Roderick Bedingfield

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At least 20% of the populaton is a sensor (also called empath in popular literature)
This may have something to do with the feeling of becoming at home outside in 'nature'

A few of the many traits - Any sensor may have some of these

1: Crowds Overwhelm
2. Need calm residence and area tend to live away from dense city
3: Take on people’s energy direction and it drains them  
4: High level of intuition
5: Ignore their own problems - give too much to others (First things first)
6: Attract broken people set healthy boundaries  
7: Deep connection to animals and nature.

More info https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoFTGMslHQc

3 years ago
Green Beans can be kept and roasted whenever the wish arises
My experience is thst fresh roasted is much more rich and satisfying than dead coffee (dead = over 7-10 days old)
Also most generally available coffee is Robusta - less flavour - more caffeine problems than Arabica.
100% Arabica cofee may not be as disturbing as the regular cooffee and coffee that is 100% Arabica is usually marked as the Arabica bushes require more attention, crop lower and therefore are more expensive.
We pay $14 for a 2lb bag of greent beans (16 oz green beans is said to make 12 oz of roasted cofee - that's why coffee is often sold in 12oz packets)

Asher Yaron on how fresh roasted coffee works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaQNy0Ef4YY

More  info on roasting coffee on a frying pan bit.ly/realcoffeeprocess

There's a big marketing push for mushroom coffee and it seems overly expensive given the ingeredients.
I don't see why adding mushroom powder (eg from Paul Stammets site fungi.com) to ground coffee or to the cup of coffee is any different from making our own from the two ingredients - apart from the fact that some of the "mushroom coffee" has little to no mushroom extract in it.

Green beans should keep for a while.
(Asher Yaron talks about the best coffee he's tasted from Java which is aged 7 years before being relesed.)

Coffee (one of the major cash crops in some areas of the world) may be on it's way out.
Coffee is tending towards being grown at higher and higher altitudes globally as temperatures rise so the cost of buying lsnd and diminishing acreage for growing means that coffee will probably increase in price, disappear or be replaced by engineered hybrids eventually.

Coffee is not local so some of us find that a difficulty
Complete abstinence from all non local things could be fun but, where I live most metal is created elsewhere with ore from other countries etc. etc.
Maybe energy put into innovative mainstreaming of wiser ideas for improving nature's balance etc. has a more massive and long term effectiveness than being caught in a 100%er trap in any areas of change right now.


3 years ago
I regret that the first time I planted Dyno Kale in California I had 8ft high Kale bushes that prduced for a year and a three quarters (even when it was 120 degrees)
The leaves were so tender all through this time and could be cooked in a minute or two.
My regret is that after flowering I did not save the seeds - they would have been perfect for reseeding and sharing (hundreds of thousands of them probably).
Since then I found out that seed saving can work for hybrids ...

Varieties:
Purple Tree Collards
Merritt Tree Collard
Green Tree Collards
Dinosaur Tree Collards
Daubenton Kale
Jolly Green
Big Blue Tree Collard
Michigan Tree Collard

Anyway the greens you mention are more likely Tree Collards - which are believed to come to the US from Africa originally.
Here is some info about them bit.ly/treecollards
More on Edible Perennials (easier gardening and good for the soil) bit.ly/moredipleperennials

In the USA The Tree Collard Foundation are experts in cultivating and supplying many varieties of them
The cuttings take easily and last 7-10 years minimum
They produce all year round

Seeds are inexpensive and easy to grow into plants. but may or may not be the absolute best plants.

Cuttings bought from Project Tree Collard will be from the best plants - and will include the last season's latest improvements.
https://www.projecttreecollard.org

It says on the site that if you are involved in a school garden or charitable organization and need some tree collard cuttings or seeds, let them know and they will do their best to work out a discount on those items for you.
3 years ago
Not the inexpensive way and excuse me repeating some other members' comments here.

One person's recommendation from Elaine Ingham


Ocular Micrometer
10x Wide Field Eyepiece
4x 10x 40x Objective Lenses (20x would be preferable to 100x)
Iris Diaphragm
ABBE Condenser 1.25 Numerical Aperture
Adjustable/Mechanical stage
(Shadowing or Differential Interference Contrast Microscopy - NOT Phase Contrast)

Another mentioned local schools and universities for a good deal on these kinds of microscopes
https://www.mushroomexpert.com/microscope.html

3 years ago
Here's one I found recently

Permaculture is a permanent culture
in the sense of
a permanent cultivation
of our human territory

That is our bodies
including our psychology and
the physical territory that we call land

If we're actually getting ourselves back to the garden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76fReiwnKzM
by moving forward into something new
This entains me https://www.perelandra-ltd.com/A-Garden-as-Defined-by-Nature-W71.aspx|
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhsf3S7Zalo&t=80s

I also love
"Maximizing the harmonic interplay with nature."  from Valerie Dawnstar's DH
3 years ago