Sadly ASL is .. American Sign Language. It’s only used here, in west Africa, and the Asian islands.

Nope! Give it a little hit of fertilizer, and some water. It will pick back up once more. Maybe 2-3 more good harvests, but if you try to replant you will get smaller leaves and less robust growth, but will not get more harvests than that. Zone 6a and farther south here, and I can’t imagine replanting at this point.

Ya that’s crazy! I think here in the US, the profit margin is not really that great. I’ve heard checkers and baggers complain when the grocery store had a 100,000 day. I know what it’s like to run a business. Clerks don’t understand net vs gross.

I’ve looked in the dumpster out back at all the food they have to throw away, I’ve paid a commercial light bill on a waaaay smaller building before, I’ve watched people steal stuff from there, I’ve counted the employees that work there and multiplied by minimum wage. A 100,000 gross day is nothing to brag about because they are not NETTING much.

I can see prices going up by 50%, that’s kinda just consumer price index. Certainly not +50% profit though! Not in this economy..

Everyone that talks about grocery price gouging needs to thresh some grain, or butcher an animal. I would not plant, fertilize, harvest, wash, sort, grind, package, ship, warehouse, market, and sell a bag of flour for $6. Yet, there it is on the shelf.

I don’t know about Canada, but here in the US we have food subsidies. Just one example, but they want poor kids to have access to enough nutrition especially calcium; it’s a good thing with bad unintended consequences. The government pays down a couple dollars on each gallon of milk, but only for mega corporations. So you go buy a gallon of beautiful raw milk from your neighbor, it’s $9. You go to the store, the watered down 2% crap with a bunch of pesticides mixed in is $4. They’re both just a gallon of milk. People think the raw bespoke milk is more because it’s designer. They’re right about half of it. The $9 one is raised with love, raised sustainably and cheaply, and doesn’t travel more than a mile before it’s in your fridge. The real difference? The other gets a $5 subsidy from the fed.

I’ve been saving rabbit urine and straw to inoculate. The bunny “eggs” of course are best used elsewhere.

When I said “you don’t want a crop” I mean you don’t need to look at days to maturity. You won’t get fruit off the cover crop. The organic matter IS the crop, so you just need seeds that still germinate when it’s cold.

“Dirt” is such a crazy word. It can mean almost anything.

In your case, it means stuff that doesn’t have very much organic content. So:

First of all, soil (or even your dirt) hates to be naked. I don’t know if you’re northern hemisphere, but it’s time for fall cover crop here. I’ll tell you what we do, if you’re down under you need spring crops instead. We will plant wheat, Rye, cowpea, buckwheat, all that stuff. You’re just wanting to cover the soil up for the winter. You don’t want a crop. All this will be chopped off, and you’ll dress soil amendments right over the roots in the spring.

Add some daikon radish, sometimes it’s called tillage or tilling radish. They get VERY large and break soil. Probably as tall as your raised bed. When you think it’s done growing, chop the top off with a knife and let it rot. Worms love to eat radish.

Now you’re building soil!

Next, you need even more organic matter than a couple radishes and some rye straw will give you. Find someone near you with rabbits, and try to buy some 5 gallon buckets of poop, and/or offer to help clean their rabbitry. Very few weed seeds in rabbit poop, and you can plant right in it. It’s not chemically “hot” like many other manures, it won’t hurt the crops even if it’s very fresh. Just lay it on top, and worms will come up through your bad dirt to get to food; then they drag their own poop back down through the dirt and create soil.

Lastly, don’t put any chemical fertilizer, no pesticide, and most importantly no fungicide on those beds for a year at least. If you get straw bedding from a farm, make sure they haven’t treated their animals for parasites or worms. (They usually use ivermectin and it kills earthworms) You may find that when you get healthy soil, you don’t need these things anyway. It will take some time!

Short version: You need to build the organic matter up, you need to get the worms and the beneficial bacteria and fungus to arrive.

Looks good!! Doesn’t take long.. I think it will make a really nice garden next year!

Sweet 100s are a sore spot for me this year. I tried to plant 2 but mismarked 6 Roma and 6 Chadwick Cherry seedlings when I potted up. I have 14 Sweet 100s. Next year I’ll be more careful.😔

I did notice that my 100s sucker a lot, and fruit a LOT on those suckers! It’s caveman gardening, really poor form, but I’d just leave them on. Get your fix early! You can always hack the low suckers off later, or just let them stay on the plant and trail them into another pot to root.. or just leave them on their and pretend the whole plant doesn’t exist like I ended up doing with those 14 plants lol

Probably doesn’t work with school libraries, probably works best for nonconfrontational types of nonfiction, and may not work in Canada at all, however.. I went to my local Library and requested two books by name. One Straw Revolution and Gaia’s Garden, both are mainstays in the #permaculture world.

The lady I talked to, I had talked to before. I knew she was into gardening, but not necessary permaculture. She replied that they had been taking a lot of older books out, specifically mentioned 2008. Crazy. The two titles I wanted were not in their system at all.

Well, I went back a couple months later and there’s Gaia’s Garden right there on the shelf. I got to thinking, and looked on the app. The One Straw Revolution was not there in paper, but was on audiobook translated from its Japanese to English and ready to check out and download.

Score! She did it for me. You just got to try the right people and ask the right way. As a libertarianish person, I really despise the library but if I’m paying for it, I’ll use it! I may as well have some good influence while I’m at it.

At any price point the number doesn’t matter. It could be a trillion gaquillion dollars or it could be 25¢. Either way, they own him.

“Beware hiring him” is the venue’s dog whistle to the rest of the fat cats. “Don’t hire him” as the establishment line in the sand. It backfires when you listen to him in his own words. He sounds like a random dude, a dude like you and me.

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I agree completely. Those small things are all we can do!

Some yall’s hashtags sometimes. 😆 🙈

He’s like the nostr of music. I’m so glad he didn’t let them buy him for $8M. He is what music sounds like with no golden handcuffs.

No backsies!!!

I understand what you’re saying about Russia. Georgia survived the Soviet era with their own culture but many occupied countries did not. It’s sad to see the people hurt so badly by many years of oppression. It’s also sad to see them taking it out on you. It’s not ok.

I also wonder what we should do here in the USA?

Where can I go? No government is any more holy, moral or polite than any other. There are stronger governments, and weaker governments. That is all. There is no reason to leave a strong evil and hurry up and pay taxes to a weak evil.

Some people have tried to leave totalitarian places. I think of the beautiful but really sad story of the Lykov family. They left Russia, but they died alone. They died free, but their death made no difference because they didn’t influence anyone around them to be better and to live more and love more.

We wonder why people hate us and tell us to go home to the USA. My tax dollars pay for us to be the largest exporter of war in the world (more invasions than Russia in the last hundred years). We have more foreign military bases than anybody else ever (more than the British empire). We drone strike families. We have basically purchased Ukraine with billions of dollars of debt they can never repay us. We occupied many countries in the Mideast simply because some criminal lives in that country and we want to kill him and his family.

I say “we.” I live in the USA but the USA isn’t me. I chose to stay here. I am an individual. I don’t want to do any of those things. I want to be nice to everyone I can. There are many people right here that need help.

It’s sad that you were discriminated against in Georgia, why? Because of your hair color? 😢 If you hate someone because of their hair color, you are an individual but you are just as bad as the governments of 1940s Europe. They hated people because of their hair color too. We will never change the governments. We can only change ourselves. We start by seeing people, not nationalities l!

The male roles of Disney were always just an empty shell. Give me back the Hans Christian Andersen versions of stories, where the girl is like “down with the patriarchy” but then she drowns because she disobeyed the wisdom of her parents.

Made in a Johnson - Su #bioreactor. Grass clippings, mushroom blocks, rabbit poo, chicken coop straw, and some trash. Covered with paper feed sacks. It looks nice but I wonder what it looks like deeper into the middle of the pile. This looks like it needed to be turned, but you’re not supposed to turn Johnson - Su. 🤷‍♂️

Got mycelium? I visited my not so secret honey hole and came home with gorgeous spent mushroom grow media for #compost material. Even the bags are compostable. I think they’re made of cornstarch(?) but they turn to nothing and I’m left with amazing blocks of the funkiest smelling stuff you ever sniffed.

It rained today, and one of the blocks was apparently not so spent. Its nearly out of gas but couldn’t resist fruiting. I’m not going to be able to resist putting it in the skillet in the morning!

Last pic is what it turns to when you mix it with the contents of a chicken coop! Gorgeous! I’m really excited for next year’s #garden to try it out. (Well Derp, request timeout. Dirt pic in comments lol)

#permaculture #recycling

Got a new tractor implement, planted some fall root crops, acquired a truckbed full of composting materials, and built some memories with the family! Great day.

I was just thinking this the other day watching a lady do a stack of scratchoffs.. so mechanically, like a robot. Choose whatever thing, people say “I need to do this to feel something.”

That day, I put in a solid 16 between working the shop and garden. Lemme tell you. I could “feel something” just fine by the end of that.