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Kids can’t keep their toys off the floor as it is, so this is a toy free Christmas this year. Limiting to crafts, tools and things that take up zero space. The kids have legitimate hobbies like bushcraft, drawing, that’s fine and more meaningful anyway.

We will concentrate on enjoying eachother’s time, grandparents are coming all the way from next door to spend the night because why not. We’ll sing til we’re hoarse at church and then come home and stuff ourselves silly on some steak and potatoes then slip into a starch coma and hopefully wake up in time to play board games on Monday.

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I want one of them “Coincidence Theorist” tshirts.

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Urban Farm Podcast E705 with guest Bill McDorman had an amazing episode on this.

Bill postulates that all the tables that state how long specific species of seeds last is based on an anecdotal study done in the 1800s. He also stated that the expiration date doesn’t show how old the seeds are, simply how long it’s been since that barrel of seeds passed a germ test. If they had a batch of seeds that was 20 years old, they could still put “2023 Season” on the packet if they test germinate 100 and 90 sprout etc. That knowledge blew my mind.

Bill stores his seed in clay pots, at room temp or slightly below. Some scientists recently resurrected a 2000 year old seed! Video search for ‘Masada Date Seeds Sarah Sallon.’ They were stored in clay pots in the basement of a fort.

With that knowledge in hand, I will boldly say that I store my seeds in paper lunch sacks at room temp in my living room because that’s all the further through processing they’ve made them this year. Maybe they make it to the basement, maybe they don’t.

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I’d buy one!