Jackson Bradley

Nancy Reading wrote:

Nick Mick wrote:Ah, ok. Do you know what I should do to make sure I don’t lose access to permies?

You could try adding another email to your account - that is not from yahoo. I gather gmail is generally fine. Then if necessary you can log in with the other email. Hopefully the hard work behind the scenes to get the email issues sorted will pay off soon.

I had to do this too. Yahoo mail received messages just fine for a long time until a couple weeks ago. I added a secondary email while I tried some stuff with Yahoo. None of the things I tried worked.

I ended up having to make the non Yahoo email my primary email.

I am doing the opposite of the options given. I have a 24'x36' coop/run with 12x24 under roof and 3 sides on a 12x12 portion of the roofed part. The entire thing is fenced including the overhead area without the roof. I keep rabbits in hanging cages under the roof area and chickens below them. All on 12"-16" of deep bedding.

I close of a 12x24 section for broody hens to hatch eggs and raise the chicks at the time and season of broodiness. I have 2 6'x10' chicken tractors for broilers that I may incubate depending on broodiness.

I garden in raised beds and some on the ground. I use the deep litter for many, many things and it is really wonderful stuff. It is a tradeoff and I try to balance the animal welfare the best I can in the system. I plan to always have some layers in this system for the great benefit of the deep bedding.

I have to move the deep litter out and the greens in.

We don't have deer pressure due to our household being large and outside most of the day. Some of the household is very loud and so I guess it keeps the deer away. Everything is also very close or right up on the "house" we have. We do have a lot of predator pressure along with roaming dogs. That drove the initial setup that we have kept.

Ankarsrum dough mixer

This thing has been amazing. We did everything by hand for 4 years and once we got to doing bread, tortillas, pizza dough or a combo daily, we made the investment for this mixer. We don't have physical limitations, probably more time limitations with an 8 person household. We still have the kids mix by hand sometimes because they enjoy it and we don't want them to lose the "feel" of what it should be.

Life sized coyote decoy (or whatever local predator you have) on the roof?

We've had feral cat issues. It is unbelievable (to me) how many protections can be in place for them depending on where you live. We tried a bunch of things that were less than lethal and had some mixed results. I am pretty sure one of our neighbors feeds them.

Here, once they endanger your livestock, you can use whatever method you want to get rid of them.

Like most things, it has been a cyclical issue.

Nicole, do you have meat rabbits? Could be a great use for a rabbit pelt instead of leather. Glued to a backer of course.

We bought a new Jetta TDI 4 door in 2010. It was a great little car and we had it until 2020. We put over 220K miles on it and gave it away to a couple we knew who really needed a decent car.

The only issue we had was that there was a phantom draw on the battery that ended up being from the touch screen console. We got an old non touch screen installed and never had any issues. Never had any security issues.

However, it was part of the "diesel gate" scandal and I imagine part of what made the car so great was the VW paid out a bunch of money over it and we ended up with about 12k all together just because we bought that car and they did illegal stuff with the emissions. So that made the brand new car in 2020, like 8k bucks, technically.

We got 45+ city and 55+ hwy mpg. When they made the emissions changes, we lost 5-7 mpg on both of those figures. Somehow that just does not make sense to me on how that was better but I don't remember all of the details.

A TDI in an Outback sounds pretty neat.

My mom was in the medical field for 40 years and most as a nurse practitioner. I really treasure her and the amazing things she was able to do as time + experience = wisdom occurred.

I heard it a thousand times from her, in the stories, that the main thing she always told people, especially older people was;

A body in motion stays in motion.

Sometimes more specific exercises and such but most times, just that principle. Whatever that looks like for your life. Gardening, livestock care, walking fence lines, something more intentional, etc.

Js Home wrote: I would clearly disclose the AI assistance and would not present the material as personal gardening experience or expertise.

The thread itself would contain the useful information, with one main post and probably two substantive follow-up updates. There would initially be no affiliate links, paid offer, or promotional funnel.

I can't say for certain as I have only been around here for a year or two but my perception, from time spent here, would be that these forums may be the worst possible candidate for this type of material.

I think most folks, including myself, come here for personal permaculture experience/advise from others and to also share our own experiences in success and failure.

Using AI to help you get an outline together to share you experiences could be a helpful use of the technology but the parts I highlighted in your post do not seem to indicate that is the purpose.

Please clarify if I am incorrect on what I read.

Pork nachos!!! Tortilla chips, pulled pork, jalapenos, cheese and whatever else you like. This is the only reason I even go to the trouble of smoking pork shoulders.