Member FaithK
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I don’t know if they show this or not but you can make your own heavy duty filter with a regular box fan and hepa filters. You can’t just add one hepa filter to a box fan because of the lower air flow. But if you have the fan as an outlet on a box made from hepa filters, it can filter a ton of air and not put strain on the fan motor.
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Check out Jack Spirko’s channel or website (The Survival Podcast). Over that last several months, he’s had a good bit of info on azolla, and had some links to other channels that are looking at larger scale azolla production.
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I still say that thing needs to be turned into massive amounts of compost. They could already have solar powered harvesting boats out there, bringing to areas other than where it’s heading. High in phosphorus and nitrogen? You mean two the biggest commercial fertilizers, one of which mostly comes from radioactive mined rock, and the other commercially produced with more fossil fuels than cars run on worldwide? But nah, too expensive, and I’m sure there’s some rare tiny shrimp living it in that they can’t mess it up.
They’ve spent all this time watching it and bemoaning the cleanup costs and tourism loss once it hits, without any thought of how to make it useful, well before it hits as well as after. Bah.
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Love it!
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Maybe need bean/pea inoculants, usually Rhizobium bacteria. I’ve been debating adding it, since I don’t have pre-inoculated seed, and I’m planting on a brand new plot that’s just been grass – actually without clover either – for a very long time. I keep going back and forth, but hearing both of you with new plots having the same issue, I think I’m swinging back in the “use it” direction.
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Three kinds: there are those like me… both.
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I hear tell that spraying with kaolin clay is great for pest control (feeding and laying eggs), as well as helping with too-strong sun, and I think fungal diseases iirc. Fungal diseases are probably from the decreased pest pressure and damage, I’d think. Plus, it’s edible itself, so if it isn’t cleaned off completely, no biggie. May even be a benefit for consuming kaolin clay, but I totally can’t remember right now.
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This reply was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by FaithK. Reason: Forgot about the edible-ity. lol
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Hey y’all. It’s been a while, but I think I found you while doing a search for homesteading info in the south to help out my daddy with veg gardening. He was a master at flowers, decorative plants, succulents, and such, but we always joked about his annual $100 tomato. He passed away last year, and I’ve picked up his $100 habit, but with peppers! LOL Anyway, I’d love a Freesteading apron. I’d really like a tumbler, but man, if anyone brings another tumbler into this house I think my husband is gonna go insane. Sooo many tumblers.
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I graduated my almost 25yo, and currently have 17yo twins. One is severely autistic and mostly non-verbal, so things look different for him. But our girl-twin is has been unschooled (the 25 yo was mostly unschooled).
Feel free to reach out with any questions.
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Shade cloth in the desert can be so useful in so many ways. The way it is woven is ideal for what they call “fog farming”. Basically it’s the cloth stretched in a frame, and it catches water in the air overnight, goes down into a receptacle where it is filtered. Israel would be awesome for it because of the damp sea breeze that goes over the land. But it also works in the Saraha. It’s a great technology.
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Grazon, especially with legumes and nightshades, will usually present as twisted leaves and stems. It’s ugly. It’s pretty distinctive as far as I’ve seen. David the Good has a good blog post with photos of the damage: Dealing with Grazon Contamination | The Survival Gardener
Yellowing is often lack of nitrogen, or too much nitrogen (if it’s not a watering issue). They say not to add much, if any, nitrogen to legumes because they make their own nitrogen, and fix it to the soil. That’s the benefit of legumes even if you don’t eat them. But the bacteria that helps grow the nodules on the roots that actually do the fixing needs to be there. A lot of soils have at least some. I mentioned the amendment earlier that I’m going to use, because the plot I had tilled had zero legumes growing there in who knows how long – it didn’t even have ANY clover, which if your plot had, it likely had that bacteria to grow the nodules.
And make sure you’re watering appropriately, not overwatering. I know y’all have had a lot of rain this spring (at least my family in Morgan City and Lafayette have). So that may be an issue as well. Those are really the main yellowing issues for beans and peas.
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Hi! There’s a book called “At the Feet of Our Elders”, about $4 on Amazon. It’s 45 guided questions for the elderly to open communication and glean their history. I’ve heard really good things about it. There’s also lists of “elderly interview” questions you can search for online.
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Tag has said that this is in process.
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We’ve unschooled (20ish years now). LOVE it. It also helps teach the kids learn the rights and responsibilities of freedom by giving them that freedom. It doesn’t mean I’m totally hands off. It’s just that we’ve mostly been led by whatever they want (or don’t want) to learn.
But as young children, we read read read read. From baby-hood until they pretty much stopped listening to me reading at about 11yo. Soooo much reading. I believe that it’s my responsibility to teach my kids how to learn, and to help guide them in that direction.
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Whoohoo! Unschooling for the win! (Okay, for some of us, but still… lol)