Sim G
@sim.bsky.social
Nature, gardening, permaculture, design, localism, data commons, community building, organic business. Less abstraction more action (LAMA).
Building permapeople.org & cultecon.com to help people feed themselves, their families, & their communities.
Building permapeople.org & cultecon.com to help people feed themselves, their families, & their communities.
Doesn't look like much, but this is gold: Did a plant swap with someone new in a nearby town. Got perennial Korean celery roots, lovage, comfrey, perennial leeks, and garden dock.
The food forest is going to be FLOURISHING this year.
The food forest is going to be FLOURISHING this year.
April 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Doesn't look like much, but this is gold: Did a plant swap with someone new in a nearby town. Got perennial Korean celery roots, lovage, comfrey, perennial leeks, and garden dock.
The food forest is going to be FLOURISHING this year.
The food forest is going to be FLOURISHING this year.
A sharing version of my garden planning spreadsheet.
Been using it for a few years now. It'll spit out planting dates based on your last frost date but you have to input your plants & relative planting times. If it's not on the seed packet, check permapeople.org.
🌱
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Been using it for a few years now. It'll spit out planting dates based on your last frost date but you have to input your plants & relative planting times. If it's not on the seed packet, check permapeople.org.
🌱
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Planting calendar
docs.google.com
March 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
A sharing version of my garden planning spreadsheet.
Been using it for a few years now. It'll spit out planting dates based on your last frost date but you have to input your plants & relative planting times. If it's not on the seed packet, check permapeople.org.
🌱
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Been using it for a few years now. It'll spit out planting dates based on your last frost date but you have to input your plants & relative planting times. If it's not on the seed packet, check permapeople.org.
🌱
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Talk to me about sunchokes/jerusalem artichokes.
Do you actually eat them? How?
Do they make *everyone* fart a lot?
Do you actually eat them? How?
Do they make *everyone* fart a lot?
March 2, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Talk to me about sunchokes/jerusalem artichokes.
Do you actually eat them? How?
Do they make *everyone* fart a lot?
Do you actually eat them? How?
Do they make *everyone* fart a lot?
Lots of talk about biochar, but importing/buying it in feels like a stretch. If you’re doing it for carbon sequestration and climate, please consider the externalities! How is that product made? Where is it shipped from?
Making biochar is not inherently zero-impact.
Making biochar is not inherently zero-impact.
February 24, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Lots of talk about biochar, but importing/buying it in feels like a stretch. If you’re doing it for carbon sequestration and climate, please consider the externalities! How is that product made? Where is it shipped from?
Making biochar is not inherently zero-impact.
Making biochar is not inherently zero-impact.
Talk to me about soil blockers.
Worth it?
I’ve been starting seeds in deep nursery trays, and the roots tend to grow fairly robust, but I’m thinking about a soil blocker this year.
What do we say?
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Worth it?
I’ve been starting seeds in deep nursery trays, and the roots tend to grow fairly robust, but I’m thinking about a soil blocker this year.
What do we say?
🌱
February 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Talk to me about soil blockers.
Worth it?
I’ve been starting seeds in deep nursery trays, and the roots tend to grow fairly robust, but I’m thinking about a soil blocker this year.
What do we say?
🌱
Worth it?
I’ve been starting seeds in deep nursery trays, and the roots tend to grow fairly robust, but I’m thinking about a soil blocker this year.
What do we say?
🌱
Just brushed my sheepskin slippers. AMA.
January 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Just brushed my sheepskin slippers. AMA.
Reposted by Sim G
Always nice to see my book resonating with folks. Such a juicy topic 😉🌿
I've encountered many different opinions on invasive species, but this book resonates with my stance the most. Highly recommend for anyone in conservation, or anyone dealing with vegetation on any level. This is not about letting them go rampant, and not about total eradication at any cost, it's +
January 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Always nice to see my book resonating with folks. Such a juicy topic 😉🌿
This, except ticks.
January 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This, except ticks.
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
More elaborate than a grid-based planner, and more suited for food foresters and homesteaders, but it's awesome!
permapeople.org/plans/new
New garden plan | 🌱✌️ Permapeople
Create a new garden plan with Permapeople
permapeople.org
January 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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
More elaborate than a grid-based planner, and more suited for food foresters and homesteaders, but it's awesome!
permapeople.org/plans/new
It still looks messy but it’s sorted enough. I’ve a great collection of saved seed going—many are 5th generation and meant for this spot.
Pest-proof squash is a goal for this year. What’s your favourite moschata?
Pest-proof squash is a goal for this year. What’s your favourite moschata?
December 31, 2024 at 11:37 AM
It still looks messy but it’s sorted enough. I’ve a great collection of saved seed going—many are 5th generation and meant for this spot.
Pest-proof squash is a goal for this year. What’s your favourite moschata?
Pest-proof squash is a goal for this year. What’s your favourite moschata?
Winter project: making a green wood ash bow. Following a few YouTube videos for technique as I’m new to this.
December 30, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Winter project: making a green wood ash bow. Following a few YouTube videos for technique as I’m new to this.
Reposted by Sim G
A pollarded tree is a low maintenance, long-lived source of free wood, fodder, fencing, basketry material, and new trees (from cuttings). You don’t even have to bend over to harvest
We already have all the know-how & technology we need for truly sustainable abundance
We already have all the know-how & technology we need for truly sustainable abundance
December 29, 2024 at 11:46 PM
A pollarded tree is a low maintenance, long-lived source of free wood, fodder, fencing, basketry material, and new trees (from cuttings). You don’t even have to bend over to harvest
We already have all the know-how & technology we need for truly sustainable abundance
We already have all the know-how & technology we need for truly sustainable abundance
Elderberry grows prolifically for me. I am hereby an elderberry maximalist—especially for small spaces. We easily fit 6 plants into the existing landscaping along edges. ~8L of watered down elderberry juice in the freezer for cold/flu season (only 5 left). 🌱
open.substack.com/pub/poorprol...
open.substack.com/pub/poorprol...
Rediscovering the American Elderberry: A Journey Through History, Culture, and Cultivation
The berry that fed the world
open.substack.com
December 30, 2024 at 11:35 AM
Elderberry grows prolifically for me. I am hereby an elderberry maximalist—especially for small spaces. We easily fit 6 plants into the existing landscaping along edges. ~8L of watered down elderberry juice in the freezer for cold/flu season (only 5 left). 🌱
open.substack.com/pub/poorprol...
open.substack.com/pub/poorprol...
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Anyway, AI has already stolen friends’ work, and is going to put other people out of work.
I do not think a political party that claims to be the party of workers in this country should be using it. Even for just a silly joke.
I do not think a political party that claims to be the party of workers in this country should be using it. Even for just a silly joke.
December 22, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Anyway, AI has already stolen friends’ work, and is going to put other people out of work.
I do not think a political party that claims to be the party of workers in this country should be using it. Even for just a silly joke.
I do not think a political party that claims to be the party of workers in this country should be using it. Even for just a silly joke.
Amid the doom, don't forget you have power. Power to create things for yourself, for your family, for your community.
Build cool shit. Grow things. Build community. Make friends. Spite the doom.
Build cool shit. Grow things. Build community. Make friends. Spite the doom.
December 24, 2024 at 1:23 AM
Amid the doom, don't forget you have power. Power to create things for yourself, for your family, for your community.
Build cool shit. Grow things. Build community. Make friends. Spite the doom.
Build cool shit. Grow things. Build community. Make friends. Spite the doom.
We need a 90% tax over ~3 million. Bring back real philanthropy* in exchange for tax breaks.
* = democratically-approved efforts to improve living situations for locals in the same region of tax break. Large donations to public programs, healthcare, etc
* = democratically-approved efforts to improve living situations for locals in the same region of tax break. Large donations to public programs, healthcare, etc
December 24, 2024 at 1:15 AM
We need a 90% tax over ~3 million. Bring back real philanthropy* in exchange for tax breaks.
* = democratically-approved efforts to improve living situations for locals in the same region of tax break. Large donations to public programs, healthcare, etc
* = democratically-approved efforts to improve living situations for locals in the same region of tax break. Large donations to public programs, healthcare, etc
Yes.
made 59 grams of chunky 2-ply yarn on the wheel. malabrigo rios for scale in the third pic. knitted some up on 6 mm needles.
was thinking of making a blanket. math from this sample says i’d need 5 kg. that’d take me a solid week to spin. as in no sleep, no eat. 😂
was thinking of making a blanket. math from this sample says i’d need 5 kg. that’d take me a solid week to spin. as in no sleep, no eat. 😂
December 24, 2024 at 1:11 AM
Yes.
Looking forward to a full harvest from our patch this year.
Started from seed 3 years ago, this next summer will be the 4th, and first big harvest.
What's your favourite thing to do with asparagus?
Mine's tossed in olive oil and salt/pepper and thrown on the bbq.
Started from seed 3 years ago, this next summer will be the 4th, and first big harvest.
What's your favourite thing to do with asparagus?
Mine's tossed in olive oil and salt/pepper and thrown on the bbq.
Asparagus patches should be common in American yards.
Plant once, and with a few hours of work per year, you can have "all you can eat" fresh asparagus for 4-8 weeks per year.
Thread on how I just did my ~1 hour of winter prep for my asparagus patch:
Plant once, and with a few hours of work per year, you can have "all you can eat" fresh asparagus for 4-8 weeks per year.
Thread on how I just did my ~1 hour of winter prep for my asparagus patch:
December 24, 2024 at 1:08 AM
Looking forward to a full harvest from our patch this year.
Started from seed 3 years ago, this next summer will be the 4th, and first big harvest.
What's your favourite thing to do with asparagus?
Mine's tossed in olive oil and salt/pepper and thrown on the bbq.
Started from seed 3 years ago, this next summer will be the 4th, and first big harvest.
What's your favourite thing to do with asparagus?
Mine's tossed in olive oil and salt/pepper and thrown on the bbq.
NOFX - The Decline (Official Full Album Version)
YouTube video by Fat Wreck Chords
youtu.be
December 19, 2024 at 5:32 PM
On a trip to Thailand yrs ago, I was un/fortunate enough to experience their 2 level medical system.
All minor ailments that can be, are treated on the 1st lvl w/ traditional medicine. Any major ailments that need it are moved to lvl 2; modern medicine.
A real Dr. on both levels.
All minor ailments that can be, are treated on the 1st lvl w/ traditional medicine. Any major ailments that need it are moved to lvl 2; modern medicine.
A real Dr. on both levels.
A woman in my YouTube comments said she doesn't need health insurance bc, like RFK says, if you eat organic food that IS your healthcare. I asked her how organic food was supposed to fix my broken leg that required 3 surgeries.
December 14, 2024 at 2:09 PM
On a trip to Thailand yrs ago, I was un/fortunate enough to experience their 2 level medical system.
All minor ailments that can be, are treated on the 1st lvl w/ traditional medicine. Any major ailments that need it are moved to lvl 2; modern medicine.
A real Dr. on both levels.
All minor ailments that can be, are treated on the 1st lvl w/ traditional medicine. Any major ailments that need it are moved to lvl 2; modern medicine.
A real Dr. on both levels.
The era
of enshittification.
Politics are crass.
We’re all getting dumber.
Automating our jobs away,
while the wealth gap gapes.
Online social dysfunction,
intensified.
But the economy
is doing fine
(for those at the top).
of enshittification.
Politics are crass.
We’re all getting dumber.
Automating our jobs away,
while the wealth gap gapes.
Online social dysfunction,
intensified.
But the economy
is doing fine
(for those at the top).
December 14, 2024 at 12:17 PM
The era
of enshittification.
Politics are crass.
We’re all getting dumber.
Automating our jobs away,
while the wealth gap gapes.
Online social dysfunction,
intensified.
But the economy
is doing fine
(for those at the top).
of enshittification.
Politics are crass.
We’re all getting dumber.
Automating our jobs away,
while the wealth gap gapes.
Online social dysfunction,
intensified.
But the economy
is doing fine
(for those at the top).
Reposted by Sim G
Wanna see how scared the oligarchs are for us to realize The Culture War was just a distraction from the Class Warfare they've been waging against us for years behind our backs and under our noses?
This is what oligarchs trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube looks like:
This is what oligarchs trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube looks like:
December 13, 2024 at 5:23 AM
Wanna see how scared the oligarchs are for us to realize The Culture War was just a distraction from the Class Warfare they've been waging against us for years behind our backs and under our noses?
This is what oligarchs trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube looks like:
This is what oligarchs trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube looks like:
Ben Falk (whose book The Resilient Farm and Homestead radicalized me) on the metacrisis.
🌱 #permaculture
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUND...
🌱 #permaculture
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUND...
Sensemaking in the Metacrisis, Empowerment, Empire, Iain McGilchrist...
YouTube video by Ben Falk
www.youtube.com
December 10, 2024 at 11:38 AM
Ben Falk (whose book The Resilient Farm and Homestead radicalized me) on the metacrisis.
🌱 #permaculture
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUND...
🌱 #permaculture
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUND...
Are people working on ChatCEO? Replacing executives with a simple LLM-based chat bot?
It shouldn’t be hard. Just plug in a bunch of shitty opinions, and dial down on the empathy.
We can move their salaries towards updating the business structures into worker-led co-ops.
It shouldn’t be hard. Just plug in a bunch of shitty opinions, and dial down on the empathy.
We can move their salaries towards updating the business structures into worker-led co-ops.
December 9, 2024 at 11:47 PM
Are people working on ChatCEO? Replacing executives with a simple LLM-based chat bot?
It shouldn’t be hard. Just plug in a bunch of shitty opinions, and dial down on the empathy.
We can move their salaries towards updating the business structures into worker-led co-ops.
It shouldn’t be hard. Just plug in a bunch of shitty opinions, and dial down on the empathy.
We can move their salaries towards updating the business structures into worker-led co-ops.
Reposted by Sim G
One of the greatest lies the devil ever told is that industrial agriculture is more efficient.
There is no dispute that it has a higher gross yield, which yes, is an important variable.
But it also requires exponentially more inputs, while externalizing many costs.
There is no dispute that it has a higher gross yield, which yes, is an important variable.
But it also requires exponentially more inputs, while externalizing many costs.
December 7, 2024 at 1:16 PM
One of the greatest lies the devil ever told is that industrial agriculture is more efficient.
There is no dispute that it has a higher gross yield, which yes, is an important variable.
But it also requires exponentially more inputs, while externalizing many costs.
There is no dispute that it has a higher gross yield, which yes, is an important variable.
But it also requires exponentially more inputs, while externalizing many costs.