G May

Hello permies,

My partner and I will be moving to the Ann Arbor area this fall, we are ideally trying to find a living situation where we can rent from someone as well as assist them on their farm. I have a ton of organic and sustainable farming experience, my partner is looking to learn. We're both flexible, hard-working, and open minded. We have day jobs and can pay rent so we're not necessarily looking for a WWOOF experience.

What I can offer: experience with pigs, sheep, cattle, poultry, horses. Experience growing and maintaining all sorts of fruit and vegetable crops, years of farmers' market sales experience. I also teach foraging and plant identification classes. Would love to work together!

Hello Denver permies,

My name is Gabi, I'm 26, currently figuring my life out. I live in an apartment and am an outdoor gardening enthusiast and have a lot of experience, but I do not have a lot of land. I'm looking for a small piece of land so I can have a garden next year. I'm open to all arrangements - I'd be happy to rent land, share it with an exchange of knowledge or skills, WWOOF (I'm also looking into that option), or just straight up moving if I can find a good enough deal.

I'm basically looking for half of someone's backyard - just something small. I have a lot of indigenous and ancestral seeds I've collected over the years and would love to grow them, as well as just growing more of my own food. I'm located about 30 min south of Denver, near the foothills.

Let me know if you have an in for me (or if you've read this far and would like some seeds)!

Just a curious post to see what others are doing. How are you treating your water, whether on grid or off grid?

I have access to the water quality data (I actually worked with the city on a separate project) and RO will definitely work and produce purer, better tasting, and healthier (if you're into that sort of thing) water. We're mostly only interested in treating drinking water. I think what I'll have to do is install the RO unit before the drinking fountain.

I'm working on a request for water treatment options for a small community gym that I'm part of. I've done some small scale water treatment projects in the past, but this has mostly involved off-grid systems. This gym is on-grid and receives city water, which tastes bad.

I would like to do an RO filter but I'm having trouble with the water hookups. In the gym, there is an industrial drinking fountain, and then a few sinks, that's it. The sinks are in the bathroom and one is in a janitor's closet.

Does anyone have any experience with hooking up an undersink RO unit (or other RO unit) to a drinking fountain? Should we get rid of the drinking fountain and install a water bottle filler tap instead?

Hi everyone, I'm planting my garden in south Denver soon. I'm looking to see if anyone around wants to trade seeds or sell seeds/seedlings. I'm looking for unusual, heirloom, or uncommon varieties of vegetables that are hard to find at the typical garden store.

We ate these exact watermelons at a Native American student graduation event when I was in college. I saved the seeds and gave them to my grandpa - oops. They came from a farm in Gun Lake, Michigan.

My grandpa loves eating these guys and would always make turtle soup - he'd catch like 2 a year and then help the turtles in the meantime (he'd always save the ones crossing the roads or drag them out of populated areas) which made me feel less guilty about eating them. He would kill them first by chopping off the heads before preparing any of the meat. I don't remember the soup recipe but I do recall it being very good.

I am not Potawatomi, but I am Anishnaabe. I actually do know some Potawatomi folks who are actively doing cultural restoration farming, but I think reaching them would be best done through tribal departments - the Gun Lake band in Michigan is who I'm specifically thinking of. If you go to their website I bet there is a contact listed for restorative farming. I was once given Potawatomi watermelon seeds but I gave them to my grandpa to grow, unfortunately don't have any left. Same with squash, gave it to my mom and we grew some very nice squashes but I don't think we saved the seeds.

Another great contact is actually going to powwows and talking to the committee members, that is where I was given some heritage squash seeds as a gift, too. It's a great place to meet people and most people kind of know each other or know who to point you to.

Ramaria formosa actually looks the most similar to what we've gathered, but I think we've gathered both. I do remember there being two types in the forest, one thicker, yellower, more antlery looking one, and one paler and thinner (ramaria).