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That looks very effective! I would need a taller one myself! I could see filling the pallets with something like hypertufa or vermiculite concrete but that would be quite a messy project!

There are 2 kinds of pvc pipe that can be used to easily make an inexpensive frame over which plastic or even shadecloth can easily be draped. They have really great connector pieces too, from gentle 90 degree sweeps to 45 and 22 angles as well as Tee and 4 way connectors for the more advance...

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For those put off by the correct technical terminology, regular cultured buttermilk is your source for a type of lacto bacillus, and feeding it old milk you will throw out anyway is efficient... If you put a tablespoon of buttermilk into whipping creme you will make what the old French Chef...

It is always important to blow air.

We vary a little but mostly we wobble between 35-45 at night and 50-60f days across winter. It will get colder by 10 degrees for a week and then let up. And its wet season so a high humidity cold. A light jacket is pretty standard wear most of the time. For some reason in the last 2...

I know I should read up the thread to see what started caca pudding commentary but I am going to save it for those deep winter nights. This can stand alone quite nicely.

Pastuerizing is only 140f and easy enough.

Without the rubber bits that is a great setup to pasteurize compost with a fire. I did not realize how many pathogenic fungi and other beasties were hosted by the plants and grasses around my garden at first. It took a while for me to learn the hard way.

About 4 years ago I dropped 27 bags of contaminated black kow into the garden and suffered for 3 years. All you can do is till it to help it oxidize away and add lots of organic matter. Never again. Just reading. The lignin I learned about from an article on ramial wood at the dirtdoctor site...

Do not use pine for compost, rather burn it for char carbon. This has to do with the lack of Lignin in pine since lignin is a very basic food structure with unique properties for both the forest floor and the white fungi that Alice must have followed down the rabbit hole. Lignin is a none pine...

Oh please let it be a "Stuffing" of taxidermists. usage: There was a stuffing of taxidermists in the bar after the convention.

I have acidic clay in my garden and have found great improvement and efficiency in hauling all the leaves over and letting them compost in situ. I also burn dropped sticks and spread the ash and coals in the garden. Tilthe equals drainage in clay and that equals available Oxygen, one of the big...

BB is that you?

I think your iambic is lacking some pentameter!

This is on my wish list:

I have not seen the hanging method of barbacoa used on fowl, just pork. Very old school cool!