Hans Quistorff

I have been subscribed to this channel for a long time so have seen the build of the structures in the back ground,  My grand father was a field stone mason and this girl out performs what he did.
If you are serious about building with field stone you can get an education watching her work.

What  you need is a hole saw.   home depot

So many possibilities of misidentification with the generic identification of carpenter bee.  Different cotenants, different regions on the same cotenant,  different habitats in the same region; will have different species referred to as carpenter bees.  Some confusion may come from bees reusing holes made bey other insects such as wood boring beetles.  So if lumber was used that had wood boring beetle exit holes the blame may be put on the solitary bees reusing the holes.   Large cavities may be used by colony wasps and hornets that have aggressive protective workers.  Classifying permaculture  as a design science we need to develop the observation skills of science and collaboration with other observers so that we culture, that is work together with other creatures, instead of kill all others and discover it was to our loss.

Like the original poster do some Wikipedia search  and be as specific as posible in describing your experience and observations so that others are not mislead in their permaculture design or decisions.  

For those of you watching... I have pictures for you to look at. Like comment and enjoy. I will happily take on requests if there is anything specific you're curious about.

Changing the file name may seem like an unnecessary step but it helps find things on permies.  filling in the caption is optional but allows you to tell the story one picture at a time rather than before the pictures then we have to remember what you wrote as we study them.
I still have not started my thread on I have bigger mole hills than you do.  If you find one post it.

So it is a system wide thing that if you are not logged in you will be taken to the internal link in the email but that internal link is not saved when you log in.   The current email has the internal link #2956384   The log in URL is  https://permies.com/forums  so not even the topic but the topic is there to click on if it is recent.  Whether you can get your programmers to make log in URL redirect be the current page with the internal link is the question to pose in the programmer's forum.   Yes i have been through enough April fools shenanigans to know there is another forum that works on such things.

I remove dead /diseased branches and crossing branches.  The deer have pruned them up so I can walk under them   I mulch under them with a thick layer of grass and tarp before fruit fall so that I can shake the trees and collect the fruit.

The name for raspberries in French translates to berries in the woods.  So it is a symbiotic relationship; trees bring up water from deep down and then feed sugar water to the soil organisms under the pine needles. the soil needs shade frum the sun and interconnecting roots to hold it in place so berry plants fill that niche.    

It depends on your permaculture plan.  The vines will provide a lot of leaves for shade in summer and mulch in winter.  depending on east/west or north/south orientation you will have a sunny side and a shady side or morning and afternoon shade.  Grapes seem to have a strategy of putting down deep roots for water and feeding the soil with sugar water with their surface roots So yes rhubarb with its large leaves shades the soil so they work well together.
I just mowed the grass between three rows in N/S orientation and it was twice as tall as the rest of the lawn.   The rhubarb is more than 50 years old and makes stalks 1 inch thick and 16 inches long.  

The potato farms I worked at in Maine sorted out all the small potatoes for seed and the larger ones for food. They sold both.  So I eat large potatoes and replant small ones. The size and number of potatoes resulting seems more dependent on consistency of moisture in the soil though larger seed makes larger plants at the start.
Back to my lasagna planning, the lost little ones that came up in the greenhouse in February are close to harvest, some were pea size.  The lasagna is a layer of compost to hold water and feed, layer of sand to protect the skin of potatoes from scab, layer of seed, layer of sand, layer of mulch.

Microwave:  Start potato in microwave then chop greens int small pieces add shredded cheese peal cooked potato while greens cook 1 minute mash potato into greens and cheese and eat.  add sea salt to balance with potassium and magnesium in the greens.