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K Eilander wrote:Edit: Won't show up as a video for some reason (sorry), but it's a adorable little girl who takes a polish hen to her birthday party.
https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/124/052/699/playable/a1b26067830e7766.mp4
The only thing...more expensive than education is ignorance.~Ben Franklin
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Jay Angler wrote:... you *really* want to capture some of the rainwater off the well shed, but don't have time to do it right...
Big Green to the rescue!
All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.
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Still slingin’ Avacado pits
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It's Terra Preta - close _ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta The trees won't care that you got the letters in the word mixed up a little, because that's what the worms will do with that lovely treat you're preparing for them - mix it into better soil!leigh gates wrote:You might be a permie if when your room mate has one of those pod coffee makers you cut open the (throw away) plastic pods, mix the coffee grinds with the charcoal from the (throw away) little water filters and try a bit of that Terra Petra (spelling? Or another word?) charcoal charging of the soil in the little forest behind apt building...
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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” — Abraham Lincoln
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Be the shenanigans
you want to see in the world.
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The best place to pray for a good crop is at the end of a hoe!
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Joy to You
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The best place to pray for a good crop is at the end of a hoe!
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Zone 6, 45 inches precipitation, hard clay soil
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May Lotito wrote:Happy to see mole tunnels showing up everywhere in the yard. That means the soil quality has been improving and the growing worm population attracts moles to aerate the soil. Good sign!
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Still slingin’ Avacado pits
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Best luck: satisfaction
Greatest curse, greed
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Douglas Alpenstock wrote:
May Lotito wrote:Happy to see mole tunnels showing up everywhere in the yard. That means the soil quality has been improving and the growing worm population attracts moles to aerate the soil. Good sign!
Although when the start chewing the bottoms off your root vegetables, you may find that your perspective changes from "welcome" to "dog food." Active rodents are not always friendly, and they breed exponentially. Just a heads-up.
Little house with a big garden in the city!
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." ~ J. Krishnamurti
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C Lundquist wrote:Moles don't eat roots unless they are starving, nor are they rodents.
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The best place to pray for a good crop is at the end of a hoe!
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When it is obvious that goals cannot be reach, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. Confucius
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Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!
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Still slingin’ Avacado pits
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Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!
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Invasive plants are Earth's way of insisting we notice her medicines. Stephen Herrod Buhner
Everyone learns what works by learning what doesn't work. Stephen Herrod Buhner
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There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse. - Thomas Sowell
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. - Albert Einstein
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Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!
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Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!
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Best luck: satisfaction
Greatest curse, greed
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Pearl Sutton wrote:When you get a text from your respectable neighbor lady that says "A huge branch came down out of my tree. Do you want it for your burning stuff in the dirt thing?" "Yes please!" Yay biochar fodder!
Is a huge branch too. Took me creative work to move it by myself.
Stubbornness can be an art form.
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The only thing...more expensive than education is ignorance.~Ben Franklin
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Carla Burke wrote:You know you're a permie when you're satisfied with a mere pint of redbud blossoms for your salad & tea, because you noticed just how many different types of pollinators were 'harvesting' with you, and you know they actually need those blossoms to survive, not merely for flavor & color.
Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!
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Oh, sure, you could do that. Or you could eat some pie. While reading this tiny ad:
permaculture and gardener gifts (stocking stuffers?)
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