Matt Tracy
@silverbranchpermaculture.org
A tree disguised as a human. #Permaculture teacher, #herbalist, writer, musician, plant mystic and papa. He inhabits the crystalline mountains of Virginia. NC and VA Permaculture school: https://silverbranchpermaculture.org
Hi #permaculture friends. If you're in Zone 7 or 8 (especially the Southeast US), I'm now offering my list of 100 favorite and easy #Foodforest plants for a small donation. Warning: includes some annuals :) Info here: silverbranchpermaculture.org/food-forest-... #forestgarden #perennials
Food Forest Plant List for the North Carolina Piedmont (Zone 7-8) – Silver Branch Permaculture
100 Easy Food Forest Plants for the North Carolina Piedmont One of the challenges in designing a diverse food forest is knowing which plants grow well. Books and the internet can be helpful resources,...
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July 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Hi #permaculture friends. If you're in Zone 7 or 8 (especially the Southeast US), I'm now offering my list of 100 favorite and easy #Foodforest plants for a small donation. Warning: includes some annuals :) Info here: silverbranchpermaculture.org/food-forest-... #forestgarden #perennials
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Weeds aren’t the enemy—bad land management is. Some plants belong, others need to go. We let the land tell us what’s needed. Clover stays. Tree of heaven? Gone. The best farms aren’t weed-free, they’re *weed-smart.* #SyntropicForestry
March 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Weeds aren’t the enemy—bad land management is. Some plants belong, others need to go. We let the land tell us what’s needed. Clover stays. Tree of heaven? Gone. The best farms aren’t weed-free, they’re *weed-smart.* #SyntropicForestry
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Lost words, lost worlds.
"Bärenschliffe" means "bear polishes". It's the word for cave rocks smoothed to marble by bears rubbing on or past them over thousands of years.
This one from Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave, Southwest France, has a bear drawn on it.
"Bärenschliffe" means "bear polishes". It's the word for cave rocks smoothed to marble by bears rubbing on or past them over thousands of years.
This one from Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave, Southwest France, has a bear drawn on it.
February 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Lost words, lost worlds.
"Bärenschliffe" means "bear polishes". It's the word for cave rocks smoothed to marble by bears rubbing on or past them over thousands of years.
This one from Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave, Southwest France, has a bear drawn on it.
"Bärenschliffe" means "bear polishes". It's the word for cave rocks smoothed to marble by bears rubbing on or past them over thousands of years.
This one from Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave, Southwest France, has a bear drawn on it.
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Stop treating trees like decorations. They’re windbreaks, nutrient pumps, moisture managers, carbon banks, and food producers. Put them back in the landscape where they belong. #agroecology
February 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Stop treating trees like decorations. They’re windbreaks, nutrient pumps, moisture managers, carbon banks, and food producers. Put them back in the landscape where they belong. #agroecology
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February 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Hi friends. So, the founders of #permaculture has predicted collapse for a long time. And they didn't worry too much about the specifics. They said, this will happen and the more of us that have relearned how to cooperate with earth and each other, the better off we'll all be.
February 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Hi friends. So, the founders of #permaculture has predicted collapse for a long time. And they didn't worry too much about the specifics. They said, this will happen and the more of us that have relearned how to cooperate with earth and each other, the better off we'll all be.
One of my new #permaculture clients was fighting an intense "invasive" weed, spending hours removing it. But then she slowed down. She identified it and researched it. It turned it out it was a traditional medicine valued for health challenges that people in her life were struggling with.
February 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
One of my new #permaculture clients was fighting an intense "invasive" weed, spending hours removing it. But then she slowed down. She identified it and researched it. It turned it out it was a traditional medicine valued for health challenges that people in her life were struggling with.
As someone new to social media (yep, in 2025), the scariest thing about it for me is that I find myself wanting to argue with people I've never met.
Like, what IS this? No "Hi" first, no introduction, no context... the stranger IS their idea and to me, I AM my disagreement.
Like, what IS this? No "Hi" first, no introduction, no context... the stranger IS their idea and to me, I AM my disagreement.
February 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
As someone new to social media (yep, in 2025), the scariest thing about it for me is that I find myself wanting to argue with people I've never met.
Like, what IS this? No "Hi" first, no introduction, no context... the stranger IS their idea and to me, I AM my disagreement.
Like, what IS this? No "Hi" first, no introduction, no context... the stranger IS their idea and to me, I AM my disagreement.
Had the pleasure of visiting two #permaculture clients in eastern NC this weekend.
Every time I do this, some part of my hope for humanity is restored.
There are good people all over coming back to what's real. They're valuing the weeds. They're weaving community. They are doing it every day.
Every time I do this, some part of my hope for humanity is restored.
There are good people all over coming back to what's real. They're valuing the weeds. They're weaving community. They are doing it every day.
February 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Had the pleasure of visiting two #permaculture clients in eastern NC this weekend.
Every time I do this, some part of my hope for humanity is restored.
There are good people all over coming back to what's real. They're valuing the weeds. They're weaving community. They are doing it every day.
Every time I do this, some part of my hope for humanity is restored.
There are good people all over coming back to what's real. They're valuing the weeds. They're weaving community. They are doing it every day.
Shed any last hope that anything important will ever come from the news. Let it go, once and for all. You already have accumulated reasons enough to live your fragile life to the absolute fullest in service of all life. alwayscominghome.org/2018/03/13/v...
Vast as a Flower, Narrow as the Stars | always coming home
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January 31, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Shed any last hope that anything important will ever come from the news. Let it go, once and for all. You already have accumulated reasons enough to live your fragile life to the absolute fullest in service of all life. alwayscominghome.org/2018/03/13/v...
#Permaculture coffee drinkers - I tell you truly: roasted Yaupon Holly can be a flavorful and stimulating drink. Takes a little practice to prepare. Similar to Yerba Matè in taste and nutrients. It grew easily through zone 7b droughts and kept attracting interesting (caffeinated) spiders. #plants
January 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
#Permaculture coffee drinkers - I tell you truly: roasted Yaupon Holly can be a flavorful and stimulating drink. Takes a little practice to prepare. Similar to Yerba Matè in taste and nutrients. It grew easily through zone 7b droughts and kept attracting interesting (caffeinated) spiders. #plants
Feeling very touched by the poetry and slow glimpses of a sacred place on earth in this Irish film: vimeo.com/ondemand/sil... Watch out for the longing it may stir in you to live in a more rooted way and the grief in being too long lost in the city.. #permaculture
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A cinematic eulogy to nature and agrarian culture and a glimpse into the life of farmer/poet Patrick McCormack, descendant of generations of farmers who have lived…
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January 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Feeling very touched by the poetry and slow glimpses of a sacred place on earth in this Irish film: vimeo.com/ondemand/sil... Watch out for the longing it may stir in you to live in a more rooted way and the grief in being too long lost in the city.. #permaculture
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American groundnut is an incredible edible, vining, nitrogen fixing native. Its shoots, leaves, bean-like seeds, striking flowers, & prolific protein tubers are all edible. Once widely cultivated by indigenous people of eastern north america, it doesn’t make sense that it’s so rarely planted now
January 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
American groundnut is an incredible edible, vining, nitrogen fixing native. Its shoots, leaves, bean-like seeds, striking flowers, & prolific protein tubers are all edible. Once widely cultivated by indigenous people of eastern north america, it doesn’t make sense that it’s so rarely planted now
"Security can be found in renunciation of ownership over people, money, and real assets..." - Bill Mollison
Part of why #permaculture != capitalism.
Part of why #permaculture != capitalism.
January 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
"Security can be found in renunciation of ownership over people, money, and real assets..." - Bill Mollison
Part of why #permaculture != capitalism.
Part of why #permaculture != capitalism.
"There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not." - Bill Mollison, #permaculture founder.
January 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
"There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not." - Bill Mollison, #permaculture founder.
This is not a brag, but an encouragement. I've lived with < 600W of power since 2017. I do *not* miss having more.
Low electricity has not been the cause of misery off-grid (other things, definitely).
Radical simplicity is almost total taboo within #environmental movement. It needs to change.
Low electricity has not been the cause of misery off-grid (other things, definitely).
Radical simplicity is almost total taboo within #environmental movement. It needs to change.
January 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This is not a brag, but an encouragement. I've lived with < 600W of power since 2017. I do *not* miss having more.
Low electricity has not been the cause of misery off-grid (other things, definitely).
Radical simplicity is almost total taboo within #environmental movement. It needs to change.
Low electricity has not been the cause of misery off-grid (other things, definitely).
Radical simplicity is almost total taboo within #environmental movement. It needs to change.
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These words from Bill Mollison, the founder of permaculture, are timely: "Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex,
the solutions remain embarrassingly simple." It's never been clearer to me than the last 3 days how simple the solutions to our problems are if we would enact them.
the solutions remain embarrassingly simple." It's never been clearer to me than the last 3 days how simple the solutions to our problems are if we would enact them.
January 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
These words from Bill Mollison, the founder of permaculture, are timely: "Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex,
the solutions remain embarrassingly simple." It's never been clearer to me than the last 3 days how simple the solutions to our problems are if we would enact them.
the solutions remain embarrassingly simple." It's never been clearer to me than the last 3 days how simple the solutions to our problems are if we would enact them.
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After two posts about being a land worker, learning about #permaculture & growing food featuring idyllic shots of our gardens, here for balance is the reality today: out in the cold drizzle, digging holes searching for the best composted stuff in a giant pile of horse shit 🙂🌱💩
January 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
After two posts about being a land worker, learning about #permaculture & growing food featuring idyllic shots of our gardens, here for balance is the reality today: out in the cold drizzle, digging holes searching for the best composted stuff in a giant pile of horse shit 🙂🌱💩
My #permaculture prayer for today is that the outrage so many people are feeling drives them to take a strong step towards leaving behind this civilization.
The experiment has run its course. It's time to awaken to the life outside of our screens. Carry our opinions to the compost. Touch earth.
The experiment has run its course. It's time to awaken to the life outside of our screens. Carry our opinions to the compost. Touch earth.
January 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
My #permaculture prayer for today is that the outrage so many people are feeling drives them to take a strong step towards leaving behind this civilization.
The experiment has run its course. It's time to awaken to the life outside of our screens. Carry our opinions to the compost. Touch earth.
The experiment has run its course. It's time to awaken to the life outside of our screens. Carry our opinions to the compost. Touch earth.
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Calling 16-25-year-olds - APPLICATIONS CLOSE 1 Feb 2025 12-week online Fellowship with a full scholarship.
Learn alongside world leaders in systems thinking and permaculture. It will require around 2 hours per week from Feb 16 Feb - 4 May
permacultureeducationinstitute.org/ethos-fellow...
Learn alongside world leaders in systems thinking and permaculture. It will require around 2 hours per week from Feb 16 Feb - 4 May
permacultureeducationinstitute.org/ethos-fellow...
January 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Calling 16-25-year-olds - APPLICATIONS CLOSE 1 Feb 2025 12-week online Fellowship with a full scholarship.
Learn alongside world leaders in systems thinking and permaculture. It will require around 2 hours per week from Feb 16 Feb - 4 May
permacultureeducationinstitute.org/ethos-fellow...
Learn alongside world leaders in systems thinking and permaculture. It will require around 2 hours per week from Feb 16 Feb - 4 May
permacultureeducationinstitute.org/ethos-fellow...
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Defeat the oligarchy- enter something into your county fair exhibits competition!
Handcrafting skills, personal art, baking and canning are all things they can't use for their gain. These things are all ways to reduce dependence on large data mining corporations. Source materials locally!
Handcrafting skills, personal art, baking and canning are all things they can't use for their gain. These things are all ways to reduce dependence on large data mining corporations. Source materials locally!
January 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Defeat the oligarchy- enter something into your county fair exhibits competition!
Handcrafting skills, personal art, baking and canning are all things they can't use for their gain. These things are all ways to reduce dependence on large data mining corporations. Source materials locally!
Handcrafting skills, personal art, baking and canning are all things they can't use for their gain. These things are all ways to reduce dependence on large data mining corporations. Source materials locally!
Just to go on a little about this, since I sometimes see people suggesting that #AI will help with #regenerativefarming: there are plenty of living cultures and historical ones that practiced ways of living that were completely sustainable. As a modern example, #Permaculture offers a wealth..
January 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Just to go on a little about this, since I sometimes see people suggesting that #AI will help with #regenerativefarming: there are plenty of living cultures and historical ones that practiced ways of living that were completely sustainable. As a modern example, #Permaculture offers a wealth..
If you're interested in #permaculture and #sustainability of any kind, please consider taking a more critical view towards the #AI bubble. The amount of mining, drilling, burning that will be done to make this scam happen needs to be understood.
January 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
If you're interested in #permaculture and #sustainability of any kind, please consider taking a more critical view towards the #AI bubble. The amount of mining, drilling, burning that will be done to make this scam happen needs to be understood.
January 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This is still the book I wish more people would give a chance to. The topic of #invasives can be a doorway to a much deeper understanding of earth and her ecosystems. www.chelseagreen.com/product/beyo... @tao-orion.bsky.social
Beyond the War on Invasive Species | Chelsea Green
Beyond the War on Invasive Species offers a much-needed alternative perspective on invasive species and the best practices for their management.
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January 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This is still the book I wish more people would give a chance to. The topic of #invasives can be a doorway to a much deeper understanding of earth and her ecosystems. www.chelseagreen.com/product/beyo... @tao-orion.bsky.social