Denice Moffat

I bought one. Freaking awesome. Once I experienced the usefulness of it, I bought two more. Now I have 3 so my husband and I can work at the same time and have a backup. I chose the pruners that would fit our Milwaukee batteries which I already had and they were $30-40 each (without batteries). So mad about those tariffs! I'd buy a couple more to stash! The 12V battery size lasts about an hour or more with mostly continuous use. It whips through metal horse fencing pretty well too, but that dings the blade so try not to do that. And be present when you're cutting, cause it could lop off a finger with ease.

Thanks for the tip. I actually think I'm going to follow your advice. I plan on building storage sections with the tire wall being the back wall of the front exposed sections (my drain field is just behind the wall). Hoping to get that done in 2027. Still have to pour a bond beam prior to finishing it.

Thanks but that is not natural. Prefer to use natural product.

This summer I finished a small floor in my greenhouse--about 300 square feet. It took 7 gallons! The floor just kept sucking it in. I applied it full strength--did not dilute it although I have done this on another floor in the past. I think your going to need another gallon or two depending on how big your RMH is.

Well, we have lots of variety planted on our farm for our own harvest but we prefer to determine who we share with at this point. One thing we do every year now is to host a Community Bareroot Fruit Tree Order. We use our nursery license to purchase trees wholesale and then sell them at our cost (including tax, gas, hotel, tags, bags) and tack on an extra dollar to each tree. This allows us to get our trees paid for by just donating our time. It does take organization!

It's a great community project, empowers the locals to plant more stuff plus each time they come to the farm they get to see what we are doing and get more education that way. We now have a contact/mailing list and have started the 'insider's club' who will get post cards letting them know when the next trees are ready to be spoken for AND we can mail to those who are already interested in edible plants for our fall plant sale. Our goal is to only pre-sell plants and dig the orders up about a month in advance to get them into pots so they are really healthy and ready to be planted.

To date we've been responsible for providing to our area 1147 fruit trees. I think that goes pretty far towards our farm goal of creating food security in our local area!

Where do you get these lids?

I went to voterreords and another site, TruthFinder showed all my info. I was NOT able to opt out of either!

I've been experimenting with alternative building for 3 years now. I'm ready to start and earthbag foundation/wall for the next building. We are in the Panhandle of Idaho (about 23 inches of rain/year) and a different zone and precipitation than Arizona. I can see where cob would work well in Arizona but I don't think cob will work to cover my rammed earth tire wall or the earthbags. I'm cognizant that you don't want to mix/match too many mediums without a layer for condensation between them so there won't be a weak point, but what is the best thing to use in the plaster for 16 inches up from the ground for these kinds of structures? Earth mixed with cement? Proportion of clay? Papercrete? I'm needing a bit of forward movement on this. Can I use the same plaster for both projects?