!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Permaculture Playing Cards - the purple deck

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26. Stack of rocks (habitat, mulch and harvest water from air)

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27. Mowable meadow vs. lawn

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28. Round wood timber framing

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29. Cob adobe - duct tape for natural builders

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30. Truly passive greenhouse

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31. Forage gardening (kinda like guerrilla gardening)

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32. Slip straw

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33. Freezer wofati: Freezer wofati card

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34. Passive solar garden heater

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35. Spring terrace / humus well

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36. SKIP

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37. Post in the ground

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38. Mycelium insulation

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39. STUN

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40. Landrace / epigenetics

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41. Biophilic design

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42. Worm town

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43. Forest v woodland

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44. Mosquito mitigation (strong focus on bats)

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45. Wavy deer fence

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46. Sealing a pond without a liner

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47. Earth plasters / tadelakt

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48. Grow mushrooms (instant food / shady+damp space)

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49. Starting fruit trees from seed

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50. Skiddable structures

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51. Soil microscopy

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52. Solar food dehydrator with rocket assist

PURPLE, PAUL?! What! Like purple permaculture? I thought you were a brown kind of guy 😆

Sorry, I don't understand at all what you are asking...Could you post a specific example, perhaps?

Alina Green wrote:Sorry, I don't understand at all what you are asking...Could you post a specific example, perhaps?

It took me a minute to figure out how the voting for what goes on what card works.

It looks like we have 52 ideas for card fronts. You can put a thumbs-up on whichever card fronts you like best. Whichever card ideas get the most votes will be the aces, then the ones with the next highest votes will be the kings. Then the next highest will be the queens.

A thumbs-Up = 1 vote
An apple= 10 votes
A pie = 20 votes

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Right now:

natural cooling has 2 apples and 1 thumb. That means 21 votes.
haybox cooker has 3 thumbs, but no apples. So it just has 3 votes.
rocket oven has no thumbs, but 1 apple.
Rocket water heater has 1 apple and 2 thumbs. That makes 12 votes.
starting fruit trees from seed has 1 apple and 3 thumbs. That makes 13 votes.

If voting ended right now, Natural cooling, rocket oven, rocket water heater, and fruit trees from seed would all be aces, while the haybox cooker would be a king.

So, if there's soemthing you find really important/valuable, give it thumbs and maybe even an apple!

Ah, okay.  Thank you, Nicole.  That makes sense now!

I also wonder if the background and foreground would be more harmonious if some of the colors of the tree were worked into the background, kind of like this:

a very quick and dirty photoshop for the general idea. I'm sure Andres would do a much better job!!

I just made another layer in photoshop and changed the hue of a few boarder areas. I didn't spend much time thinking about what colors would look best in which places, and I didn't color very well in the lines. I just wanted to be able to see it, because my mind is terrible at visualizing things!

I like where this is going very much. I like purple pie, but it doesn't work for me in a card. Greens and maybe sepias work best to this eye.

There has to be something seedy. Seeds, saving seeds, planting seeds, storing seeds, mixing seeds (landrace), seeds are/of life.
Andrés Bernal I just bet with your talents you could portray all the differences seeds indicate :-)

Um, newbie question: are there pictures of these?
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Maggie Ross wrote:Um, newbie question: are there pictures of these?
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There are a couple. However, the number and suit on the cards is yet to be determined. We would like to base the poll on the topics.

In this thread, above this Poor Man's Poll is one for the Back Card Design. Andres is a wonderful artist! Those pictures are there to vote on.

I was asked to put in the values and suit for each.  And I said that we should do a poll to see which ones are the aces (best), kings, queens, etc.

Tree hay

Tina Wolf wrote:

Maggie Ross wrote:Um, newbie question: are there pictures of these?
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There are a couple. However, the number and suit on the cards is yet to be determined. We would like to base the poll on the topics.

In this thread, above this Poor Man's Poll is one for the Back Card Design. Andres is a wonderful artist! Those pictures are there to vote on.

Actually, seeing the images associated with each topic could significantly affect the voting.  If an image is at all confusing or less aesthetically pleasing, one of the more upvoted topics might get fewer votes, and likewise a really amazing image might attract more votes despite illustrating a topic with less "blind" interest.   Since the whole purpose of the cards is to generate interest and further research into each topic, the images will have a major effect on that.  Just my 2 cents... and in fact I did not vote for a few items whose terminology I did not recognize.  An image might have sparked understanding and gotten a vote from me!  When I have spare time I plan to search and learn anyway, but by the time that happens I may have forgotten all about it...  

But I'm sure there is a reason behind your method, so carry on!