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Mmmmm! Wild black cherries!
More news from the wild n wacky world of Permaculture...
We went on a Wild Food Forage today; not the best time of year to do it, really; pre fungi and fruits and all the salady things are getting tough and a bit powerful in the taste department (cue half the class leaping about on one foot going 'Ow! Ow!' over the hedge garlic... hee!), but we found tree-loads of the most yummy wild black cherries and made a lovely snack of day lilly flowers (which taste somewhere between a raw carrot, cucumber and courgette/zucchini, in case you were wondering) and discovered Mike, our course leader's (a wonderful hairy man and SO Blair in 15 years) wonderful lineny waistcoat is actually made of nettle. Which was pretty darn amazing IMO! O:!
These are the sort of things you learn on a Permaculture course.
OK, we also did a load of stuff on energy systems and sector zoning and stuff you probably don't wanna know about, but we also ot a slide show about some amazing looking houses. I would LOVE to post some piccies, but unfortunately, I've not got the right card reader with me for the camera, darn it. I'll do a piccie fest when I get home.
I just finished my homework - a DVD from CAT (Centre for Alternative Technology) about my carbon footprint. I learned that our fair share of the world's carbon, to keep the Earth all balanced and lovely, is 2.5 tones. The average Brit uses 10 a year, the Average American 20, the average Zambian 0.06 . I use 2.31 tonnes, but the disc, assuming I was one of these profligate carbon abusers you read about in The Guardian, kept trying to tell me (by means of an animated monkey) how to reduce my carbon emissions to less than 2.5. 'But I already use less than 2.5', I screamed repeatedly at the screen, but would it listen? Would it ****! Bloody cartoon monkeys.
Anyway, now that's out of the way, I can get on with the real work of the evening; drinking beer and writing my Moonridge fic! 5,000 words in, now, and things are hotting up for Jim, Blair and Naomi... O:!
We went on a Wild Food Forage today; not the best time of year to do it, really; pre fungi and fruits and all the salady things are getting tough and a bit powerful in the taste department (cue half the class leaping about on one foot going 'Ow! Ow!' over the hedge garlic... hee!), but we found tree-loads of the most yummy wild black cherries and made a lovely snack of day lilly flowers (which taste somewhere between a raw carrot, cucumber and courgette/zucchini, in case you were wondering) and discovered Mike, our course leader's (a wonderful hairy man and SO Blair in 15 years) wonderful lineny waistcoat is actually made of nettle. Which was pretty darn amazing IMO! O:!
These are the sort of things you learn on a Permaculture course.
OK, we also did a load of stuff on energy systems and sector zoning and stuff you probably don't wanna know about, but we also ot a slide show about some amazing looking houses. I would LOVE to post some piccies, but unfortunately, I've not got the right card reader with me for the camera, darn it. I'll do a piccie fest when I get home.
I just finished my homework - a DVD from CAT (Centre for Alternative Technology) about my carbon footprint. I learned that our fair share of the world's carbon, to keep the Earth all balanced and lovely, is 2.5 tones. The average Brit uses 10 a year, the Average American 20, the average Zambian 0.06 . I use 2.31 tonnes, but the disc, assuming I was one of these profligate carbon abusers you read about in The Guardian, kept trying to tell me (by means of an animated monkey) how to reduce my carbon emissions to less than 2.5. 'But I already use less than 2.5', I screamed repeatedly at the screen, but would it listen? Would it ****! Bloody cartoon monkeys.
Anyway, now that's out of the way, I can get on with the real work of the evening; drinking beer and writing my Moonridge fic! 5,000 words in, now, and things are hotting up for Jim, Blair and Naomi... O:!
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Sounds like you're having a great time - love to see the house pics if and when you get the chance... building a house is up there on my one-day list... ::bounce bounce::
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