Alexandra Malecki

Minimum requirements for this BB:
- Cook 4 different things on an open fire
  - Wood fire on the ground - not in a grill
  - At least 1 item buried in coals
  - At least 1 item is cooked on a spit
  - Not a skewer on a grill

To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must provide proof of the following as pictures or video (<2 mins):
   - give the recipes for each 4 different things you are cooking
   - preparing the food to be cooked on an open fire
   - cooking the food on an open fire (using the methods required)
   - the finished cooked food (meeting the above stated requirements)

I stoked an open fire and used a shovel to move the coals to my cooking area. I don't prefer food with ash on it and I like monitoring my food without a bunch of smoke in my face.

First recipe - sausage
  Cut green willow to setup a spit. Move coals under it to prevent sausage from getting ashy or cooking too quickly. Turn every 2 mins, ready to eat in 10. Eat it straight. No utensils makes for faster cleanup.

Second recipe - sweet potato
  Move coals below grating. Cook sweet potato on grating for 60mins. Add new coals every 15 mins and turn the sweet potato after 30mins. Eat it straight. No utensils makes for faster cleanup.

Third recipe - russet potatoes
  Move coals below grating. Cook potatoes on grating for 60mins. Add new coals every 15 mins and turn the potatoes after 30mins. Eat it straight. No utensils makes for faster cleanup.

Fourth recipe - onion
 Cook in coals for 45mins, I didn't need to refresh the coals. Remove outer layers until ash is gone and eat it straight. No utensils makes for faster cleanup.

OR! I misread it because there's so much sand?

Take 2 below. do you agree with this?

I did a jar test of my soil at home to compare with the soil texture triangle. I'll admit that I don't really see the boundaries... but I did my best guess. I know that the differences between sand, silt, and clay are the particle sizes. I shook my jar test vigorously for ~5mins then let it settle for a day.

Does anyone agree with my delineations? disagree?

paul wheaton wrote:hugelkultur.....

If you wanna rent an excavator for a day, that's fine.

If, say, I go for a threefer (rocket season extender BB with straw-level hugel BB that also works for GAMCOD) I assume that I need to account for the rocket build expenses? Or should I just focus on the gardening expenses? Do I account for the fuel of an excavator that's free for me to use?

Thx

Dave Burton wrote:To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are:
 - set up a sink with a foot pump

To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must provide:
   - a before picture of the sink without a foot pump
   - a halfway picture through the installation of the foot pump
   - an action shot of the foot pump sink working
   - OR a 2-minute video of you doing this

Wow, this was a big one! I recycled a sink cabinet (plus sink and faucet) that I saved from a past renovation. I watched a few youtube videos and purchased parts. Hooking up the foot pump wasn't a big deal but figuring out where/how to mount the foot pump to resist the load and structurally reinforce the cabinet took the most work. I took a "halfway" photo but a few more hours into it I took a new "halfway" photo... it seemed that the halfway point kept changing as scope creep occurred.

I'm thrilled to now have a manual sink to bring to my friend's off-grid farm to enhance the sanitation.

Christopher Weeks wrote:There’s a BB for caring for volunteers in polyculture, right? It might work for that.

Yup, I already did that BB: https://permies.com/wiki/122923/Encouraging-volunteer-wild-plants-PEP#2933426

The clarification needed was about which aspect to count calories from harvesting the plant: foraging or gardening. Since the dock is growing in my garden then I'm going to account for it in the gardening aspect.

Not every single thing in the world fits a BB...

blasphemy!

I feel like it leans more gardening since it popped up in my garden and I've been tending to it. But I also recognize that a definition of gardening can be intentionally from seed. It's funny that it doesn't count anywhere though.

lol! Neither!

So then does it qualify for oddball?

I've been harvesting curly dock leaves on my .35 acre suburban home. My question is if the calories would be considered gardening or foraging?

Referring to:
Gardening: https://permies.com/wiki/126298/grow-harvest-calories-PEP-BB#1001271
Foraging: https://permies.com/wiki/150764/pep-foraging/Forage-Calories-Species-foraging-wood

I didn't plant the burdock seeds - so foraging not gardening? And it's on my property - so gardening not foraging?

Thanks for clarifying!