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
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.
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...