Inge Leonora-den Ouden

Most of the time I drink only water. It's from the tap, but boiled first and then cooled down. Not cooled in the fridge, I don't like it that cold. I prefer 'room temperature', or even 'body temperature'. If I don't forget I add a little 'sea' salt (Atlantic ocean, from France).

I do drink my water kefir, but only one glass a day. Not against the thirst, but for the probiotics.

I saw there was one reply I gave 6 years ago. Since then I have done (and am doing) more fermenting.
- There's the water kefir. Some years ago a friend gave me a small jar of it to start with. Ever since then I have it going on, feeding it new water with sugar and dried apricots every other day, so I can have the probiotic drink it made (I mix in a little fruit syrup/cordial). When I go away for more than two days I put it in the fridge. It's easy to revive.
- There's garlic honey, made with the first garlic I harvested this season. It's only one small jar, so I'll only use it when I feel I really need it.
- Two jars of 'kimchi' (made without a recipe, using a mix of vegetables and spices) are in the fridge now, so the fermenting won't go on any longer.
- And I have lemon-with-salt. Although it's more salty, I think it's fermented. I use small bits (half teaspoon) of it in salads.

Thank you, Alexandra, for telling your story here.
It is your (I mean: your family's) life, so you make your decision. If you'll stay where you are now, or at Wheaton Labs, or somewhere else.

I hope you (Harry too) will continue to write a little, now and then, here on Permies.

I am glad my coffee plants are still alive, doing fairly well. But no flowers (yet).
If they need high altitude, they are in the wrong place here. I live at sea level.

Burra Maluca wrote:....

The UK in general makes use of weather stones, though they work best with a pinch of salt...

Here (and as far as I know in Germany too) there's a donkey with a tail showing those weather conditions. When I was young we had one of those, painted on wood, with a string as tail.

My father was a nature lover and he knew a lot about clouds. He tried to teach me about the clouds too. This teaching worked half: now I can understand what the colour and shape of the cloud indicates. But I still don't know the names of the clouds (like Cirrus and Cumulus, etc.). I can't describe it, but it's a certain dark grey for rain, and a different type of grey for snow.

Before it's going to rain there will be gusts of (cold) wind. You can hear it in the trees.

Here I showed, with photos, how I made my 'hay box', with all-wool cushions (click on the link):
haybox

Anne Miller wrote:...
This thread is an experiment with one:


https://permies.com/t/150474/kitchen/Experiment-haybox-pots

I see my 'hay box' is already here. Follow that link to read more.

Blake Lenoir wrote: Good morning friends! How's everybody? I wanna find out how I cure my sick plants in my gardens and saw the yellow in my potatoes also with brown leaves and and diseased spots.
Also saw some purple on my cabbage leaves and white patches on my leaves of my tomatilos. There's some more yellow from my Mexican Yam in my big pot. Any natural ways to save them from greater rot? Still don't know how I send pictures of my crops on this site, but send them to a friend who's a long time member of this site.
Please shoot back if you need me. Have a good day.

Hi Blake. In Permaculture the answer is often 'it depends ...' There is no easy cure. There can be many reasons why your potatoes have yellow/brown leaves. The same for the other problems.
The reasons can be too much water or too little, a lack of one or another mineral in the soil, a fungus, etc. etc.