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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/c-lem on 2025-11-12 20:35:56+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/AgroecologicalSystem on 2025-11-11 12:34:15+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/AlertRub6984 on 2025-11-11 17:08:18+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/Puzzleheaded-Mix-157 on 2025-11-10 23:42:55+00:00.

I’ve been wondering how to tune compost tea for a balanced microbial ecosystem rather than just a bacterial broth. I’m designing a small study comparing teas brewed with different food stocks, aeration, and durations, paired with microscope counts. Has anyone else tried measuring life in compost tea directly? Curious what setups worked best for you.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/hundredwater on 2025-11-10 16:12:02+00:00.

Growing up eating millet, I thought a millet is a millet. Turns out Some millet tastes better than others. there are many species of millet with different grain sizes, colors, cooking characteristics, etc. They can come with distinct traditions and best-use knowledge, if you talk to the people who have been growing them. If you pick it up from a store thinking it’s a straight substitution to the rice, well it’s likely going to be frustrating.

The first time I cooked a pot of millet from an American store (actually a bulk order from a college co-op) did not turn out well. The grains solidified into a dry chalky cake. I kept adding more water to salvage it into a porridge. It graduated from a small pot to a medium pot, then to the big stock pot. It kept soaking up water and was still thirsty!

Millet grains are full of soluble fibers and keep swelling and puffing if you keep boiling them in copious amount of water. You can’t cook it exactly like rice or quinoa and have good results. It’s more like making oatmeal but with more extreme in the difference in the texture between before and after, with all that soluble fibers unraveling in the boiling water. The millet grains start whole instead of flattened like rolled oatmeal or cut like steel cut oats. So people often do not use enough water and time, ending up with dry, partially cooked millet. Yuck. Do not try to eat this in a large quantity or you may have gassy cramps. Same as the warning on the bag of wheat flour: do not eat raw grains - they are difficult to digest.

Recently, agricultural breeding programs in countries that actually like to eat millet for food must have gotten great results, because some are so creamy and sweet, it‘s really superior to the best polenta or grits you may find in US restaurants. I’m particularly talking about the tiny yellow millet from northern China. I still can’t find what species and cultivar it is. I tracked it down to the northern province of Heilongjiang where it’s grown in gigantic quantities.

Millet fits into permaculture practice as a fast growing staple grain that needs no irrigation even in semi arid areas with marginal soil. Some millet even doubles as hay. Personally I want to find a seed source to grow that Chinese small grained sweet yellow millet! Can’t use hulled millet because they are not viable. Maybe USDA germplasm collection has some info and seeds?

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/Current_Tune5421 on 2025-11-09 20:31:08+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/Novel-Technology9381 on 2025-11-08 23:26:40+00:00.

I was bored and looking at popularity of google search terms, and although there was a boost around COVID, it seems that searches for permaculture have actually decreased compared to 20 years ago. Most associated terms didn't fare much better with the exception of "regenerative agriculture", which seems to the "hip" term, but didn't really exist a few years ago.

I thought I saw more permaculture based content on sites like Youtube, but I suspect it's just that algorithm and my own little bubble.

Is popularity actually decreasing? If so why?

I mean if anything we need it more than ever as the effects of climate change are increasing. Thoughts?

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/ImmediateDivide3700 on 2025-11-06 22:09:33+00:00.

So for my speech and debate team I decided to do a speech about the problems in the agricultural system, and the answer to these problems will be permaculture(obviously) and I I need some reasons for why permaculture is bad so I can rid any concerns that might exist. Also, I've heard arguments like it can't be automated, won't produce enough food, and it uses invasive species, so new stuff would be appreciated.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/BlackViperMWG on 2025-11-08 11:57:41+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/julaoui on 2025-11-08 05:41:48+00:00.

It’s called assisted natural regeneration, You take the coppiced tree or shrub that already has roots in the ground and cut out all but the strongest branch so it becomes a real tree again. Works well for deforested areas and also semi arid regions where there is some shrubby growth but not many real trees, this is a good and easy and cheap way to change the landscape for the better.

A video on the subject (in French)

https://youtu.be/WsgMRB50Z7E

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/GeomancerPermakultur on 2025-11-07 18:59:34+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/MycoMainer on 2025-11-06 21:37:40+00:00.

Curious how widespread the use of mushrooms are as decomposers/protein harvest in people's permaculture systems? Photo is of wine caps (Stropharia rugosoannulata) growing in my garden path. I'm continually shocked at how few people choose to use mushrooms in their gardens and permaculture landscapes

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/ClientBorn810 on 2025-11-06 16:02:58+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/julaoui on 2025-11-06 06:31:09+00:00.

Ok In retrospect it seems obvious. But we’ve been searching for veins in our sandy rock ledge to plant trees and only recently did my husband realize that the little thorny tumbleweed bushes with super long tap roots only succeeded where there are veins. Now we just pull one out and put a tree in its place, we always find it easy to dig super deep

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/Shilokijelli on 2025-11-04 16:43:44+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/Admirable_Respond569 on 2025-11-04 03:09:20+00:00.

Hey All!

I've been thinking of an idea to promote community food security and I'm wanting your critical feedback. I have a decent supply of nursery stock sourced from my own garden and had the idea of asking homeowners if I can plant a tree in their yard at no cost. My only ask would be that I could occasionally come and harvest the fruit. They can harvest as much, if not all of the fruit; it is their tree after all. My thought is that with enough partners I would be able to harvest enough fruit to have a decentralized "farm" from which I can sell the fruit.

I know this idea would take years to come to fruition 😉, but I'm not necessarily looking for a quick buck. I would be happy if all that came out of this was that more people have their own fruit trees. But I also hope that I could offer cheap produce at farmers markets while eventually making an income for myself.

Do you think people would be interested in something like this? Is this realistic? What are some of the downsides to this idea? What am I not thinking about?

Thank you so much for your feedback!

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/DeepWadder88 on 2025-11-03 16:02:24+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/AgreeableHamster252 on 2025-11-03 11:00:21+00:00.

I am finishing up season one of my food forest and preparing to grow more support plants, especially nitrogen fixers. How much is going to be needed to actually make a difference? I suppose on a per-tree or per guild basis.

I am planning on using some combination of river locust, goumi, sea buckthorn, fava beans, Lupines, and clover.

Will some clover and lupines around the dripline plus one of the shrubs be enough? Do I need a full field of clover to make a difference? Do I need like 5 support shrubs for each tree? It’s so hard to find any rigorous info here rather than vague suggestions.

To try to help inform “it depends” answers, here’s as much info as I can provide: Fairly acidic soil, western NY, fairly low nitrogen but high PK soil, clay but well draining thanks to rocks, and a very wide variety of crop trees ranging from hazelnuts and heartnuts to mulberries, apples, persimmons and pawpaw.

Also, will it take years for the nitrogen fixation to be noticeable at all? I assume so. If so does it make sense to provide some initial supplemental nitrogen early on?

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/Red__T1de on 2025-11-03 01:28:03+00:00.

Hello everyone I’m deeply studying permaculture and I wanted to find forums/communities to gather more knowledge of any kind either be books, videos or general knowledge. I’m open to any suggestions

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/ClientBorn810 on 2025-11-02 18:28:29+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/AgroecologyMap on 2025-10-31 14:11:49+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/ClientBorn810 on 2025-10-30 21:39:39+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/goog1e on 2025-10-30 15:53:31+00:00.

I'm moving into a place with a high water table. About half the land is wooded. When I walked out, I could tell that a large percentage of the unwooded land is verging on marshy.

What would y'all suggest if I want more than Marsh grass? Does anything edible grow in wet conditions?

Cranberries? Maybe I'll plant rice lmao.

Edit: zone is 8a sorry y'all. Got overexcited

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/BigBootyBear on 2025-10-28 16:01:43+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/Practical-War-9895 on 2025-10-29 01:01:18+00:00.