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Since I now need to have as compact as possible possessions I now use feed bags as "pots" for my wannabe garden. That wannabe garden had a lot of experimenting which worked and didn't work for a productive garden. It was cool making dirt from pine straw/leaves and table scraps/coffee grounds, tho. and it was fun experimenting. Now I want more food from that endeavor! lol

There was a time I wanted to live only in lush circumstances. More and more tho I have found myself wishing to be able to rehab property in such formidable circumstances. I will be watching this thread.

I don't know where a thread like that might be...

but thank you mucho to all.

I do appreciate this forum and its intent!

I think you will find that most of our all-volunteer staff even like helping people learn about permaculture on christmas day.  (and the tinkering forum is where you can also leave a kind word for them)

I think another side to this is that a lot of people prefer to go through someone else rather than hunt for the knowledge. Maybe they don't have the time, or maybe not a clue what to look for, or even not sure what is valid info, or what is hype.

Huxley Harter wrote:Apparently there are a few outbreaks of a new coronavirus, what herbs can help one prevent and treat it?

This may have already been posted, if not, with my COPD I think it is worth sitting in the sun every day for me.

https://medium.com/@ra.hobday/coronavirus-and-the-sun-a-lesson-from-the-1918-influenza-pandemic-509151dc8065

I wish!

My sincerest sympathies and prayers for you and family!

I couldn't find the emoticons anywhere, which would imply none are available.

Hoping this copy/paste works.

❤️

The point being shorthand for I feel for you, the ups and the downs.

I certainly fit here! So often I struggle, but thankfully had learned how to search for another way long before becoming disabled.

paul wheaton wrote:

Consider for a moment that the leaves of the tree are typically on the outside edge of the canopy.   Branches hold up leaves and fruit.  The leaves are the little solar collectors giving the tree food - for the fruit, the roots, the bark, the wood and the leaves themselves.  The wood doesn't need very much - so let's ignore that for now.  Consider the rest.  If we are low on energy (food) the tree will be sickly and the fruit will be lame.  But if we are loaded with energy, then the try is has vibrant good health and the fruit is excellent.   

What if we can keep the leaf count the same, but drastically reduce the energy needs?  Could that help move us into the vibrant direction?    What can we eliminate?  We can't eliminate roots.  We don't want to eliminate the leaves.  Eliminating wood won't make much difference because the wood doesn't take much energy.   But we might be able to eliminate some of the bark.

Suppose you have two limbs that are parallel to each other and they are the same in nearly every respect - only since they are right next to each other, one has leaves on the left side and one has leaves on the right side.   If you cut out one of those limbs, the other limb will eventually fill out leaves on the other side (okay, there is a lot more going on here, but let's keep it simple for now).  You will have eliminated half of the bark while maintaining the leaf count.   

Ok, I'll bite. How else would you get rid of extra bark?

Unless I missed something, which I may very well have done.