Member MartHale7
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Ok, so you have not tried it. I love heirlooms and I find it takes a while to get them adapted to the soil in your area after you get them, once they do they are really good plants.
I tried biogas just too stinky for me, but wood gas works great for running engines, just is a learning curve.
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I have been working on my food on rotation, Vacuum sealing is working great for me living in a humid environment means I have to be careful about mold.
I have lost some food in learning how to store, but now I am feeling much better about this as I have been going two weeks without going to the grocery store and finding what things I miss, and ways that I don’t get board with the food I have stored. I know I could survive without the grocery for a long time, and I have been working on ways to feed animals from tree hay.
Building a local food network has been one of the things I have been working on, as you can’t grow it all, and being able to trade with others sure helps with the variety of food you can have when the LCE happens.
I guess what I am trying to reason thru is how I will cope with the millions that are going to come to the USA from the border, and all of those who are loosing their homes and jobs. Tough times are ahead, and preparing now sure can ease the pain of what is likely to come.
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That said, they do have their place -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNbeL-adIqA
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The biggest danger with these is for them to get too hot and the heat destroys the unit. For myself I would rather have solar panels and a lithium battery. I buy used panels at 60$ for 200 watts of power, add a charge controller and a battery for the money you are further ahead than the stove in that you can have the sunshine charge the battery in the background. It is what I am doing to run my home with 4,000 watts of power. Cloudy days I use a generator,
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I was listening to an episode of the “survival podcast” and he was making a point that Monsanto has taken the time to map out all the genes of plants, that they could speed up the method of getting certain traits by using their map… I do not like the practices of Monsanto ( now called Bayer) but I thought that would be an interesting idea to see what they have mapped out, and could that be used to breed better traits naturally.
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Ok, so since you have tried it do you pollard or coppice your trees? I find pollarding mine works great.. I have many make fences from the wood they get from the new saplings formed.
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https://www.feedipedia.org This is the website, I have found great info that is useful to me from this site.
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I normally research trees that are 1) good fodder. and 2) grow well in my area. There is a web site which I will post below that shows you the zones of fodder crops and their value to livestock.
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Yeah, my line of thinking was to use the tree hay to feed worms, which would feed the chickens, and provide wood for my rocket ovens, may not be right for you, but chickens love greens.
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Have you ever done tree hay? How do you know there is less work?
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Great video that describes what it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4csTdrvvWL8
My links about it:
https://www.pinterest.com/mart85yahoocom/tree-hay/
The short version is trees leaves have enough nutrition to feed animals just like grass can. It can be stored and used like hay. Certain trees have benefits in nutrition for the animals and can be used to supplement your animal feed.
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Yep power is a good thing and having backups to the backups I am a firm believer.
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But the root problem is they have been trained to leech off others, but have not been trained to work for themselves.
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Yeah, it is one of the reasons I want a bug out plan, it will be easy to deni them who do not prepare, but it will be worse to deni their children who are hungry. One of the reasons I would like to setup working gardens so they can work for food, and, create food for the hungry that will come after them.