🌱✌️ Permapeople - Let's plant the future. Research, grow, harvest, trade, share, repeat.

Simon Forman

Igo, CA, USA

Weirdo, computer nerd, aspiring ecosystem co-creator, I've lead a strange and unlikely life. I dropped out of highschool and was homeless for several years. During that time I learned Reiki, and how to operate and program Linux computers. I decided to get a job as a programmer, so I created a project and presented it at CodeCon 2004. That led to a career as a computer programmer. I worked at several startups (including Etsy) and eventually as a TVC at the Google campus in Mountain View. Since then I have been semi-retired, and I've turned my attention to my other passion: gardening and ecology. Find me on Mastodon at: https://mastodon.social/@carapace

Activity

Contributions

Items in marketplace

Lists

Journal entries

Recent journal entries

See all

July 22, 2023 23:01

Observe

The Sweet Lorane Fava beans in the front yard are flowering now.

Plants

Broad Bean Vicia faba

Broad Bean "Sweet Lorane" Vicia faba

July 17, 2023 18:11

Observe

Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius) from some birdseed I tossed out to grow “green mulch”. Some sort of gopher has eaten almost all of them, but this muscular and multi-crowned beastie has been left alone, so far…

Plants

Safflower | Koosumbha | Hoang-tchi Carthamus tinctorius

July 17, 2023 17:55

Observe

Mullien (Verbascum Thapsus) growing in a planter, flowering. It’s starting to grow some side shoots with more flowers. This in in Park Merced out by the Pacific ocean, cold and foggy. (Seed from J. L. Hudson, from 2021)