to Vermont-southern half of the state. Would love to talk to folks who live there and get their take on conditions.

This is a very cool thread. Anybody still doing this? Could nut trees be included, and non fruit/nut bearing trees also? I dont have a place yet, but when I do, I would be overjoyed to get in on this.

If you want decent apples, you will have to graft. Growing from seed is wasted effort. Because it certainly wont be the same variety of apple the seed came out of. There are a few places where you can get heritage varieties of young trees, and advice on the best ones for your area. Sorry, I can't remember the one, but google heritage heirloom apple trees and you should find them. They have a paper catalogue they mail out, mine is currently buried under stuff.

Dan Boone wrote:Ooh, I'm interested! OKC is a couple hours of driving for me but we get down there from time to time. If you find somebody nearer the city who wants them, that would be a lot more eco than me burning the gas for a special trip though. We don't have a trip planned at the moment, so let's see what other takers you get that might be closer, and PM me if nobody turns up?

I have been planting nursery trees (3 apples, a pear, a fig, two cherries, a peach) and transplanting free roadside volunteer trees (crab apples and different plums) and sprouting seeds that aren't ready to plant yet (a few store apples and pears, a couple persimmons I managed to germinate). I also just took a bunch more saved supermarket fruit seeds out of cold stratification and got them into soil just in the past few days. But I've been clearing and thinning brush and thorns (ash saplings, Osage Orange, Honey Locust, various thorny vines I haven't managed to ID) so we've got a ton more tree planting space than I have trees. Most will have to rough it without regular irrigation, but hopefully some will thrive on fortuitous rains and my nascent effort at small earthworks.

You might want to reconsider killing off the honey locust trees. The green pods can be harvested and dried for feed-including humans.

Two sf books that deal with surviving in a hostile environment are The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin (primarily anarchist but also makes points on environmental issues-she also wrote supporting short stories to the novel)


And Twilight of the Basilisks by Jacob Transue-which I think may have been a pen name. Long out of print and hard as hell to find, this is certainly a permaculture sf story
Excellent, excellent book.

Just went looking-again-for this author and actually found a little info this time.

Jacob Transue was the pen name for Joan Transue Matheson. Born 1924, died 1995. Only other published work is a short story published in various anthologies, titled This Corruptible (1968 I think) Also under Jacob Transue. No wonder I could never find anything else by this writer! Real shame.

Jennifer Wadsworth wrote:Wayne - I thought your plot was awesome too!

One thing that we might consider is doing an anthology of short stories - just to get everyone's juices flowing (so to speak).

Margaret Atwood - one of my most favorite and most disturbing authors! A mini-series would be cool!

Edited to add: I always thought it would be fun to write an anthology on the SAME story - where everyone takes a character and tells the story from their viewpoint.

Something kind of similar is already being done and has been for some time. They are called Shared World series. Mostly fantasy story lines, but a few sf as well. Google it if your interested.

Wide Sargasso Sea-by Jean Rhys (book followed by movie) was a pre-quel to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. Excellent story.

Cassie Langstraat wrote:

Jennifer Wadsworth wrote:

Edited to add: I always thought it would be fun to write an anthology on the SAME story - where everyone takes a character and tells the story from their viewpoint.

I love the idea of this also! I have seen something similar to this and thought it was really cool. For example, Ahab's Wife: Or, the Star-Gazer is a book written from the perspective of, obviously, Ahab's (from Moby Dick) wife! I have never actually read this particular book but I love the concept. I also think someone might have done one from the perspective of the one african woman in Heart of Darkness, but I can't remember if I was just thinking that would be a good one to do. Also I have talked to people about how it would be cool to the same thing but for A River Runs Through It. A story from the women's point of view. What were they doing while the men in their family were fishing all day every day? Ha! Anyway, sort of off topic tangent but I like it!

The guy who wrote the Redwall books is dead. I dont think you'll be asking him anything.

D. Logan wrote:

Sam Barber wrote:

I quite honestly believe if we could somehow explain to people that permaculture would make it possible for the average person to harvest prepare all of the dishes describe in the various Red Wall feasts out of their own back yard and give them the time at home to cook them we could convert the better part of an entire generation worth of people virtually overnight.


As for my self - I'd probably read permaculture fiction especially if it had graphic detailed description of manual labor techniques (rawr!), polyculture phenology (hubba hubba!) and conniving intrusive mushroom-alien overlords bent on bending the universe to their own will (just me?) - until then I guess I'll just have to keep trying to make the fantasy a reality. Oh well.

Yes I agree that would be awesome! Those feasts were awesomely delicious it was so cool.

I wonder if anyone has ever tried to contact the author and see if he might be interested in endorsing/co-authoring a Red Wall cookbook. Something to consider.