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Christian worm farmer, biochar maker, soil builder, stick farmer, nurseryman and family guy

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2024-08-21 02:17:55

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As long as they aren't in direct sunlight you can put a clear plastic tub over them to maintain high humidity.
You want the high humidity so they don't dry out before they can root.

2024-08-20 22:45:23

As promised: Mulberry #propagation via Semi-Hardwood Cuttings under mist in your #nursery.
Here is the final result: 61 mulberry cuttings from 5 branches collected a couple days ago. Intermittent mist 10 seconds every 10 minutes.
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First we start off with our branch. Choose this year's wood. It will still be somewhat green at least in our area. You also want it to be over 6 weeks old should you do this earlier in the summer.
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I chose this particular cutting because I loved the leaf shape. I chose some others because of the leaf size and health. Some leaves where I were had a fungus growing on them as well, only choose healthy ones since they will be growing so close in the nursery.
Mulberry is a "2-node" plant. Each leaf node will either be a leaf or roots so we make a cut leaving 2 leaf nodes on each cutting:
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Now to clean it up a bit. We need to leave a leaf on the part of the branch that was furthest from the roots. We remove some of the leaf to reduce the moisture loss, and on the side we'll root, we remove the leaf by tearing it off (to create some damage) and also scrape the bark. This will help rooting.
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Dip in some rooting hormone. I'm using Dip-n-Grow liquid at Semi-hardwood strength this time of year. I get it off of Amazon: https://amzn.to/3YMXv9n (I'm an affiliate and this was an affiliate link. You can click here to support me and help a pleb buy more rooting hormone! 😉 ) $16 worth of the stuff has lasted me about 1600-2000 cuttings.
Now stick in the sand bed under mist and you're done! They should be rooted in 6-8 weeks.
I also snagged a juniper branch on our walk and stuck 15 of those cuttings as well:
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Please let me know if you have any questions or comments!
#grownostr #plantstr #propagation #nursery #garden #permaculture

2024-08-20 02:15:06

#carnivore Cinnamon Toast Crunch:
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Pork rinds, melted butter, salt, cinnamon.
We are calling it Skin-a-mon Toast Crunch.
#grownostr #porkstr #butter #foodstr

2024-08-13 00:28:45

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2024-07-17 20:14:46

Here's the 2nd part of #permaculture stacking functions with the effluent from the anerobic digester: The worm bin:
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Right now it's set up to produce worms more than castings in that I'm keeping it very wet.
I have it in an unheated barn that is open to the outside.
I dump the anerobic digester effluent in every few days and also mist the bed with the mist heads attached to the white PVC pipe a few feet above the bed.
The bin is constructed of PVC pipe and a Waste Management Bagster. I got the idea from Meme's Worms on YouTube.
The 1/2" hardware cloth keeps the skunks out. Before I had that the skunks would come in to eat the worms.
Here are some worms uncovered by scratching the surface a bit. They are a mix of Red Wiggler and European Night Crawlers:
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They were overwintered in this bin just by stacking 18" of leaves above them... the temperature in the compost didn't go below 55 degrees F even though it was 5-10 degrees outside for a few weeks straight.
In addition to manure, straw, compost, shredded cardboard and shredded notices from the IRS, they are fed a mix of ground birdseed, ground corn, azomite, and biochar, all finely ground:
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I throw a couple of handfuls on every day or two:
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The plan is to expand the worms in this bin to the other bins in the background and set up mist systems above them all, as well as a gravity fed effluent distribution system.
Once up and running, I've read you can harvest 5-6 lbs of worms per square foot per year. Right now a pound of worms online is going for $40 and in the spring will be around $65 or so. Each Bagster bin is ~32 square feet so you can do the math.
To achieve this though I need to invest in some better separating methods like a trommel of some sort. The beds are also way to wet for any sort of automated separation right now. Right now I'm in production mode to grow out to the rest of the beds.
#worms #vermiculture #grownostr #plantstr #garden #valueprinting #moneyprinting

2024-07-15 23:43:23

Let's talk tree #propagation in your #nursery by hardwood cuttings.
Like @npub1vwy…zugd had mentioned... this is like printing money out of nothing, but we're printing value through biological processes and our own resources.
Hardwood cuttings are pretty simple.
You just cut a dormant branch into a size you want and stick them in the ground, literally. Make sure they are the right side up!!!
Trees such as poplars and willows can be propagated by this method.
Here are some basket willows planted from 8" cuttings to get you thinking. I use them as a wind break:
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About a month ago, I planted some 1' OP-367 Hybrid Poplars.
Here they are planted into some landscape fabric to keep down the weeds, about a month ago:
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Now here they are 1 month later, I'd say average 2 stems, each 18" to 2' tall:
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Here are some Silky Willows (Steamco) I planted last Thursday. Already putting on growth. Planted in 3' wide landscape fabric with drip irrigation under the fabric.
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That's a black walnut in the background. Printing more trees via propagation from nuts.
Now let's look at the economics. 1 month in I have 4x'ed my cutting length on the poplars, which I bought for $2.50. In the fall if they grow no taller than they are now, I have $10 worth of cuttings.
This is the 2nd year for those basket willows. I cut them down to the ground in March and they've put on 7-8' of growth already on conservatively 30 stems on each plant. Say conservatively we have 210, 1' cuttings. So now I have $500 worth of cuttings per year possible from that one plant.
Let's say we pot them up and sell them like "fastgrowingtrees.com" does for $86.95 a plant! Now we have our single "parent" plant making us $15,000+.
At this point it's a marketing game.
Or all you chicken and duck farmers, use these plants in your chicken and duck yard for cover for your birds as well as to soak up the nitrogen in their poop. The birds will weed the trees for you and help them grow faster. Stack functions in your businesses and life.
Also as an aside.... these cuttings should go in the ground earlier than July! But they still work. Pretty forgiving.
#permaculture #grownostr #propagation #nursery #business #plantstr #garden

2024-07-15 22:13:39

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Thank you. I learned this from Mike McGroarty on YouTube. There are others who do similar things now as well... SaavyDirtFarmer is another.
He has a paid forum/ course you can join to discuss, learn more, and sell your rooted cuttings if you desire.
The one thing I need to do to improve it is put up some shade cloth covering to catch all the leaves/ pine needles in the fall.

2024-07-15 22:06:44

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I'm creating value (more plants) out of an asset I own.
Turn your landscape plants from a liability into an asset!
I suppose I am making "something" out of "nothing", like printing money, only, I'm not devaluing anyone else's money, only trading plants for their printed money.
Then giving a large portion of profits to the government through taxes 😜
Once I figure out how to get that tax money back through Food Stamps/SNAP benefits or something like that, then I'll be on to something 😉

2024-07-15 21:40:05

Here are some more pics of the mist bed and hardware for the #nursery.
First off here is the bed in operation. It's about 24' long and 3' wide and made of old landscaping timbers and filled with concrete sand. Concrete sand is chosen because it drains well.
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Here are the wands. They have a pin that goes down into a hole in the head to create the mist. They haven't been cleaned in years.
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I cleaned them up in some citric acid:
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Here is the valve I use to control the mist wands. It's wired into a controller in the house, and connects to a piece of 3/4" PVC pipe with holes drilled in every 4' or so to accept the lines from the mist heads. The other end is fed by a 3/4" poly water line (not shown):
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Finally, the controller: A Galcon 8056 AC 6S. This will control 4 valves and can be programmed down to the second which is useful for the mist system since I'm on from 8-15 seconds every 10 minutes depending on wind, temperature, etc.
https://m.primal.net/JSDU.jpg
#permaculture #plantstr #garden #grownostr #propagation

2024-07-15 21:06:47

I've been getting ready for next year's #nursery by starting cuttings in our mist bed propagation system. We will be expanding into some flowering perennials next year.
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I wanted to share some quick notes on propagation by cuttings in case there is interest. Many woody perennials are propagated this way, not from seed. We are "cloning" the plant so we get a copy.
This is just one technique for propagation.
Where a plant stem has leaves coming out, provides us with the cells needed to produce roots. This area on the stem is called a "node". Therefore, for most varieties of plants we need a set of nodes below the soil to provide cells for roots.
Here is a 2 node cutting from a butterfly bush called 'Black Knight', before and after making the cutting. The leaves are stripped from the bottom node that will go under the soil. The leaves are also cut back to reduce water loss from drying out:
BEFORE:
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AFTER:
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If we have some plants that would have a very short space between nodes, we can make longer cuttings. Again, one node with leaves cut back that go above the ground and then strip off the leaves on all other nodes. I also wound the bottom of the cutting a bit to encourage rooting. These are cuttings from a Korean lilac called "Miss Kim":
BEFORE:
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AFTER:
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One exception to the rule is hydrangeas, those you can get away with a single node above ground and they will then root from the stems. This is an Annabelle Hydrangea:
BEFORE:
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AFTER:
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Regardless of the cutting type, I dip the cuttings in a rooting hormone called "Dip And Grow" and stick the cuttings fairly close in a bed full of concrete sand. This bed is in the shade.
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The cuttings should root within a few weeks. I mist 8-12 seconds every 10 minutes from 8:00 AM until about 8:30 PM at night with an automated timer.
After they root, I can leave them in the sand bed until they go dormant, or if I dig them up and pot them up I just need to keep them misted until they recover from the transplant shock.
An other option other than the mist bed is to stick them right in plastic cell packs and mist them there. That alleviates the transplant shock but takes up more room.
It varies a bit, but you can figure you can get about $1.35 per well rooted cutting, or if these are grown out and sold next year I'll be asking $10 for them.
The last thing I'll say is you can only do this legally, freely,with plants that are not patented, or whose patents have expired.
Please feel free to ask questions!
#propagation #permaculture #grownostr #plantstr #garden

2024-07-13 21:31:44

Bouquet of butterfly bush for my wife and our beef ration for the week: a 25 lb chuck roll.
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#bloomstr #carnivore #grownostr #flowerstr

2024-07-11 22:03:06

I wanted to share a little on the potting soil we use for the plants in our #nursery:
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What we are looking for is a medium that drains easily, yet retains moisture. The cost is also a factor.
Since we pot mostly perennials, I also am looking for a fungally dominant potting mix vs. bacterially dominant as you'd have with fresh compost.
Wood chips around here are easy to get by the truckload, and I use well rotted ones for the basis of my compost mix. And by "rotted" I mean "rotted": They look like soil and are completely broken down by fungus, it takes about 2-3 years.
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On top of the wood chips I add about 5% by volume charged biochar. About half of this is sifted to 1/4" + and the other half of the biochar is right out of the leaf vacuum I use to crush it up. The biochar is charged with azomite, sea minerals, worm casts, and effective microorganisms (EM-1). We make the biochar right here on the farm. It serves both to provide and retain nutrients and moisture as well as provide drainage:
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Then worm castings sifted to 1/8" and finer at around 5% by volume. I also raise the worms for the casts, the current system involves growing them in 4'x8' Waste Management Bagsters:
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Finally about 1 quart of activated EM-1. This is 1 oz Terraganix EM-1 mixed with 1 oz blackstrap molasses in 30 oz of water:
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This all gets mixed up by hand, and then we use it to pot our plants.
I mix it in a gorilla cart which will provide enough for about 25-30 trade gallon pots.
#grownostr #permaculture #fungi #plantstr #garden

2024-07-03 17:06:20

I wanted to share some techniques and success I found with bare root trees, specifically shipping for your #nursery or #garden.
I had dug up this catalpa tree for my mother-in-law a few months ago when she visited.
In order to pack it for her to take home, I had soaked some shredded cardboard in Terraganix EM-1 microorganisms. The EM-1 has some lactic acid bacteria, brewer's yeast, and purple non-sulfur bacteria in addition to other microbes. I mixed it 50-50 with some blackstrap molasses to activate it.
I then packed the roots in the cardboard, and left the top of the tree out of the bag.
This is a few months later; she hasn't had a chance to plant it yet, but the tree is doing pretty well in this cardboard-soaked-in-EM-1 mix:
https://m.primal.net/JGtn.jpg
Here's a closeup of the bag. Looks like the cardboard is starting to break down in here.
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Not ideal that the tree isn't in the ground yet, but if you need to preserve some plants until you have time to plant them, this works pretty well for me.
I can share some other resources on Effective Microorganisms (EM) if you're interested.
The other thing cool about EM-1 was discovered after the Fukashima nuclear plant accident. At a nursery in Japan, they were testing the crops after the fallout to make sure that there were not radioactive elements present in the food.
One of the fruit nurseries does a soil drench and foliar application of EM-1 to build up the biology in the soil and on the leaves.
They found that the fruit from this nursery had very little or no contamination from the radioactive elements.
My understanding is the EM-1 helps establish good fungal and bacterial presence in the soil and on the leaves which forms a sort of protection from the radioactive elements. Instead of taking in the raw element as ions, the fungi is preventing the plant from taking them in as the plants are relying on the fungi to provide them with what nutrients they need, and not just taking them from the soil.
#grownostr #permaculture #gardening #plantstr

2024-06-08 17:55:49

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Plants. $10 each or 3 for $25.

2024-06-08 17:53:26

Blueberries are GONE! Time to get some more in! Next year I'll get 200 at a time.
Made just shy of $400 so far today in about 3 hours. Most people spent $75 or so. A couple people were driving in from an hour away.
Also got compliments on the plants, info sheets, knowledge and organization.
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#nursery #permaculture #plantstr #business #grownostr

2024-05-30 00:46:12

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Yep! Goods from Pennsylvania. I grew up on those!
https://www.facebook.com/GoodsPotatoChips/

2024-05-27 18:13:41

Time for weeding, fertilizing and top dressing the plants in the #nursery.
Pulled the small weeds before they become big, fertilize with 1 tsp of Osmocote 14-14-14 slow release fertilizer, and top dress with a generous amount of worm castings.
It's like a forest of raspberries!
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The long term plan is to get completely away from the commercial fertilizer by fertilizing with compost tea, but I'm not there yet.
The more I interact with people, the more I realize what I'd consider common knowledge, is not common. Specifically worm castings, I sold some blackberries yesterday and mentioned that I had just top dressed them with worm castings, and the customer had never heard of using worm castings as a fertilizer, or even what they were.
Other things to teach is the seasonality of fruits, and that different varieties of the same fruit produce at different times. For instance, I have 4 different varieties of red raspberries that, when planted out, should produce most of the summer up to the frost. But people don't know that so you have to mention it.
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Final thing to mention is this little garden scooter that I got a few months ago from AM Leonard. This thing is a back saver and puts you right where you need to be at eye level with the plants.
https://m.primal.net/IPNm.jpg
#permaculture #gardening #wormcastings #propagation

2024-05-23 20:16:18

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All locally, yes.
Craigslist (made $175 on 2 sales) and Nextdoor ($0)
$30 in sales word of mouth at church.
Adding in Facebook this week, need to finish that up.
Also sold at a yard sale ($565 over 2 days) and a local agricultural store spring festival ($365 over 4 hours)
So I guess it's more like $1135 all together! I was just thinking of the bigger sales.

2024-05-23 16:37:33

I've been working on rebooting our plant nursery this spring.
I had things up and running a couple years ago but had gotten busy since and things had gotten neglected.
The focus this year is on berries: Blueberries, Blackberries, Raspberries, Strawberries, sold in trade gallon pots.
I intend to keep more regular updates going forward 😉
I've sold about $800 so far over the last 3 weeks.
Some learnings thus far for our area (Western NY):
1.) I was trying to sell at $15 each or 3 for $40. This was too high, or, at least I wasn't making any sales, so I'm down to $10 each or 3 for $25 and things are selling.
2.) People typically don't know about plant varieties at all so there is a lot of education required. Even things like the fact that they come back, year after year. When you'd get berries, etc. People are far removed from seasonality.
3.) Having leafed out plants is important.... about a month ago it was still pretty cold so especially at early sales, people would exclaim, "Those are just sticks". Next year I'll keep them in our nursery area with the black ground cover to get leaves on them, earlier.
Economics/Cost:
Plants I bought in cost $4-$5 each (including shipping). Pots are around $0.44 each. The growing medium is well rotted wood chips, biochar, and worm castings, which just cost me time.
I propagated about 75% of my plants myself (Raspberries, Blackberries) so that cost is just my time.
If you have a green thumb, a little cash to invest, and some space and time, this would be a good way to make some quick cash.
That's the first post for now, I'll follow on with more specifics so you can duplicate or learn!
#permaculture #gardening #propagation #grownostr
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2024-04-01 22:28:09

We took some time this evening to stick elderberry cuttings along a seasonal stream on our property.
A natural gas pipeline went in here a couple years ago so I decided to take advantage of the disturbance along the edge.
#permaculture
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2024-01-27 19:44:11

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Masons and concrete guys.

2024-01-22 23:34:58

During the recent cold snap we've had in Western NY caused by a "polar vortex", I remembered a guy by the name of the Ice Age Famer I ran across 3 or 4 years ago.
I wanted to share this in case anybody else has not run across this information.
He discussed solar activity as relates to climate on the Earth. During periods of weaker solar activity, there are more galactic cosmic rays that impact the earth. This leads to, among other things, a weakened jet stream, allowing cold air or warm air dive down (or up, as the case may be!) and more pronounced droughts and precipitation.
Now, the current solar cycle we are in (Solar Cycle 25) is more active than predicted, but not as active as cycles in the past hundred years or so. The last time the solar cycle looked like it did now was around the early 1900's. You know, dustbowl times.
Now, what to do about this? Resilience in our food systems is the key in my opinion. Here are 3 practical things we are doing:
1.) Plan for cold (and warm) snaps by planting resilient plants that can survive outside your zone. My grandfather said you should plant trees that can survive 2 USDA zones colder than you are in.
2.) Build soil organic matter and soil life with biochar, cover crops, and application of soil biology through composts. These allow the rain we do get, to penetrate the soil and can hold water and release it slow. @npub1587…kv0n just had a discussion of this on the Survival Podcast.
3.) Remineralize your soil (and composts) with rock dusts and ocean minerals to in turn build the nutrition content of your crops and animals.
I have not been able to find anything recently from the Ice Age Famer, but am leaving his video here for others should they find it interesting. The fascinating part of this was the Ice Age Farmer also tracked these solar cycles back to civilization failures and famine because of food shortages.
#grownostr #gardening #biochar #compost #permaculture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBwUQlHus7I

2024-01-01 03:31:46

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Actually, the texture is the same after reconstitution. I do not know why but it is. Even something like beef stew comes out the same as it went in.
If you were to chew on the cooked beef while freeze dried it crumbles in your mouth, but reconstituted it has the same texture.
We freeze dried this in particular because of storage. They don't have a lot of freezer space and a lot of other people are freezing them meals. It also lasts super long and they can store it anywhere.
Other advantages...
As far as survival situation, freeze drying is good because it just takes boiling water and waiting 20 minutes, not cooking.
Nutrient retention is superior vs. canning or dying, not that you'd can pasta but for things like salsa or veggies.
Freeze dried herbs especially are heads and shoulders above regular dried herbs when freeze dried. They retain really superior flavor and aroma.
If I were to freeze dry commercially I would do herbs and pastured eggs. Herbs freeze dry overnight.
But again for this application it was so it would store conveniently for them. 🙂

2024-01-01 02:48:36

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Baby's on the way man! 🤣

2024-01-01 02:12:47

Spent part of the evening getting some trays of spaghetti and meatballs ready for freeze drying.
One of our friends is due with their 6th child so we are putting some meals together for them.
I'll weigh the tests before and after in grams. To reconstitute, add the difference in weight back in, in milliliters of water. If you want to get fancy with some things you can reconstitute in broth to add more flavor. Just heat up the water, drop in the food, cover and simmer and stir for 15-20 minutes.
The trays start of at around 2400 grams (about 5.25 lbs)
It's made from store bought meatballs and sauce. All we have to cook is the pasta. Then I mixed the sauce and pasta and spooned around the meatballs.
Into the freezer dryer, it will probably take 36-40 hours to freeze dry. Then it's good for 25 years in a mylar bag with oxygen absorber.
#foodstr #pregnancy #freezedrying
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2023-12-31 04:17:35

To start this back up on a cold start, I light a fire in the oven chamber, to get a good draft going.
The masonry heater has about 20 feet of masonry channel to absorb heat before the smoke hits the chimney. Part of those channels cause the smoke to travel down.
A good draft pulls the smoke down so it can eventually leave via the chimney.
After the heater is warmed up I'll light the main wood charge in the firebox.
A normal fire is about 40 lbs of wood at a time.
#firestr #masonryheater #fire
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2023-12-19 14:44:19

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Thank you so much for sharing your experience.
I'm so sorry you went through that but I will share that with my kids so they understand even better what is at stake.
Thank you again... and as a side note don't forget to set up your lightning address!

2023-12-19 00:46:13

Homeschooling lesson for the day.
The kids were learning about communism, socialism, and in particular what equity means.
Two hyacinth bulbs we are forcing are shown in the pictures.
The one on the right is full of roots, the other has one root.. not sure why but it's convenient to explain that in the name of "equity" we'd cut all the roots off the one plant top try to force the same outcome.
#plantstr #homeschool #homeschooling #grownostr
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2023-12-18 23:56:15

Egg comparison. One in the back are ours, front two are from a store.
Amazing the difference... my phone camera doesn't do it justice.
#foodstr #eggstr #carnivore
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2023-12-05 04:03:08

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I set it up about 5 hours ago myself and transferred everything out of WoS.

2023-12-03 14:46:17

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It looked more or less like this:
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2023-12-02 14:35:08

If you are looking to clear out old fencerows and make them productive again, this is what pigs can do.
This was a tangle of vines and brambles 3 weeks ago. Weeds were 6' high. Lots of scrap metal, old fence, etc.
Now I can go in and clean the metal and trees and make this productive again.
#permaculture #pigstr #grownostr
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2023-11-20 17:09:58

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Thanks I look forward to future posts! I also like the use of the permaculture lens on your activities.
I'm also glad you talk about intermittent mining. We have an old octapus furnace in our basement, which operates via thermosiphon rather than forced air.
It originally burned coal, now fuel oil. I've tested it with wood as well.
The plan would be to hook a miner up during winter to supplement our masonry heater.

2023-11-03 16:16:28

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Certainly!

2023-11-02 23:04:56

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Glad to know you are here as well!
I've just done the regenerative soil one to completion. I started the PDC as well.
I've gotten into the soil amendments and am trying to grow that business... once that is in better shape I'll do the microscopy course I think.
Whereabouts are you located? We are in western NY state.

2023-11-02 22:46:53

SteakBlotArt #2
What does it look like to you?
#inkblotart #steakblotart #grownostr #carnivore
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2023-11-02 20:24:30

Another database out there on a similar vein to the pfaf database is Dr. Dukes Phytochemical Database:
https://phytochem.nal.usda.gov/
You can look up what chemicals are in a specific plant, or vice versa what plants have what specific chemicals.
I learned about this DB in Matt Powers soil science course.
One thing that stuck out to me is most of the herbs have the most to offer as far as concentrations of useful compounds. Veggies proper (broccoli, etc) are more diluted.
#grownostr #gardening

2023-11-02 00:58:59

Inspired by #inkblotart...
Introducing #steakblotart!
Cut from a chuck eye roast
I think it looks like a whole broiler chicken in a roasting pan.
#grownostr #carnivore
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2023-10-17 22:55:39

Picked these earrings up for my wife on a recent road trip to New Hampshire at Silver Daves Coin Shop in Weare, NH. She picked them out herself!
On the way home, she bought me Matthew Lysiak's Fiat Food book with bitcoin on the lightning network 🙂
#grownostr #bitcoin #jewelry
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2023-06-21 22:18:52

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Here is a video on an interesting concept called the plant health pyramid:
https://youtu.be/kDqRW3Wo8Y4
Instead of driving the beetles away, you end up making your plants healthy such that the beetles can't digest the types of sugars / fats contained in the plants.
If I were you I'd start with a soil soak/ foliar feed of EM to get your sugars in the leaves digesting faster and kickstart your soil food web a bit.
You can check it out on Amazon or Terraganix website. You'd get EM-1 and molasses, mix it up, let it ferment for a day or so and water it in and be sure to get it on the leaves.
https://www.teraganix.com/products/em-1-microbial-inoculant-soil-amendment
It looks like a small bottle, but you activate it by feeding it molasses to multiply the microbes.
https://www.teraganix.com/blogs/teraganix/activated-em-1-recipe-page
If you have access to kelp meal I'd also ferment that with the EM-1.
Can you tell me a little more about this garden you have? Did you just start it this year? Apply any compost? How prolific are the weeds and can you identify them?
Are your plants otherwise stressed from drought? How often are you watering?

2023-06-14 01:42:18

I'm in New York State and trying to get some #bitcoin on the #lightning network.
I've tried multiple ways to do this but every way ends in the provider not being able to do this in NY State (on the up and up). I gave up.
I've recently been talking with people interested in #bitcoin and wanted to just send them some on the lightning network to keep them interested but keep hitting walls.
Does anyone have ideas on how to do this? This is the most frustrating thing.

2023-04-29 02:45:47

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What do you do with the mealworms?