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A lot I’d like to be doing on my property, however, I only currently get maybe 4-6 hours there a week, and I’m only 10 miles away. I still need to get a 10×12 shed moved 50 miles to the property, but before that have to make the pad to put it on.
Level out and probably gravel a pad for the 5th wheel, and find someone with a truck that could actually get it to the spot (likely a 4wd dually needed)
If my house sells, order the bits and bobs to put the full solar system in an enclosed trailer (looking at dual Victron Quattro’s for 110 and 220, build for the future, and at least two full racks of SOK or EG4 batteries.
Get enough trees cleared that I can level ground for a shop and my high tunnel.
Start using the sawmill and get a drying shed built.
Start the food forest.
What’cha think, couple of weekends?
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all the seeds are hybrid seeds, period. Unless they existed at the beginning of time and have not been changed since then, they are a hybrid, the are the result of cross-pollination at some point in the past.
Those that can be planted and produce “true to form” meaning say a Cherokee Purple resulting in a cherokee purple, have been at some point selected, saved, planted, harvested, selected, saved etc for multiple generations (of the plant) until almost 100% grow “true to form”, that may have taken 20, 30, 50 “generations” to become “stabilized” Thus, technically they are a “stabilized hybrid”
Most of the problem with being able to save, plant and get the same thing comes from the seed you buying be a “first generation” (aka F1) hybrid. Not only are you unlikely to get the same thing from saved seed, but it may be patented and thus be guilty of patent infringement if you save and reuse.
Add to that the GMO’s which, unless you had to literally sign a contract to be able to buy, and it likely included a mandate to use certain chemicals, only purchased from the same company, you haven’t bought “GMO” seed, so unless something really new is happening, this is not a concern for your home garden.
Anytime someone says you “can’t” do plant this, or that, or “Can’t” compost x or y, they are likely overgeneralizing to the point of absurdity, or have no actual idea what they are talking about.
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Only about my Ex-wife. But shes been someone else’s problem for over 20 years.
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I’m planning on a full Victron setup, other than the batteries which will likely be EG4 or SOC. They are a known quantity and quality, not constantly creating new versions which makes it hard to keep up with. They just bloody work. I want to build my system and barring a catastrophe, it will just work. 110/220, Low Freq inverter for heavy load startup etc.
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Full disclosure: I grew up in the (white) Southern Baptist church, my early days with the fire and brimstone preachers, then progressing to the more moderate form. Skip a couple of decades and converted to Eastern Orthodox, and dove in deep for at least 4-5 years, being Christmated as “Onesimus”. Currently, I consider myself agnostic.
That being said, anyone calling themselves Christian, “prepping” or not, would do themselves well to read or listen (in Joel’s own voice) to “The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs”. We all claim to walk our talk on the easy (or easily hidden) topics, but as Joel asks, when was the last time you heard a sermon on not how much you eat, but what you eat and how it was produced?
Such a sermon, at least in my area, would likely bring to anger some of the most generous of congregational tithers, the industrial farmers.
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I speak only for myself.
I’ve been an emt, lpn and RN.
The more letters one has behind their name, it often seems, the less likely they are to actually listen to you, the patient. In my opinion, the #1 role of a nurse, is education (and translation of medical-ese for the purpose of education). Doctors, PA’s, NP’s.. are highly educated, hopefully skilled….. consultants. The ultimate decision lies solely with the patient or their legal representative, end of story.
The number of times I’ve been told to “not say too much or they (the pt) won’t sign up” are part of what led me to quit hands-on nursing. That attitude, and action, is a violation of “informed consent”. if the patient is not fully informed, in a language they can understand, of the diagnosis, treatment recommendation, hoped-for benefits, risks, as well as all alternatives along with risks and benefits, and likely outcome of doing nothing….. they have not been informed, and thus cannot legally give consent.
That is for medication, procedure or even admission to hospice.
Policy and profits over patients, I want no part.
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I play the Highland pipes, because, coming from brass, it was the first woodwind that was loud and obnoxious enough to be fun, and…. you get to play dress up.
But the Irish got it right. You can sit, sing and possibly even drink while playing easier.
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and our bodies. We get micordosed everywhere we turn, in the water, air, food. Ultimately what that will do is, once it’s proven to the level courts could hold companies and individuals accountable, it will be impossible to nail down what disease came from what chemical applied by whom, marketed by whom.. so make all the profits, pay none of the liability. But it wouldn’t work, if we didn’t pay for the products.
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Ah, if you had a couple thousand to spare, the fingering for whistle and Irish Pipes are the same.
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I used Burnt Ridge Nursery in Washington, and I’m in Arkansas. There are several companies that sell. Basically just start learning about the various root stock’s for whatever you want to grow, and see who has them on offer.
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Brand names:
Milestone : (Dow/Corteva) – also sold as a residential lawn/garden use chemical.
Opensite : (Corteva) – Forestry
DuraCor – (Corteva) – Forestry
Highnoon – (Corteva) – Forestry
“Grazon” (some formulations)
In the UK it is sold under the brand names Banish, Forefront, Halcyon, Pharaoh, Pro-Banish, Runway, Synero, and Upfront.
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I believe the real danger is from an ingredient in some formulations of Grazon (and other herbicides), that being aminopyralid, so perhaps we should be using the chemical name rather than a brand name which may not encompass all market names to be wary of. (kind of like talking about Benadryl, when meaning diphenhydramine. Just a thought.
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Everyone has their own preference, I’d love a seed swap, have gone to a few, organized one the year before the (Cough Cough) came, and hope to have a 2nd annual one in my current area in Fed.
I prefer in-person swaps, getting to meet people, seeing faces, talking, and hopefully making new friends and allies.
In the community garden I ran for 3 years, (with minimal participation) and in my efforts to evangelize gardening, I tried to really harp on the fact, that growing is only one step, it must be harvested and either stored (preserved) or in any account prepared and plated.
All the seeds and plants and animals mean little, if people don’t know how to prepare it to eat.
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“Force”? as in work or jail, or worse? There are words for actions like that, and they ain’t good ones.
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I thought that was called “marinading”