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I’m not a udemy subscriber but looked and didn’t see this lecture, do you have a direct link?

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Look up Stefan Sobkowiak – The Permaculture Orchard – YouTube

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It’s possible, but few are willing to do what it takes, to get there. too “different”.

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But…. not the southern border.

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Do both. Pull some suckers to root as a backup, but go ahead and plant what you have as it just might work.

Remember, pull all but maybe 2-4 leaves off at the very top, and bury the thing as so that just those 2-4 leaves and a tad bit of stalk is showing. If they are very tall, you can lay it on it’s side in a trench-like setting and have that last bit above the ground, and of course water in well. If they take off, you’re golden, if they struggle or die, you have the suckers rooting as a backup (or extra plants).

This is what I’d do. Of course, without pictures or other details, we’re just shooting in the dark with generalities.

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What seed company? If it’s a legit seed company there are regs about the seed being the right seed as advertised, specific germination rates, weed seed percentage etc. If it’s a mom and pop, garage, under the radar thing, caviet emptor.

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Actually, I might say, there is a way to do both (and I did watch the video, have completed a Permaculture Design program, Soil Food Web course and more.

Plant your beans, or cowpeas next to the corn or whatever, but plant it thick. When they start to flower.. THIN them, Chopping say half and leaving half. That way you get the nitrogen-fixing (which actually the bean does -not- do, instead it is a specific bacteria in the nodule, hopefully), and get fruit.

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Hacking my Identity would be as useful as stealing my car.

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No one knows what they will, or will not do until the actual situation arises.

No one knows how it will affect them, unless and until it happens.

For me, at this moment, If I feel the need to use lethal force, it is because one or more people have put me in that position, against my will. So, they made the decision, not me, this is just the immediate feedback for their choice.

Having, for a short time, been a part-time LEO for a city just outside of Memphis, I completed the “part-time officer training” (which I felt gave us just enough information, training, and such to be really really dangerous), I did also complete the pepper spray portion of the program. The main thing I learned there, is how I react to pepper spray (in this case, “FOX” which is both pepper and CS gas), I know I have only a very few seconds before I’m incapacitated, leaving me in the same situation as if I’d been shot with anything more than a flesh wound, thus, based on experience and training, if someone points a can of spray, it is 100% equivalent to any projectile-based weapon, and the response is the same.

I’ve also been a nurse, a hospice nurse, and assisted in loading both my teenage sister into an ambulance, after she was killed in a farming accident, being hit by a train, as well as my grandmother after her passing, and numerous non-family members, being present as they were dying, at the moment of death and responding immediately after a patients demise at home under hospice care. My experiences don’t hold a candle to long time Medics, cops, and military, but I do have first-hand experience with death, so perhaps, that gives me a bit of confidence in how I’d handle it, though in none of those cases was I instrumental in their untimely demise.

While I may understand why, in a SHTF situation others may feel the need to use force to get something, then, as now, the best chance of meeting that need, is to ask. The worst thing that would happen is denial. Don’t ask and… well..

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If there was a nuke, would you have the electricity to run.. any of them?

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Yeah I looked at it, and while I might.. might be able to use his parts and code to build one. It would be really pushing my limits. But, it’s awesome to see more open-source hardware out there.

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Yeah, I found one that was titled “structures”, I Swear he was intoxicated..

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As opposed to doing nothing?

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it depends, there are, and can be reasons to orient otherwise. things like land slope, or even if the greenhouse is made such that it “runs” east/west with the north wall being opaque and insulated, possibly the west end as well. In my latitude the summer sun is essentially overhead in summer so orientation really doesn’t matter as much, though in winter I might prefer east/west with tall stuff on the back (North side) and shorter on the front (south). while a plant may only get sun on one “side”, they tend to move their leaves to point to the sun, and would thus possibly get more hours of sun. So.. it depends.

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Its an option. When I have the time to really garden hard (meaning I can spend a lot of time in the garden) and have space, I plant my okra with a row of cowpeas on either side. I haven’t formally experimented with the thinning mentioned above (just thought about that technique) or even Okra with and without a cowpea companion, however, I believe in true Permaculture fashion, it does at least possibly give me multiple rewards (all of which are currently subjective, as there has been no formal, documented, peer-reviewed research.

1) Possible nitrogen fixation
2) Shading the ground to help it stay cooler
3) Shading the ground to reduce evaporation
4) Shading the ground as a cover crop
5) Additional food in essentially the same space”
6) Biodiversity
7) Seed saving, especially as I tend to grow varieties that are not the norm in this area. (Clay, Hog Brain, Tetapeche and others.)

I have been taught (and still learning), and believe in the diversity of crops, techniques, and outputs of any effort.

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