Hedy Parks

Hello all!  
this is only indirectly about cooking, sorry.
I am building a solar cooker and have a couple stainless steal pots/casseroles I´d like to blacken permanently so I can use them in there. Does anyone know a natural/non-toxic way to PERMANENTLY blacken them on the outside (so I can clean them without having to blacken them again)?

thanks so much for any advise...

Thank you all for the replies.
Just a clarification of what I would want it for: using the engine and hot oil when the sun is not shining, instead of using batteries to store the energy for those times. Not at all to replace PV panels.

Hello all. I have been (once again) looking for more detailed n updated info on the Stirling engine in Tamera, Portugal.
a few thoughts/questions I have:
-has anyone seen this with their own eyes and can attest that it actually works (and they don't have a battery bank providing the electricity that this SE is supposedly generating
-why don't they make the plans available, for sale or free? obviously they haven't been able to bring this to market and will probably never for economic reasons. But if the plans are available people could build their own and maybe even tinker with and improve the design.
-if all the off-grid people could use this instead of batteries I think the world would be a MUCH better place, from an ecological perspective (batteries are NASTY things)
-as I don't know these people in Tamera, I am starting to wonder if this whole thing is more about boosting egos than ecology?

ciao 4 now

Thank you for your helpful replies Gerry and Daniel  

Hi all, I am a lurker, most of the time. But as I am almost getting to the point to start building a cabin I am starting to sketch n think about an indoor rocket pizza oven.
Now my question is, if the RMH just has the barrel (not very heavy gage metal i guess) on top of the hottest point of the fire, the "rocket" part of the J, how long do those barrel tops actually last? What temps are the barrel tops reaching? This is so I can figure out how thick my oven bottom plate would have to be so it will last a couple of decades (or forever?)

thanks for sharing your experiences about durability, Hedy

Timothy, so far I like it. But I am hoping to see the long version soon. with the various lineages analyzed to form a good opinion.

Hello all interested in large farm permaculture! Here is a short article about Regenerative Agriculture, the new buzword

Interesting, very short evaluation of various "philosophies/practices"

http://www.ethansoloviev.com/lineages-of-regenerative-agriculture-short-version/

Hi Darren n Permies,

I was taking the last REX, the online farm planning course and highly recommend it to people who want to be become farmers and make
a living or those who already are farming/ranching and want to improove their business and life.
The course is a lot of work. But hey, Darren never told us it was easy, there are plenty who already have developed those "solutions"  
The Regrarian Platform is a very comprehensive and logically structured framework to guide the planning process. The Regrariansare a group
of knowledgable professionals who share in the presentations of the webinars. They are available to help each participant, review your work,
give suggestions and answer your questions. The Workplace is a great "members only" place where you can connect with current and past
participants and see how they deal with similar issues, be they at your stage or more advanced.

I could go on and on! But I just finish by saying, that I have finally found what I was looking for for a few years: someone who puts all this great
practices of Permaculture, Keyline, Forestry, Holistic Managemant, etc. together in a way that can be applied to farming without being Dogmatic!

Hope to meet some of you in the workplace soon, Hedy

Ron, if you have a farm size property that you would like to make a financially viable operation, I would highly recommend the online farm design course by the Regrarians (Darren Doherty). I just went through the last one and wow!!! Darren is a real expert on keyline design, but there are another half a dozen of experts in different regenarative agriculture fields that teach and coach different subjects. The course is structured really well where first the framework is layed out n then every part builds on it. so at the end you have a rough draft of a design, now what you know n what you still need to research and sooooo much information that you can keep coming back to. It is really a holistic aproach that gives you the tools to make a farm not just ecologically but also economically regenerative...

more info   http://rex.farm/
Scroll down to course description for detailed info and a more informative video

If yours is more of a small scale property it is probably not so valuable. The cost is a little less than 1000 $ and you can bring in your hole team, family, business partners, employees, invertors etc.

Sorry for not answering your question directly, but I thought you or maybe some other people might find this keyline related info useful.

Hedy