Honey Rowland

Would anyone be selling dried leaves? I'd love to get a few pounds.
Thank you!
~Honey

Ben Polley wrote:I raise black soldier flies in an insulated grow-tent in my garage. My climate is too cold to raise them outside, even in the summer (Alaska).

Do you have photos or video of your insulated grow tent?  I'd love to see the set up!

Scout Thornapple wrote:Hey y'all, please forgive me if this is posted in the wrong area. I received the devastating news today that my landlord wants us out  of our home by the end of march so he can sell our house. He wants to sell it for $500,000 which is of course an insane asking price, and I can't afford to buy it from him. I am going to lose a garden I've worked on for years, as well as four ducks, three hens, a rooster, and a goat to this because of the insane rent in Nashville and my seeming inability to go anywhere that will rent to me with the animals. I would love to buy a home, and I'm doing everything I can, but I'm currently a gig worker and it's really difficult to apply for mortgage loans. I'm still trying though, and in the meantime I am PRAYING that someone in this area or nearby can offer a rental or a rent to own that would be understanding of me bringing my ducks, chickens, and goat with me. I don't want to lose them, I raised them from babies. This is breaking my heart. If anyone has any leads please let me know. I currently pay $1000/month and can continue doing that.

Hey Scout.  I'm in Cookeville.  Where are you located?

Honey

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Joshua Myrvaagnes wrote:

I also asked for help from two other friends, one helped me to shore up the perimeter fence, and the other helped me actually implement this double hotwire idea.

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Joshua Myrvaagnes wrote:
I wrapped it around the regular posts from the poly fencing and twisted it off, I think it’s a half-hitch maybe? since the poly posts were already frozen into the ground in place.  I just took the poly mesh off.  I’d tried to put the metal wire on with the mesh still there but the mesh might move a little and contact it and then diffuse the current.

1. Would you be able to share a diagram or example of how yall did the double hotwire?

2.  It must be my migraine cause I'm struggling to visualize this.  Would you mind sharing a drawing of this also?

Honestly, if you'd send video I'd REALLY appreciate it so much!  

Thank you!
Honey

I don't know your comfort level but look for someone who is nursing.  Ask them if they'd nurse your baby too.  I've wet nursed many kiddos back in the day.  Also, ask any older women around you.  I've noticed there seems to be something with women in their 60s who still lactate.  It's very little but it is there and with a pump/nursing infant it could come back.

Make sure mom is not using drugs or alcohol or eats anything you/your babe is allergic to.

Also, there is a protcol with a shot and a nausea med that can be given to a mother to get her nursing again.  Trans women have been able to nurse their surrogate or adopted babies with the protocol.  
https://www.them.us/story/trans-women-breastfeed

It is easier on those who have given birth as the body has more prolactin or recognizes it and is more readily pushed into milk production.

Goat's milk has been a common milk alternative throughout history.  It is actually very close in composition to human breast milk.  I was told you'll want to give the kiddo b vitamins on top of goat milk as it lacks or has less of a certain one infants need more of.

Weston A Price also has a homemade formula.
https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/childrens-health/formula-homemade-baby-formula/

C Lundquist wrote:I have the white and snowflake blue patterns. (The snowflake ones are one of the original patterns and were only made 1970-1976)

I tested the snowflake pattern when I had my first kid (because I went around the house and tested EVERYTHING, especially things made before 1978, when lead paint was outlawed in the US). All the Corelle ware I have is lead free.

We tried different lead testing kits. The 3M lead tests worked well. Other brands we tried did not pick up lead from known leaded paint from our 1950 house. :S I only buy and trust the 3M ones now. They are more expensive, but I stretch them by testing a few things at once, rubbing only a corner of the swab on each item. The red is pretty bright and distinctive.

I am so glad I'm not the only one that tests things.

Something I learned from a pottery making person (the kind like the Ghost scene) back when I was pregnant with my 2nd was that depending on how pottery is fired can make it hard to use the liquid lead test kits.  She said if I have to use something I"m unsure of to make sure I never put tomatoes/anything that was acidic as it can leach the lead and concerning stoneware it all had traces of lead as clay naturally contains lead.  She also recommended I not use some Mexican stonewares I had as clay deposits in Central America had higher lead contents.  

Jay Angler wrote:
Be aware that if you test "A" for lead - and it tests positive - that still may not be the source of your poisoning. Based on the link above - make sure you haven't just identified a "potential small source" rather than the "big important source" - like the water you drink and the food you eat! Lead pipes and copper pipes that were soldered poorly with lead-based solders are more likely to give you lead poisoning symptoms than white plates with some colour on the rim.

THIS!!!  This is SOO important.  So many folks have no clue how much lead is in their drinking water.

I have old books I've been collecting for a long time.  2 years ago I discovered old books have lead.  The info in these books are....not affordably obtained and I'm working to convert the info into a safer use for us.  I removed them from the house and if I need to use them I take them outside and try to put the wind at my back, blowing away from folks.  

I've used galvanized fencing for a LONG time.  It's my only affordable option.  I don't grow food in, on or around it and I work to keep the grass and weeds trimmed around it so animals don't graze around it to lesson their accumulation and as such our accumulation.  I'd prefer to have lovely safe wood fencing but...yeah.  Affordability, accessibility and the county sue-ability is all an issue.  lol.  

I don't use galvanized metal containers for food or water.  I'm currently still using the thick black animal bowls though as I haven't been able to find a safe, affordable and doesn't become broken by pigs, animals or human oops alternative yet and would love any tips or advice if anyone has any.

Also, just a tip...if you check paint on dishes and it isn't showing up on the testers it doesn't necessarily mean it's lead free.  If you're displaying and not using I dont' see much worry, but when they're used and things start wearing...test again as you can't see it is wearing.  Also, wash your hands after handling display pieces as you can spread the lead dust and if you have a sensitive person that eats or drinks or breathes that in they could have issues.

I wish we could get pyrex and corelle to bring back all those cute old patterns minus the lead.  I'd love to have those mushrooms.

Alder Burns wrote:In climates amenable to it, bamboo comes to mind as another excellent material for such a fence.  It grows in large invasive patches in much of the South and other warm moist climates and is often to be had for the asking.....

This is what I'm wanting to do and started collecting bamboo I can obtain but keep finding alternative uses for it...and folks love trading bamboo trellis for seed.    

We discovered it while watching Liziqi. Her videos are peaceful and inspiring and kids and I have watched them all a few times now over the years.    This is her video over bamboo fencing.