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Sad to learn that Carol Sanford died. I don't yet know when she died. : : : : : : : I read it in Didi Pershouse's most recent e-mailout. (Find her on Substack). "Climate on the planet is influenced by many living processes in land, sea, and sky. Humans have influenced nearly all of these processes, as you know from my previous posts. However, certain regions have been changed so radically by human projects, that the effects are compounding and cascading. If we focus our efforts on these places as “trigger points” (or what the late Carol Sanford called “nodal interventions,”) we could have a far greater effect, as we work to restore a living climate." —Didi Pershouse : : : : : : : Author, teacher, contrarian, entrepreneur, corporate/business leader.

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: : : : : : : I remember the late Dan Palmer, host of Making Permaculture Stronger podcast, having interviewed Carol numerous times. That may well be how i first came upon her. They got into the material quite deeply and it showed how ingrained into the culture the separation, objective and degenerative programming goes, how successful the mechanistic, quantitative world view has been delivered by the psychological operations. If anybody wants to explore the Carol Sanford x Making Permaculture Stronger nexus see:

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: : : : : : : A few keystones of Carol Sanford's i remember--partially presented as a beginning index--are the following: imaging, vs. imagining : : : : : : : feedback, the fallacy of only for machines it assumes a linear, reductionist, world-as-machine paradigm life, people, culture is much more "messy", complex, emergent Writing may not be part of one's job, but writing can improve thinking. Sanford writes about feedback much more deeply & eloquently in her book "No More Feedback". : : : : : : : When communicating, use "Earth", instead of "the earth". Problems with objectification. Again, this is very brute and butchered, read or hear her explain it. She is part Cherokee. : : : : : : : Questioning biomimicry. It's fallacy. I seem to remember part of it might be because we are already living, life, bio. : : : : : : : Fallacy of watershed. Sanford suggests lifeshed instead. It is problematic when you separate things. She breaks down the simplicity and fallacy of the parts and the whole mindset. As Bill Mollison (co-originator of permaculture) states below, it takes a real genius to comprehend where something--like a tree--begins and where it ends! "A tree is, broadly speaking, many biomass zones. These are the stem and crown (the visible tree), the detritus and humus (the tree at the soil surface boundary) and the roots and root associates (the underground tree). Like all living things, a tree has shed its weight many times over to earth and air, and has built much of the soil it stands in. Not only the crown, but also the roots, die and shed their wastes to earth. The living tree stands in a zone of decomposition, much of it transferred, reborn, transported, or reincarnated into grasses, bacteria, fungus, insect life, birds, and mammals. Many of these tree-lives 'belong with' the tree, and still function as part of it. When a blue jay, currawong, or squirrel buries an acorn (and usually recovers only 80% as a result of divine forgetfulness), it acts as the agent of the oak. When the squirrel or wallaby digs up the columella of the fungal tree root associates, guided to these by a garlic-like smell, they swallow the spores, activate them enzymatically, and deposit them again to invest the roots of another tree or sapling with its energy translator. The root fungi intercede with water, soil, and atmosphere to manufacture cell nutrients for the tree, while myriad insects carry out summer prunning, decompose the surplus leaves, and activate essential soil bacteria for the tree to use for nutrient flow. The rain of insect faeces may be crucial to forest and prairie health. What part of this assembly is the tree? Which is the body or entity of the system, and which the part? An Australian Aborigine might give them all the same 'skin name', so that a certain shrub, the fire that germinates the shrub, and the wallaby that feeds off it are all called waru, although each part also has its name. The Hawaiians name each part of the taro plant differently, from its child or shoot, to its nodes and 'umbilicus'. It is a clever person indeed who can separate the total body of the tree into mineral, plant, animal, detritus, and life! This separation is for simple minds; the tree can be understood only as its total entity which, like ours, reaches out into all things. Animals are the messengers of the tree, and trees the gardens of animals. Life depends upon life. All forces, all elements, all life forms are the biomass of the tree." —Bill Mollison Permaculture: A Designer's Manual, pp.138-139. : : : : : : : #CarolSanford #feedback #watershed #BillMollison #MakingPermacultureStronger #DanPalmer #permaculture #DidiPershouse #biomimicry #trees

GN Getting ready for, and looking forward to, the season of the "Long Shadow". Winter. Long nights. Leafless trees (train horn can be heard although train corridor is far away; with sound mostly muffled by leaves during green seasons of year). Sharp, strong shadows. Super luminous--partially from the snowy white background. Backdrop. Where does fore- and back- ground begin and end? (See the eloquent written works of Stephen Harrod Buhner on this last subject.) Moon as projector for much of this light show. Nexus of moon, leafless trees and snow-covered ground. Lighting, and shadows, further altered as well by cloudy vs. cloudless night. Steiner spoke of the crystalline characteristics of Earth at the deepest time of winter. Father winter coming. Fireside for alleviation of chill and animation of the spirit. Fire TV. The show never repeats! Make every (or as many as possible) burn(s) productive by harvesting biochar therefrom before its inevitable loss, progression, entropic march, to ashes. Amazed to learn on Bitcoin and... podcast that evergreens ~ conifers create sugars during the winter--as long as there is sunlight!

#cooperation A snippet from Marty's Bent (@Marty Bent), October 28, 2025 Bitcoin's Hashrate Growth In Context Bitcoin Companies Are Choosing Cooperation Over Competition (And Everyone Wins) Jonathan Kirkwood highlighted a powerful dynamic emerging in the Bitcoin ecosystem that contradicts traditional business wisdom. Strike, a Bitcoin payments company, now partners with BitKey (Block's hardware wallet product) allowing users to automatically sweep their Bitcoin purchases to self-custody. Cash App, another Block product, relies on mempool.space for blockchain analytics. These aren't isolated cases of cooperation; they represent a fundamental shift in how Bitcoin companies operate. "It's like as if everything that I do, you do, Andrew does, invites the fact that we're all going to win because of it." - Jonathan Kirkwood This "co-opetition" model, as Jonathan described it, creates positive-sum outcomes where the work of one participant strengthens the entire network. When Strike integrates with BitKey or Cash App uses mempool.space infrastructure, both companies benefit from enhanced user experiences and reduced development costs. The collaborative approach signals that Bitcoin ecosystem participants recognize a shared mission: growing the pie rather than fighting over slices. Every integration, every partnership, every shared tool compounds the advantage of the entire Bitcoin economy. Check out the full podcast here for more on digital capital, corporate Bitcoin treasuries, and SPAC opportunities for businesses.

Brilliant work. Though i don't comprehend much of it, this is some very deep work you have done here! So thank you. How to be as thorough on the sovereign ~ free ~ private ~ autonomous side of things as are the corporates ~ centralizers ~ controllers ~ fiat boys ~ govt's,... with all their different methods, strategies, attack vectors, roadblocking, obfuscation, NOT providing ample/varied public education,...! Your thoroughness is an inspiration for me to aim higher.

#permaculture #grownostr Permaculture Design magazine. After a year or so, the newest edition of Permaculture Design magazine (PDM) has surfaced. There is now a new publisher and editor and that is what the delay was (mostly/probalby) about. Below, please find the link to the current editorial page or publisher's message, called "Editor's Edge". Edge as in the concept in ecology, called edge effect, in which two or more systems come together and at which point there is a greater diversity of life and distinct conditions/species found there. New, and different, compared to each of the two (or more) original systems coming together at this nexus--like a Venn diagram. Edge is a keystone part of permaculture. Remember that one can inhabit many parts along this rich edge continuum--from the ecological/biological to the cultural. Regarding that rather long wait between editions, releases, it seems there was an error or a joke made in the most recent printing. Given that the magazine has transitioned to a new editor/publisher, maybe this is why date on the latest edition reads August 2024 even though it arrived in August of this year! (Look carefully at the cover photograph or Toc.) Seems like it's a joke just as much as it could be an error. By joke i mean in the same style as black, English, humour or as an April fool's joke. https://www.permaculturedesignmagazine.com/post/editor-s-edge : : : : : : : Subscriptions can be had, including lifetime, with the choice to get print or/and digital format. They also encourage the organization of a local guild for the purpose of obtaining and distributing larger volumes of the magazine or for a group of plebs. Probably discounted price. I gift several copies of each edition to local libraries in part so there may be greater traction or eyeballs looking at this stuff. The library as fulcrum seems to provide great(er) distribution and potential. With a subscriptions, even just paper, you may have access to the entire historic digital collection, manifested as both iterations of the magazine--Permaculture Activist (PCA) and Permaculture Design (PDM). : : : : : : : The following are some other 'offerings' of Permaculture Design magazine even though they MAY only be available through a subscription... * Historic editions, volumes and numbers available in digital or paper format, though the availability of the "in-your-hands", fibre, palpable, sheet++, anologue,... back issues depends on whether they still hold inventory of the legacy printing. Don't know if they do on-demand type printing for their historic editions. * Index of the themes, subjects,... covered in BOTH iterations of the magazine. They have both a general index and a species index. I believe the index is, or was, being released in parts. Have not requested any such files lately, so don't know where they are at with that project. The digitizing of indeces at that time was INcomplete in sofar as having the information for all their editions. They were still in the process of being digitized. [Do you think this kind of information (indeces of the magazine) would be great to publish on Nostr?!] ++ Regarding the word sheet (above paragraph), see the interview of John Waters for his thinking and appreciation of the sheet of paper, newsprint--incuding it's multifaceted nature and uses. John also gets into other appropriate technologies and, in general, about technology which weaves in and around the conversation. John Waters – The Abolition of Reality and The End of History Legalise Freedom podcast of May 31, 2025. (Only the first half, or part, of podcast available to NON-subscribers.)

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: : : : : : : Greatful for the many years i have been able to derive keystone nuggets, including of inspiration, from this gem of a mag. Made of newsprint; B&W (well black and beige). Simple in its presentation, design; yet "enough". Not much, or fancy, colour except for the front and back covers (inside and out).There used to be a midway or spine colour insert which listed books for sale. Don't know if that made it more costly to print or if it was more because the sale of books was not paying!? The simplicity, essence of the analog, print, paper, fiber version reminds me of "Stay humble and stack." Permaculture Design is a long-running North American-based permaculture magazine whose focus tends toward, though not exclusively, North America-based themes, projects, groups, people, climates, courses, activities, advertisements, book(s) (reviews) and questions. I was introduced to the Permaculture Activist magazine in 1998 when i first got my hands on a physical copy. It was while doing the first leg of my WWOOFing experience westbond across the varied landscapes and climates of Kanada. I found it at the Kootenay Coop in Nelson, BC (in the Kootenay Mountains in British Columbia, Canada). In those days, the acronym WWOOF stood for Willing Workers on Organic Farms, not the current, PC, World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms. They had to remove the word work; did not want to encourage or associate (with) work! Anyways, WWOOFing was a beautiful experience and a highly foundational time in my life, including that i embarked on this journey before completing the remaining credits/course left in order to complete/fulfill my BA (i nearly did not want to go back to finish my BA because this was so much more fulfilling and connecting. I loved WOOFing and it transformed me. It was the combination of hand, heart and mind which i so loved. And needed. It was highly motivating, inspiring, fascinating and connecting. WWOOFing was a beautifu mix of things, ways of being and seeing, landscapes, cultivated ecologies, climates, particular cultures. I could always associate with the quote "Fascination Relieves the Mind", which, not-surprisingly, i also encountered in a particular edition of Permaculture Activist! : : : : : : : I have to say that lately Permaculture Design magazine has been a little disappointing in some axes, like spouting to much, or not having examined enough, the idea of climate change, the mainstream narrative--with it's histerico-lazer-miopic focus on carbon (dioxide). How and why would permaculture want to go/be carbon-free?! Are we, and our God technologies, not carbon beings?! Permaculture is NOT about adopting a simplistic, mechanistic, monoculture, "consensus-based science" (when that happens there is no science; take a look at how modern "peer-reviewed" science/publishing actally operates!), linear and highly political take on climate science, science or in general. This unquestioned and blind supporting of the climate lie actually does injustice, a disservice, to permaculture, its foundational principles and is forwarding--even though permaculture is such a general or vague word. A suggested approach instead of being a "permaculturist" (wouldn't that just be another "ism"?) is to do whatever you are already doing or talented/skilled/gifted at, and use the permaculture toolbox or navigate through the lens of permaculture to do that! Instead, they might want to check out something like Cathedral Project as but one example, and a reminder, about how things can look when a non-linear, emergent design and non-mechanistic approach is taken!

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: : : : : : : Best of luck Thom Illingworth in your keystone place as new editor and publisher! May there be many, many more years to come for this fine publication--despite whatever challenges or chaos MIGHT surface! Maybe PDM needs to be capitalised, funded, encouraged and further built with the long/slow time preference of Bitcoin-amoung others of the 8 Forms of Capital (see the work of Ethan Roland-Soloviev and Gregory Landua). : : : : : : : N.B.: I want to learn how to take better quality of the type of photographs included herein. Make do with the quality i have provided. Anyways, the main thing is to, if interested, see some details, or the vibe, of PDM and consider subscribing. No, i do not represent any financial interest in this bare bones publication. I am not selling anything or trying to convince, maim or convert anyone.

#asknostr How do i tag friends? How do i add hashtags, labels, tags...? How do i add spaces in my note publishing because up until now they do not translate between edit and post. I am (for now) using Primal.

Beginnings of an index and a caption as well as some notes, BIBLIO and a quote to accompany my drawing of hilly lands, trees and the patterns, and the potential, therein. mountainside patterns, _____more acreage on mountains vs. flat land _____steep lands _____trees get better sunlight trees, _____as ant highway _____biomolecules released by _____and CCN (Cloud Condensing Nuclei) _____combing the air (pollutants, water vapour, dusts, organics,...) _____as connectors of altitude _____'eat' the wind _____evapotranspiration envelope of _____in hilly country _____leaves as yearly gift-O.M.-mulch-fertility-minerals _____and microclimate (MC) _____the rain and reign of mulch from _____shade 'thrown' by (% dappled) _____as sweepers of the winds As Bill Mollison said (something like): it is the real savant and aware individual who can distinguish where the tree begins and ends; where the dividing line between soil and tree is; where the birds, squirrels and earthworms end and the tree or soil begin; is mycorrhizal fungi soil or tree,... The late Stephen Harrod Buhner, prolific author of ~20 books, writes eloquently about the dynamic nature of life and the mind-blowing capability of plants as (bio)chemists and how they continuously adapt to changing conditions given their stationary character--especially in shorter time periods. For a start, see his book (one of a quadrilogy--series of 4) titled "The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines to Life on Earth". “Trees are, for the earth, the ultimate translators and moderators of incoming energy. At the crown of the forest, and within its canopy, the vast energies of sunlight, wind, and precipitation are being modified for life and growth. Trees not only build but conserve soils, shielding them from the impact of raindrops and the desiccation of the wind and sun. If we could only understand what a tree does for us, how beneficial it is to life on earth, we would (as many tribes have done) revere all trees as brothers and sisters.” —Bill Mollison To further delve into the advantages and disadvantages of hilly country, see the brilliant written piece by Rob Rylander titled "Mountainside Gardening", from 2005, copied at the foot of this note. : : : : : : : Mountainside Gardening Rod Rylander May 18, 2005 I often hear people say, “Bottomland — flat bottomland — is what I want for farming.” Mention mountainsides and the quick reply is, “No, it’s marginal land and too expensive to farm.” But mountainside gardening or farming does have its advantages: 1. An acre is measured on the horizontal, so there’s more surface area in an acre of mountainside than in an acre of flatland. 2. Mountainside trees have more leaf-surface area exposed to the sun; on flatland, solar energy is delivered mainly to the tops of trees. 3. Mountain acreage usually costs less. 4. A south-facing mountain slope receives more hours of direct sunlight each day (hence, more solar energy) than mountain valleys do. 5. The growing season is longer on south-facing slopes, since cold air sinks into the valleys and longer days mean more heat is stored in the soil. In Western North Carolina, it’s not unusual to gain two frost-free months at higher elevations. 6. The side of a mountain has good airflow compared to the stagnant, flat bottomlands. 7. Gravity can help move water between beds. Of course, there are disadvantages too: 1. It takes more energy to go up the mountainside (though it is good exercise). 2. Motor-driven machines can’t operate as well on steep slopes (on the other hand, fuel scarcity may soon limit their use anyway). 3. Terraces can be difficult and expensive to build. Converting a mountainside into a viable agricultural system doesn’t have to entail a big investment, however. The reduced use of mechanical equipment can actually offset some of the costs of terracing. And if there’s timber, it can be harvested for construction or sale. But trees hold 80 percent of a forest’s carbon, so when you log, you remove most of the system’s growing capacity. That makes soil-building and terracing (to prevent erosion) urgent. When I cleared my mountainside of timber, I wanted to be sure that I caused no erosion — I needed every bit of dirt for my plants! The forest floor had about two inches of soil packed with small rootlets. I knew that as soon as I cut through this layer, it would open the door to erosion. So before planting, I raked the leaves into contours and scattered grass, wild lettuce, clover and other seeds, plus fertilizer, several times. It worked! Many of the seeds sprouted, creating a cover crop of legumes before any erosion took place. After clearing the land, I had a huge pile of small limbs left over. I used them to create rows on the contour, helping form terraces. I also arranged some big logs along the terraces, secured with stakes made of highly rot-resistant black locust. If the goal is to create an orchard, each tree or shrub requires only a small swale behind a short log. Essentially, you’re creating a series of separate raised beds. There are several ways to make terraces. The conventional — and expensive — approach is to hire someone with a bulldozer. But for some of my terraces, I erected small, 7-foot-long logs vertically in a 2-foot-deep ditch to create a temporary terrace wall. I will now use old automobile tires (filled with dirt and stacked on top of one another, slanting into the mountainside) to construct a retaining wall in front of the log wall. It will be a race between my tire collection and fungus. Hopefully the logs’ decomposition will be slow enough for me to finish the tire wall first. Because trees contain so much of a forest’s nutrients, burying logs is actually one of the most efficient ways to build soil. Masanobu Fukuoka, a Japanese agronomist and philosopher who’s considered one of the founders of permaculture, proved this through extensive experiments in the mid-20th century (see The One-Straw Revolution, Rodale Press, 1978). In Colonial times, farmers would put corn into stumps and let the hogs tear the stumps to pieces in pursuit of the corn. I plan to modify this method slightly, putting corn in holes in the ground above terrace walls to entice the hogs to help level the dirt. Last year I tried the Fukuoka method of gardening, cutting small areas out of the cover crop for planting vegetables, and I’m now an ardent follower. The legumes keep growing, providing a continuous supply of nitrogen to the plants. When we get too much rain, the cover crop absorbs the excess; and during dry times, it shades the soil, reducing evaporation and drying. To manage a sustainable farm or garden, soil health must be improved each year. Forest soils in this region are usually acidic; most vegetables, however, grow better in neutral or basic soils. The common solution is to add agricultural lime, but it’s been shown that as the amount of organic matter in soil increases, the soil’s pH has less effect on the plants in it. At this point, let me confess that I am not a fan of composting — I guess I’m just lazy! More importantly, when plants are composted, the aerobic breakdown releases nitrogen into the air. But when animals eat plants, the nitrogen is captured and made available to fertilize new plants. So a rotation of plants and animals seems to be the natural way of sustaining an agricultural system. (Of course, some residential areas prohibit keeping animals, forcing suburban farmers to rely on worms or hidden rabbits.) And because mountainside farming eliminates the costs of buying, operating and maintaining equipment, more of the income is potential profit. Or, put another way, you can earn less and keep the same amount. And if you choose crops that require more attention and hand labor, you may be able to compete with mechanized producers. Also, by using Fukuoka’s (or someone else’s) organic methods to grow food, you can get a premium price selling to the burgeoning organic market. Crops to consider include strawberries, berry bushes, fruit trees, asparagus, herbs and any vegetables you want to eat. North-facing mountain slopes may be suitable for growing ginseng, goldenseal and shiitake mushrooms. Insect pests can be less of a problem on mountainsides too, due to the enhanced airflow and elevation changes. In addition, I built a long bat house on the front of my house that can accommodate up to 500 bats. I also put platforms underneath the eaves for phoebes and swallows — insectivores that happily nest near human habitations. I’ve also had good results with a combination of Muscovy and Indian runner ducks (the latter, I’ve found, will even eliminate fire ants). On my rooftop, I have a cover crop where the ducks can graze, and I keep my vegetable crops in cages, so the ducks can’t eat the plants while they’re consuming any insects trying to get into the cages. As a bonus, you get eggs: Indian runner ducks outlay the best chickens, and they don’t scratch up the place. So don’t be afraid to turn a south-facing mountainside into your agricultural dream. [Rod Rylander grew up on a farm, studied agriculture in college, and was a government agricultural agent in Belize and the Philippines. He lives in Earthaven Ecovillage outside Black Mountain.

Does somebody know where the term "time preference" comes from (bibliographic reference or link) and what the original and proper definition is?