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Found a good one today

Brandolini's law

The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

Often it's more productive to share projects and experiences than attempt to fix the internet.

I remember sea silk (made from seaweed) back in the day.  I think the one I knit with was made on the Atlantic coast of canada.  Amazing textile, very similar feel to silk.  It disappeared about the same time as milk silk, corn silk, soy silk, bamboo silk, and the like  got renamed rayon (because that's how it's made).  The government is fussy about accuracy in textile lables here (for which i am glad).  I also heard there was another traditional textile called 'sea silk' but didn't know what it was at the time.


The article in the original post of this thread says "another, much rarer, cloth known as sea silk or byssus, which comes from a clam."

This byssus looks amazing. What a wonderful labour of love!

Is the trunk still firmly attached to the roots?

If yes, steaks.  Giant ones, in a triangle around the dripline of the tree.  Innertubes from bike tires (usually free at any bike repair shop) to tie trunk where branches start (so quite high) to each steak.  Check and adjust the ties every 3 months or it will damage growth.  Fixed in about 2 to 5 years.  

Starting new threads on questions or expierences keeping cool is also great.  If you do, please drop a link here.  

I suspect this will be a useful resource for the future

And saving money on electricity in the summer
https://permies.com/t/4017/ways-reduce-summer-utility-bills

My favourite, cooling the person, not the space
https://permies.com/t/57366/Cool-person-space-methods

Summer is already gobbling up most of Europe and is about to start on north america with earnest this weekend.  

Let's gather up our favourite threads about staying cool in hot weather.  


And yes, i have ulterior motives of helping the daily-ish team gather up often overlooked threads.

This year, all 3 dozen mulberry are finally producing fruit.  We have no more than 3 from each source (the nursery all clame they are different types), except alba which we have six.  But even our alba which we grow for the leaves, have finally given fruiting a try (they needn't have bothered, the other trees are much better at it)

They do seem to like friends as our first was out of sight of the others and didn't start fruiting until we planted a friend near it.  

I didn't know there were sex specific mulberry.  I figured they were more like holly trees and some nut trees and didn't start producing female flowers until they get to a certain height and the soil conditions are right.  Learn something new every day.

Personally, I would get three if starting with what i know now, as they seem happy in clusters of 3 or 4.

I found my scythe journal thread that goes into more detail of why I upgraded away from the lee valley scythe.
https://permies.com/t/162096/scythes/terrible-scything#1269961

I found it best to order from scythworks in the late summer to fall.  Spring and harvest time he seems to be swamped.  

The guy there is awesome and if you can afford to wait, it's worth it!