Hans Quistorff

This girl made a table and chair set with only a few nails to hold the top and seats in place and that could have bin done with dowels.

My observation is that trees transplanted when they have leaves do not have the capacity in their root system to take up the water needed in summer heat and strong sunlight.  So I suggest shade to reduce the transpiration stress.

Possibly build a spillway into the creek or ditch or both that is just above the level the bevers maintain.  If it only overflows during storm events then the bever may not block it.    

We started using corn based cat litter and when my wife scooped it ad set the siftings out on the porch the porch was soon covered with bird droppings.  Permaculture observation led to stacking function application it now goes under the decretive palm tree which now gets two sets of droppings while requiring less weeding.

 confused turkeys. They were running back and forth next to a section of livestock fencing, apparently having forgotten they possess wings.

Turkeys tend to only use their wings to escape predators or roost high enough to be safe from them.  Otherwise they live like Tyrannosaurus rex.

Yes grapes are persistent at growing back from roots. They will sacrifice vines during freezing, heat and drought to come back from buds at the roots.  I had some green ones I was going to transplant this spring but when I went to dig them there were only dead sticks now there are green leaves like yours.   So I will dig them at the end of September and share some with you to go with the red ones.

In plant-related news: good news, Hans Quisdorff! One of your grapevines pulled through and survived the summer! It's about four inches tall at the moment, but the leaves look healthy and there are several curly vines spreading out. Hopefully they make it to the trellis cable soon.

The intention was to uncover the coil of vine in the spring and wrap it around the cable.  More buds could possibly have responded with exposure.

Travis Johnson wrote:Not really a "green" product, but one that is commonly done, and one that will literally kill you, is cleaning a barn with bleach.

The mixture of ammonia in the manure (especially chickens and sheep) along with the chlorine, will produce Mustard Gas...yes THE mustard gas of World War I.
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This was a constant problem in collage chemistry lab; someone would leave a hydrochloric acid bottle open and another an ammonia bottle; both vaporise and combine in the air making a deadly fog and powdery dust.

Remember you can eat the lamb's quarters.

Welcome Casey:
        I am near by but also far away; as you know there is a Narrows Bridge and a lot of water in-between.  Due to age and finances I am not driving that far and I have not tried to keep in touch with the groups over there.  
A Google search for permaculture Tacoma WA reveals that the Meetup group is still active and the Facebook page is still active.  Also a reddit post just like yours so perhaps it was you.
I am active here and open to mentoring.  Suggestion if you would like to have a pecan tree the trees across the street from ST Joseph hospital  drop a lot of seed which sprout and grow readily in our climate.
You can also use the links in my signature line to contact me.

I had this problem with rice.  I had a mill with steel grinding plates which I removed and made ones with black walnut wood.   Adjusted the spacing on the plates until they split the hulls but not the grain.