Nick Mick

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.

Yeah like others have said well drained soil. You might want to consider how to keep more water on that property like swales or something. Sounds like wild blueberries and sweet fern would like the property.

I probably posted this already but here it is. It’s more than music, it’s a ritual.

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Mountain mint. They love the stuff. Gets as tall as other mints though but it’s more manageable.

I have a set of baeofeng walkies that I got for emergencies, however whenever I try to learn how to use them all the info I get are from sources that assume I already have knowledge in the subject and make it difficult to start from scratch.