Christopher Weeks

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I steward 20 acres of Cromwell Sandy Loam in the north woods of Minnesota. I clear birch and aspen as needed to plant food sources.

I always have more projects going than I can keep up with which isn't really awesome but I don't know what to change.

I vote for Libertarians and Socialists because they know what it means to have principles and that matters more to me than the exact details of what they believe in. I'm a gun-toting vegetarian. I write code for cash and grow food because no amount of cash will buy real food these days.

I have a wife, two kids, two grandkids, and three cats. I've never had a dog, but I'm thinking about changing that. I hike, garden, read, play games, code, cook, spin and knit, putter, and play at arting.
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Carlton County, Minnesota, USA: 3b; Dfb; sandy loam; in the woods
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We bought this in 2007. After a few years the safety mechanism that prevents it from running without the base and lid properly aligned broke and we faked it for several more years with a wad of paper shoved in the sensor on the bowl's handle. Recently we upgraded and threw away all the broken parts with the intent of rehoming the rest of this good stuff. I have the instruction manual, the motor base and all the cutters -- all in seemingly fine shape (but almost 20 years old), but not the bowls and lid.

If you want this, PM me an offer that includes you paying shipping.
20 hours ago
I'd like to know too. And I'm trying to figure out what to do about exposed decking (with maybe less rain than Wales).

Welcome to Permies, D!
1 day ago
I think that within a month of the first general-purpose nano-assembler being made, all of ecology will be lost and permaculture will be moot. We'll either survive the experience or, more likely, we won't. But the transformation wrought on the globe will be so great that everything about the way we think today will be obsolete.

Maybe we mean something different when talking about nanotechnology?
2 days ago
Are you meaning to count only purpose-planted decorative roses or all the various wild roses that grow around here? I have thickets of rose where I'm not even sure how to tell which stalks are distinct plants.
2 days ago
It looks like they're using orange nylon baling twine, which seems like a curious choice.
3 days ago
I don't review all the movies I watch, but for the last several years, my wife and I have been trying to watch, rate, rank, and comment on all the best picture nominees. We watch each film, then rate it on several categories using the spreadsheet depicted below (showing 2024). And my wife writes about the movies on her blog.
3 days ago
I'd start by searching for a "folk school" or "makerspace" in my area and read up on what they offer. Those two phrases might get you started if you don't already know them.
5 days ago
No idea!

I own a DeWalt battery chainsaw and it gets the job done. I wouldn't buy it again because of philosophical differences with the parent company, but it seems like a fine saw. And it's the only one I've used. I'd reflexively buy Greenworks today to be on the same battery platform as my other new tools and someone here (John, maybe?) especially likes them.
6 days ago