Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

this is another way to incorporate a compost heap within a raised bed, called keyhole beds
https://botanicgarden.wales/2022/06/keyhole-gardens-in-the-growing-the-future-garden/

It's very pretty but what I see is hundreds of pounds worth of wood to make the raised beds and lots of pointless cane weaving.

 

[Shadrach]

I didn't know this until just now
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...sidies-causing-environmental-havoc-world-bank
it is madness plain and simple

Yup, read about this before; lunacy.

 

[Shadrach]

my wife and i are seriously contemplating moving out of the US for a few years minimum.

have you ever heard of earth ships/cobb houses?

Yes. I almost built one. I built this instead with some help from local builders.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/byc-café.948525/post-22071698

 

[Shadrach]

I think we would be out of luck. Ac would take all the Solar power. I'm hiding in the house because it's almost 90f and wild fire smoke. The humdity is low though 40%

If you build something like I did (see link above) you don't need air con. It was lovely and cool at 100F+ outside and warm in the winter at below freezing. Granted it is built from natural stuff but to run it was very energy efficient.

 

[Shadrach]

Those are what they put cryogenically frozen brains in when they take them out of the freezer to wake them up.

You need to get off that pipe!

 

[Shadrach]

Thank you been a few days. As we age things may hot harder.
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I seem to be lucky and don't get most of the bugs that my family and friends get. Covid did catch me out but I'm still here. Glad you're over it. Being sick at senior age is crap.

 

[Shadrach]

This is the plot that the Russians have.
One of the things that has always puzzled me about BYC is for example, when people have rooster problems they listen to the advice (usually kill it) from the people who haven't really solved the problem; just got rid of it.
I try to take advice from those who can demonstrate they have experience and an end result that I can aim for. The women of the couple who have the plot in the pictures below would seem to know what she's doing, so I watch, listen and hopefully learn.
This seems to me to be a maxed out productive plot. No raised beds, everything grown from seed, no commercial fertilizer and organized well and planted more or less at the right time of year. It's a big plot.

 

[Shadrach]

Warm and sticky. Could do with a storm. Three hours today.
They are using the path at the back of the coop run more. May have something to do with that's where the feed bins are.

Mackerel and oats for supper.

Crop checking.

Ella found a cool patch.

On my plot doing a bit of edge weeding.

By my chair at the top of my plot.

 

[MrsNorthie]

It's very pretty but what I see is hundreds of pounds worth of wood to make the raised beds and lots of pointless cane weaving.

We used concrete blocks for the beds and chicken wire for the feed tube or keyhole.

 

[MrsNorthie]

This is the plot that the Russians have.
One of the things that has always puzzled me about BYC is for example, when people have rooster problems they listen to the advice (usually kill it) from the people who haven't really solved the problem; just got rid of it.
I try to take advice from those who can demonstrate they have experience and an end result that I can aim for. The women of the couple who have the plot in the pictures below would seem to know what she's doing, so I watch, listen and hopefully learn.
This seems to me to be a maxed out productive plot. No raised beds, everything grown from seed, no commercial fertilizer and organized well and planted more or less at the right time of year. It's a big plot.
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We have fire ants, so kneeling on the ground to weed and tend to the plants is not an option. We never had raised beds in Vermont, growing up, but we also did not have fire ants.