William Wallace

This is a beautifully detailed video about the construction methods of old.  The commentary really brings in a ton of understanding also

This video is better than I had expected



Is that a hand stacked wall?

This video is more steel, but they used a bunch of wood for support.  Not sure where to put this video

So there were only five deaths during all of this, which is odd to consider when we can see the dangerous work in less than ideal conditions.  This is big pieces moving around at a height that is deadly on its own accord.

Yes this building is metal, but they accomplished much with brick and wood

These type of disposable fabrics might be a place that microplastics are created in large number.  

Points for overalls

My opinion is that people having symptoms should do a DNA test and run it through geneticgenie website to find your genetic predispositions.

I found that I am MTHFR and several other things.  

Open Office or Libre Office are my choices.
There are much better options than gimp, but you can do anything your want with gimp.

These days for image editing, just upload it into chat gpt and see if you can tell it what your want exactly. The newest update is proficient now most of the time

There's is a hiking trail in Israel that works together with Bedouins to house people with their village several days.  I am not sure the status of this trail, but these hiking trips would be an easy way to integrate with them for a short term, and see how they would travel.

OH it's the Jordan trail, and that's not exactly the safest place for tourism currently, if I remember correctly.

EMF sensitive?

Have you heard about the large area inside the USA where there are no cell phone towers?  It's called the national radio quiet zone, and is around 13,000 square miles across three states in the east.

If my family member had a critical illness or EMF susceptibility, I would try to get them to go to this zone.  Even things like cancer and such, I would send them to a place with no radio interference to see if their body improves. It should be a simple quality of life test.


https://youtube.com/shorts/g9CzyVdVCEM?si=LdIvJc1G4pVJPHRv

Here's the video which piqued my interest six months back in November.
https://youtu.be/VWJBAGrG0ms?si=XdEij_Z2dWclRqkn

Saw this interesting way to throw clay.

https://youtube.com/shorts/Q-AOwMPpRQ8?si=ueJlSQlg3F8nq-iP

This is a new way to make pottery, with a mop bucket that isn't very expensive

Add that to the info contained in the free pdf, "handy farm devices and how to make them" for almost everything you need to create a farm.  I really enjoy the list of tools that one needs to build an entire farm also.

ETA:  didn't really know what section of the forum pottery would go into.  Please move if needed

Compost with coffee grounds, fruit scraps, and pine needles can lower pH like you want.

Peat is also a fairly cheap thing to work into your soil for long term acid.  If you can get wood chips or sawdust from pine or oak you could put it into your soil.

OH, chat gpt had a nice suggestion of pine bark.  This might be simple to harvest in some areas from down trees (where chips and sawdust needs processing).  If you find the right carpenter or sawmill, you might have a free source.  This source is a bit more sparce since people started creating all of the burn bricks from sawdust and paper.  

The product EM1 has helped me, but I don't grow berries.  I enjoy that I can stretch out the EM1 almost indefinitely by brewing it with molasses.  I use a tiny submersible aquarium heater and a stock pot from Walmart.  Then the effective microbes mix that I am culturing goes into a half gallon milk jug.  Instead of burping this often, I only fill the milk jug halfway, and then collapse all of the extra air out of the mill jug.  I squish the liquid all the way to the top.  This provides a huge amount of expansion, taking much less tending to.

I love the squished milk jug trick for culturing effective microorganisms.  The last concern is juts a weight to hold the jug so that it's not floating.

This process sounds like a pain, but I enjoy the thought of being able to make more and more of the stuff, similar to how people culture their own yogurt from the last batch.  HOWEVER, the guy with the most knowledge about this stuff says that the product from the store is better than he can make, because it's a known quantity.  Cultures are going to mutate in ways that we don't know, as it is influenced by many things local to the environment.  He suggests not going past a few generations of brewed cultures before starting off again.

The culture you brew is called EM-2, once it has matured.  Going to 5 and beyond you start to see slight variences.

But yeah, thanks for joining my mini Ted talk today

Edit to add:  it's called Stretching, but the process is also how they suggest you activate the em1 before use.  You can use it straight out of the bottle, but this way gives a nice boost.