Kelly Pakes

Hi Susan. I was interested to read about the Beefy Resilient Beans - I have never heard of them and have never grown a mixed bean like that before. They sounds delicious. Even though they have a wide range of appearance, they taste the same?

I found some and ordered them to try just for fun. As I understand it, I don't have to worry about them crossing with the purple pole beans I normally grow? Or the dried pole bean to grow in corn that I also ordered on impulse while I was on the resilient seeds website?

Thanks,
Kelly

American Civil War uniforms were primarily made of wool. I just found this quote "Wool was the most common fabric of the Civil War, both for uniforms and for everyday clothing. Wool was widely available and durable and often high-quality, with very tight weaves that prevented fraying." (https://oureverydaylife.com/fabrics-used-for-civil-war-clothing-12535459.html). I always found this mind-boggling, thinking of soldiers at battles like Gettysburg in the sweltering heat dressed in wool. I guess they knew what they were doing!

100% wool fabric is available, but it is really expensive and mostly just in boring suiting colors. Here is an example of one place to buy it: https://www.fabric.com/apparel-fashion-fabric-wool-fabric.aspx?fiber-content-range=100percent-wool. Try googling "100% wool summer weight fabric".

Kelly

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there's a long tradition of keeping bees in a similar arrangement in Slovenia. there are some drawbacks, but it can work very well.

I never heard of that. Thanks, I will try to check it out.

How in the world are they going to inspect the beehives in the building in that video? Aside from the logistics of even opening a box and pulling frames, it is dark, and imagine the cloud of angry bees in that enclosed space. Yikes. It did not look like it would have anywhere nearly enough ventilation, either.

I would think if you absolutely need an anti-bear structure, enclosing the bee yard in a really strong wire cage would be a better idea. Cattle panels on a wooden cube frame, maybe?  Just brainstorming.

Facebook can be a powerful tool, but it can also be a royal pain to manage. Just because someone "likes" your page does not mean they get to see all of your content. The more they interact with the page with likes, shares and comments, the more posts they see. I am an administrator for a page that just passed 2000 likes. When I post something, Facebook shows it to a few hundred people. When those people start liking and commenting, Facebook shows it to more people (their friends, plus presumably more of the page followers). Still, some posts never pass 1000 views even though we have 2000 followers. My most popular post got over 20,000 views.

Anyway, my point is that you can't count of Facebook to be a reliable way to spread information for the average user who isn't going to interact with your page.

If you want to see all of a business/organization's posts, you have to use interest lists. For example, if I wanted to follow Paul's Facebook page, I would click "like", which gets me another menu, where I click "add to interest lists". Then I would add it to my gardening list, click "go back" and "unlike". That gets the posts off my personal wall, so they aren't mixed up with family stuff, and when I view the gardening interest list I get to see every post, not just the ones Facebook decides to show me. The negative from your point of view is it doesn't show up as a "like" (as far as I know). Your average user is not going to bother with interest lists.

Now, to actually answer the subject question, I can tell you that I follow pages if they post useful content or links (a catchy photo helps) every day or so. More than that is overkill. Some bloggers put a post on Facebook every time they do a blog post to get me to click the link and go there, which is useful if they don't have some other way to let me know that. You have the daily-ish email that serves the same purpose. Some bloggers have contests that require that you like their Facebook page to be entered for the prize. Most that I know of use Rafflecopter to manage giveaways. If your goal is more likes, that can help. If the goal is to get people to sign up for the daily-ish email, which will remind them to check permies for items of interest, the number of likes should not matter as long as people are finding the page.

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