Clay McGowen

Howdy! Looks like the video in the main post for this wiki is private, linking a few others I found when looking up "what the heck is repointing a foundation?"

I like this one because it's short



This one goes into a little more detail on finishing

Timothy Norton wrote:

Randy Bachman wrote:

Joylynn Hardesty wrote:Experimental Farm Network has now published their 2025 online catalog. As of writing this post, skirret seed is now available for purchase.

Mine are on the way!

Mine too!

Me three!
Thanks for the reminder, Joylynn!

Today I experienced a functional problem in the bathroom of my homestead - the towel hanger by the shower experienced a catastrophic failure.
I knew, through experience with my toilet paper roll holder, that I’d need to invest in a robust solution to overcome, and hopefully permanently prevent, future similar failures.

I found some matching oak from my pallet project, removed the bracket which had started to fall out, cut the board, hand planed, sanded, measured, drilled, mounted, and finally replaced the hook and towels.

All this took me about an hour and a half

I've never grown bulbs before but really wanted to give garlic a go this year.
Somehow, I failed to both count the bulbs I purchased and failed to consider the spacing I'd need when clearing.
I ended up preparing (mowing & broad forking) an enormous space and not having enough garlic to fill it.


Garlic only planted up to those sticks/that plank - and then were covered with organic straw for a Ruth-Stout-esque planting

As you can see, this left a good deal of space to fill. So I went to my seed collection and found onions!


Those ended up being planted out with rough spacing to fill everything not mulched in the above photo, and mulched below:


Again I still had some space left over... going back to my collection I found broccoli seeds from a microgreens business I bought in the pandemic and ended up not moving forward, several quarts of seeds several years old.
I scattered a dozen handfuls over the remainder of the plot and tucked it in for winter:


I read that this ought to work, but who knows. I'll report back on how this grows out (if at all)!

Echoing Tim, I’m slowly coming to like tomatoes, but it’s an uphill battle. Meanwhile, my grandfather enjoyed eating them like an apple. To each their own!

I grew yellow pear tomatoes this year and truly disliked their flavor… but I had so many and I didn’t want them to go to waste, so I found a recipe for tomato jam and am slightly obsessed with it. Now I’m planning to grow a bunch next year.

If I remember right, even Joseph Lofthouse doesn’t love the taste of “common” tomatoes and finding a flavor he did like was one of the motivations for his Profoundly Promiscuous and Totally Tasty Tomato Project.

I’ve also been experimenting a bit myself, saving seeds from the earliest and, most importantly, tastiest cherry tomatoes in my garden. I finally found one that I really vibe with and am excited to give it a go again next year.

So maybe one day you’ll stumble on a variety you do find totally tasty!

Success!
We found the issue!
Thanks a ton!

Fascinating, I also received the email and no text was cutoff!

You rock, Nicole! Thank you for looking into this and letting me know.

Nicole Alderman wrote:taking too long to type a pie message can cause an error

I betcha this was the cause for me - I looked something up mid typing because I wasn't sure if I'd spelled a word correctly lol

I gave(?) pie to this post https://permies.com/p/2847573 and on 1/4/2024 20:08 Mountain Time got the below error message.
I refreshed the page and it does appear that my slice was delivered to the post, but I'm not sure the cause for the error.
Was the message I typed too long? (kinda seems like that might be what the machine is telling me with RequestCharacterEncodingFilter?)

Further, when I go to: https://permies.com/pie#my that post does not show up, rather the last one I gave last month (see screenshot) even after multiple refreshes of that page.
Was my account not debited appropriately?

I think a major concern is that I'd really like the information I tried to send in this latest slice to actually make it to the intended recipient. I'm happy to do that via PM, email, text, or smoke signal - probably will follow up just in case.

But my biggest concern is that there's something amiss with the forum software causing pie related transfer problems.

HTTP Status 500 - JPA error type Exception report message JPA error description The server encountered an internal error that prevented it from fulfilling this request. exception net.jforum.exceptions.ForumException: JPA error net.jforum.JPAContext.logException(JPAContext.java:176) net.jforum.JPAContext.finishEntityManager(JPAContext.java:150) net.jforum.JPAContext.finish(JPAContext.java:80) net.jforum.JForumExecutionContext.finish(JForumExecutionContext.java:455) net.jforum.JForumExecutionContextFilter.doFilter(JForumExecutionContextFilter.java:26) net.jforum.UrlMultiSlashFilter.doFilter(UrlMultiSlashFilter.java:27) net.jforum.JForumRequestCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(JForumRequestCharacterEncodingFilter.java:29) net.jforum.TrackbackFilter.doFilter(TrackbackFilter.java:52) net.jforum.PrematureRequestFilter.doFilter(PrematureRequestFilter.java:31) net.jforum.AccessBanFilter.doFilter(AccessBanFilter.java:49) note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/7.0.57 logs. Apache Tomcat/7.0.57

Thank you Devaka and all the other engineers wrangling the software to make this whole show possible - you all are incredible!

Sam Shade wrote:(winter lows are usually around 10 degrees F here)
I'm willing to try greenhousing if it's not to pricy to put in place

I just finished reading Mike Oehler's Earth Sheltered Solar Greenhouse Book and thoroughly recommend it.
It's quite a fun and fascinating read, plus I really enjoy Mike's style of writing.
In it, he teaches a method of building which can be not only cheap to install, but free to operate year-round by using gravity and the natural warmth of the earth combined with storing thermal inertia from the sun.

If you could find stout trees to harvest and/or free lumber to use, along with something like used sliding glass doors for glazing, it could even be free to build.

William Bronson wrote:Oh no, I wouldn't use [aquarium heaters] outside of water.
[...]
We do use an aquarium heater in a vacuum insulated dog bowl, to keep water unfrozen for the chickens.

Another option might be a chicken water deicer. I was able to keep my birds' water unfrozen when it was 10F outside:


63F water a few minutes later:



I also think that a seedling heat mat might be able to achieve something similar, and some of the fancier ones even have a probe thermometer which could be put inside the bug container.
Bury it, or combine it with some form of insulation (like straw or hay, maybe akin to a Haybox Cooker) and you've likely got a really nice space for some bugs or worms.
Heck, I think I might have to give this a try now...