Parkrose Permaculture

Good morning! I hope you had a very merry Christmas! I spent a full day yesterday off the internet and it was WONDERFUL. I baked and baked and baked some more. Hazelnut molasses pie has become our more-local alternative to pecan and is now a Christmas favorite around here.

I will be back for a half day today and then back full time on the 27th. Thank you so much for letting me take a little break.

2 days ago | [YT] | 5,493

Parkrose Permaculture

Merry Christmas Eve! I am really quickly baking up some cracked pepper and Himalayan pink salt crackers to go with our cheese board because we forgot to get crackers at the store. I was going to film more videos today, but we ended up being very busy with family time and now we're going to sit down and watch The Hogfather. I hope your day was as filled with good memories as our has been.

There is a high likelihood I won't be online tomorrow, so I wanted to wish you all a Merry Christmas, just in case. ❤️🎄❤️

3 days ago | [YT] | 4,325

Parkrose Permaculture

Good morning! I hope everyone is having a good Christmas Eve. Thank you for all of the engagement on my vids yesterday. I have a few more videos coming out today, but this morning I am finishing Rebecca Solnit's No Straight Road Takes You There, and I wanted to share a passage at the end of the book that really spoke to me.

At home, surrounded by my kids, thinking about why it is that we are doing this work, why we are sacrificing and struggling...Solnit's words about climate activism express exactly how I feel about all of the work we are doing now to protect each other, the planet, democracy, our children's futures:

"But, in a sense, we are all in a school bus on a slippery road in a thunderstorm. [Activists] are trying to take the wheel from the reckless drivers who are steering us all into trouble. We are trying to turn towards safety. We are trying to be good ancestors, to make a world in which the land that, in the past, fed many species, including ours, will feed them in the future. To take the fork in the road ahead that leads to well-being in the short term and the long. To build better roads to the future instead of sliding into the ditch."

4 days ago (edited) | [YT] | 1,719

Parkrose Permaculture

Sitting down to film and multiple stories are dropping at once (SCOTUS rules against Trump, the internet figured out how to read through the blacked out Epstein files to the info underneath, ICE news…). Please be patient with me. I think I’m going to pivot and talk about some of this info today, I’ll have some videos out very soon.

4 days ago | [YT] | 5,281

Parkrose Permaculture

Working on a series of videos for today and tomorrow. Some of them are hard topics and may be hard to watch. I wish I could just share inspirational, hopeful, positive content right now, but we cannot turn a blind eye to the reality of what is happening.

How do you balance celebrating the holidays with the context of 2025 America?

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Parkrose Permaculture

I cannot post the video to YouTube without it being immediately blocked, but if you want to watch the CECOT 60 Min segment, head over to my Substack. substack.com/home/post/p-182391300

5 days ago | [YT] | 5,004

Parkrose Permaculture

Hello! How is your Sunday so far? I took a little time this morning to work on Christmas present knitting (yup, right down to the wire!). Apollo always gets jealous of my laptop, apparently even when it’s just a knitting pattern pulled up for reference.

Don’t worry, I will have some videos up later this afternoon, in between rounds of Christmas baking. I think gingerbread is first on the schedule. As always, thanks for your patience.

6 days ago | [YT] | 2,136

Parkrose Permaculture

open.substack.com/pub/parkrosepermaculture/p/i-was…

New Substack post is up. This is what I do at 1:45 AM: I scrap my original post and ponder what it would be like if we all were given the space to go through the very normal process of grieving the loss of so much in the past year.

1 week ago | [YT] | 1,881

Parkrose Permaculture

Working on a Substack post this morning. In that post, I quote Permaculture co-founder Bill Mollison, who said, “Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.”

What do you think he meant by that? Where are the solutions found, and what do they look like?

1 week ago | [YT] | 1,987

Parkrose Permaculture

A bit late posting today. Dealing with some family stuff this morning.

Question: how has shrinkflation impacted your family?

I heard from folks yesterday that recipes are impacted because shrinkflation skews the ratio needed for cooking.

Someone else said box cake mix makes 20 cupcakes and it used to make 24 so a standard frosting recipe now makes too much for a batch of boxed cupcakes.

Are there other negative impacts besides your pocketbook?

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