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Sorry homie.

Glad to see you’re out there voting though!

There are a few varieties, and I’m not sure what type these are! I can report back when they grow a bit more. At the moment they only look like baby green onions.

I haven’t, but when I had ducks they loved the seeds!

I may try if they flower.

I hadn’t heard of the perennial celery either, but had someone reach out to offer it in exchange for my own offer to share divisions!
Really excited for more perennial
Veg!

An old dirty soil bag filed with dirty root chunks

Doesn't look like much, but this is gold: Did a plant swap with someone new in a nearby town. Got perennial Korean celery roots, lovage, comfrey, perennial leeks, and garden dock.
The food forest is going to be FLOURISHING this year.

Planting calendar

A sharing version of my garden planning spreadsheet.
Been using it for a few years now. It'll spit out planting dates based on your last frost date but you have to input your plants & relative planting times. If it's not on the seed packet, check permapeople.org.

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docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Talk to me about sunchokes/jerusalem artichokes.
Do you actually eat them? How?

Do they make *everyone* fart a lot?

You you had a lot of excess biomass to burn in an existing fire, or needed to get rid of, it makes sense. Otherwise, yeah, compost!

True. I have heavy duty nursery trays that i reuse each year. They work, but I’m curious!

Sleeping in the garage at the moment! Do you pre-start then indoors? I’m only in zone 5. Planted from sticks last year but they grew a lot and fruited, but no time to ripen. Hoping this year will bring fruits!

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Lots of talk about biochar, but importing/buying it in feels like a stretch. If you’re doing it for carbon sequestration and climate, please consider the externalities! How is that product made? Where is it shipped from?

Making biochar is not inherently zero-impact.

How’s the soil blocker been for you? I’m considering it for this year. Do you find the soil mix fussy?

Talk to me about soil blockers.
Worth it?

I’ve been starting seeds in deep nursery trays, and the roots tend to grow fairly robust, but I’m thinking about a soil blocker this year.

What do we say?
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Just brushed my sheepskin slippers. AMA.

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We here! Check out the permaculture feed, and some starter packs. I’ve got one set up for permaculture peeps on my profile!

Always nice to see my book resonating with folks. Such a juicy topic 😉🌿

This, except ticks.

You are if you can think it! Let me know what you think. 💚

Works well for gardens too, but it’s focused more on plants and flexibility be a grid.

New garden plan | 🌱✌️ Permapeople Create a new garden plan with Permapeople

Just a reminder since it's garden-planning season for those in the northern hemisphere, that Permapeople has a free and non-commercial garden planner.

More elaborate than a grid-based planner, and more suited for food foresters and homesteaders, but it's awesome!

permapeople.org/plans/new

It still looks messy but it’s sorted enough. I’ve a great collection of saved seed going—many are 5th generation and meant for this spot.

Pest-proof squash is a goal for this year. What’s your favourite moschata?

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A thick green wood branch on a workbench beside a draw knife. Branch is marked into the bark along the centre, end to end.

A debarked and slightly shapely branch sitting on a workbench beside a wood-handled drawknife. The branch is being shaped into a bow.

Winter project: making a green wood ash bow. Following a few YouTube videos for technique as I’m new to this.

You’re not wrong 😂

A pollarded tree is a low maintenance, long-lived source of free wood, fodder, fencing, basketry material, and new trees (from cuttings). You don’t even have to bend over to harvest

We already have all the know-how & technology we need for truly sustainable abundance

Rediscovering the American Elderberry: A Journey Through History, Culture, and Cultivation The berry that fed the world

Elderberry grows prolifically for me. I am hereby an elderberry maximalist—especially for small spaces. We easily fit 6 plants into the existing landscaping along edges. ~8L of watered down elderberry juice in the freezer for cold/flu season (only 5 left). 🌱

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Pray to your dog!

Feel better, brother!