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Permaculture is about understanding why and attempting to work more symbiotically with nature so that these plants can be healthier and more productive with less water, fertilizer and effort.

I love this definition gives us what it is, instead of what it isn't.

So many books, blogs, and videos, spend time complaining about what permaculture is fighting against, they forget to tell me what it is and how we can use it.

From this definition, we can build practical solutions.

paul wheaton wrote:The more gardening you do now, the sooner the world will be saved.

Agreed!

I would say more, but my garden calls.

My winters squash harvest is in and so far, it's 100% delicious!

All the squash this year is grown from grocery store squash we saved the seeds before cooking.   Then if the squash was especially delicious, we washed the seeds and dried them for planting.

Welcome to permies! Permies is a place for gentle souls to discuss permaculture and homesteading, all the time. It is a community, as well as a forum that is rich with wealth of information and assistance--made possible by lovely people like YOU!



Permies was started by Paul Wheaton in 2005, but this was not his first rodeo in managing forums! As a software engineer, he’d been managing forums way back in the 90s. Yes, there were forums back then--they just looked quite a bit different! In 2000, he took over Code Ranch, a forum devoted to java and other types of programming. You can find out more about those early forums HERE!



After he gained his Master Gardener certification in 1997, he wanted to learn even more and share what he knew, but the existing permaculture and homesteading forums just weren’t a good fit. He had his own website, richsoil.com where he shared articles about everything from cast iron to chickens to diatomaceous earth. But, he wasn’t about to stop there. He made a youtube channel and his made his own forums--these very same ones!

The forum is owned by Paul, who pays the bills to keep permies running, and it runs in the red (you can Buy some PIE, purchase or sell something on the digital market, advertise on permies, or feed the empire in other ways to help keep permies up and running!).



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J. Syme wrote:our local library network has an online catalog search and several of his works are available, (some are reference books  and thus only viewed at the library others are check out or eBooks).  try a site like https://library.pugetsound.edu/home and see what's available local to you.

Were there any books that appealed to you more than others?

It looks like it's on our interlibrary loan system, but I'm limited to only one more ILL this year.

Productivity without drama is so hard to find online or off now.

Even in my small town community art class, we can't just focus on the painting without social drama of who has the best paint brand or how come someone who practices 20 times a year can't improve as fast as someone who practices 20 times a month.  I am becoming convinced there is a direct inverse correlation between complaining and skill improvement.  I just want to paint, not waste time listening to drama.

Thank you for creating a drama-free safe space here on permies

ah... email demons.  

Samantha Lewis wrote:Just for fun!   come find us out at the bluesky

https://bsky.app/profile/permies.bsky.social

Cool

Catie George wrote:Here's a question-  do even professional photos look like a real sky to you?

It's a good question.

No.

Never.

and i have so many sky books.

It's like the difference between the photo of a painting and a painting.  So much is lost with the modern mediums.

I think of photography as it's own artform- but even the most beautiful sky photos don't look like a real sky to me.

I often find paintings, especially with "odd" colours, better capture the feeling of a sky than any photograph.  I see purples and reds and greens and yellow in the sky that a camera never does.

I have a habit of taking 2-4 photos with differnet camera settings if I think I might later want to paint something I see, which helps, but still isnt enough.

That's a good idea to take multiple phots with different settings.

Eric Hanson wrote:R,

On my DSLR, the autofocus has to be turned off with a separate switch.  

Again, on mine, I have have full manual control of things like exposure.

Even if on auto settings, I aim directly at the blue sky, press halfway and don’t release, then aim at intended targets and press fully.  This locks the settings on the blue sky but now aims at intended targets.  It took me a while to figure this out.


Eric

I almost never use auto.  

I tried all the usual settings,  then I did a few with full manual.  Then I got crazy and turned on full auto.  That was the most successful for sky, butthe iso was high for my liking as I don't like digital grain removal.

And although it was a nice photo, it couldn't capture the colour information i want.  To get the clouds exposed  correctly, I had to under expose the sky which sucks because it was baby pastels and not deep blue.

I'll keep working on it, but I don't think a camera exists yet that can do what I seek.  At least not a digital one.