tuffy monteverdi

Khara Phetteplace wrote:My go to for paths in my upstate NY property is sand.

I like to save my wood chips for my compost piles & gardens. I found, altho wood chips compost down to improve the soil, on my steep pathways, it becomes slippery when wet.

100%
Those are our issues too👍

Decomposed granite, laid down thick, pressed, and maybe even with a little resin mixed in.
This kind of path won’t sink, or degrade or compost; allows shoes/boots/wheels/strollers/sticks to travel on path without sinking on or getting stuck.
Yet water still soaks in.
It’s a great path to have along food forests or hedgerows for harvesting, planting or weeding.
It’s more permanent, but not completely permanent, as cement or asphalt would be; and anyone can use it easily.

r ransom wrote: My grandparents bought a house on the main road.  Distance is difficult when one is a kid.  3.5 to 4 driveway width distance from heavy traffic

The developer made a sideways driveway parallel to the road for about 5 houses, then between that and the road, built a berm and massive hedge. You wouldn't know there was a main road there.

In Tokyo, I visited a garden.  Tokyo is LOUD.  But as soon as I entered the garden, all the noise stopped.  Completely. No traffic, no nothing.   It was like the scary feeling of being in the forest and suddenly the birds are quiet.  

That is fascinating re grandparents!
I’d love to know exactly how this was set up and hedge/tree species etc!!

A book could be written very profitably about those kinds of solutions, in my opinion!

I’d also love to know how the Tokyo garden achieved this!
This kind of info could make many of our living experiences in this world SO much better!

Please do elaborate if you have more info🙏

1st: I make sure everything on that phone is backed up somewhere. If not to a cloud server, then to an external hard drive, nightly.

2nd: I make sure its password protected, so if someone steals it, or finds it, the phone cannot be entered.

3rd: there is an app automatically on iPhones called “Find My Phone” that allows location of your phone to show up on a digital map on someone else’s device.
It requires Location Services to be turned on 24/7 though (which I don’t like, and hence I don’t use this feature).
But if you’re losing your phone a lot, that’s another good option.

4th: you can put a tracker chip on your phone (perhaps inside the phone cover?) - but it would require another device to show the location.

Ryan

There is probably a vet clinic or humane society or animal control facility somewhere around you?

That’s enjoyable work and it’s great learning experience. It really adds to making an excellent experience in owning animals too, as part of a permaculture design.

I’ve solved those same questions you had by deciding to do in-depth learning in subjects I enjoy and which are marketable too:
I’ve always done three things: worked as a veterinarian, trained dogs, and sold my creative work.

Tereza Okava wrote:

tuffy monteverdi wrote:how does a bike wheel keep out rodents?

If anyone hasn't seen the beginning of this thread (I know it's old) you really should scroll up to the top to see pics. I thought this was a fabulous reuse solution.

I read from the beginning; but wasn’t able to see the chicken wire on the actual wheel. Just on the sides.

For reuse of the wheel, we incorporate them in brick walls as “windows” to let in light in select areas.

For a garden bed in the above situation, I’d just put the gopher wire (not chicken wire) across the bed top and afix w wire, instead of using the wheel also, personally. To each their own.

William Bronson wrote:
I add chicken wire or hardware cloth to a wheel, then use it as a lid.

Ah ok thanks
I can’t see the chicken wire on the wheel - only in the sides!
Got it! Thanks

William Bronson wrote:, because she has rodent and deer pressure.

Interesting!
But how does a bike wheel keep out rodents?
Actually deer could likely fit their muzzles in there too.. 🤔

M Wilcox wrote:

Ok, i’m not sure if the following link will work, but I hope so. There’s a channel on YouTube called Soap School. That’s where I got this from. So if this link doesn’t work, go to YouTube and search for soap school. The video is called how to make soap out of lard.

https://homestead.noredfarms.com/soap-making-guide

Now, she’s using pure lard, but I didn’t. I just used whatever fat I had saved from the kitchen, whether it was beef fat or pig, fat or bacon grease or used cooking oil or whatever. And it turned out great. It makes a very fine lather (tiny bubbles) not a big lather. She says it has a very creamy consistency when used, but it is hard so it doesn’t just melt like some commercial soaps do. She says if you want more lather, you should use part coconut oil. She doesn’t give a proportion though.

Ok yes, this is the link in my previous post above!
If that’s what you used, great!
Yes I’ll be using rendered sheep fat mixed with whatever rendered bacon fat we have….
Thanks
I’m going to try this! 👏👏

M Wilcox wrote:

Yes, my water was hard. I found a YouTube video that uses the same recipe I used. It’s so very simple, just three ingredients unless you want to add herbs or essential oils. The most important thing to know is to not use any aluminum pans or utensils. Use stainless steel, plastic, or unchipped enamel containers and utensils. Molds can be anything as long as they’re not aluminum. Like I said, I just used a cookie sheet, which I should have put parchment paper on I think. Anyway, I tried to post a link, but it wouldn’t upload. I went to Google and searched vintage soap recipe, and I got a YouTube video with an older lady showing you step-by-step how to do it. She’s British so you’ll know you got the right one.

Thank you
I tried your google terms and also tried Mother Earth news search.
Nada zilch zip, re British vintage soap lady. If you can just copy and paste the link, not the video, that would be great.

And Mother Earth News has a paywall now, so it’s a no-go there too, now.

I did find an article on lye and tallow and a little water only for soap, which I should try. https://homestead.noredfarms.com/soap-making-guide

I get the impression there isn’t much lather there though? (Not that I need a huge lather, just enough to clean my hands).