Alia Kaitan

Every year, late summer, the big pastures on my farm are crawling with 'hoppers. I'm going to put some effort this year into catching and putting them up for chicken feed overwinter. Has anyone done anything like this, or has ideas as to low-labor ways to collect grasshoppers in their hundreds, maybe thousands? A lazy farmer is an efficient farmer, after all.

My thoughts on processing were to freeze and then dehydrate at highish temps to kill parasites. Any thoughts in that realm would be welcome, too.

Thanks in advance, permie peoples.

Thanks Nick! That looks promising.

Hi folks. Does anyone have experience building walipini in the mid-atlantic or northeast states? I'm in Virginia, which is considerably wetter than most of the arid examples of walipinis that I've found searching online.

Specifically, I'd like to know if anyone has found an effective way of dealing with:

Clay soil. What is the best way to work with the walls? We do not want walls crumbling over time, nor an excessive amount of moisture seeping in. We do want an earth floor for planting directly into, the walls however we would prefer more 'finished' to avoid any kind of degradation due to moisture and humidity in our area.

About 40 inches of rainfall annually. We need to figure out how to divert/channel this water to keep our walipini from flooding.

Thanks!