Malcolm Purvis

Here in Orkney, Scotland we are having roast vegetables again, as we do around 3 or 4 times a week. Potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, cabbage or leeks all from our croft and picked around 10 minutes before going into the oven. It’s a real treat.😄 warmest regards to all at permies.com

Hi, we don’t keep sheep ourselves but we live on North Ronaldsay, a very small island in Orkney, Scotland and many of our neighbours have rare breed North Ronaldsay sheep that have evolved to eat predominately seaweed. They are small pretty sheep and their meat is very sought after for its slightly salty, seaweedy taste.

Hi,

Interesting post, thank you.

I haven’t done any bartering as such but I live on a very small island of 65 people so sharing and helping each other out is common. However, what is a brilliant idea (in my mind) is the credit commons system, which is set up for building communities and getting us away from the extractive debt based and totally unsustainable system of money that we currently have. Please see here https://www.lowimpact.org/categories/economy/commons-economy
https://www.lowimpact.org/categories/economy/commons-economy/