Share The Seeds
Share The Seeds Site => Welcome and Introduction Area => Topic started by: Grey6Bard on October 28, 2018, 06:52:25 PM
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I joined this site in hopes of getting involved in this wonderful world of ethnobotanical gardens. I was referred by a member of another site that I frequent. My current hobbies include music (fiddle, guitar, I occasionally mess around with flutes and didgeridoos), traditional archery (long bow and recurve), writing, mushroom cultivation, and I’m getting into craft beer brewing as well as an apprenticeship.
But more about why I’m joining, I’m interested in several plants and looking for other varieties to become interested in. I’m also really interested in bonsai. The plants in particular are mescaline containing cacti, bamboo, bonsai as stated and tobacco as I’m also a pipe smoker. Just really looking to learn the ins and outs of various plants. I like the longer lived plants admittedly. So basically come to look for recommendations on other plants I could grow around the house and where I can find seeds!
Thanks for reading guys! I’m off to work!
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Welcome aboard Grey6Bard!
There are a number of STS members from your area so you are in good company. I will leave it to them to make themselves known however.
Looking forward to having you here. :)
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you'll find all the bamboo you can use in WNC! I was just there for a week and saw a couple counties full of it
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Thanks guys for the welcome!
And yes I have seen some bamboo, my uncle has quite a bit of it actually!
He doesn’t know how it originally set in but he’s kept it, he likes it enough.
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Welcome! I’m just outside Asheville. We actually have a pretty good showing in our region! Looking forward to seeing you around. 😊
Edit: oh, Bach already said that. rm/pl 😂
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Geezer- we’re just finally getting some Fall colors...
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Awesome to know we have so many members scattered in the area! I live near the tri state area, I wish I had some good pics to share but I’m not much of a photographer...
Actually I took this one recently!
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Tri state area? In NC, or you’re Western NY?
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What's that glowing green orb in the grass in the bottom picture? Should we call the Ancient Aliens show?
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If you're asking about the last of Frogs' pics the green orb is a "flare" or the sun bouncing off one of the many lenses inside a camera lens.
Very common. But you normally see more of them in a pic as the sun normally bounces off all the lenses in a zoom lens but in this one the angle of the sun relative to the lens only permitted one flare. Or it was a very simple lens or possibly even a phone camera which has very few pieces of glass.
Exciting stuff, eh?
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Wait, you mean they don't want us to take them to our leader?
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There is supposedly a giant spaceship under Black Mtn in WNC. Weird brown lights over Morganton as well.
I’m another WNC person...
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Welcome. Looks like you are very interesting person with a lot of cool hobbies. I live in CT, my fiance is Cherokee so we plan on coming down to the Reservation next spring. We have also come to NC and SC on vacations especially to look and photograph snakes. I grew up with a fear of snakes but a few years ago my son took an interest in herpetology and since then I have gained such a love and appreciation for the vital role snakes play within ecosystems.
I also want to visit Joe Hollis @ Mountain Gardens in NC this coming spring, he is very wise with plants especially eastern plants and Chinese Herbalism. He has many great videos that i highly recommend.
I just harvested nicotiana rustica seeds that I'd be happy to share with you.
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Toxicodendron knows Joe Hollis, I’m pretty sure. I’ve been meaning to go up there, but haven’t yet.
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We should set up a field trip. I know him, and it has been too long since I’ve been out there to see him.
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That’s a great idea! I’d be in for sure, and David probably too.
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We should set up a field trip. I know him, and it has been too long since I’ve been out there to see him.
I will update you both when we set the dates for our spring trip, it will be great to meet up! I got a few great plants from Joe this year, it's nice supporting good people with similar values and interests. I am sending him some Chaga and Maitake mushrooms I harvested this year as a gift since I love his videos and use them as reference for many plants.
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The tristate area near the NC, TN, GA state lines!
I shop in Georgia, work in Tennessee and play in NC!
Haha. Sorry I haven’t replied to my own thread in a few days. I actually started a new job at a craft brewery. Working on getting a second job at the folk school, I’m a busy man.
Some of you may be familiar with the folk school?!
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Greetings from Ga! 8)
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The tristate area near the NC, TN, GA state lines!
I shop in Georgia, work in Tennessee and play in NC!
Haha. Sorry I haven’t replied to my own thread in a few days. I actually started a new job at a craft brewery. Working on getting a second job at the folk school, I’m a busy man.
Some of you may be familiar with the folk school?!
Don't feel bad for taking a little while to reply,I think we are on plant time here (a little slower) and it's nice.
Working at a brewery sounds interesting. In one of the herbal YouTube channels I learned that back in the ol' days it became a law in Bavaria that all beer had to be made with hops because officials noticed that when men drank hops beer they were calmer. Hops acts as an estrogen in the body, and they said that men who picked hops all day would not be able to get an erection that night.
I want to look further into this and I am very interested in brewing beer using many different herbs that have different effects and properties.
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one hears that people near the SC/GA border do their shopping in Georgia to avoid the 8 percent state sales tax
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. In one of the herbal YouTube channels I learned that back in the ol' days it became a law in Bavaria that all beer had to be made with hops because officials noticed that when men drank hops beer they were calmer. Hops acts as an estrogen in the body, and they said that men who picked hops all day would not be able to get an erection that night.
I want to look further into this and I am very interested in brewing beer using many different herbs that have different effects and properties.
The beer purity laws, to my understanding were also implemented to restrict the use of other psychoactive herbs such as henbane, which had much more powerful effects than alcohol. Beer at the time was just a 'carrier' for the other ingredients.
I haven't looked into this very deeply at all, but I think it would be a fascinating area of study.
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I’m reading several books on the topics of beer brewing and you would be surprised at the amount of psychoactive substances that went into beer before the purity laws.
So far RadicalBrewing is my favorite book reading on the subject.
I’m planning on making some very interesting brews in the future! ;)
Sometimes I think I have too many hobbies working six days a week, lol.
I’m really trying to become self employed through one of my hobbies so I can expand into another.
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Didn't have a chance to read this whole thread but welcome Grey :)
t. McKenna mentioned something about the sacrament at the eulisian (sp?) mystery possibly being some sort of fermented , beer type, ergot substance... He was saying in the lecture that he talked to either nickles or shulgin (can't remember whom) and they had told him they thought that you would be able to skim the more dangerous chemicals off the top of the concoction if you were to brew it... Pretty interesting.
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That would be an awesome experiment if one had the knowledge to assess what chemicals were present after fermentation! Most chemicals don’t survive through abnormal heat changes but it’s possible!
I know exactly of the brew you’re speaking of, the one made in Ancient Greece!
My favorite philosophical period in history!
So I’m excited that I just received some L Williamsii seeds and several seeds for bonsai cultivation!
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I just put RadicalBrewing on my Xmas list ;)
This is a great topic hopefully we can watch it evolve and grow in years to come. Are there still purity laws active in the US?