M Ljin

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Youtube is different because it is less curated—anyone can upload something, without needing to have a profit motive, and you can skim through the commercialistic stuff. You won’t see Paul’s videos on any commercial TV channels, for instance. The ads are still nasty, but at least you can skip them most of the time.

I watch something on there a few times a week, usually one of Paul’s videos or something useful, but also use it for finding obscure or live music, which it is good at.
15 hours ago
I don’t watch TV and find it disruptive and obnoxious to be in a house with a TV on, especially after a long day when what I want most is to sleep decently, but instead have to bundle up outside in the cold and damp to get some peace and then make up for lost sleep by drowsing the next day…no fun at all.
17 hours ago
Another thought is that Solomon’s Seal is an herb that is considered very safe (used as food) and useful for joint and skeletal type issues, nourishing cartilage, and so on. I don’t have experience with them beyond having some tea and liking the taste, but I know someone who speaks highly of them.

Here is a site talking about their uses: https://www.whiterabbitinstituteofhealing.com/herbs/solomons-seal/

Judson Carroll has a podcast. I haven’t listened yet but will as I harvested some yesterday: https://permies.com/t/275015/personal-care/Show-Soloman-Seal-Sorrel-Clematis
19 hours ago
Have you heard of/tried an inversion table? I’ve a friend who uses that for a different issue with much success—it sounds like it could help un-pinch the nerves.

Edit: I think Jay said this before but didn’t use the exact terminology.
20 hours ago

Martin Mikulcik wrote:

Is aralia spinosa a suitable vegetable as well? I was picking the seeds but i have no experience with it other than an native ornamental



Aralias are all very different. Some are shrubs, like Aralia spinosa or Aralia elata. Some are gigantic herbs, like the spikenard group which includes udo and American spikenards. Others, like wild sarsaparilla (A. nudicaulis) are creeping subshrubs that look just like a low herbaceous layer except that they have little fingers poking up from the duff in winter. All of them are edible as far as I know, and Plants for a Future lists A. elata leaves as edible, but I’d recommend checking on the species for yourself before deciding to eat them.
2 days ago

jd hutton wrote: :)



…and what was this lettuce grown in?
3 days ago

Mike Barkley wrote:As Anne was saying ...



This is hilarious.
4 days ago
Instead of being mean to the person on the other end, why not try to convince them to try permaculture?
4 days ago
My favorite way to cheat at breadmaking is to make a thick batter of the dough, something too wet to even think of kneading, and pour it into an oiled or buttered cast iron skillet. Then I let it rise and bake it. This works with anything—einkorn wheat, rye, cornmeal, etc.

I haven’t made this kind of bread for more than a year, not eating grains. I made however a very delicious rye bread a few weeks back by sprouting, wet grinding, rising, and baking the rye grains, and found it wholesome. I’d like to get back into it but never going back to anything white flour, and likely going to have anything be well fermented and ideally sprouted too.
4 days ago
Thank you very much for the explanation! I didn’t know that there was so much history there.

There is one berry that is brown-ish, the Marquette grapes that ripened a few weeks ago. But they were even more of a grey than brown. I do wonder…
5 days ago