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Building https://permapeople.org one bucket of compost at a time

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My humble garden this year.

6x Black Rebel tomato
3x Matina Tomato
3x Resibella Tomato
1x Pink Banana Squash

28.04.2025 16:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Using a work bench and a bench vice is the biggest luxury ever.

15.03.2025 18:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🌱✌️Permapeople Newsletter #26 Hi Permapeople, Winter is tough in Berlin but today was a sunny day and I snapped this image of a pedunculate oak while taking a long walk in the forest. In...

I just sent the new newsletter for #permapeople! Read it here if you are interested buttondown.com/permapeople/... #permaculture

19.01.2025 18:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Wide angle shot of a leafless oak in front of a blue sky

Wide angle shot of a leafless oak in front of a blue sky

Where are my #treepeople at? #trees

19.01.2025 17:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Cool! Sadly it seems to cold in Europe/Berlin to grow these.

17.01.2025 12:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This one? Cajanus cajan? permapeople.org/plants/cajan...

16.01.2025 19:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Wow I like your project! Need to check if we have this pea in our database and what the German name is.

15.01.2025 19:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

reinstalled the bluesky app after more than a year. How is everybody doing in #gardening and #permaculture ?

15.01.2025 18:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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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

05.01.2025 21:20 — 👍 22    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1
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Next tool: 1.5PS at only 2.4kg. Usable also with one hand. So I can hold a trash bin lid with the other to keep zombies at distance.

27.07.2023 06:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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One of my fav tools. Using it almost daily.

25.07.2023 09:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Current state of the avocado 🌱

05.07.2023 12:22 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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First time growing Echinacea. Plant actually started last year but a bit too late in the season. This year it came back strong after the rain came back.

03.07.2023 15:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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On our way to watch the Eurasian skylark on Tempelhofer Feld.

02.07.2023 16:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thinking about something like that. How did you fix it on the trunk ?

26.05.2023 06:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The spring was quite good with rain but rather cold. Now again it didn’t rain for a while and I hope it is not the next summer which is super dry. Until now I resisted to water the potato and onions but probably will give in soon

23.05.2023 04:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The family grew. We have a new member. Juglans regia.

20.05.2023 16:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

or scientist tractors

19.05.2023 17:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

until you produce half of your calory intake by yourself. We want grass fed science!

19.05.2023 17:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

or eat people

18.05.2023 20:05 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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244 onions planted

18.05.2023 20:04 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I think we got it all wrong. After working a few weekends on larger scale plantings (40 potatoes, 244 onions, some garlic) I firmly believe that if everyone becomes a farmer, they use so much more calories than they do on their desks now and we can never offset that 😅

18.05.2023 14:43 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

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