Lee Cason

I don't know if there is a time delay for how long it takes a profile update to be changed on the server. The link in the profile edit updates instantly, but photos I've published on both Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive are not working for me. So I thought I would try pointing to a permies.com link to see if I get different behavior.  I've tested all 4 of the published photo links below in incognito browser windows and they work OK.

Lee's Headshot on Google Drive
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eEKHKqyb-YU5fjLb8r5we3LuDzFX_1Ey/view?usp=share_link

Lee's SaveSoil background photo on Google Drive
https://drive.google.com/file/d/154Rm4D0tWmjVLgoeZm02Y5sH2MQN5qfM/view?usp=share_link

Lee's Headshot on OneDrive
https://1drv.ms/i/s!Aosi1mF1YKbkhn5QA4s6IdBz3to2?e=eMUegC


Lee's SaveSoil background photo on OneDrive
https://1drv.ms/i/s!Aosi1mF1YKbkhn9N-cRsVVMvl6m8?e=pwE439


Lee's SaveSoil background photo on Google Drive
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Lee's Headshot on Google Drive
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Well, I must be doing something wrong but don't see what.

Test Boot Camp icon image here:

@cujo Thanks for the prompt and helpful response to a sort of dumbly worded question. Your berry diversity sounds wonderful and I'm definitely interested in preservation. I owned a dehydrator once before downsizing and am looking forward to having one again, maybe solar-powered this time. After learning how yummy dried home grown tomatoes are, I didn't can much tomato sauce anymore. 😋

As a child, I visited a friend's cabin in the Virginia mountains near Skyline Drive. There were several homes on that particular mountain that had blackberries and raspberries shaped into huge plant walls that were so thick you could barely see through them. As I recall, they had grown to look about 8 to 12 feet high and probably almost as deep. I was hard to tell because they were on a steep slope that made them look taller than actual height.

They were useful in routing local bear traffic away from the houses, and provided a bounty of fresh berries to be picked for breakfast. I remember thinking that I would love to have a big berry fence like this one day. I'd rather see the bear on the other side of the fence than in my trash can or front yard.

I hope to start my retirement homestead soon, perhaps as early as later this year if I can find the right land and prices continue back downward. We depend on high-quality (organic or better) strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and blueberries as a very important source of micronutrients and antioxidants in our daily diet, so being able to grow our own is a top priority. We hope to grow at least one red and one blue berry. Raspberries and blackberries grow well in the wild in Virginia.

Strawberries used to be farmed in Virginia Beach more before houses became the invasive species. Every bird in Virginia loves blueberries, so they tend to become bird feeders unless they are under nets or in very large orchards.

As you probably know, store-bought organic berries are expensive, and here in Virginia Beach we consume about $60 per week just on these berries. And we do so gladly, because we spend $0 per week on doctors and prescription medications. Whole, plant-based food is our medicine, and we are looking forward to growing even better food, tending our own soil in the future.

Has anyone had success with planning out and executing successive plantings or other means of having a fresh berry harvest year round? I am hoping to be able to afford to build some climate-contolled growing spaces to cover the winter months if possible. I haven't tried to plan this out yet, and would normally do more research on my own before asking such a broad question, but this clever chance at a free berry book motivated me to ask now in this berries forum. 😊

Thank you so much! This is an important, excellent reference and I now want to learn all about what edible trees may be native to my area in Virginia Beach. The book suggests that the species currently cultivated are probably a small number of the species that are edible though not currently cultivated for that purpose. The world could use a whole new breed of "Johnny Appleseeds" planting edible trees and sharing that knowledge with others.

I attended a native plants workshop at a local farm and was introduced to southern prickly ash with bark that will numb your whole mouth if chewed. Quite an exciting experience.
https://www.riskva.com/fff/toothache_082317.html
Unfortunately, these trees are rare and the farm said they were hard to grow, often being taken out by woodpeckers.

I must be square in the center of the target audience. I'm a crusty old, opinionated IT guy that has been criticizing web pages since before there was an Internet, and I found nothing to dislike. In fact, I was so sold that I bought the course! I think you folks did an excellent job and that this is suitable to release.

Since the person wanting to learn how to make videos has a Windows 10 computer, I would recommend that you start there, with the software that they already have. Click on the Windows start menu and type "video editor" without the quotes. That is exactly the first thing I did the first time I wanted to try to edit a video file. I checked to see if Windows had a tool that ships with the operating system.

To my surprise, there was a built in app named "video editor" and it was intuitive enough that I managed to take a friend's collection of trail camera videos and combine them into a single file to upload on YouTube. I reposted the sample video just now for this thread

Since that one time in October of 2021 I haven't had a need to edit any more video files, but now see that Microsoft has produced their next video editor called "clipchamp". Both of Microsoft's video editors are documented here: Microsoft Windows 10 video editing apps

Here is the documentation on How to Create a YouTube channel which I will admit I have not read. I did try reading the documentation a year ago and found it confusing. YouTube is not the only game in town for posting videos, but it is the most well-known. Since I have almost zero experience posting videos, I'll let others more qualified address that subject. I will comment that even though I've been a software developer and computer infrastructure engineer, I find the whole YouTube channel creation and management user experience sufficiently confusing to keep me from wanting to learn more about it. So if you find the YouTube authoring experience confusing, that isn't on you. It is a somewhat complicated process and I think they haven't done a very good job of making it easy to understand.

Thank you daliyish for the discount code at the publisher. I just ordered for $106.27 including shipping, which is a substantial discount from other available sources. USD to AUD conversion rate helped the transaction favorably.