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William Attenborough

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To those vloggers on YouTube commenting on the loss of egg production due to certain commercial feed products, I am 100% in agreement. I stopped feeding my flock the commercial mixed scratch and cracked corn and they started laying as per normal winter conditions (without artificial light in the coup). I am not a newbie to chickens, I have raised hens and roosters for 7 years now and am well-versed in their progressions of seasonal and age-related changes. Never have I seen anything like this before but this year I will be growing a couple of acres of Chickweed and winter wheat.
1 year ago
The only real place for heat collection into an earthen solid state battery bank would be the bell section of the rmh. Everything running through the bench section would be temperature deficient for such use. I agree with the above poster about the sand acting as an insulator, however I have seen a brick energy bank in use and it's pretty impressive.

Scientific American
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Bricks Can Be Turned into Batteries
1 year ago

Steve Zoma wrote:Hemlock!!

One of my sayings is, “that guy is tighter than bark on a hemlock”

It means the person is very frugal with his money.

Why hemlock?

Back in the day Eastern Hemlock had so much tannin in the bark that the settlers used it to tan hides. To the point they felled trees just for the bark and left it in the woods because hemlock is too dense to float in rivers. But the bark would only come off in the spring. After about July the bark would be too “tight” to remove so it was a spring only harvest

Myself, I am pretty frugal and enjoy building with eastern hemlock



Doesn't eastern hemlock have a strong tendency to twist/warp as it dries?
1 year ago
Soaking in beer for two days at room temperature. Fast sear, both sides, medium done.
1 year ago

greg mosser wrote:it’s permaculture, so it depends!

for those who i want to see my bark is isn’t totally smooth, but the cracks between sections aren’t too deep and can house some interesting invertebrates/conversations. maybe like black walnut bark. if you’re a stranger, demanding unnecessary things of me, i’m likely to go full old-school honey-locust. four inches of spikes before you even get to the bark.



We share similar thinking. I like it!
1 year ago
All my blackberries, raspberries (gold, red and black varieties), low bush blueberries, strawberries, gooseberries, apple trees and cherry tree grow in a forest on my land. In fact, everything in the list came from other parts of the land and I replanted in close proximity to my cabin. However, all of the flora is growing in a forest and thrives quite well.
1 year ago
If your personality were to be described as the bark of a tree, which bark would your personality be?
1 year ago

Rachel Lindsay wrote:I believe that there was something about the (organic Purina) feed. My mom's hens all stopped laying but one this winter, which reduction has never happened before. Two weeks ago she ran out of the Purina feed and gave them another organic feed brand (that I had bought her--high fives!) and within a week or two all the layers were laying again. It was super weird--and when I read this thread, I thought, yep...



If you watch any of the Homestead Vloggers, you will find many of them saying a similar thing. Even main stream news has taken notice and has reported on it.

A couple people took this even further following the trail of corporations involved with this problem and it turns out that the parent company which owns the feed producer recently acquired the country's largest poultry farm as well. It's certainly interesting, especially when you have the biggest competitor of theirs burning to the ground for no apparent reason (which required twenty fire departments to extinguish the flames, resulting in over 100k birds to die in single blaze). News outlets in Australia reporting an identical issue for birds in that country too.
1 year ago