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Sorry you guys live in such hostile environments!!🫣 Mike

Rube Goldberg co2 bag! While exploring “the ingredients” and coming to understand the very simple process i gathered up some raw compost; heavy on the rabbit poop, and doused it with an inoculant to get things going, and used enough liquid humic to moisten the Mycos. The bag is sealed and...

Due to the relative “tightness” of this hootch, im putting together a little experiment. I’ve added a jug of sugar/yeast/water and have a real co2 bag headed this way along with a small monitor to let me see what actually develops? I say relative tightness knowing co2 is heavier than air so...

Today i set up the last new lights, adding another pair to the Cucumbers. So far i’ve got Mint, Comfrey and these cukes under them and everything is thriving with them dimmed to 50%. And almost non mentionable heat. Im especially fond of how light these things are, making them very easy to...

And, only folks who don't use chemicals can reap the benifits they provide! “Microbes function by way of teammates with one member unlocking another's potential” Jeff Lowenfells excellent book “teaming with microbes” is very good reading for anyone serious about upping your garden game. Of...

The dam is about to burst! And i’m pretty sure they’ll carry us thru till spring now! Mike

No, never; mostly pull apart with a fork. However, none are ever frozen at the start. Using this cooker, which we've had for years. Im not sure why i bought such a big one, probably for some lesser quantity canning? None the less; its become a “staple’ seeing use several times a week...

I never leave a roast in the pressure cooker longer than 90 min. With Rabbits i will bake them for 30 min @ 350 then pressure cook for an hour. Mike

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I bought some raffle tickets for a snow machine one time. The nice lady told me “they would call me on Monday”; she didn't say anything about having to win so i just figured i already won? Well heck, Monday came and went and that nice lady never did call me again! And i aint never bought a...

Im sick of the snow; EVEN IN JULY! That’s beside the point; i also cant abide store bought cucumbers so each fall i start a pot in one of my grow areas which usually last till Christmas. This year i started some more out in the shop this time back in November and they are doing well. I’ve eaten...

With our weather hovering on the minus side i should mention that i was minus 2 in 1949! You guys must really be old!

Woke up to an even minus 30 today but by morning it’s suppose to warm up - - to minus 20! In a day or so it will be snowing with a predicted 4-12 inches. None of the above thwarts my enthusiasm and the Celery & Parsley will go in the soil in a couple more weeks! Mike

I’ll just mention here that i got my GED at Ft. Bragg.🫣

Im old too so if there’s too many; i may have fallen asleep with the tablet on my lap and who knows after that? I really appreciate “some” of todays technology but from time to time want to treat it like my old friend Pierce did when the 51 chevy pickup got his goat while changing the GENERATOR...

Normally i’ll start 4 plants early in July, up stairs in one of the grow areas and they will produce until about now then we suffer thru till spring waiting for the greenhouse to start producing. This is my first year trying to keep them year round so this group was started 9 weeks ago. The new...

The wind broke the top half of this tree off last week so i have no problem running screws into her! And with an ambient of minus 18 i thought it a good time to knock together a temporary suet feeder. With 20/30lbs of trim (suet) left over from this fall’s yak/beef butchering i was starting to...

My second area is a little larger and where the bigger stuff resides. This section got a couple of the new LED’s as well; and about half of the retiring T-5 fixtures can be seen on the floor. Each of these LED’s give great light saturation over a 3 1/2 by 3 1/2 footprint. Over here the drivers...

Made some up-grades to my seed starting area’s recently. All the hardware’s in place and the lights are hung over the top shelf. In a couple days i’ll move the Mint and Comfrey which are on the lower shelf, then i can finish hanging the remaining lights at which point; “i’m open for business”...

Ive just finished this “Mother in Law” apartment (mini hive) or Nucleus as they are known. In the spring i’m going to populate my full size Top Bar Hive with roughly 6lb’s of bees with a queen. This will leave me a queen and a couple pounds of bees with no where to go - - so, this Nuc will...