paul wheaton

Sarah Nguyen wrote:Would love to offer part of my Permaculture Design Toolkit™

Spiffy!

First thing is that we need to get your product into our digital market!

https://permies.com/wiki/64443/set-thread-Digital-Market

Let us know if you need any help.

By same logic  wheat, rye,  brassicas, beef , pork, and fish are best avoided.  

I would say wheat and rye are avoided.  

I choose to not avoid brassicas, beef or pork.  But I suspect many do.  

I would say that each person is gonna find their own food path.  

Again, the topic is "crop rotation and permaculture".  I choose to do my idea of permaculture which excludes crop rotation.  Zero grain.  My garden.

Beau M. Davidson wrote:When are we thinking of launching this bundle?

I'm vaguely thinking 5 to 7 days.  But my experience is that some people want to add something to the bundle, but it takes longer to get their stuff set up.

We are putting together a new bundle.  Maybe 24 items.  

I am putting in 9 things:

podcast gob 601-640 ($4)
https://permies.com/wiki/224268/Paul-Wheaton-permaculture-podcasts

24 podcast review of "desert or paradise" by sepp holzer ($4)
https://permies.com/wiki/166954/podcast-review-Desert-Paradise-Sepp

log picnic table plans 3.0 ($14.99)
https://permies.com/w/log-picnic-table-plans




solar food dehydrator with rocket assist plans ($19.99)
https://permies.com/wiki/193722/Plans-Solar-Food-Dehydrator-Rocket




freaky cheap heat movie as streaming plus one set of rocket mass heater plans ($15)
https://permies.com/wiki/238453/Freaky-Cheap-Heat-hour-movie




Justin Rhodes 45 minute video tour of wheaton labs basecamp ($3)
https://permies.com/wiki/88169/Justin-Rhodes-minute-video-tour

willow feeder ebook ($9.50)
https://permies.com/wiki/357494/Willow-Feeder-eBook




Extended truly passive greenhouse movie ($40)
https://permies.com/wiki/179584/Wofati-Greenhouse-Build-Extended-Edition




Low Tech Laboratory Movie: The Extended Interviews ($30)
https://permies.com/w/216724/Tech-Laboratory-Movie-Extended-Interviews



And from "not me" we have some things that are all set up, four things that are currently being set up, and four more that are still being talked about with the creators.  

The things that are set up:

worm bin design plans ($10)
https://permies.com/t/163495/Worm-Bin-Design-Plans

Growing Gourmet Mushrooms course with Michael Judd ($47)
https://permies.com/wiki/284095/Growing-Gourmet-Mushrooms-Michael-Judd

 

Cheesy Recipes by Kate Downham ebook ($5)
https://permies.com/t/241690/ebooks/Cheesy-Recipes-Kate-Downham-ebook


Anybody else have homesteading/permaculture digital content that they would want to add to this collection?  We have 19 things so far and I do think it would be good to get to 24.  So just a few more.  

Phillip Gapp wrote:Is this still the current deep roots thread? No updates or changes? :)

One change is that people are now required to complete six months in the bootcamp before being allowed to get deep roots.

i asked google "what was the life expectancy of Meso-Americans a thousand years ago" and the response was 20 to 35 years.  I am already older than that.  

Of course, I am sure that there were other factors.  

Because of my research about health, I have chosen to eat zero grain (well, nearly zero) for the last three years.


Your words sounds like "this sugar coated, corn based, crunchy cereal is part of a complete breakfast!"  Meaning that if you mix junk in with healthy food, the whole package becomes "healthier" than if you ate it alone.  I think I am attempting to suggest a path without the cereal.  Without grain.  Of course, not everybody will be convinced - and that's okay.  

So its hard to argue that they are not food or unhealthy.

And yet I stand by my position.  And so does Mark Shepard.  You, of course, are welcome to have a different position and continue to grow and eat corn.  I choose to not grow corn anymore.  To me, it's a hassle.  And not only does Mark make some points about health and corn that resonate well with me, but I have studied the works of a lot of doctors insisting that all grains cause a variety of health problems - and I find that information resonates well with me.   It would seem that many people (including you) think corn is healthy.  And many people (including me, mark and several doctors) think corn is not healthy.  You say "hard to argue" but ...

Further, the question is about permaculture gardening.  My philosophies about permaculture gardening are about techniques to grow food staples that will, in time, not only grow themselves without human intervention, but will spread without human intervention.    As I said above:  corn does not meet this criteria.  

So I would think 80% of my garden space would follow my ideas of "permaculture gardens".  And then 20% could be novelty gardening that would take greater effort and expense.

Geoff:  it would seem that geoff's philosophies about permaculture are different from mine.

Why would corn be out if a person does a three or four sister's garden?

Corn is out.  so three sisters is out.  And four, five, six, and seven sisters.

Plant corn and walk away for two years.  There is no more corn.  

If you want more about why corn would be discouraged in a permaculture system, read Mark Shepard's book Restoration Agriculture.

Many people are not lucky enough to have that much space to allocate to a garden.  

Lucky?  My guess is that they elected to live somewhere that has very little (or zero) garden space.  

I hope to demonstrate a style of gardening that will entice people to seek a place to live where they can have a large garden.

Crop rotation has been proven, over and over, to be an excellent strategy ...    for monocrop systems.

Permaculture  ....   ("permanent culture") is going to lean heavily on perennials, guilds, polycultures and self seeding annuals.  

Crop rotation is an excellent technique for organic systems.  But ...  my position is that it doesn't fit with permaculture gardens.  

A few positions I think about in this space (and the "you" is "me"):

  - if you are thinking of crop rotation, you are doing it wrong

  - if you are thinking of a block of monocrop, you are doing it wrong

  - corn it out

  - wheat is out

Move to a system that will pump out food without any seeding, fertilizing, irrigation ....   without any care at all ... the only effort is on harvesting.  That is the permaculture goal.  To design a system so well that years can pass with zero care.  And with zero care it grows more food and is spreading.

Maybe try. "Gardner" as a last name.