Glad to know you are here as well!

I've just done the regenerative soil one to completion. I started the PDC as well.

I've gotten into the soil amendments and am trying to grow that business... once that is in better shape I'll do the microscopy course I think.

Whereabouts are you located? We are in western NY state.

I present you with steak blot art #3.

Opinions?

#inkblotart #steakblotart #grownostr #carnivore

SteakBlotArt #2

What does it look like to you?

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Another database out there on a similar vein to the pfaf database is Dr. Dukes Phytochemical Database:

https://phytochem.nal.usda.gov/

You can look up what chemicals are in a specific plant, or vice versa what plants have what specific chemicals.

I learned about this DB in Matt Powers soil science course.

One thing that stuck out to me is most of the herbs have the most to offer as far as concentrations of useful compounds. Veggies proper (broccoli, etc) are more diluted.

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Inspired by #inkblotart...

Introducing #steakblotart!

Cut from a chuck eye roast

I think it looks like a whole broiler chicken in a roasting pan.

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We will keep you in our prayers!

Safe, quick delivery and healthy baby and mom

Strength for dad.

Prayers that this birth follows your plan with minimal intervention.

Wisdom and kindness for the doctors and nurses.

I wouldn't doubt it and they can do the same thing with job numbers! Just hire government workers and claim jobs increased!

Excellent insight. It never occurred to me you can just print some money, dump it in the economy, and claim GDP is rising!

I need to think of ways to be similarly devious.

Awesome! Looks like something right out of this: https://classicalacademicpress.com/products/common-arts-education

Thanks!

What is Nimrodism?

I'm familiar with Nimrod in the Bible...

I normally think of laws of the state contrasted to Natural Law. Is Nimrodism the laws of the state?

https://localsilvermint.com/ is his website.

Picked these earrings up for my wife on a recent road trip to New Hampshire at Silver Daves Coin Shop in Weare, NH. She picked them out herself!

On the way home, she bought me Matthew Lysiak's Fiat Food book with bitcoin on the lightning network 🙂

#grownostr #bitcoin #jewelry

I think there is a buildup of some gas they don't like from the decay (co2 or methane or something else) so they are coming out for oxygen

I have had this problem with inadequate ventilation from time to time, especially if I just added more table scraps or food for them.

To remedy I let more air in by propping the lid up slightly.

Thanks so much for all of this.

What you are saying reflects in my site analytics... nobody is looking at the products.

I had not focused on the packaging until literally 2 months ago, so now I have what I need for more attractive products instead of biochar in a bowl 😊

I'll look into the loading times as well.

Thanks!

What will really help here is follow my advice but before you lay down the wood chips, plant some daikon radish seeds into the compost/biochar/manure mix. You do not have to plant deep!

These will drill channels down into your soil and scavenge nitrogen and nutrients from the manure.

If you cover this with woodchips, go easy, only an inch or so, so the radishes can find their way up to sunlight.

Next spring when you kill them (by chopping the tops off), as the radish decays, your compost/ biochar/manure mix well fall into the channels and begin to deepen yor soil!

On my soil here these guys will go down 6-9 inches and most winter kill.

Here is where I get my seed

https://www.deercreekseed.com/daikon-oil-seed-radish#168=137

My plans:

Get out of ALL debt and buy hard assets (land, cattle, precious metals, bitcoin), things that can't easily be produced, while prices get low.

Start businesses that produce real things with assets and equipment bought at low prices. Hard things like cattle, etc.

Invest in things that provide necessities for people (food, energy). Start things that do not require me doing all the work, just management (e.g. livestock over vegetables) . Focus on value added products.

Develop and establish scalable systems and processes, not one off things that can't be replicated

Learn to trade equities as prices are falling, build up knowledge for when things come back up. Or if not acquire knowledge. Prep with cash to take advantage of low prices.

Diversify held currencies/money to diversify risk. (Diverse precious metals, bitcoin)

Invest in community and those around us both neighbors and church groups via time helping. This establishes a widening circle of influence and protection.

Spend time in the city ministering via the Gospel and practically with food/clothing. We are involved in a food truck ministry.

Spend time ministering to kids in local schools and planting seeds of truth to build community. We are involved in a long standing Christian evangelism group.

Give kids in our homeschooling community opportunities to learn everything above.

Teach our kids the Truth about what is going on and why. Invest in the future. Teach kids to do all of the above. Take kids to ministry opportunities.

Now regarding the website... yes that has gotten away from me as I was working on other things this summer.

Here is my asap list:

- redo the product pages to match what is going up on Amazon. I've been working on packaging and sizes and do not have them up on the site yet. Complete revamp here. Take down the bokashi and worm casting products for now.

This winter:

- go through all article content, establish interlinked silos around topics for SEO. Images needed and better, more pleasing formatting. Get my affiliate links in order. I'll probably separate into 9 separate blogs, one per silo. Probably allocate a week or two per silo/topic.

I can go into more details but that's the big ticket items/ plans/ ideas.

Any other suggestions you have are more than welcome 🙂

Thanks for the feedback! I'll do 2 replies, one for the garden and one for the website to keep them separate.

Regarding the garden... I am assuming you have established it for a few years so you aren't trying to kill sod.

Do you tend to plant in rows? Do you have established paths?

I would mix the things you mentioned with the exception of the wood chips and lay that down. To start out, I normally put down 2-5 gallons of biochar per 32 square feet depending on what I have on hand... so for your application on 1000 square that's like 50ish to 200ish gallons evenly spread which is a lot.

It will be good to mix in the biochar in the fall so it charges over winter.

So if you plant into rows/beds, apply your manure/ compost/ biochar mix heavy in the areas you plant so you don't need so much biochar. This is what we do at our church garden, just apply to beds.

If you till, till this in but not deep... 2 inches should be good.

Then woodchips on top, thicker on the paths and thinner on your bed. This will keep in the moisture but not tie up nitrogen while it decomposes.

If you care to, put in some winecap mushroom spawn in the pathways to start breaking down the chips.

In future years, you'll amend the beds with your manure mix, take your aged wood chips from the paths and shovel as mulch on the beds, and add fresh wood chips to the paths.