Joylynn Hardesty

According to Plants for a Future we are in it's range. How cool! I like it. And it's perennial And the boiled root is a chocolate substitute! (Yeah, right. I like carob, but it's no chocolate substitute!)

In one experiment, they sprayed 15 gallons of RAW SOUR KRAUT juice per acre, resulting in 80 to 90% reduction in glyphosphate in the soil.

Flowers! The crushed leaves smells nice. I would not describe it as like celery. It smells much nicer than"green", how I describe some of the weeds we eat.

Did you air dry with a fan, or use a dehydrator?

My pot is similar to this one on Amazon.

I do cook with a new wave induction burner. I do not know the model, it is simply what I could afford at the time. I have only used it for 3 hours of continuous use at a time. But it has continued to work with daily use for... three years? (NOT three hours each day)

Welcome to Permies May!

We're oddballs here, and answer questions with different alternatives to the original question. I do make perpetual stew. But not in a crock pot. Mine is in a heavy bottomed stainless steel pot. I add ingredients, bring it to boil for 15 minutes, then put it in a "hay box". 8 to 24 hours later every thing is cooked, and still piping HOT. Note: I do now cook my meats before adding them, but only because sometimes it is needed to bulk up the current meal. We serve that up before placing the soup in the hay box.

Some relevant threads:
How to make a hay box.
Hay box cooker, thermal cooking...
Perpetual stew and friends.

My hay box is a styrofoam cooler. I wrap my pot in a wool blanket and put it inside.

Beautiful work Tommy!

Oh, no!  Define 'softer' wires. Surely it will do better than just copper?

I took new pictures, forgot to smell it. Whatcha think about it now? Oh, it is in mostly shade. Sun for about two hours.

And the blue flower belongs to spiderwort.