Lesley Verbrugge

Sorry, I can't identify this, have you tried asking local people, who may know more?

However, I can paraphrase something on the subject of mushrooms, attributed to Terry Pratchett:

"All plants are edible, some, only the once"

To those readers who are unable to readily identify satire / irony this is not a suggestion to eat everything.  Some edible looking stuff is highly poisonous, hence you only get to eat it the one time.

I can vouch for this tool! Try to find one with a sharpening file included so you can keep an edge on it.

Thank you again for this post because as a result, I found the humanure book (I think I actually found it years ago and didn't get around to reading it !) I've been researching over a few years now, but wasn't 100% sold on any of the methods I found. The humanure book is excellent, and we've decided to go with his well explained, simple and effective method. I like the fact that there's no urine diversion, we can use bio bags, we dont have to aerate, the temperatures will kill pathogens and at the end of the exercise we'll have good compost for growing. We're going to give it our best shit shot and see how it works. The case studies in the book are really useful. That guy has changed the lives of so many people.

Thanks for posting this Jeremy, as our composting toilet is moving from way down the wish list to high up on the 'to do list'!

Hi Kate,
Would love to be considered for recipe testing.
I have an electric fan oven that can also use top and bottom heat sources without the fan. I also have access to a traditional 300 year old french bread oven although, as it's so big,  I prefer to fire that 'full' which means a day cooking a range of dishes on the falling oven, culminating in a traditional Normandie rice pudding (aka Tergoule) so, it's an infrequent happening.

Husband and I have enjoyed your off-grid kitchen book, and as he loves bread, I can't see him having any objections to this project!!
Regards
Lesley

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I hiked up a narrow trail to reach a high
school. Imagine! Teenagers learning permaculture principles, and I was their
lunch lady.  At first I served food from a box
but then they started clamoring for stinging nettle soup and
I had to warn them that the nettles don't go
anywhere tender, unless they've been cooked first. Their first assignment
was making nettle pie for principal Wheaton, but prankster Johnny
chanted "wheaton, sweet'n" and dumped a bunch of sugar in
a nearby wasps nest. Well, you can imagine the sheer
negligee the lunch lady was wearing, which made the wasps
giggle and titter, then go into swarming mode. They surrounded
the music teacher, huddled, then broke out into a rousing
, if a little buzzy and not well enunciated, round of
frisbee golf. They all could fly so they all won
the game. The students and scantily-clad lunch lady secretly
planned a surprise party for principal Wheaton with lots of
pie. Wheaton's love for pie was a mathematical constant, an
incredible 3.14--that's 3.14 pies per week--constantly. Never before
in the life of pie, was so much sliced by
a narcoleptic lunch lady and passel of permaculture students who
a text demanded my attention so I turned to look
at the view, while ignoring my phone. "This is the

dawning of the age of aquarius, the age of aquarius”

Received this as a Kickstarter reward.
Just wanted to say thank you for your generosity, it's much appreciated
Regards
Lesley and René
Sat on a rocket in Macronistan

Hi,
May I have a link please
Ta Muchly

Marisa Lee wrote:This is the year I'll ... And maybe I'll make capers from ox-eye daisy buds. Once I learn how to use a 'problem' plant, it bothers me less.

This thread and the one about the oxeye daisy has made me rethink both hostas and Daisies. I love the daisies, but they were taking over. Now I can't wait for the buds!! I posted a link in another thread, but here's a caper recipe for anyone who's interested!

eatweeds.co.uk oxeye daisy page