rookie Hatfield

hope this doesn't get the thread too off topic, but for those who have those older-non electric type sewing machines: what's the comparison? which do you like better and why? where do you think a person could pick up one?

A gar fish.

here's a picture, it's not the exact subspecies that i caught, but same thing basically. there where so many post with wild recipes, i was hoping someone knew how to cook this. i'd just look it up online, but you never know about those recipes....

it's not big deal, i was just wondering if anyone knew how to cook it. it had already swallow the hook, so i didn't want to throw it back. 

cool, thanks for posting this

sorry for answering i'm not an expert, but i can't help making a guess....

Buckwheat in packet #1 sowed thick. It's a fast grower, and large leaves might shade out the grass. let it flower, go to seed, and reproduce itself for a year, and the frost will kill it.  Then the birds (wild or chickens) will scavange the rest of the seed sitting on the surface.

The next spring sow packet #2 into the dead buckwheat. you might get some buckwheat volunteers, but nothing that a little weeding (shouldn't take longer than the original raking) will solve.
But I would tell the person with the fruit tree to keep their expectations realistic. If all they understand is the inconvenece and confusion of it all, then they won't stick with it.

iIcaught one, and I somehow managed to skin it. (dragon scales, man) I didn't filet it, although i don't think it's too late.

it was about a 2foot long needle nose.

does anyone have a recipe that they themselves have tried and liked?

So! I caught an interesting reference about Native American agricultural practices that really got my brain gears turning, and I realized how little I knew about it. 

I tried to recall what I was taught in school and all I could come up was memories of bison, corn and beans. A real tragedy! I got the idea somewhere that they were mostly hunter-gatherers, but logically, it doesn't sit right. I just pray the agricultural knowledge of hundreds of civilizations hasn't gone completely down the drain.

So my Google search has been unfruitful, I was hoping to find information focusing on the methods and practices of North American indians.  Preferably from tribes that lived in similar climates that I do now. (Missouri) Missouri, Osage, Fox, Sauk, Iowa, Kansas etc...But i'll take what I can get.

my speal:
I know farming does not equal permaculture, but I hope to find methods and strategies that have worked well in my area for thousands of years. I know I won't be able to grow conventional crops with these methods, but so what?

Steve Nicolini wrote:
I wonder if the chickens will eat anything that is already in the pasture, like the dock or some of the grasses.

my chicken's favorite was giant ragweed. they also ate chickory, ox-eye daisys, smartweed, thistle and dude! my 6 month old hen caught, killed, and ferociosly ATE a foot long black snake.

Here in mid mo, I get my persimmons when ammunition season (deer)  opens. That's around mid-November. We're in USDA zone 5 here. There's usually some on the ground, but that's fine, there are few bug to eat them and it's a cold as a refridgerator outside anyway. The deer don't bother them because they're either twitterpatted or busy getting shot at.

hmmm, yeah, it's tough sometimes, usually availability will make the choice for you.

If someone put a gun to my head, i would choose local.  Some say oil will be unobtainable or unaffordable VERY soon, and the economy will have little time to adjust. (solar and wind may help, but they're no replacement) So millions of people will need food, and local areas won't have their stuff set up yet. Famines are likely to occur (forgive me for the doomsday talk, but it's very likely)

People hurt themselves with agricultural chemicals too, but the resulting  effects are not so accute.
So i chose local, and keep bugging them about going organic. It helps when you can talk to the farmer face to face. A letter to del-monte isn't effective.

hope to find out one of these years! i hope to do grains of somekind, along with the traditional vegetable. Base of the food pyramid, you know? thanks for the site and forum!