Nikki Corey

I use mineral sunscreen (zinc oxide) on my face if I’ll be outside for longer than 20 minutes. There are no chemicals in it at all. It is greasy and it makes my face temporarily whiteish, but it is worth it to prevent burning, freckles, wrinkles and especially cancer.

I have family members that don’t burn and still get cancer. I think the Vitamin D conversation is interesting. The eye thing sounds pretty legit to me. But if my choices were getting Vitamin D from the sun only and possibly getting cancer, or using a good supplement and making sure to eat fat from grass fed animals to get dietary Vitamin D, I’d choose the latter. Chemo and radiation are certainly worse than swallowing capsules and feeling like I’m not being “natural” enough.
I also agree with covering up in the sun and I highly recommend researching astaxanthin and sun.

Crab apple jelly is my children’s’ very favorite kind of jelly!
And people are usually happy to let you harvest them for free as they have no use for them.
Seriously- it’s really good! My climate now is too warm for them and it’s sad.

I’d also like to add my vote for Creating A Backyard Fruit Forest 😁

I just upped my pledge! Thanks to everyone who is donating for all of the goodies!

I’m in zone 9b, so my toughest time for greens is summer. I’ve found three things (that are perennial in my area) which fill the heat gap for me and we actually enjoy eating: moringa, Chaya (my favorite) and sweet potato leaves. I have purple sweet potatoes planted as well as the ornamental bright green sweet potato vines. We sauté and eat both varieties. Turk’s cap, Malabar spinach and longevity spinach all grow well here in the heat too, but I can’t take the mucilage, so I keep those around just to look at (and my kids eat loads of Turk’s cap flowers).

I wouldn’t mind if the movie level ended up being a 3 or 4 hour movie. 😉 I’m (personally) especially interested in the RMH for a little bit of heating info but a lot of cooking info. (Not a lot of heating hours required in my climate, but I would love to figure out this off-grid, efficient and earth-friendly cooking thing.) Thanks for asking for and listening to input!

This my situation as well! I’m looking forward to the responses you receive… My biggest concern with the oaks is the enormous amount of shade they cast. I know there are some plants and trees that like shade (pawpaws in my area, as an example), but do I just plant everything else on the south side outside of the shade canopy?

Welcome, Alan! Thanks for being here.

I forgot yarrow. I think it has a lovely sweet honey scent.

Confederate jasmine, gardenia, citrus blossoms

When the citrus and jasmine are blooming together, my whole yard smells like heaven.