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Stopped selling seeds and gardening supplies when covid hit

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Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer ordered all stores larger than 50,000-square feet to cordon off their garden centers and plant nurseries, blocking customers from shopping in those sections through April 30. “If you’re not buying food or medicine or other essential items, you should not be going to the store,” Whitmer said when announcing her order.

The shutdown follows an executive order from last month that’s been widely interpreted by many in the industry as banning greenhouses, independent garden centers, and plant nurseries from selling to the public,”

Never Forgive; Never Forget.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicksibilla/2020/04/16/michigan-bans-many-stores-from-selling-seeds-home-gardening-supplies-calls-them-not-necessary/

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Also, there’s on YT videos on “Tin Cloth” that you can make with paraffin and synthetic waxes to waterproof and thorn-harden clothing. Quite desirable in the Pacific Northwest.

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Let us know what you’re looking for. For old, OLD iron:
Radiodaze.com has Riders Manuals. The Bama Manual Archive has some for old iron, including WW2/Korean War military gear.

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This farmer is apparently a high profile Lightning Rod in that territory. Sad that he doesn’t have a sheriff like Brad Rogers of Elkhart (cited in the offthegridnews article) who will Brush the Feds Back Off The Plate when they are repeatedly harassing a local food provider.

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It’s so bloody inexpensive, that you can deploy a dozen or two of these for that very thing:
“I’m the chicken waterer reporting, and I’m: (Full/Half Full/Near Empty/Something’s Not OK)
“I’m the electric fence surrounding the garden, and I’m (Fully charged/Firing at diminished capacity/Something’s Not Ok, come check on me)–Lather, rinse, repeat, for a bunch of homestead tasks that are OOSOOM otherwise ‘out of sight out of mind’. Help direct your energies better on the rounds.

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In the Crapital City, when people have photos/ring camera footage of people stealing from mailboxes they report the police and postal officials are like ‘meh. what’ya gonna do?’ and go back to scrolling their phones.

I remember when Federal Crimes had strict penalties, versus Now when it’s selling raw milk or hamburger from your homestead that will get you swatted.

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I had an opportunity in the day to meet with Stephen Gaskin on “The Farm” about twenty years ago, long after the Commune stage of their existence. Their goal of demonstrating self-sufficiency as a beacon of hope in the face of a collapsing global social system is an admirable goal to this day.

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I heard it’s a PCR test that they can change the sensitivity of to get a Positive. Not a good thing.

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The rivers are the King’s Rivers–fishing is poaching. Hunting in the forest is poaching from the King–on pain of death. Your only freedom, vassal, is to eat the King’s pottage, and die with honor in the king’s army, fighting a war with the distant land that is threatening the King’s power in some way that’s hard to explain to mere serfs like you and me.

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I could see where a vertical axis “drum” wind turbine might serve as a fill in to a mature solar system. In times where it is overcast and bitter cold in our area is when we have some of the steadiest wind. I would hate to have to rely on one as a main source of power. It’s like the notion of farm hydro: the creek I would eye for that would tend to destroy paddles driving a generator during our spring floods, and would handily lock a pelton turbine with rocks and grit at that same time. There are so many sites in this part of the country that are ‘Suchandsuch Mill Road’ where the furious flooding we get every 5-10 years long since washed away every vestige of the antebellum mill that place name refers to.

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I had to look up “Skete” / “Tennessee” and the sole results are those you discuss. What a wonderful rare experience to make a deep connection such as the one you describe.

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Well, anything you an add to inform and remove assumptions would be appreciated. My bride is interested with an empathy born of being in an unfortunate series of situations as a child.

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I really did assume that operation was shut down. Am I wrong in thinking that?

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Yeah. Hit Brave, too, with the same results. I know there are more specific browsers but I haven’t kept up with them.