Nick Mick

Do the aldi brand ones count? I will only eat them with milk or half and half, I will eat a whole sleeve in one sitting then not eat any for a month or more.

I keep mine in the food forest until the end of the growing season then I let them in the garden most of the winter to tear everything up and  fertilize it. I shut them off the garden right before snow melt. (The food forest is against the garden.) I use allot of wood chips in the garden so I’m not worried about hot manure.

Harvesting is a big one. Picking ripe fruits from trees, picking annual vegetables like the usual tomatoes and cucumbers. Going out at night and picking slugs off the brassicas or placing beer traps. Spreading wood chips around the base of trees. Watering with compost tea, gathering weeds for said tea. Chop and drop weeds. Gathering eggs, clean coop, feed chickens, water chickens. Spread soiled chicken bedding amongst perennials. Water annuals if needed. If you have other animals there’s allot to do there. Trim overgrowth if needed. A ten year old can do all of these things.

So the way I figure since they are problem due to their eating habits would they just eat waste super fast? I’m just thinking out loud.

My elderberry plants grew 6ft this year after not budging for 2 years. Also, this random hymalayan blackberry that showed up in my food forest last year grew about 5-6ft this year. I don’t know if those two plants are known to grow like that though.

Evergreen trees, hills, mountains, really big heugal mounds, partly or fully buried homes.

I currently keep all my feed in metal trash cans so rats can’t chew through them. Some of the newer ones have lids with no handle on top but a lip on the edge instead, so no rain water gets in. I used to keep my unopened feed bags in a metal stock bin with an old door as a lid. I could keep a lot of feed bags in that thing but I needed the bin for chicks so now they are just in a series of metal trash cans I got at a yard sale.

I like the Brave browser, it uses ai to do web searches and has an ad blocker and some other things that stops tracking data. Recently though, I did a single search on flock cameras and all of a sudden Facebook started flooding my feed with anti flock stuff. Part of me thinks “brave is compromised and Facebook is trying to get me in trouble.” But another part of me thinks “the whole flock thing is relevant in the zeitgeist and it’s just coincidence.”

I have worked with people that label themselves assholes to obsolve themselves from treating others around them with any decency. It’s like ‘Oh, I said I was an asshole from the beginning so you just have to deal it.’ Which is fine in an environment where others can walk away from said person but not so good when people are forced to work beside said person. And what happens when the asshole meets the person who hates assholes? I do like that little speech in ‘team America world police’ where the drunk tramp says “there are three kinds of people in this world, dicks, pussys, and assholes.” You know the rest.

If you need something just to get things going so you can improve on it later, try logs and wood chips. You can even use the trees that are there to hold the logs, then have chip drop or somebody else dump wood chips in the top of the hill and let gravity help. The logs don’t have to be perfectly on contour they are just there to help with erosion and holding the chips. You can then do as you see fit as time goes on.