Welcome New Members!

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I've gotten quite a few new sign ups and members. I wanted to give them a shout out and a welcome. Feel free to chime in, we're a friendly bunch and love to hear from everyone. If you have any problems posting or with adding photos, let me know.

Hi! Just posted an intro over in the introduction category. It's a little hard to see for new members, maybe it would make more sense to bring it up top here?

Welcome to our little group.
Post early and often!

Hi, I signed up at the end of last month but never got around to an introduction. Glad to be here. I read JMG'S Ecosophia blog regularly and happened upon this group through there. As a thirty-year-old I'm still learning the ropes. Entering this bizarro world of sleek techno glamour and inflated promises, I'm naturally inclined to seek better alternatives. With the long descent, my question for being a practical green wizard is, "How far could I take it?" That means smaller lifestyle changes adding up to a more reasonable existence in these diminished times. Thus far I've been trying out local edibles in my quasi-rural location. My family thinks I'm crazy for "eating weeds." Hopefully my skills shall extend beyond this, where I could enjoy a life unencumbered by the demands of the professional managerial class. My learning goals aren't specific yet beyond absorb, know, and apply as much green wizardry as I can.

You may call me "oh-oh," "ooh," "double 0," or any variation which suits your fancy.

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Hi 0-0. Welcome!

The key to choosing more of the life you want is knowing what that life is.
Be aware, chose because you want to, and you'll get there.

The less you want, the less you need.

Good advice, certainly. One thing I'd want is a year full of seasonal festivals. Celebrations of the eightfold year like medieval people did is a start. Think Michaelmas blackberry feasts, or solar mumming dramas with homemade masks and homegrown revelry. The Long Descent provides opportunity to relish in organic rites we've forgotten. Those are experiences tied to seasonal tides and their associated mysteries. Any specific religious designation could accommodate them, as long as they are mutually understood. Our holidays count for little except obligatory shopping ventures and days off from the office. Which of them has real life anymore? (Right now I'm thinking of Time Life's old Enchanted World series. They have a book on winter celebrations, which make our Christmas or Yule pretty lackluster.) What more could be done when we have less? It seems like plenty.

Welcome indeed. I hope to hear more of your wild edibles in the future.

Garlic mustard, lots of purslane, curly dock, dandelion, and wood sorrel for now. The rock wall is full of them, especially plantain. I used plantain on a bug bite and felt it ease in short time. Dandelion tea helps my nerves. Cooking with edible weeds is rewarding and fun. Did you know purslane is high in omega-3 fatty acids? There's tons of minerals and vitamins in it as well. My herb garden this year was a flop. I need more practice (and better knowledge of planting). Have you or anyone here successfully tended a flourishing herb garden? I still want to try it out before it gets too cold.

I pull purslane out of my veggie garden all the time, it spreads so easily. I have also eaten it in salads as well. I am kind of a haphazard herb gardener, so I can't help you too much there.

Hi, I signed up at the end of last month but never got around to an introduction. Glad to be here. I read JMG'S Ecosophia blog regularly and happened upon this group through there. As a thirty-year-old I'm still learning the ropes. Entering this bizarro world of sleek techno glamour and inflated promises, I'm naturally inclined to seek better alternatives. With the long descent, my question for being a practical green wizard is, "How far could I take it?" That means smaller lifestyle changes adding up to a more reasonable existence in these diminished times. Thus far I've been trying out local edibles in my quasi-rural location. My family thinks I'm crazy for "eating weeds." Hopefully my skills shall extend beyond this, where I could enjoy a life unencumbered by the demands of the professional managerial class. My learning goals aren't specific yet beyond absorb, know, and apply as much green wizardry as I can.

You may call me "oh-oh," "ooh," "double 0," or any variation which suits your fancy.

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