Crown,
That is one of the benefits of getting to know the area you live in on foot or by bike. Free food.
I discovered where most of the food/nut producing trees were in my area, by volunteering to pick fruit/nuts with a gleaning organization - a portion goes to the food bank, a portion goes to the org, to the home owner (unless it's the city/govt) and volunteers split the rest. Someone actually mapped every single food tree in the area in an online map: http://ottawa.hiddenharvest.ca/offer-or-pick/
Not sure if they have that type of org in your area, but I found it really helpful, esp to learn how to recognize certain trees.
HopeImReady
"The thing about smart mother f*ckers, is that they sometimes sound like crazy mother f*ckers to dumb mother f*ckers." -Abraham .”
Very cool Hope, What's been your favourite fruit/nut so far?
As far as my gleaning. I brought home my first pail of coffee grounds from work today. Going to try a leaf/coffee grounds compost this fall.
Not sure, maybe the seedless red/purple grapes? I find that variety is good, otherwise you get sick of the same fruit (tens of pounds at a time). We just did a pear tree pick today, and there are tons of apple picks in the next month or so.
HopeImReady
"The thing about smart mother f*ckers, is that they sometimes sound like crazy mother f*ckers to dumb mother f*ckers." -Abraham .”
We framed the new green house and installed the roof. It is 14' x 18' and will have a full south wall of 60" tall house windows and another at each end in the west and east walls as well. The missus has been finding re-use windows on the various bid pages in the area and most open and still have their screens.
It is 8' along the north wall and 6' on the south wall, so we hope the slope will be enough with the little snow we get here. This winter I'll be building raised beds using 2' wide corrugated metal. If I could ever figure out how to add photos, I would lol
picked up a Wagner 11 3/4" cast iron pan for $5 at a flea market...looks pretty good as is, but a bit of vinegar/water solution and some oil and it will be good as new!
Sweet Denob! I love cast iron!
We framed the new green house and installed the roof. It is 14' x 18' and will have a full south wall of 60" tall house windows and another at each end in the west and east walls as well. The missus has been finding re-use windows on the various bid pages in the area and most open and still have their screens.
It is 8' along the north wall and 6' on the south wall, so we hope the slope will be enough with the little snow we get here. This winter I'll be building raised beds using 2' wide corrugated metal. If I could ever figure out how to add photos, I would lol
Pictures are required, find a 12 year old to help you post them if you have too....its what I do when I have a computer problem. Its only hard to swallow your pride the first time, after that it gets easier, Kids know this computer stuff intuitively.
Give a man a gun, and he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank, and he can rob the world.
testing a link
maybe i have figured this out...?
That is without a doubt the best built and best looking green house I have seen.
Give a man a gun, and he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank, and he can rob the world.
Dangphool, one word, 3 letters: W O W! This greenhouse will be the envy of everyone for sure!!
I did some seed saving in the last few weeks. Not much, just some flowers and herbs, but better than nothing 🙂
HopeImReady
"The thing about smart mother f*ckers, is that they sometimes sound like crazy mother f*ckers to dumb mother f*ckers." -Abraham .”
The Excalibur has been fired up and will likely be running every day for the next 2 weeks.
Here is the first run of Sumac
I have already done one large 9 tray run of parsley and have another one to do as well as another smaller 4 tray run of sumac.
There is plenty more sumac in the patch I found nearby as well as a lot of herbs from the garden (the one thing that did well this year)
I will also be dehydrating other things from the supermarket as they come on sale such as celery, onions, leeks.
I also wanted to try making my own potato flakes...we'll see how that goes.
Finally added the hobo stove accessory to my Kelly Kettle Trekker (KK) which was not part of the kit when I bought it . I really like the KK for fast
boiling of water. I might also buy a larger version for the house so I don't have to use the ecozoom rocket stove for water boiling larger amounts of water , which would free up the ecozoom for cooking.
I ordered a Sawyer Mini Filter for get home bag / fanny day hike pack.
It looked better than the Life Straw brand. I might buy more when it arrives if I like it.
It would be a lot less weight than the katadyn pocket and the price is cheap enough to buy several of them. At home I have the Big Berkey
Bought loads of dry dog food, 4 cases of toilet paper 1ply.
