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I along with anyone who has had to deal with them know what a pain in the butt creeping buttercups are. Pretty little yellow flowers that spread so fast and root so easily! Although I am aware that the plant roots itself from the stemmy sucker tendral parts, I’m curious if anyone has attempted to use it as a chop and drop mulch? I have read about the plants thriving in compacted nitrogen poor soil so I am working on amending my garden area along with pulling em out and making a compost tea with them or baking them in the sun in a pile until I am assured they are dry and dead… but I gotta know if someone has been able to work with these stubborn buggers! I do my best to appreciate or find various uses for so called ‘weeds’ and often times welcome them. EXCEPT for buttercups. I do love butter tho hahaha

I’ve been living in South America for a little while now and have been wanting to boil up some bamboo shoots. All my internet searches tell me is bamboo is toxic without being cooked, but won’t tell me if what species are toxic or edible in my area 😔 Does anyone know if Paraguay or it’s surrounding countries has edible bamboo? Or if all bamboo is edible after cooking long enough? cause google wont give me a straight answer

I live in a community that was built on farm land cleared in the 90’s. I remember, because I lived in the hills above at my dads house, and cursed the growth of the suburbs into the beloved farmland.

Life is funny, and I live in a condo surrounded by suburbia right there.

Long story short, I do most of the work for our HOA. There’s like 13 multi family units on a few acres. 3 other involved neighbors and I have been doing our best to keep expenses down, and save water. We don’t have a renters cap, so many of the units are owned by absent landlords. What I’m getting at is we have neighbors that don’t want to do ANYTHING. Just as long as we keep expenses down, there’s no reason we couldn’t do anything we want with this land.

Why not permaculture?

We have a budget for landscaping. We have a nice irrigation system. (We have big bountiful porcini mushrooms that come up all over the property that no one eats but me)

We are currently watering ornamental grasses and lawns that look like shit. They’re talking about just getting gravel to cover all of the grassy islands.. Sad.

I asked my other board members in passing, “why are we watering and tending plants we can’t eat?” They were enthusiastically agreeing!

So now begins the search for a new “landscape” company… time to check the bi laws…

Edited to add: connected with a local food forest designer and he’s coming to consult soon!