Jackson Bradley

They are similar to strawberries in that there should be one piece of the plant that sent up the shoot, that is connected back to the main plant. Unlike strawberries, it happens underground and when the shoot is 6"-8" high, it should be a successful transplant.

Dig the shoots root system up and cut off from the main plant. I leave 4" of the main root but that is just what I do. Maybe it should be more or less, I don't know.

The mesh in the bottom of the bed may make this difficult unless you are willing to cut out some of the mesh.

You could wait and, more than likely, have more coming up not in the bed which would be easier to dig up. I let all of our blackberry and raspberry shoots, that I don't want to make bushes, get about 16" high and cut them off and feed to the meat rabbits. They love them.

Nicole Alderman wrote:I plan to, Back to Eden style, plant the biggest potatoes of my harvest back into the bed, under all the mulch. Supposedly, the Back to Eden guy has done this for like 20 years without any problems/diseases, and still gets lots of healthy potatoes. It's worth a shot. He supposedly replants the biggest potatoes in the fall after harvesting the rest, and they grow up trhough the 8 inches of mulch in the spring. We'll see!

How did this work out for you, Nicole?

Another tip is to place a 6' ladder where you want the branch to fall. Cut the branch from the ground with the pole saw and it'll come right off and hit the ladder.

That happened when I used to prune with a chainsaw off of a ladder. Hits the ladder every time so it should work.

This method has worked great for me.

1-Undercut by about half. With a pole saw, it'll be at an angle but that is fine.

2-Move away from the tree and start the cut on top, it should break off when you get close to the end of the cut.

3-Cut the remaining stub off.

Like you, anytime I just try to cut from top down, I seem to get in a bind often and I agree it does not make much sense but that's what happens. This method won't help on the limbs you can undercut like some that you mention.

2 resources stand out the most for us. They both have some practical info in them but we found them to be most helpful with our overall gardening philosophy, so to speak.

The first is "Landrace Gardening" by Joseph Lofthouse. https://permies.com/wiki/162247/Landrace-Gardening-Joseph-Lofthouse

The second is a video and not a book. Back to Eden Gardening. A search on permies will reveal a lot of threads about it. https://www.backtoedenfilm.com/#/

Anne Miller wrote:Our eogs have mostly been named after previous dogs.

My neighbor is in his 70's, has had 7 dogs but only one dog at a time. They were all named Sammy, including the one he has now.

I thought that was pretty clever.

I'd recommend getting some local advice.

We came up with a plan and then drove our immediate area and talked to everyone we saw or had seen in the past that kept chickens. I received one invaluable piece of feedback. If we had not taken that advice, we would have made a moderate change to the design that we didn't need to, that was climate specific, after it was built.  

We have not needed to make any changes since we sought local advice and implemented what we received. I have found that folks are eager to share with their neighbors/community.

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Anne Miller wrote:We peel the eggs when they are still warm as we believe the eggs are easier to peel when warm.  And that is not my job.

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I would do the same: just cool them enough to handle. I've heard that older eggs are easier to peel too.

Yes that is it!

I find that the older chicken eggs works best for peeling, if they are fresh from the chicken. A week or two works well for us.

I searched through my posts for a while and I cannot find the thread where Anne Miller says something about her husband peeling the boiled eggs while they are warm/hot.

Because all of the boiled egg advice says use an ice bath (we don't have an icemaker), I have been putting them in the fridge for a day or two to cool and then peel. An ice bath adds a step and putting in the fridge adds a step. I never considered trying to peel after boiling, before cooling. I had never considered trying it and have never seen that in a recipe.

After reading Anne's post, I tried peeling them when they were just cool enough to handle. I have done 10-12 dozen eggs this way and it works! This is a gamechanger because I can get the eggs to their "ready to eat" stage all in one continuous process.

Sorry for being so excited about boiled eggs!!!

J.P. Waters wrote:In the Siri-Testimony PDF document.....

I recall similar statistics in the book I referenced above. It is a hard copy so I do not have the ability to copy and paste. The link was similar in that the statistics showed a direct link to increased sanitation - reduction of disease, not vaccines. Large population centers were where the issues were for the most part. There were some statistics juxtaposing villages with little to no vaccination but good sanitation verses larger population centers with vaccination and poor sanitation.

I think the most shocking chapter of that book was on baby formula. I had no idea there was such widespread use of it in 1940s-1960s. The statistics and information in that chapter about antibodies for diseases being passed on from generation to generation verses no antibodies in formula and the implications of that were something I had never been exposed to. In a small scale way, through the birth and nursing of our 6 kids, I have seen this first hand. One of the older kids will get sick and it'll get passed around to the other kids and myself. But my wife and the new baby that is being nursed, do not get whatever it is that we have. It is amazing.  

Our culture, being what it is, usually signals to us the things our family should research more before deciding on a course of action. The signal I see is that if most people are doing something, we should probably check into it. I would imagine that most people on the forum have come to realize this about conventional farming/animal husbandry.

Anyway, it is not a simple black and white issue and I wouldn't say everyone should not vaccinate and nurse their babies. I like the dialog and let each person be convinced in their own mind. Hopefully that is the attitude of both sides of the argument.