Hello, happy to be here following the solstice. I have not yet experienced a sufficient dose of any kind of DMT, attempted it several years ago once but it wasn't enough. I have experience with some other psychedelics though and I very much enjoy mushrooms. My last encounter was a few weeks ago and it was the second time I have been able to ingest mushrooms that I grew, for this trip I used the lemon tek for the firs time and it was one of the best in my life, big dose, alone in bed with darkness and some music. I get a lot of enjoyment in surrounding myself with and growing psychedelic plants. My passion and means of livelihood for the last several years has been gardening/farming focusing on the living soil - it's inner workings and combining natural/biodynamic/organic methods into my practice and the science behind such things, I would say this is my area of expertise although there are far more knowledgeable people than me out there - some of whom I'm lucky enough to be able to actively talk to.

I enjoy reading psychedelic history and literature when I'm not reading about soil and plants, I like to read. Lately I've mostly been reading about Amazonian shamanism. Some of my recent literary acquisitions include Tikhal and the dragibus magazine which are proving to be very informative.

On the outskirts of the farm I have a small personal garden/food forest which includes several psychedelic plants such as cannabis, morning glories, datura, papaver somniferum, hopi tobacco and some wormwood but I don't believe it's come up yet. There are also quite a few food crops as well as plants specifically placed for attracting certain insects/birds. I hope that I can provide information on gardening/permaculture around here if it's needed. I love to talk about this stuff but I won't go into too much detail here.

I know I have some catching up to do in the chemistry department as previously mentioned. Does anyone know of some good introductory/overview books on the subject? or even a suggested reading list? I have an organic chemistry book that was used as part of one of my college courses, I will dust it off in the mean time.

Anyways, thanks for allowing me to register on the site and thanks for reading my introduction. I don't know how much I will post initially, it will probably take a few months to read through the site before I can ask any good questions. dig it

Hello blue goo,

good to have you here.
I'm also interested in permaculture and ethnobotanics.
Do you have experience with terra preta? I will start a worm farm soon, to get my own ecological fertilizer free from oil-based chemistry.

blue goo, I'm struck by the similarity of our living situations.
The mushrooms have whole-heartedly endorsed my love for cultivating food and medicine plants alike. They say it's important.

Personally, I've never had vaporized dmt either, but the mushrooms seem to come very close in quality, disregarding duration of effects. There's something very wholesome about picking and eating a plant, without the need for chemical separation.

I've been learning from the mushrooms slowly but steadily, once you know how to grow them yourself they just become an ally and partner in your life. The lessons come one at a time. It seems to get better the more you keep at it.

Best of luck and glad to have you here too! Let us know if you have knowledge or experiences to share

thank you for the replies. I was busy working in a vineyard today training new vines, some of them may very well outlive me. I found a little dog that looked like a fox/shepherd cross, I really hope the owner comes to find it, I put up some fliers and I really don't want to bring it to the shelter as I cannot keep it having dogs already.

I didn't mention in my original post that I have some knowledge and appreciation for the use of native plants. The plants I use in my area for several reasons, one being smoking which I assume would interest some of you include Yarrow - edible, helps with resporatory problems, is also a fantastic dynamic accumulator (info on dynamic accumulators http://oregonbd.org/Class/accum.htm) as well as hosting many beneficial phyllospheric microbes which can be extracted by bubbling in water and applying via foliar spray to your plants (the idea being that native plant microbe relationships can benefit plants we're trying to grow), Mullein an expectorant(also known as cowboys toilet paper and white man's footprint by native americans), Mugwort - recently identified this one, and have been told it can enhance the memories of one's dreams at night, I will forage some, dry and report back on any effects, I also grow some mints, peppermint and spearmint which can add some taste in a smoking blend. I tried to plant some skull cap and elephant's head this year but do not believe they've sprouted - not native but other uncommon plants for smoking.

@Kafka Tamura - Terra Preta, also known as biochar right? Very beneficial to add to the soil at around <=5% volume, easy to make, several ways of making it. Basically you start burning some hardwood, oak etc, then pour water on it or some other way smother it so that you end up with a lot of charcoal, basically pure carbon. It's desirability as an additive to soil's is it's ability to 'hold onto' 'nutrients' (look up CEC), a lot of them, it is very important that before adding it to the soil that you 'activate' it, this can be done by soaking it in some kind of nutritive solution, such as a compost tea, alfalfa tea etc. Otherwise it will have the opposite effect of drawing nutrients out of the soil. It shines in poorer countries where it is easily and readily made. Something similar that you may be interested in is hugelkultr, which is the burrying of wood as a way to add a lot of organic matter to soil's that are lacking, it decomposes slowly and helps with water retention. Drawback being the labor involved.

Here are some good permaculture links/resources:

One Straw Revolution - Masanobu Fukuoaka
Gaia's Garden - Toby Hemingway

I heard Sepp Holtzer's books are good too but have not read them, out of many books I have read on permaculture I believe the two above are the best. hope that helps

another fantastic book on gardening is Gardening at the Dragon's Gate,
a simple book for a great intro to the soil food web is, of course, Teaming with Microbes

bringing it back to DMT, I'm planning to do an extraction in the near future, will report on it when it happens. Also will be researching more plants to incorporate into the polyculture that contain DMT, I have done research on plants that would do well in my area but need to investigate further. Will probably order some raw materials for the extraction online at first but I am really trying to grow my own materials.

Thanks for the info I will check out the book suggestions

@blue goo:

Yes, I know sepp holzer and I think it's 'hügelkultur' or 'hügelbeet' as we call it in Germany. Very common throughout the permies here would be great to have some more sunshine here in the north. The climate limits the possible plants and also the chance for sustainability. But maybe it's just me, having a crush for the more southern areas.

I think the best sources for dmt in our latitudes seem to be phalaris species, which as I know contain more 5-meo than nn-dmt. Maybe acacia floribunda could be a candidate. MHRB can only be obtained by importing, which is possible but pricy.