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[gothwalk]

Originally published at Now Is A Long Time Too. You can comment here or there.

I’ve been reading about permaculture - my gardening this year looks more successful, although I must learn to distinguish young chives from grass, which is more difficult than it sounds - and food for a good chunk of today. Google’s “define” fuction has been hit pretty pretty frequently - it’s my favourite use of google, and I’m just realising that not everyone knows about it. Type “define: seed ball” or “define: pomelo” or whatever into google, and it’ll return as many neat definitions as it can find. Incredibly useful for the quick wtf-is-that questions.

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[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

Permaculture - as far as it has gone - is most advanced over that side of the pond. Most of the references I've found - and the one book I've bought so far - are all UK based.

So far, our only "success" is to pick the native blueberries for a few years and, late last season, the discovery that sassafras leaves are good eating. This year will mostly be one of rest, as certain edibles get larger. I plan on planting some more nut trees in the fall, but some of them may take 50 years before they go nuts, so to speak. Really wish there were a few of the walnuts and hickories on our lot - the place we *almost* bought had about six large shagbark hickory. Then again, it also had a tainted artesian well and spring, and was a tiny little home facing a complete do-over of the septic system, and dealing with all that would not have been fun.

I didn't write much about it this year (thus far,) but past posts have the permaculture tag. If you go back a bunch of posts, there's one with a collection of links I've found useful.