Philip Lister

Slightly off-topic but the following video appeared in my feed and piqued my interest.  Refractory bricks can be tricky to source so it's really nice to know they could be made locally

Yeah, even if there are botulism spores present in the canned beans and the neurotoxin has been produced from being stored for long periods in anoxic conditions, said beans only need to be heated through to roughly 75°C  for the neurotoxin to be destroyed is the way that I understand it.
I'm guessing that those anecdotes observing no harm has ever come from not pressure canning has always been accompanied by this post canning practice..

Dried orange peel - rich in essential oils, and fragrant too..

My understanding is that dioxins and furans, being halogenated, are a byproduct of burning the halogenated plastics - PVC, etc.
For PP and PET, there are no such halogens present and thus any products of incomplete combustion will be hydrocarbons (nothing worse than what is produced from the low temperature combustion of cigarettes...

Emery Brown wrote:Dig big hole with shovel in a wet winter, put pole in, backfill with clay that I've dug up from the ground, stomp down hard.
How naive am I being?

Ooow, I did this last winter for the rabbit-proof perimeter with Black locust poles.  Thinking I was pretty smart, I considered testing my innovation by letting them sit for a hunnerd years, then filing for a patent...

In previous years I have juiced my Yacon (another inulin loaded tuber,), then boiled it down to a syrup (which has a lovely rich earthy taste.)  As last winter I lost the majority of the Yacon growing tips to some hard frosts the thought occurred this year that I could try the same process with Jerusalem artichokes (as they're known in these parts.)  I haven't done it yet but will hopefully find some time before the end of winter.  

Just tried to access the website for the first time in a while and was greeted with a strange prompt specifying that as I could't be reached through my saved email, it must be changed.  That's weird as I haven't blacklisted permies@permies.com and come to think of it, I haven't seen any of the dailyish emails for a while so I checked and the last one I got was on the 3rd Oct.  I had to change to an email that I don't really check regularly before I could even access the site to query why this has happened?
Any suggestions?  TIA

I've been collecting the thistle down to use in the rendering of my RMH, gives a really smooth finish.  
It got me wondering if it could be used as insulation for quilts and such..

Oak before ash, we're in for a splash,
Ash before oak, in for a soak..