Greg Martin

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Biochar maker, forest gardener/edible landscapist, plant breeding dabbler, forager.
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I can't remember a time in my life that I was not a forager, but it was almost completely not on the lot I lived on.  Now I forage almost exclusively in my food forests.  One big change to my eating habits is with the pulses of new foods.  I end up heavy grazing on whatever is ripening.  Lots of spontaneous fruit gorging.  Just wrapping up now on kiwis and apples.  Sunroom is drying up herbs and a batch of chestnuts for flour making.  I need to process a mound of pawpaws and another of flowering quinces.  Autumn olives are begging to be made into fruit leather.  Besides so many new foods, the way I eat now has been strongly influenced by what is ready outside my door.  Less planning and more reacting.  More off the cuff cooking.

I do still eat from the store.  Currently dealing with mild food poisoning from a recall that was a day too late for me.  Hmmm.  Maybe my next permaculture food change is to give up on our food distribution system.  My food forest has never made me sick.
4 hours ago
Although I'd love to visit the past and see what actually happened at so many time points, I think I would actually end up going forward in time about 50 years to try and see if what I had done made any difference.  And if anything I did ended up working out badly, I could then try and pivot.  Also I'd love to see how much more we've changed our understanding of reality.
1 day ago
Doctor Who just appeared and will take you on one trip to the time and place of your choice.  After the trip you will return to now and here.  When and where will you go?!
4 days ago
My cell phone accidentally took a 10 minute video of my feet.

It was some great footage.
6 days ago
Why did the apple go to the gym?  To work on his core!
3 weeks ago
Getting paid to sleep could be a dream job!
3 weeks ago
Amazing!  My prickly pears I'm growing in ground here in Maine are so much smaller.  Is it from one of the same sources as one of the two prickly pear varieties you're currently selling? (and if so, which one?)  
3 weeks ago
Devon, is that lovely cactus as large as it looks in your picture, or one of those closer to the camera effects?

BTW, love your nursery offerings!
4 weeks ago
This fall I planted chinese yam under one of my goumi bushes with the hope that I'll be able to put a tarp under the bush and shake it to collect all the air potatoes.  Goumi seems to fruit well with a little shade and is a nitrogen fixer, so hoping the two species work well together.  Also have ramps under the goumi.  They will not be in the way in the fall when the tarp is used, so that seems good.  Anything else anyone would recommend adding?
1 month ago