Justyn Mavis

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My elderberry here in Southern WV go wild, and like crazy. All I do I cut back any of the dead part, and keep the land around them cleared'ish'. So, it can spread in the direct it prefers. I've been doing this for 10 years, and each year I get a good flower and berry crop. I started with just a few sticks in the ground, now I have a few very large 'bushes'. I do the trimming after the berry fruit.  

-Justyn 'Doc'
1 month ago
Watched the video here on Permies. Cool little video.
I'm very interested in seeing how this experiment turns out!

Cheers

-Justyn
Discovered one of the return Bin Stores last week ( The Returned Pallets), and it was 5 dollar day so I thought I would look around and I found this kit.  

(30 Watt Solar Powered Water Fountain Pump with 430GPH Solar Pump) It was missing a few pieces, and the hose but the Solar Panel and the Solar Pump both in working order.

I needed to move some water in my outdoor water storage system, so this would do the trick nicely.

Just to make sure the Pump was pretty close to what it said it would do, I got a 5 gal water jug, and used a stopwatch to see what the results are. 0.47.42 Seconds to fill the 5 gals.

I will be moving this water storage this fall, and once I do that I will update for a permanent installation.

2 years ago
Left this sub pump container outside and it filled up with water. It was time to use the sub pump container, so I needed to move the water to a more useful spot. ( Which happened to be one of my frog pond projects.)

I used an old garden hose, and emptied it into the old frog pond. Based on the measurements there was  ~27gal

2 years ago
Built, and I maintain a website for a friend who is a owner of a tire shop.

I built the page, run the social media, and translated it into Spanish, ( or to the best I could)

Quarterly bill of sale is $500 +tax

2 years ago
I taught a Kombucha Workshop at the local library, charged $5, and 12 playing students. For a Total of $60

Below is a link the local news did on me teaching the class.

https://www.wvva.com/2023/06/15/craft-memorial-library-teaches-kombucha-brewing-basics-class/

2 years ago
Just finished reading this book Saturday, it's a lovely book with a nice message.
2 years ago
Hey, I've been talking about this with folks for awhile now, I live in Southern WV ( Flat Top).

By the letter of the law, what you are talking about it a private community, or a HOA. Example in SWV are Glade Spring, the Greenbrier or Flat Top Lake.  While it's completely possible to build a community like those in these parts and I really wish we could get folks together to do it, you have to have a clear set of rules, ownership and lots of legal pretty words. (again which all can be done) The problem in these parts, is that the folks that want a private community, don't always have the permaculture mindset. The folks that want the ecovillage mindset, don't have the independence mindset.

Here is the compromise I'm thinking might work in the Appalachia. Think Mount Airy, a small town where folks own their own stuff, but have a unifying ideal of what they want their small town to be like. I think SWV has some good bone sitting around in some of the old coal town, or forgotten farm communities. They key would be a community meeting point.

Another option is to recreate something like Colonial Williamsburg,(The working display town, not the time era) where it all setup as a Non Profit, folks live and work in the community, and folks from away come and take class or tour.

Eitherway, I'm good at paperwork for LLC and 501(3)c. DM me and i'll share my contact info and anyway I can help.  Look up The Mavis Institute if you want to see what I'm building right now.

Cheers
-Justyn
2 years ago
On the edge of an old road there is a few old apple trees. The road is the old WV turnpike an hasn't been maintained by the state in many decades. During our late summer/ fall walks we always love collecting apple from these trees. Not always the tastiest. But makes good Apple Pie and Applejack.

No one maintains these apple trees, and i doubt based on their placement they were planted.

-Justyn
2 years ago
Code Please!

thank you
2 years ago