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Post by missouriboy on Nov 20, 2023 0:11:37 GMT
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Post by walnut on Nov 20, 2023 3:17:56 GMT
Let us know how that goes! That anatomical drawing is kinda racy...
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 15, 2023 9:05:04 GMT
As we approach the winter solstice, I was out checking the plantings around my urban homestead. It was 50F and sunny. Many of the garden plantings are still green, particularly the 1880s green onions that I transplanted from the old home place (the farm). From a few bulbils I now have probably 1000 ft2 where these guys are the dominate ground cover. They are hardy ... they reproduce ... and squirrels and rabbits and deer don't much care for them. They have spread mostly by themselves via the little bulbs that grow from the spring flowers. I'm approaching an edible landscape, as most of my summer flowers are edible ... as are many of the flowering tubers such as day lily and artichoke. I try to introduce at least one new edible perennial every year ... along with annuals. Had a fair number of small potatoes this year. I may plant some asparagus patches this year as I just got delivery of 8 cubic yards of a local compost and topsoil blend. If I have the strength to pickax the new bed extensions. The four apple trees are coming along well ... they are 8 years old and about 10 feet tall. The Hardy Cumberland has a particularly attractive branch spread. Don't know how long I could survive on all of this in a pinch ... but it is there ... and it is pretty as well.
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Post by missouriboy on Jan 12, 2024 1:41:42 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Jan 26, 2024 15:25:37 GMT
The daylily
aylilies (genus Hemerocallis) are a common flowering perennial in most of the lower 48. Native to Asia, these hardy plants that are commonly called ditch lilies can be found growing along roads, old house sites, lawns, and just about anywhere else. I love growing these plants for a few reasons—they require almost no maintenance, put up pretty blooms all summer, and they’re very tasty.
Almost the entire plant is edible year-round. You can eat the young shoots in the spring, the flowers, the flower buds, and the tubers. My favorite parts are the flower buds, the flowers, and the tubers. The young shoots are fine, but I’d rather leave them alone for the stuff that comes later in the season.
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Post by nonentropic on Jan 27, 2024 18:44:08 GMT
MB that's great but ultimately its the tastiness for sheep and beef that drives me, being a downstream vegetarian.
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Post by ratty on Jan 27, 2024 23:52:39 GMT
MB that's great but ultimately its the tastiness for sheep and beef that drives me, being a downstream vegetarian. #MeToo
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Post by missouriboy on Jan 28, 2024 0:32:50 GMT
MB that's great but ultimately its the tastiness for sheep and beef that drives me, being a downstream vegetarian. I agree. But I don't have a herd. I need to re-establish contact with a small sheep raiser I met some time back. Lamb chops in the freezer. The veg part is focused on edible landscaping. Urban foragers generally don't graze.
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Post by nonentropic on Jan 28, 2024 1:27:39 GMT
At University the flat of engineers next door had a couple were from farmer and having no interest in mowing lawns purchased a series of grass powered mowers being lambs. then of course became part of the diet.
Efficient I think.
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Post by missouriboy on Feb 2, 2024 22:03:34 GMT
Chicory is another of the old edible "weeds". Common chicory is native to much of Europe and western Asia, including areas around the Mediterranean. It grows wild alongside roads, meadows, and other locations with lots of sun. The plants happily thrive in loose, fertile soil or even poor, compacted soil. This species isn’t picky.
It’s become naturalized in other parts of the world, including North America. Chicory thrives in disturbed sites like railroad lines, roadsides, and old construction sites.
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Post by missouriboy on Feb 17, 2024 21:44:55 GMT
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Post by code on Feb 18, 2024 3:39:35 GMT
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Post by ratty on Feb 18, 2024 7:09:29 GMT
I'll add beef to the list of things I already have to avoid.
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Post by missouriboy on Feb 18, 2024 13:31:50 GMT
Beef products (mostly milk?) supported indo-european expansion across the Pontic steppe and western Eurasia. Theirs was strictly grass-fed "organic" beef. Our problem "May" be that we consume too much of it ... AND ... modern feed additives. AND, in most cases (?) our ancestors didn't live long enough to get cancer. But they may have lived longer and were stronger than their "challenged" cousins who tried to survive on berries and wild grain.
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Post by nonentropic on Feb 18, 2024 14:50:02 GMT
Those studies have been discredited.
The team of Med Profs who do the "carbsdownunder" clips have done the works its BS.
The most important thing to know is that grass feed builds omega 3 the saturated fats are good for you and the fish we eat from farms feed with things such as soy are worthless, only phytoplankton sourced feed generates high omega 3 fish.
I am skiing at Copper Mountain this week and can confirm that with age goes durability I am in bed at 9 and dragging myself out at 6 so this is the depth of my comment. Great skiing to be sure.
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