hobbssamuelj Hatfield

AMAZING!!!

Delilah wrote:
While living in Charlotte NC, I made a suspended hanging clothes dryer out of bamboo to hang over the wood stove in my kitchen. I attached a simple drawing of it, unfortunately, I moved and didn't get pics of it. It raised and lowered from the ceiling through use of an eye hook (strong one) and a boat cleat I attached to the wall. I will say, that it worked well, but I had to keep the clothes weight balanced on it.
I also made some J shaped maple hooks to attach to it and used them to dry deer jerky over the stove.
When growing up at My Granny's home, she had a quilting rack suspended from the living room ceiling and the ladies would have quilting bees and make several over the course of a weekend. Thats what gave me the idea of using a hanging clothes drying rack for my kitchen.
In the movie "the Color Puple" a lowering hanging rack for kitchen pots and pans was shown in the kitchen. Maybe its just a southern thing, but many homes here usta have lowering racks in the kitchen to suspend the cast iron. I grew up seeing many of them.

ian curtis of joy division hung himself from just such a pot rack.  seems to be sturdy enough to suspend a grown man, so it would likely take care of a couple wash loads.

we use a dryer.  i've tried to hang laundry in our basement, but it's just too muggy in my area and in my basement to keep the clothes from getting all musty and gnarly.

this bill has a revenue portion in it which, according to the constitution, requires the bill to originate in the house of representatives.  so, unless the house passes the senate bill, before the senate can again pass their bill, this legislation is dead.

given the importance of the tax debate, don't ask don't tell, and the START 2 treaty, i can't imagine that this bill will see any more action before the end of this congress.

i think that since the expansion of medical cannabis in so many states, hydroponic systems are increasingly cheap and increasingly easy to maintain.

ediblecities wrote:
Agree with Leila, it stinks horrible!
The best is to use a hose and move it around in the garden, as greywater contains detergents etc. and these will build up in the soil and eventually clog the soil.
Greywater is maybe not the best but it is better than no water and if you don't overdo there's no problem. However I won't use it on leavy greens lettuces etc.

my wife and i make our own laundry detergent with ivory soap, borax, and washing soda.  would this clog the soil the same as commercial detergents?

in detroit at eastern market their is a booth where you can go and get vouchers to spend at the booths that will be redeemed by sellers against a person's food stamp allowance.

i think it'd be admirable to cultivate a local, poorer clientele at a farmer's market or through some creative advertising for CSA's at various social service agencies

^^^ wouldn't those birds shitting that toxic stuff all over kind of nullify the original point?

this is interesting stuff about soil remediation.  i suppose i ought to get the beds around my house tested.

soil wrote:
grow potatoes in barrels, you wont loose a single spud and they actually grow better. we had the same gohper / potato problem.

how would you think bottomless above ground contraptions like with landscaping cloth or canvas do?  would the morlocks dig above ground into a poly-bag?

the ideas presented by resource furniture are refined and incredible as pieces of design, but i doubt that anyone on this website could afford anything from that store.

anything that requires you to ask for a quote after selecting the various fabrics, etc., means that it's out of the price range of anyone who's poor enough to worry about permaculture and the environment.

what is meant by split pea soup planting?