here is a blog posted by a small rocket stove builder. The link is a page from a much more in depth discussion of stoves enjoy
https://timtinker.com/diy-refractories/
Beautiful,
I was in Ashland yesterday and noticed many people wearing breathing protection (serious forest fires in Oregon).
The dogs on the other hand were left to endure with what protection we are born with.
Getting a dog to understand and use a mask could be challenging but your post has moved me to write and say you may be able to convince some of our friends to engage the knit.
I know this is a tall order and not likely just had to say it
I really love the red one.
this sort of hole making was done in the process of building wooden ships
using a brace and bit shipwrights would bore from the top of a stack of planks
and then pound dowels into the many feet deep holes
if were mine i would run the closet pole through the table saw with the blade set to only go halfway,
set the wire in place and then secure it with a wood filler strip glued into the saw curf
Hi Lori,
i just read this thread. It sounds like you are on a great adventure.
Even though you are finding good things below the surface i'm going to suggest that you minimize digging. Gabe Brown will explain this.
I would also recommend reading One Straw Revolution, and Sowing Seeds in the Desert. Both are by Masanobu Fukuoka
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanobu_Fukuoka
Robbie, can you please show us the links to the ". . . mushrooms as a biofilter, there is a great post by a phd student about this on the shroomery.com forum. . ." article you mentioned?
We are building an urban farm in Los Angeles CA.
Our goal is an Aquaponic garden that not only raises fish and vegetables but the food for tilapia.
By mimicking intensive grazing techniques for cattle our tanks are long and narrow with fencing gates that will allow Filamentous algae to grow and be grazed as we open the gates.
This will feed our mature tilapia. For the fry and fingerlings we are collecting mud from local wild rivers to seed small water fleas and whatnot for protein sources.
Has anyone else had success with these types of approaches?
We are building an urban farm in Los Angeles CA.
Our goal is an Aquaponic garden that not only raises fish and vegetables but the food for tilapia.
By mimicking intensive grazing techniques for cattle our tanks are long and narrow with fencing gates that will allow Filamentous algae to grow and be grazed as we open the gates.
This will feed our mature tilapia. For the fry and fingerlings we are collecting mud from local wild rivers to seed small water fleas and whatnot for protein sources.
Has anyone else had success with these types of approaches?
Gabe Brown is a no plow farmer in North Dakota when his operation freezes he goes on speaking tours and youtube is full of his talks below is a link to the rabbit hole.
It is CO2 that we need for plants to grow underwater there are several youtube videos that address this for plants in aquariums. These are energy intensive and also require more time and attention than i could justify for a balanced self organizing system however they may provide clues. Remember photosynthesis gives off Oxegen.
Hi, the attached drawing is an explanation of the technique used at Cal Earth for controlling the interior shape of a dome. the center compass sweeps the radius and the guide chain is used to adjust the length of the compass each time one lap or course is completed.
On the subject of plants water needs, what i heard was the amount of rainfall is more efficiently processed resulting in lower inputs over all. Recall the segment where Gabe showed us the several plots he monocropped with ground cover (i forget the term he used) and then the plot where he polycropped and for the same rain input the polycrop growth was much greater. I concluded from this that polyculture results in better use of available resources. This maybe semantic, i thought you were saying the plants need less water whereas Gabe is saying the system uses available water to much greater advantage.
