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South West Michigan Bitcoin Meetup Thursday in Benton Harbor, MI at Dwellers co working space on October 19 at 6:30pm. Come hang out, bring something to sell, come to buy some high quality food too
This is a must listen for those interested in permaculture. Mark Shepard has the right mix of creativity, practical application of principles and willingness to fail. Studying his practices has saved me years in the progress of procession at my homestead.
https://fountain.fm/episode/1iqdysU0YOV2G99doM8r
#permaculture #permies #homesteading #grownostr #selfsovereignty
This is the best podcast I've heard from Mark Shepard. An absolute must listen for those interested in permaculture.
Didn't take the time to smell it. What would it suggest?
I thought winecap too they are all so small though. I thought winecaps got big?
I like having a lot of different storage solutions. Still not comfortable having all my eggs in one basket yet.
Anyone know these mushrooms?
These are growing near a woodchip pile that's been there for a couple years.
These were growing in the woods under some white pine trees with sugar maple nearby too.
#permies #permaculture #homesteading #grownostr #meshtadel #selfsovereignty #foraging #mushroom
Are you referring to to the hosts?
This podcast with Peter Allen touches on a lot of what this discussion has brought up: bullshit narratives, misconceptions about effects of dietary choices, can a growing population be sustained.
Mark Shepard's book Restoration Agriculture makes a good argument that land is not the issue when it comes to feeding the worlds growing populations it's how the cultivation techniques that need to be adjusted. There is already more than enough land to feed everyone it's just not being used efficiently.
http://www.restorationag.com/product/restoration-agriculture/
There are two different issues at play here, one the way food is produced and distributed and two the way fiat erodes capital and concentrates it. In my opinion people going hungry aren't a victim of not enough fertile ground or workable land but moreso the erosion of their capital due to fiat systems. This is and example of how inflation is exported too the poorest in the world. It's possible that these people should have moved if in fact they could no longer grow enough food to feed themselves but instead they stayed being proped up by fiat subsidies. Definitely a complex issue to think about. In my opinion, fiat is the biggest problem we face, all the solutions are available but the incentive to utilize them isn't.
Thanks for pointing out the population problem. This consideration leads to more interning thoughts.
If we can feed the world today with less people farming than before. We can grow more food per acre (which will be higher quality) with permaculture, and not to mention that more land will be utilized for food production. There should be no problem feeding the world.
It's not a problem of food production in my opinion but more a problem of population density or population distribution. While the industrial revolution might be the start of these population densities, fiat has subsidized thier continuity long after their sustainable growth limits. Permaculture, and Bitcoin will make a decentralized world (again? More than ever before?).
Saif uses lots anecdotes to exemplify the failures of fiat. I agree, Saif is writing from an extremely biased perspective. It is bullshit. However, your passion about the subject inspired me to offer my thoughts.
In the past many poor people were farmers. I think this was due to the fact that one could build living capital while they worked to feed themselves. I'm willing to bet that more often than not this food was high quality. Fiat incentives and subsidies have eroded the value of living capital, removing the ability for poor people to live subsistence lifestyles by farming.
I think that by using permaculture more high quality calories can be grown per acre than are currently being produced. Look to the work of Mark Shepard and Peter Allen for more thorough information on how this is possible.
As fiat crumbles and bitcoin rises, subsistence lifestyles of farming producing more calories per acre than ever before will become much more prevalent than is the case today in my opinion. High quality food will be available locally, more people will be growing their own food again too.
My food forest plus rabbit colony cannabis garden uses about 1/10 acre. This system is still establishing and is far from peak production, but it still produces hundreds of pounds of food per year, about 150lbs of it is rabbit meat. Anyone with some sort of lawn can produce a significant supplement to their diet, I am confident in that.
Differentiating between American chestnut and Chinese/hybrid chestnut trees is not always easy, but the American chestnut has one main trunk (timber form) while the Chinese and hybrids tend to have more branching form like an apple tree. The as far as the nuts go the Americans produce a smaller chestnut. The leaves are slightly different and there are other subtle differences but the biggest indicator to me is timber form and size of the nut.
The biggest problem is that most food is grown poorly in general and then over processed. The next biggest problem is that people are not eating locally or seasonally. I like to eat everything that is edible growing on my homestead. That includes foraged plants, nuts, berries and wild game as well as cultivated plants/animals. While I try to preserve what yields I can get from the homestead, most of the time my diet it dictated by what's growing in abundance throughout the seasons.
Having a diverse diet means access to a diversity of food and food preparation/preservation. Which is more resilient too. The perfect diet, in my situation is to eat what I can grow and what is growing in my back yard.
I've been making some small improvements to the bitcoin mining systems here at the homestead over the past couple weeks. Now that the last winter before the halving is approaching, I'm trying to prepare to make the most of it with the equipment I have. Once things slow down (and cool down) in November look for some more Bitcoin mining focused notes!
#bitcoin #bitcoinmining #plebminer
Yields keep coming as fall sets in at the homestead
I was able to stop at all the chestnut trees I've been finding around the neighborhood to collect some nuts while running errands. I'm most excited about the proposed American chestnuts I collected from a tree I spotted in someone's yard while on a bike ride. I only was able to find 13 nuts and I will be planting them all. Otherwise, everyone else has Chinese hybrid chestnuts which seemed to have prolific yields but the trees were unimpressive.
There is still foraging to be done on the homestead. These autumn olive berries are ripe and destined for the freezer. Perfect for adding to yogurt at breakfast. We also have peaches and blueberries.
The last picking of cucumbers is enough to fill another 5 gallon crock. While the garden lacked in cabbages and tomatoes, it made up for it in cucumbers and peppers. This will be the third large batch of pickles we will make. There is no longer enough space in the fridge for it all!
#permaculture #permaculture #homesteading #grownostr #meshtadel #selfsovereignty #harvest #foraging #chestnut
Meet our new pony Sprocket.
We started doing tours and private events giving wagon rides with our two haflinger draft ponies this year. Quickly it became apparent that we could be doing pony rides for children while people waited for their time slot to go on the wagon tour. So, we decided to get sprocket. He's been in quarantine for almost a month and he's ready to go onto the horse track paddock with the other horses. Now, I'm taking the opportunity to improve the fencing around the track while I add the necessary additional lower lines of fencing.
https://v.nostr.build/VP5q.mp4
First I had to gather all the fencing materials from around the homestead as well as pull up some t posts. Definitely feedback that we should have taken the time to pack this all up and have it organized waiting for the next project rather than letting it lay in the pasture for a couple months until we needed it...
Any permanent fencing project is a burden to me, lots of pressure to get it right I'm more than one way, but in the end it will be worth it to have sprocket integrated with the horses and have improved the fencing in on the horse track. We keep our horses in a paddock that is essentially a doughnut encircling a 2acre stand of sugar maple trees. By keeping the horses on a track they are encouraged to move around it throughout the day. By keeping them in the woods we are also maximizing the pasture we have to grow lamb.
#permies #permaculture #homesteading #grownostr #meshtadel #selfsovereignty #fencing #pony #drafthorse #horses #paddockparadise
Cannabis is a very high quality animal forage. Its a shame it's so heavily regulated. I could obtain many many yields from the plant if I could grow it freely.