permaculture

["Sharon Gordon" <gordonse@one.net>]

In designing for long term needs,  I am interested in hearing from people who are expanding more beyond a focus on food and cooking/heating fuel.  To me, those essential needs are an ideal place to begin, and then there are so many other interesting possibilites to include.

 

Anyone working on growing

 

Writing paper

Herbs to cover 90% of medical needs

Additives for soap

Toilet paper

Fiber and dye plants for clothes or household linens

Wood for a spinning wheel or loom

Wood for your children's furniture for their house (or wood for timber framing for the house)

Ingredients for paint or wood finishing

Dental floss

Sandal making fiber

Corn for your cornburner (Hope everyone saw the great news about a neighborhood in Maryland getting their first corn silo filling station for all the people who have cornburner stoves in the area.)

Fuels to use in cars

Oil for soap making

Fiber for nets or rope

Wood or fiber for kids' toys (of any age :-) )

Wood for a boat

Fiber for baskets

Other useful items

 

Sharon

gordonse@one.net