Greg Martin

Nancy Reading wrote:
Ooh that does sound interesting Greg. Thanks for a new edible plant pointer! I can only find the variegated form in the UK....

Here's a fun article that Kyle wrote about how he got interested in this plant and finally got the hedge he was looking for.  He layered one for a friend of mine who is now layering one for me, so it looks like I may end up with one of Kyle's plants!  Fingers crossed.  Hoping that you manage to find one too, Nancy.

Very nice!  Mine are still rock hard.  We usually get our first frost by the end of October due to the south-west hill we're on, which delays our frost by weeks and gives the early varieties enough time to ripen.  So still looking forward to that.

Carla, I got 2 peaches this year out of the hundreds.  We shared a lot with our wildlife this year too!  Not sure if it was the drought we're having or other factors, but this year we had the most wildlife pressure on everything that I've ever witnessed.  

In the episode I linked to, one of the ten plants mentioned, fiveleaf aralia (Eleutherococcus sieboldianus, non-variegated) seems really, really difficult to get unless you happen to live next to feral plants in a place where it's ok to get cuttings or dig some.  I do not!  

If anyone happen to have this plant to spare, I'd be thrilled to buy one from you.

Just stumbled across The Forest Garden Podcast on YouTube and have been loving it, so I had to share it with you all.  I hope they are still making more.

I ordered a rack with a dozen ribs, but I only ate the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 7th and 11th ribs because I really love prime ribs.

greg mosser wrote:
apologies if the wrong greg answered!

Not sure, but pretty sure that all Greg M's are completely encouraged to answer for each other here on Permies!

I know I encourage it.

The 3rd Thursday of September is national pawpaw day.  I put a reminder note in my pocket to go squeeze some of my pawpaws  when I get home to see if any are ripe here up in Maine yet.

M.K., thank you for sharing this method.  What variety was the one that took the deep freeze the best?

Flora, by Alan Bergo is another great foraging cookbook that applies very well to perennial food recipes.  I love it!

I've been getting into my copy of Forage, Harvest, Feast by Marie Viljoen recently.  What an amazing cookbook for permaculturists.  I'm always shocked that there are so many great foraging books for what I think of as permaculture recipes, but I can't really find anything labeled as permaculture cookbooks that are focused on perennial foods.  I desperately hope this will change.  Is permaculture just not as "cool" as foraging in today's society?