Hello from the farm!
Hello Steemit community, I'm glad to be here!
Up until 2 years ago I was a full time web designer and developer. Then as I was an avid gardener I became interested in growing my own food and started volunteering on various farms to learn what it takes to grow our food organically. At first I thought I was getting into growing veggies for profit but as I learned much more about Permaculture, herbalism and nutrition I became inspired to live more in tune with nature and to grow more good food than I need so that I can share it with others.
I am saving seeds from my travels to plant in a future garden, hopefully not too far in the future. Seeds are like natures crypto. They are decentralized, abundantly available, diverse without monopoly. They are very resilient. Seeds can turn into beauty, deliciousness, homes, tools. They can remove CO2 from the atmosphere.
I am intrigued by the strength and wisdom in the seeds that can grow to huge trees that give us food year after year. I dream of a day that our city streets are lined with nut and fruit trees free for everyone to enjoy and appreciate.
Herbs and trees can give us abundant nutrition, to the point where your body smiles and says "thank you, may I have more of this life giving energy"?
Nature nourishes us heart, mind, body and soul. She provides what we need to flourish.
Thank you for a beautiful community where I am humbled to introduce myself and proud to learn from others.
Welcome @sagescrub, I'm really looking forward to following your blog!
Woohoo!
Welcome to Steemit @sagescrub! Glad to see another permaculturist. I'm hoping we can get permaculture into the trending topics one day!
Likewise! We are all playing our part to recognize the earth for its beauty and abundance :)
Welcome to Steemit @sagescrub. I also love gardening, nature & also herbs, grow a little herb garden outside my kitchen door. Awesome being able to pick fresh herbs when one needs it for cooking or healing! Look forward to seeing more of your posts :)
Yay! It's great to find a new community with fellow gardeners :)
Yeah Yeah Yeah!!!!! Gardening is life!! So glad to connect to this great group of enthusiasts with abondance mindset. It's awesome. And, i am learning a lot about blogging. Your style @sagescrub is really comfortable to navigate and explore. Great work! I will venture through 😁🌱❤ ....carry on!
You are very kind @yogajill :) Glad to meet you and sharing in this amazing community of gardeners, homesteaders, permaculturalists, nature lovers and in general really amazing people :)
welcome to steemit! what i have learned about seeds is that are like a treasure at this moment. nowadays and as the years pass more and more seeds out there are of mass production with many problems like only one usage. still if you search you can find good ones with good traits that will last forever ( meaning you grow the herbs-food they give you great flavor and other seeds too, thats natures way!)
well said!
Welcome o Steemit! We have a healthy gardening and homestead community here. In know you will enjoy it here. Upvoted, following. resteemed.
I love the energy of gratitude you share in your post. Thank you!
Thank you as well for reciprocating :)
Welcome! This is a great place to meet lots of different types of people who bring lots of different points of view. Sounds like you have some interesting thoughts to offer and I look forward to hearing more of them!
Thank you @mwoodall!
Nice intro @sagescrub, talking about seeds, have you heard of a Pascal Poot? he grows tomatoes almost without water!
Thank you @senorcoconut! Dry farming is really interesting to me, did you happen to have any experience with these seeds? I would be curious to know your results.
My ant had bought some of Pascal's seeds in france.
She grew a small patch of tomatoes with the same technique for while but eventually I think she couldn't break out of the old watering habbit completely. Thew grew very well and they were super delicious.
My dad let his seedlings go, neglected them untill tomatoes dropped and rotted a little. I collected what I could and will start growing next season!6
Interesting, I will have to read up on it and perhaps give it a try.
Yea super interesting. Dig deep into this guy's work (most of it is in french, but than again I haven't had to look for the english written articles too much).
He grows something like 400 different kinds of tomatoes, and veggies in the same waterless fashion! again his name is Pascal Poot. I can't wait to get started either
Hey @senorcoconut. I finally did some reading on the dry farmed tomatoes. Wow! This answered a lot of questions for me about dry farming. I am so grateful that you shared this with me!
Thanks for that. I think everyone should know about this. It's pretty awesome. My aunt and dad had bought seeds from this guy and I collected some seeds from their crops.... If all goes well I should have some hearty tomatoes. I'll report on it.
I'm glad you got to look into it. See you!
I'm looking forward to your report! Did you happen to find out where they ordered the seeds? I'd like to know for future reference.. I suppose I could save my own and just wait 3 years too ;)
Welcome to steemit - there's plenty of people into plants and homesteading here - you'll find plenty of ocmmunity :) Kate
Thank you Kate! I'm glad to be here with this awesome community :)
welcome you sound like a sensible grounded person and it is nice to meet you .. whereever you are is beautiful
it is beautiful! anywhere I find myself in nature is beautiful :) i'll post more pictures later
cool I am looking forward to it