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#Post#: 3278--------------------------------------------------
Re: Shortages & JIT Problems
By: Digwe Must Date: April 20, 2022, 2:44 pm
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This is how the US government deals with an anticipated surge in
ammo demand.
HTML https://www.defensenews.com/land/2022/04/18/us-army-document-details-plan-to-update-wwii-era-ammo-plants-and-depots/
HTML https://news.yahoo.com/us-army-document-details-plan-153819133.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJx2jPKfMDJQjJiyAiKZRe_wt84g2fMfcg0XhSPGtfU75bPw20u6icKIuLbtDA2j-JoKfem5WedHKzecQwnvJ2zeg3DRqnfqufpNvr8AEQXJeXADGSxT0FRha2GVKhjhFrZyH8qote56JDlhziADk-gEnzrDEBR38UD2BB5j_fIU
So why now? The Ukrainians that I have seen are carrying AKs -
not weapons in a NATO caliber. I've read that at this moment
many of the larger domestic ammo producers are working on huge
government contracts. Anticipating high(er) demand. Jeez... ya
think there might be trouble?
#Post#: 3279--------------------------------------------------
Re: Shortages & JIT Problems
By: RE Date: April 21, 2022, 6:42 pm
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Sounds like time to invest in a Crossbow.
HTML https://s22301.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/CROSSBOW-Wicked-Ridge-crossbow-on-ground-by-tree-1024x683.jpg
RE
#Post#: 3284--------------------------------------------------
It's the End of the Global Supply Chain as We Know It
By: RE Date: April 22, 2022, 7:20 am
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Along with the end of Global Supplies.
HTML https://www.newsweek.com/its-end-global-supply-chain-we-know-it-opinion-1698591
It's the End of the Global Supply Chain as We Know It |
RE
#Post#: 3285--------------------------------------------------
Shortage of the Day: Teachers
By: RE Date: April 22, 2022, 7:34 am
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If starting pay at Target is $20/hr and Truckers start at
$100K/yr, what should teachers start at?
HTML https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/3276034-heres-whats-driving-the-nationwide-teacher-shortage/
Here’s what’s driving the nationwide teacher shortage
RE
#Post#: 3299--------------------------------------------------
Re: Shortages & JIT Problems
By: Phil Potts Date: April 25, 2022, 5:06 am
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[quote author=Digwe Must link=topic=52.msg3277#msg3277
date=1650482958]
The muscle memory and eye hand coordination fades at my age.
Need to keep working at it.
[/quote]
I'm interested in how and why you transitioned into homesteading
Digwe..
I really have nobody to blame but myself for not consistently
putting time and effort into gardening or keeping animals. I
spend my weekends just doing the basic maintenance and working
on classic cars. This weekend I finished two front fenders ready
for painting and had a friend come and climb on the roof to
reposition the chimney that the wind moved. I couldn't make a
fire because the upstairs would fill with smoke. Now that's
hopefully fixed, I can enjoy warmth going into winter. The front
fenders are the last two panels on a 69 coupe, the rest of the
body is done.
My main fruit orchard enclosure is secure, animals can't get in
and some fruit trees are ok. It's a start. Many other things
just get eaten again and again even when I made enclosures. I
don't know what does it, I don't see any insects.
Through winter I want to focus on the house and then in spring
focus on garden seriously. I need to get the place nice enough
for my family to stay. It's just a basic farmhouse for now.
I've had goats, sheep, chickens and a horse. Lost all of them.
Apparently people can tell their own chestnut horse or white
sheep from all the others that look the same when they get out.
I cant, and am too sheepish to ask.
Next will be pigs because I want the tasty pork fat for cooking
and to make half kangaroo and half pork sausage. I have plenty
of very lean meat on the hop, but you need oil and fat too. I
did dig big holes by hard labour, pulling out rocks and putting
in manure and mulch, planting an olive orchard for oil, but I
don't know what eats them. I will do it again and work it out,
if I need pesticide or insecticide so be it. The hard part is
done in the hole digging and preparing.
I can also use possums ( racoon like animal) for some fatty
meat, the more of them you take out, the less they can get into
your vegetables and orchards. They're a big nuisance because
they climb and climb and keep trying, so killing them combats
that. They can be used to feed chickens by a process of letting
it rot above a drum to catch all the maggots. I did it once and
it worked, but I was retching from the smell.
I'm relying on neighbours to help me with vegetables seeds and
cuttings and excess ducks and chickens when I really need them
as they have plenty. I have a dam for the ducks that stays at
least half full from groundwater, plus runoff fills it full with
rain. I had that done with an excavator and a pit for a cold
cellar done at the same time.
I have a lot of seeds but they're probably expired. I plan to
securely fence a large area for mixed grain. Storage items are
well stocked of the basics for several years.
Fishing gear is something else I need to get better sorted,
plenty of trout in the river. Plenty of wild raspberries along
the river and all over the place. That's basic vitamin C
covered, too cold for citrus here. I'm also going to build a
greenhouse, maybe I can put an orange and lemon tree in there.
#Post#: 3303--------------------------------------------------
Shortage of the Day: Lithium
By: RE Date: April 26, 2022, 4:56 am
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HTML https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/lithium-shortages-tesla-ev-tech-markets
Lithium shortages impact Tesla, other EV carmakers, numerous
tech markets
#Post#: 3304--------------------------------------------------
Re: Shortage of the Day: Lithium
By: Phil Potts Date: April 26, 2022, 5:55 am
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[quote author=RE link=topic=52.msg3303#msg3303 date=1650966961]
HTML https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/lithium-shortages-tesla-ev-tech-markets
Lithium shortages impact Tesla, other EV carmakers, numerous
tech markets
[/quote]
Exactly why the belief Li batteries are going to come down in
price is hopium.
#Post#: 3307--------------------------------------------------
Re: Shortages & JIT Problems
By: Digwe Must Date: April 28, 2022, 1:44 pm
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I'm interested in how and why you transitioned into homesteading
Digwe..
Sorry it has taken me so damn long to respond. this spring is
just balls-to-the-wall busy. By the time I get done at night
anything I write turns into drivel and yawns. This morning my
left scapula feels as if someone is prying it loose with an
icepick so I'm a little slow.
In the late 60s and early 70s there was a "back to the land"
movement in the US and Canada. This generally involved the
young men not sent to Vietnam either through luck (high draft
lottery number) money (stay in college until the war is over) or
outlaws (those the government had difficulty tracking down).
There were a lot of women out there as well. A few of us never
went back to town, but it was a fad for most. As Annie
Leibowitz said, "Some people want to go back to the land - I
want to go back to the hotel."
I never fit where I grew up. I'd hitchhiked all over the US and
Canada for a few years in my late teens and I left the city for
good 50 years ago. I bought a 19 acre ridgetop with some sugar
maples in northern Vermont when I was 22. It turned out to be
too tame for me, so I went out west. I kept going to wilder and
wilder places. I took a few lumps and was known to associate
with bad (or at least rough) company. I was at least as
enamored with backcountry skills and life as I was homesteading.
Did some hunting and fishing. I put in a lot of wilderness time
and miles when I was younger. Wherever I would wind up for a
while I seemed to acquire chickens, plant a garden, (even though
I was a lousy gardener) plant a few fruit trees and maybe even
get a hog or some ducks. I found I had some minor skill
building with stone and big timbers.
About 40 years ago I met my wife while I was briefly in the
saloon business. At that point my fate was sealed. She worked
for the US Forest Service and needed to relocate every few
years. We lived in some cool places - if you like backcountry
and spectacular landscapes. I really had no marketable skills
that I was interested in pursuing, so I wound up either building
or renovating a property wherever we went, except for a stint at
Fenn Ranger Station in Idaho on the Selway River. We were in
government housing there, so I just ran the local Quick Response
Unit (EMT, ambulance) for a couple of years. Did a lot of
gardening there but couldn't keep farm critters.
As an aside, it was about that time that we discovered river
rafting. We wound up running all the best rivers in the west
over decades. If I knew how to include photos I'd paste one of
me rowing through Lava Falls in the Grand Canyon. It's actually
a photo of my friend Jim and me, but you can't see him as he is
underwater.
Over the last 20 years or so my attention has turned more
intensely to homesteading and acquiring the necessary skills.
This has coincided with my increasing understanding of just how
screwed we all (western civilization) are. At the time I
believed it was still possible, though unlikely, to save the
whole shebang. I studied Permaculture and got a teaching
certificate - even though I am grouchy and not much of a social
person. The ethics and principles are a valuable guide for me.
And, of course, there are numerous techniques that we use all
the time. Design is critical and will become more so. Of
course there is no saving the S.O.B. now and our work is more
frantic than ever. Our efforts seem to be spent creating a more
complete homestead here in the woods even though it is already
far larger than two old people can handle. Even though my son
and his family are not interested in what we do here, we
continue to believe that in the near future some good young
folks will find this a valuable endeavor and decide they'd like
to be a part of it. If not you can put "What was he thinking?"
on my headstone.
Besides, I'm just starting to get good at some of this stuff.
Why quit now?
I love being quiet in nature. I've always ben better with
plants and animals than with machines or electronics.
Anyway, I guess the short answer is that I really had no choice.
It turns out that both farming and wilderness are in my blood.
I really have nobody to blame but myself for not consistently
putting time and effort into gardening or keeping animals. I
spend my weekends just doing the basic maintenance and working
on classic cars. This weekend I finished two front fenders ready
for painting and had a friend come and climb on the roof to
reposition the chimney that the wind moved. I couldn't make a
fire because the upstairs would fill with smoke. Now that's
hopefully fixed, I can enjoy warmth going into winter. The front
fenders are the last two panels on a 69 coupe, the rest of the
body is done.
Well Mr Potts, you have an actual career and other interests. I
wouldn't know what the hell else to do. (except go fishin') I
envy you the coupe and the skill to restore it. That's very
cool.
A bad chimney can kill you. It needs to be safe and secure -
but you know that.
As I've mentioned before, your place sounds fantastic. From
what I can tell it's a wonderful area, and Tas has got to be one
of the best places in the world from which to monitor the
collapse and perhaps even thrive. It seems to me that getting
the house right for the family is an important step. They will
be more enthusiastic about what else needs to be done if they
are cozy.
My main fruit orchard enclosure is secure, animals can't get in
and some fruit trees are ok. It's a start. Many other things
just get eaten again and again even when I made enclosures. I
don't know what does it, I don't see any insects.
If you don't see any insects, eggs, frass or larvae then
something else is getting them. How clever are these possums?
I had to look them up as I was unfamiliar with them. Are the
plants completely eaten, or is it just leaves? The piece I read
about the possums say they are leaf and twig eaters. Do you have
wood rats? (or the equivalent) Can critters climb over your
enclosures? You need to figure out what is getting your
plantings- it's important. If it is critters a good dog will
help a lot. From what I read the possums may be a big too big
for a cat.
Absolutely shoot 'em if you can. If they are no good to eat for
taste reasons they will feed your new dog - or the chickens.
The maggot strategy works well - but a covered 5 gallon bucket
with a few holes drilled for the flies and larvae, hung in the
chicken yard, will keep the smell below the retch level.
Pigs are great, a wonderful homestead animal. Before modern
meat markets and standards people in Europe would get their pigs
as fat as possible
before slaughtering. The fat is that valuable. It's hard to
beat home raised pork. I've never eaten kangaroo but I wouldn't
be averse to it- you are correct, any lean wild meat will
benefit from some lard or beef fat. Having wild meat available
is a real plus.
Through winter I want to focus on the house and then in spring
focus on garden seriously. I need to get the place nice enough
for my family to stay. It's just a basic farmhouse for now.
I've had goats, sheep, chickens and a horse. Lost all of them.
Apparently people can tell their own chestnut horse or white
sheep from all the others that look the same when they get out.
I cant, and am too sheepish to ask.
It sounds to me like you have a good plan, a wonderful place and
an excellent start. Of course I think the garden will be
critical this year and setting up help from the neighbors early
will be beneficial. Line up the ducks and started plants and
the other critters you want early. Of course livestock gets out
once in a while even with good fencing. You can ear tag sheep,
goats, cows etc. If you handle your goats at all I recommend
collars. They have brightly colored plastic chains available
for cattle and goats that are easy to spot from a distance and
will break before strangling an animal. Sheep are just stupid.
Depending on how many you have and how much time you want to
spend with them a dog works wonders. My sheep are oddly colored
- very distinctive. Still stupid though. In my experience the
neighbors will usually help return your livestock if they know
who is missing a critter. After all, their horse may be out
next week.
I don't know how dry you get - but impounding water is very
important. The duckpond sounds great. Good thinking. We are
having a dry spring here following a dry winter. Contemplating
fire and where and how to impound water keeps me up at night.
Olive trees sound fantastic. I have one that lives in a pot and
is about 5 feet high - not exactly going to give us any oil.
Tree based oils are really important. All I can plant here that
will give us oil in any quantity are nuts. Hazels and walnuts
are the top choices for us. I will probably be dead by the time
we get significant yields - but hopefully someone will find them
useful. In the meantime, we are going to grow some sunflowers
and hope for some yield. If the oil is too difficult or is just
not worth it the chickens will eat the seeds with gusto. You've
got to keep whatever the hell is eating the olive trees away- or
kill it. What is the damage like?
Next will be pigs because I want the tasty pork fat for cooking
and to make half kangaroo and half pork sausage. I have plenty
of very lean meat on the hop, but you need oil and fat too. I
did dig big holes by hard labour, pulling out rocks and putting
in manure and mulch, planting an olive orchard for oil, but I
don't know what eats them. I will do it again and work it out,
if I need pesticide or insecticide so be it. The hard part is
done in the hole digging and preparing.
I can also use possums ( racoon like animal) for some fatty
meat, the more of them you take out, the less they can get into
your vegetables and orchards. They're a big nuisance because
they climb and climb and keep trying, so killing them combats
that. They can be used to feed chickens by a process of letting
it rot above a drum to catch all the maggots. I did it once and
it worked, but I was retching from the smell.
I'm relying on neighbours to help me with vegetables seeds and
cuttings and excess ducks and chickens when I really need them
as they have plenty. I have a dam for the ducks that stays at
least half full from groundwater, plus runoff fills it full with
rain. I had that done with an excavator and a pit for a cold
cellar done at the same time.
I have a lot of seeds but they're probably expired. I plan to
securely fence a large area for mixed grain. Storage items are
well stocked of the basics for several years.
Fishing gear is something else I need to get better sorted,
plenty of trout in the river. Plenty of wild raspberries along
the river and all over the place. That's basic vitamin C
covered, too cold for citrus here. I'm also going to build a
greenhouse, maybe I can put an orange and lemon tree in there.
[/quote]
Fishing - if the river is close - is a great strategy and I
really wish I could do the same. Foraging for berries,
mushrooms, wild greens etc. is going to be so valuable it is
difficult to over emphasize. Another valuable asset is your
neighbor situation. If you have people doing it close by you
will benefit from their surplus - but also from their knowledge.
Again, it is difficult to overstate the value of good
neighbors. I'm also building a greenhouse - or will if body and
soul stay connected. With extremes of weather becoming more
common it is a necessity.
Well, I didn't mean to write War and Peace here. Sorry if I
droned on. These are critical days and I'm very glad you are
acting pre-emptively on that assumption.
Now I need to go hurt myself - I mean work.
#Post#: 3308--------------------------------------------------
Will the Diner be Born Again?
By: RE Date: April 28, 2022, 6:22 pm
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[quote author=Digwe Must link=topic=52.msg3307#msg3307
date=1651171441]
I'm interested in how and why you transitioned into homesteading
Digwe..
Sorry it has taken me so damn long to respond. this spring is
just balls-to-the-wall busy. By the time I get done at night
anything I write turns into drivel and yawns. This morning my
left scapula feels as if someone is prying it loose with an
icepick so I'm a little slow.
In the late 60s and early 70s there was a "back to the land"
movement in the US and Canada. This generally involved the
young men not sent to Vietnam either through luck (high draft
lottery number) money (stay in college until the war is over) or
outlaws (those the government had difficulty tracking down).
There were a lot of women out there as well. A few of us never
went back to town, but it was a fad for most. As Annie
Leibowitz said, "Some people want to go back to the land - I
want to go back to the hotel."
I never fit where I grew up. I'd hitchhiked all over the US and
Canada for a few years in my late teens and I left the city for
good 50 years ago. I bought a 19 acre ridgetop with some sugar
maples in northern Vermont when I was 22. It turned out to be
too tame for me, so I went out west. I kept going to wilder and
wilder places. I took a few lumps and was known to associate
with bad (or at least rough) company. I was at least as
enamored with backcountry skills and life as I was homesteading.
Did some hunting and fishing. I put in a lot of wilderness time
and miles when I was younger. Wherever I would wind up for a
while I seemed to acquire chickens, plant a garden, (even though
I was a lousy gardener) plant a few fruit trees and maybe even
get a hog or some ducks. I found I had some minor skill
building with stone and big timbers.
About 40 years ago I met my wife while I was briefly in the
saloon business. At that point my fate was sealed. She worked
for the US Forest Service and needed to relocate every few
years. We lived in some cool places - if you like backcountry
and spectacular landscapes. I really had no marketable skills
that I was interested in pursuing, so I wound up either building
or renovating a property wherever we went, except for a stint at
Fenn Ranger Station in Idaho on the Selway River. We were in
government housing there, so I just ran the local Quick Response
Unit (EMT, ambulance) for a couple of years. Did a lot of
gardening there but couldn't keep farm critters.
As an aside, it was about that time that we discovered river
rafting. We wound up running all the best rivers in the west
over decades. If I knew how to include photos I'd paste one of
me rowing through Lava Falls in the Grand Canyon. It's actually
a photo of my friend Jim and me, but you can't see him as he is
underwater.
Over the last 20 years or so my attention has turned more
intensely to homesteading and acquiring the necessary skills.
This has coincided with my increasing understanding of just how
screwed we all (western civilization) are. At the time I
believed it was still possible, though unlikely, to save the
whole shebang. I studied Permaculture and got a teaching
certificate - even though I am grouchy and not much of a social
person. The ethics and principles are a valuable guide for me.
And, of course, there are numerous techniques that we use all
the time. Design is critical and will become more so. Of
course there is no saving the S.O.B. now and our work is more
frantic than ever. Our efforts seem to be spent creating a more
complete homestead here in the woods even though it is already
far larger than two old people can handle. Even though my son
and his family are not interested in what we do here, we
continue to believe that in the near future some good young
folks will find this a valuable endeavor and decide they'd like
to be a part of it. If not you can put "What was he thinking?"
on my headstone.
Besides, I'm just starting to get good at some of this stuff.
Why quit now?
I love being quiet in nature. I've always ben better with
plants and animals than with machines or electronics.
Anyway, I guess the short answer is that I really had no choice.
It turns out that both farming and wilderness are in my blood.
I really have nobody to blame but myself for not consistently
putting time and effort into gardening or keeping animals. I
spend my weekends just doing the basic maintenance and working
on classic cars. This weekend I finished two front fenders ready
for painting and had a friend come and climb on the roof to
reposition the chimney that the wind moved. I couldn't make a
fire because the upstairs would fill with smoke. Now that's
hopefully fixed, I can enjoy warmth going into winter. The front
fenders are the last two panels on a 69 coupe, the rest of the
body is done.
Well Mr Potts, you have an actual career and other interests. I
wouldn't know what the hell else to do. (except go fishin') I
envy you the coupe and the skill to restore it. That's very
cool.
A bad chimney can kill you. It needs to be safe and secure -
but you know that.
As I've mentioned before, your place sounds fantastic. From
what I can tell it's a wonderful area, and Tas has got to be one
of the best places in the world from which to monitor the
collapse and perhaps even thrive. It seems to me that getting
the house right for the family is an important step. They will
be more enthusiastic about what else needs to be done if they
are cozy.
My main fruit orchard enclosure is secure, animals can't get in
and some fruit trees are ok. It's a start. Many other things
just get eaten again and again even when I made enclosures. I
don't know what does it, I don't see any insects.
If you don't see any insects, eggs, frass or larvae then
something else is getting them. How clever are these possums?
I had to look them up as I was unfamiliar with them. Are the
plants completely eaten, or is it just leaves? The piece I read
about the possums say they are leaf and twig eaters. Do you have
wood rats? (or the equivalent) Can critters climb over your
enclosures? You need to figure out what is getting your
plantings- it's important. If it is critters a good dog will
help a lot. From what I read the possums may be a big too big
for a cat.
Absolutely shoot 'em if you can. If they are no good to eat for
taste reasons they will feed your new dog - or the chickens.
The maggot strategy works well - but a covered 5 gallon bucket
with a few holes drilled for the flies and larvae, hung in the
chicken yard, will keep the smell below the retch level.
Pigs are great, a wonderful homestead animal. Before modern
meat markets and standards people in Europe would get their pigs
as fat as possible
before slaughtering. The fat is that valuable. It's hard to
beat home raised pork. I've never eaten kangaroo but I wouldn't
be averse to it- you are correct, any lean wild meat will
benefit from some lard or beef fat. Having wild meat available
is a real plus.
Through winter I want to focus on the house and then in spring
focus on garden seriously. I need to get the place nice enough
for my family to stay. It's just a basic farmhouse for now.
I've had goats, sheep, chickens and a horse. Lost all of them.
Apparently people can tell their own chestnut horse or white
sheep from all the others that look the same when they get out.
I cant, and am too sheepish to ask.
It sounds to me like you have a good plan, a wonderful place and
an excellent start. Of course I think the garden will be
critical this year and setting up help from the neighbors early
will be beneficial. Line up the ducks and started plants and
the other critters you want early. Of course livestock gets out
once in a while even with good fencing. You can ear tag sheep,
goats, cows etc. If you handle your goats at all I recommend
collars. They have brightly colored plastic chains available
for cattle and goats that are easy to spot from a distance and
will break before strangling an animal. Sheep are just stupid.
Depending on how many you have and how much time you want to
spend with them a dog works wonders. My sheep are oddly colored
- very distinctive. Still stupid though. In my experience the
neighbors will usually help return your livestock if they know
who is missing a critter. After all, their horse may be out
next week.
I don't know how dry you get - but impounding water is very
important. The duckpond sounds great. Good thinking. We are
having a dry spring here following a dry winter. Contemplating
fire and where and how to impound water keeps me up at night.
Olive trees sound fantastic. I have one that lives in a pot and
is about 5 feet high - not exactly going to give us any oil.
Tree based oils are really important. All I can plant here that
will give us oil in any quantity are nuts. Hazels and walnuts
are the top choices for us. I will probably be dead by the time
we get significant yields - but hopefully someone will find them
useful. In the meantime, we are going to grow some sunflowers
and hope for some yield. If the oil is too difficult or is just
not worth it the chickens will eat the seeds with gusto. You've
got to keep whatever the hell is eating the olive trees away- or
kill it. What is the damage like?
Next will be pigs because I want the tasty pork fat for cooking
and to make half kangaroo and half pork sausage. I have plenty
of very lean meat on the hop, but you need oil and fat too. I
did dig big holes by hard labour, pulling out rocks and putting
in manure and mulch, planting an olive orchard for oil, but I
don't know what eats them. I will do it again and work it out,
if I need pesticide or insecticide so be it. The hard part is
done in the hole digging and preparing.
I can also use possums ( racoon like animal) for some fatty
meat, the more of them you take out, the less they can get into
your vegetables and orchards. They're a big nuisance because
they climb and climb and keep trying, so killing them combats
that. They can be used to feed chickens by a process of letting
it rot above a drum to catch all the maggots. I did it once and
it worked, but I was retching from the smell.
I'm relying on neighbours to help me with vegetables seeds and
cuttings and excess ducks and chickens when I really need them
as they have plenty. I have a dam for the ducks that stays at
least half full from groundwater, plus runoff fills it full with
rain. I had that done with an excavator and a pit for a cold
cellar done at the same time.
I have a lot of seeds but they're probably expired. I plan to
securely fence a large area for mixed grain. Storage items are
well stocked of the basics for several years.
Fishing gear is something else I need to get better sorted,
plenty of trout in the river. Plenty of wild raspberries along
the river and all over the place. That's basic vitamin C
covered, too cold for citrus here. I'm also going to build a
greenhouse, maybe I can put an orange and lemon tree in there.
Fishing - if the river is close - is a great strategy and I
really wish I could do the same. Foraging for berries,
mushrooms, wild greens etc. is going to be so valuable it is
difficult to over emphasize. Another valuable asset is your
neighbor situation. If you have people doing it close by you
will benefit from their surplus - but also from their knowledge.
Again, it is difficult to overstate the value of good
neighbors. I'm also building a greenhouse - or will if body and
soul stay connected. With extremes of weather becoming more
common it is a necessity.
Well, I didn't mean to write War and Peace here. Sorry if I
droned on. These are critical days and I'm very glad you are
acting pre-emptively on that assumption.
Now I need to go hurt myself - I mean work.
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It's posts like this one that make me want to get the Diner Blog
back up. This is Blog Article material.
RE
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Born Again
By: K-Dog Date: April 28, 2022, 8:41 pm
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Good stuff I agree. We need more of the same.
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