Deedee Dezso

Hello fellow shroomers!
We arrived in Western West Virginia in May '23. My grandson cut down a sugar maple and I hoped to pull 4-5 logs of approximately 6" diameter before they dried out too much to plug spawn them. I'd read it's best to get fairly newly cut logs as the sugars and moisture help the spawn grow through the entire log, and then I'd still need to keep them off the ground and moist/high humidity to help them grow.  So I put 2 on the ground w/o inoculation and stacked the others criss cross, then I covered it all in a blanket and kept it watered a couple times per week. This all took place in summer.

So the time of tree harvest is as important as preventing other species that can be picked up from ground contact.

This year we had our 2nd season of shiitake on 5 fruiting logs big enough that it requires both of us to move them.

This is an average of $77 + change per backer.  And about 23,000 more than what was asked for to fund the project!  Permies everywhere are awesome people!  I want to congratulate and thank everyone who contributed.  

Now to see how many high school ( and maybe Jr high schools) agricultural programs will accept my challenge to make some of these principles part of their curriculum! I have easy access to WV, KY, and OH!

Time to start calling around to find the programs!

Andrés Bernal wrote:We have an idea to make an eBook called something like "Permaculture bits and bobs".  Each page would feature a card and we would add a bunch more info.  

So here is the card for the rocket oven.  For the page for this card ...



CLICK HERE to go to the rocket oven and help us with:

  - should we add five or six more points?

  - maybe expand on some of the points already made?

Ideas?  Words?  Prose?  

Here's an idea to run with... Add more pages to this ebook to cover the original deck information as well! A hardcopy version and decks delivered (by who knows!?) will then be of more educational value and cover twice the concepts. I hope you are putting some notification/invitation  to the ebook in the purple deck so the uninitiated have a clue where to find more information. Maybe you're already going to.  That's my additional 2 cents.

As to the additional points or expanding on some, fit as much as you can on any given page. Possibly costs, gains, or other valuable information that can be summed up in a sentence or small graphic.

Jay Angler wrote:My mother bought a kitchen dining set.  Not exactly this, but it gives the idea:


I suspect - but haven't disassembled it to prove it - that the padding in the seat is some sort of upcycled scrap fabric - maybe natural, but quite possibly not. If there's foam in there, it has to be quality, because they're still in use 50+ years later.



What would I cover it with now? Wool isn't particularly practical for a kitchen chair - or is it? !

Here's my 2 cents.
If using a wool fabric that you don't want felted, a quick way to some padding pockets would be to cover one side with wide strips of pocket material, side by side, sew across then cut in pockets, fill and sew shut.
If you have a bunch of layers as padding, sew them all together like quilting, where it could also function as a design element.
Create a wool piece (crochet, knit, woven...?) that can be felted to an appropriate thickness to be encased in your cotton of choice.

Deedee Dezso wrote:I appreciate the feedback. I seem to have this problem more since our move which is where I lost my desktop and am reduced to access via a fire tablet, my Android cell phone, or the occasional laptop. If its on my end, I may have to just live with it. I brought it up in case it isn't just me, and there could be a fix on the other end.
I'm of mixed emotions that I'm Not the only one!

Just caught another glitch in the machine... Above post was made 9:08 p.m. and I get that here is posted Ranch time in Montana. I'm in WV. Not a 4 hour difference. Have your clocks already "fallen back"? I thought that was next weekend!

I appreciate the feedback. I seem to have this problem more since our move which is where I lost my desktop and am reduced to access via a fire tablet, my Android cell phone, or the occasional laptop. If its on my end, I may have to just live with it. I brought it up in case it isn't just me, and there could be a fix on the other end.
I'm of mixed emotions that I'm Not the only one!

Code please. I'll try this.

I'm so tickled these are coming out I've already backed for a "brick!"

Andrés Bernal wrote:Choose me and give me thumb up :)

This is currently winning at 26, but I can only guess what this tool is ( some kind of scythe?) and Paul mentioned marketing to Gardeners. I do know the other tools and come from a gardening background like many other urbanites of my time. While I'm fondest of the last two, small handtools for close work. It seems I've owned a set all my life as I was introduced to growies by about age 4.
Everyone here casting votes is more advanced in knowledge than the average urbanite. Something to consider.

Andrés Bernal wrote:We start in a little over a day! Wohoo!!

Yippee! The coveted 2nd deck!