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Summary
Paul, and co. (Mark, Kyle, Katie and Opalyn) meet up to talk about a variety of topics in a grand overview of the empire.
Paul had a meeting with all the
boots to go through a list of all the things to do, which is now somewhat less scary thanks to Jennifer and
Ash re-organizing it. Operative word there being “less”, what with the spreadsheet being 800 rows long still. The item at the top of the list is currently “getting
water on the lab”. The well has been dug to 300 feet, provides 2-3 gallons per minute, and has good quality water according to the diggers. A 2500 gallon cement cistern has been installed along with it, much to Paul’s chagrin, and finally a
solar system is going to be installed to pump the water up into the cistern where it will be gravity-fed to wherever it’s needed.
Next up is building soil at basecamp. Attempts have been made to keep the
hugelkultur beds watered, but they lack a gardener to keep watered outside of one paddock, and with the roasting summer this year, Paul is concerned that they’ll dry up completely. On a similar note, there’s a
berm shed that needs a few hours’ worth of repairs to finish off. Katie appreciates that learning how to repair berm sheds is going to be a necessary craft, to which Paul brings up “The Good Life” by Nearing and Nearing, in which the two authors got completely and utterly sick of repairing wooden buildings and resolve to build their house out of stone and their own home-made
concrete in such a way that it would last 500 years. Despite their hopes, concrete won’t last anywhere near that long, unless you find a way to get Roman concrete that includes phillipsite and mix it with salt water. Possible, but not realistic.
Relevant Threads
Soil forum
Berm sheds
The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living
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This podcast was made possible thanks to:
Dr. Hugh Gill Kultur
Eivind W. Bjørkavåg
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Kyle Neath
Bill Crim
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Kerry JustTooLazy
Jocelyn Campbell
Chris Sugg
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Bill Erickson
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Penny McLoughlin
Mehron Kugler
Julia Winter, world's slowest mosaic artist
Pasquale DeAngelis
Greg Martin
Mark
Sean Benedict
Rita Bliden
Dana Martin
Candace Dahlk
Keith Kuhnsman
Eric Tolbert
Matthew Stone
Nuno Marta
Polly Jayne Smyth
Opalyn Brenger
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Eliot Mason
Katie Young
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