It’s a damn long trip, but you know I would. Is there a beach your family and mine can sit on and enjoy it?
Case and point from Robinhood Snacks Newsletter:
Danger: A family is suing Google, saying its maps software directed a man to drive over a collapsed bridge, though Google had been notified that the route was dangerous, a lawsuit alleges. The driver died.
This platform has made me aware that there are a lot of damn decent people out there just doing their thing. It’s downright heartening.
The technique is critical for sure, as with so many things the failures are in the details. I’m going to try the technique with some of the bigger biomass I have around. I appreciate your additions to my knowledge base!
I hear you man, we’re saying similar things. The differences are substantial because of oxygen. It’s cool, the subject of this discussion messaged me and said he has a lot of volume to process and for him the ancient protocol is good enough. I just wanted him to know about the improved process, then you ran away with the discussion. I’m a big fan of simple basics, but it’s also important to not sully the potential of biochar in reputation because inferior techniques produce sub-par performance. Burning fields is good for yield too, but it is not biochar.
We sued the state to abate visitation to a flagrantly abusive individual. Parents should know best, but it’s amazing what it takes to “prove” abuse. In the end it came down to money, for the right amount he went away. I’m sure I could have done it for a couple bucks but, well, you know.
Chorizo! Fat fat fat!
I figured you knew, reading through your posts! It’s truly awesome what you’re doing! Shine on. 😊
It can be so horrible. I’m sorry for the situation, but awesome that you made the best out of it. I have adult children now, trust me, they will remember. Worth. Every. Sacrifice.
It might help a bit, some people sell as “animal feed” but that’s actually unlawful as well. Bottom line is if someone’s immunocompromised child dies of E coli, and there is always some in raw products, the lawyers will make sure you lose everything. No contract is going to stop them, because you’re on the “wrong” side of the law. It’s a sad state of affairs that needs to be fixed. I would sell beef, pork, milk, cheese, butter, and amazing sauerkraut, along with long dry cured prosciutto, and hand crafted spirits BUT….it would cost literal millions just to get licensing, so I sell none of it. The result is we buy and consume dead food that makes us sick slowly and saps vitality over decades. The upside, my family and I eat like kings and queens, but I’d love to share.
In point of fact the sun is literally a lumbering boy with a magnifying glass slowly moving toward our ant hill….red giant anyone?
Certainly a fair and astute take on modern religion. It seems to me that religion, for these reasons is individual and intensely personal, yet any expression is met by acolytes with dissent and criticism as if their personal walk is the only correct way, and the only way it can be. Every religious text I have ever read (not an insignificant number) is full of contradictions. Perhaps it is the granularity of perceptions that allows some people to believe so fervently and leaves others unfulfilled in the attempts at faith, same books, very different results.
In most states it is unlawful to sell meat that has not been inspected in a certified facility. It is also unlawful to sell raw milk. Because of this, selling farm products to consumers is a legal liability for producers, options include selling your products to large money holders of processing facilities in direct competition with commercial producers for dimes on the dollar. Farm to consumers sales are all but outlawed.
Web of trust, as a rancher it takes constitution to see directly to people. All it takes is one person claiming illness and leveling a lawsuit. I don’t see a solution aside from selling farm products double blind like illegal drugs. It sounds funny, but I’m not at all joking. Psssst. Hey, wanna buy some raw milk?
Is it fair to say that the Bible is now only part of what is included in patterns of belief for most Christians?
You won’t know until you try. Worst case scenario they immediately identify themselves as girls you are not interested in by mistreating you. Tick click, next chick!
I think about this frequently. Your words capture the concept so well, I ordered a coffee from a young man today at Starbucks and he asked what I was up to today. I took a moment to assess his eyes and found a genuine person, young, perhaps a bit naive, but genuine. I shared, he smiled, and though we will never see each other again, in that moment there was this ephemeral bliss that can exist with the correct amounts of ignorance and blind compassion for no reason aside from two people engaging the human condition and sharing space-time.
True, but what you’re essentially saying here to use an analogy, is that we should all be traversing the country in Model T Ford cars because the pioneers of scaled transportation didn’t have the Mercedes AMG. If you are living a period enactment by choice, I certainly won’t stand in the way. Recognize though that knowledge, science, and technology has brought amazing advancements to myriad human pursuits. Ash in itself is a boon to most soils for a variety of reasons, does that make it biochar? No.
There is, obviously an exact science to this and frankly, that technique is not it. The chances of you reaching the necessary temperature throughout the substrate without disambiguating the carbon chain is practically zero. You’re playing a percentage game and it’s definitely better than nothing, but why not do it right and have amazing results? I used infrared spectroscopy to verify quality with various techniques and there is a huge difference.