Sam DuBois

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I just bought the book, thank you! I hope to have my own composting cemetery when I grow up! Let's see what I learn about that with your book!

Fascinating! Several variables (climate, genetics, feeding...) and philosophical inclinations about being good to the little guys... Does Permies ever do a collection of data to make science out of it? I'm sure we all keep records with differing degrees of rigor, but a "meta-study" ought to be able to turn lots of anecdotal findings into data!

I think (therefore I'm probably wrong) the two groups will have to be significantly separate, because they will all tend to go into heat about the same time if they are "together". I think this means more than a fence between them! (And experimenting to see just HOW MUCH separation will make a real contribution to goat science!)

E Reimer wrote:I like turkish coffee. It's easy to make, delicious, and green. Just boil two cups of water, grind your coffee to a fine powder. Stir in 1/4 cup sugar and 1/3 cup of coffee, and a pinch of whole cardamom seeds (optional). Bring it back to a full boil until it foams, then remove from heat. Keep stirring and boiling until it boils without foaming. Let it settle and pour into turkish coffee cups (about the size of espresso shots).

Along with this international contribution, I made "café asustado" (frightened coffee) for my Dutch friend, and he said his mother used to call it "kettle coffee": mix the coffee into the water, bring it to a boil, let it sit till it's cool enough to drink, and the grounds will settle to the bottom. No need for a strainer - or you can strain it and you will find that most of the grounds are already on the bottom!

In the Amazon region, I learned that the gutters don't have to be 'way up there, hard to clean out, easy to hang something heavy on and pull down... they dig a gutter in the ground for the rain to fall from the eaves into. Then you can gather the water from all these little canals.

Not so little. I would say about a foot wide and deep. So, to avoid twisting ankles, you will want to cover them with some sort of grill, slats, sticks wedged across - anything to keep people from taking a plunge!