Levi Estone

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AN UPDATE TO THIS POST:
While most of Missouri is great, the southern central portion of Virginia is probably my top pick. It's just far enough away from people to have access to stuff while maintaining privacy, security and affordability. Check out the areas in and around Charlotte County, VA. As of writing this I am preparing to live as a nomad, I'll be doing vlogs on that over on my youtube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM8TD3xOXKFaguSmZJWxCTQ

Wild carrot is an edible with many small fragrant flowers grouped into clusters. Which, by the way, if you let a regular carrot bolt during the summer, they will have flowers just like this (to my knowledge). It is distinguished by it's hairy stem.
Poison hemlock is a toxic plant which, to the untrained eye, appears similar to Wild carrot.
The leaves are too simalar to be a distinguishing factor, I used flowers and seedheads in this case instead.
The hemlock seedhead:

The carrot seedhead:

Now the flowers, Carrot:

Hemlock:

Note: the hemlock doesn't have a hairy stem.

paul wheaton wrote:
Another problem is that newspaper/cardboard tends to not break down particularly fast.   And  since the mission is usually to smother something that is already there, it is placed in sheets.  If too thick, it could make a layer that cannot be penetrated by water or air - maybe for many years. 

I've never had issues with cardboard or newspaper breaking down properly.

paul wheaton wrote: Last spring I visited somebody's garden where an apple tree was doing poorly.  After digging around a little, a layer of newspaper was found about an inch under the soil.  It was about a quarter of an inch thick and had apparently been put down to kill weeds about five years earlier.  It killed the weeds.  And it was making the tree sick.  And it wasn't breaking down.

Seems like a post hoc fallacy to me. Further testing would be required to see if it would in fact damage the tree. I've also never had this issue, but I have seen apple trees dying due to poor soil drainage in heavy soils. This could be the problem, not the newpaper, which would explain why the newpaper didn't break down; no microbes where available to do so. Once again TESTING IS REQUIRED. Our speculations have no scientific merit.

Went looking for some cardboard for use in my raised beds in the backyard. Found a bunch in a dumpster behind a dollar tree. Cardboard can also be used as fuel for a fire (just make sure to remove the plastic tape!).

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Phil Stevens wrote:It's a pretty good proxy, but industrial activity not associated with dense urban areas throws it off. The best examples are the oil patches in western North Dakota. west Texas, northern Alberta and Prudhoe Bay showing the bright light from all the wellhead flaring. In terms of where you might want to locate a homestead, though, those places could have even more negatives than a big metroplex. So it's still a really useful map either way you skin it.

I have another post taking this into consideration....here

I decided against the two lots next to this area, since there is an HOA, which I am unwilling to put up with.