Oddbean

GM The govt can't tax the work you perform directly for yourself. The govt also can't tax the work that plants, worms, bacteria & animals perform for you. That's why they want you to buy from farmers that use heavy machinery & fancy fertilisers/chemicals. Since discovering Bitcoin, I've also been rediscovering permaculture. For me, it's been about building resilience rather than becoming self sufficient. Yesterday I finished planting 84 ice cream bean trees from seeds I collected from my mature tree. I have a long mound of dirt that I made with an excavator last year. I've no idea all the mistakes I've made yet but it's fun to play with nature & life again. The mature flowering ice cream bean tree (Inga edulis): https://i.nostr.build/6WlwUB9U0UnPbrII.jpg Some of the 84 seedlings from the same tree: https://i.nostr.build/nql6PHb3krc2aCWR.jpg #permaculture #permies

This is awesome man! Hopefully one day I can buy some land. Already have plans for a modern earth ship, rainwater harvesting, swales, and solar. Permaculture must be one of the most rewarding, low time preference endeavours. 🌿🌱

I bought the scrubby 2 acres like 14 years ago but lacked the time to really get things moving. Permaculture is definitely a low time preference activity. You're always learning & adapting. I bought Bitcoin to acquire pasture for cattle & now I'm learning to appreciate what I already have. I still intend to buy pasture but I can be learning & producing a lot from my plot of soil in the meantime. 🤙💚

Today I'm planting out root cuttings from a few comfrey plants that I dug up. Each 1 inch section of root will get the chance to produce 1 comfrey plant. The 4 plants I dug up will reshoot from the buried root sections that I couldn't harvest. As I was digging the comfrey up, I was reminded of how much the earth worms love hanging out in their roots. The ice cream bean trees fix nitrogen from the air using bacteria while producing a lot of bio mass. Some will become mulch & some will be turned into charcoal. The comfrey breaks up the soil & locks nitrogen into it's leaves (more bio mass). Working on your own stuff is nice but having nature work for you is even better. https://i.nostr.build/FPrOFGrG844t3SLY.jpg

The name is deceptive. The pods have a sweet edible fluff around the seeds. They're tasty & sweet but definitely have nothing on ice cream 😂 I doubt any of the 84 seedlings will ever reach maturity & produce pods. I'll be coppicing them regularly to keep them small. They're really just support plants for the fruit trees I'll be planting with them.

Much further south - in the sub tropics of Australia. They're native to South America. I've seen people growing them in Arizona but the frosts tend to knock them around a lot. They can bounce back in spring & grow a lot in the summer though. While the white fluff around the seeds is a sweet edible treat, I don't rate them as a food source. I'm growing them as a support plant & bio mass accumulator.

I am very jealous of all the stuff you can grow in the Vegemite territories. Are you planting a bunya pine, whenever I hear ice cream bean I always remember Geoff Lawton talking about bunyas for an overstory and I love planting Araucarias as they are a great crop for people in the future.

Yeah I have tried it too didn't get too excited about it either.I think its more of a food to pad stuff out with and hit with spices. I have seen it in Caribbean shops here, so looking up some Jamaican recipes might be the best way forward with that. Cherimoya on the other hand is so delicious I constantly convince myself I will work out how to grow it here 😂

I don't have a cherimoya but I have a sour sop & used to have a custard apple until it died (too dry a location). I also have an American pawpaw in a pot. They're all from the same anonna family. It should be just a case of planting some of the big seeds in the fruit.

Yeah I had one before I grew from seed but it stayed in an unheated conservatory and I couldn't take it with me when I moved house. I was concerned about the frost but I think they grow them in Spain do you know what pollinates this family or if they can be self fertile? I had an american pawpaw growing in a pot but it died when I planted it in the ground as it didn't like the root disturbance. Perhaps I need to look into that again as they are hardy.