what are y'all saving from the wild to deal with coming crisis?

[Willowspirit]

Never thought myself to be super ignorant (just a wee ignorant), but I've never heard the terms of solar minimum and maximum.
I shall have to read up.


This thread gets away from me fast. Didn't read last few pages again.


Anyone have a water collection system?
We have a decent idea how we want to build one, but there's always tips and tricks one learns the hard way.

Wait till you read up on magnetic reversal.
And yep I need to do a rainwater collection system too. Hopefully it's not illegal.

We have an enormous water storage system but the pump was removed before we took possession of our property. I do want to collect water for filling them in addition to using our well. Just haven’t done it yet.

 

[Spiritsmeadow]

What is Comfrey? Looks like a weed, can people eat it?

gary

Gary comfrey, also known as knitbone in England, is an herb which is a vaso-constrictor. It has been thought of as the "crazy making tea" of the Royal English Kings...because it constricts the capillaries in the barn and also the kidneys and liver. It is not sold in health food stores because of this. Do NOT give comfrey tea or any other form to kids. I have used the tea as a poultice in an emergency to stop bleeding. I am a Nationally Registered EMT, and I know how to use it, otherwise I wouldn't suggest you use it for anything for people.

 

[HenOnAJuneBug]

IMO folks should at least keep in the back of their minds the possibility that we are entering into a period of colder weather. That's definitely something to be prepared for as much as possible because tragedy can strike swiftly in really cold weather; warmer weather doesn't present the same challenges and threats. There are a number of scientists who are beginning to think that we may be headed into some sort of little ice age-type period. There has been no significant warming in the last 20 years, and the last 3 years have cooled. So they might be right.

https://electroverse.net/nasa-predi...years-dalton-minimum-levels-the-implications/

"NASA is effectively forecasting a return to the Dalton Minimum (1790-1830) but gives no mention of the brutal cold, crop loss, famine, war and powerful Volcanic eruptions associated with it:

• Like the deeper Maunder and Spörer Minimums preceding it, the Dalton brought on a period of lower-than-average global temperatures. The Oberlach Station in Germany, for example, experienced a 2C decline over 20 years, which devastated the country’s food production.
• The Year Without a Summer also occurred during the Dalton Minimum, in 1816. It was caused by a combination of already low temperatures plus the aftereffects of the second largest volcanic eruption in 2000 years: Mount Tambora’s VEI 7 on April 10, 1815.

...

One Virginia resident recalled, “In June another snowfall came and folks went sleighing. On July 4, water froze in cisterns and snow fell again, with Independence Day celebrants moving inside churches where hearth fires warmed things a mite.”

Clothes froze on the line in New England, ice on ponds and lakes was reported in northwestern Pennsylvania in both July and August, and Virginia had frosts in August. The temperature occasionally got into the 90s, but then would drop to nearly freezing in just a few hours.

Crops that had managed to sprout were frozen out in early June, replanted, and frozen again in July. Very few crops were actually harvested, and of those that were, the yields were very poor. In turn, food and grain prices skyrocketed — for example, in 1815, oats sold for $0.12 a bushel but by the next year, a bushel would set you back $0.92."

 

[sourland]

Day lily roots/blossoms/leaves, clover leaves/flowers/seeds, thistle roots/leaves.

 

[HenOnAJuneBug]

Interesting stuff:

https://electroverse.net/professor-...lence-and-confirms-super-grand-solar-minimum/

"Zharkova’s models have run at a 97% accuracy and now suggest a Super Grand Solar Minimum is on the cards beginning 2020.

Grand Solar Minimums are prolonged periods of reduced solar activity, and in the past have gone hand-in-hand with times of global cooling.

The last time we had a GSM (the Maunder Minimum) only two magnetic fields of the sun went out of phase. This time, all four magnetic fields are going out of phase.

If the world was looking for an Epiphany moment, this should be it.

Even if you believe the IPCC’s worst case scenario, Zharkova’s analysis blows any ‘warming’ out of the water.

Lee Wheelbarger sums it up: “even if the IPCC’s worst case scenarios [of warming] are seen, that’s only a 1.5 watts per square meter increase. Zharkova’s analysis shows a 8 watts per square meter decrease in TSI [total solar insolation] to the planet.“

Forget the arguments, debates and attempts to win over AGW alarmists — and just prepare."

 

[trumpeting_angel]

Day lily roots/blossoms/leaves.

Which is good, because you can’t kill them no matter how hard you try. We have them growing where the excavator reshaped the hill behind our garage. They’re on the compost pile (blooming!). They are growing in the woods (after being dumped there).

I appreciate your comments, @sourland !

 

[Willowspirit]

Our horses grow crazy for clover. I wonder if it can be dried like alfalfa and stored for winter forage?

 

[DellaMyDarling]

Our horses grow crazy for clover. I wonder if it can be dried like alfalfa and stored for winter forage?

I asked such a few pages back.
I have a crimson clover cover crop I failed to keep in control.
Seed is cheap, goes long way, and I'm sure if tended correctly one can keep a pasture of this stuff seeding itself.
I have never attempted drying before now. Put a bunch of tied up bundles into upstairs of barn, on dark side. Hope it works!

 

[perchie.girl]

Red Clover can be toxic to horses if its infested with a certain kind of fungus
https://wagwalking.com/horse/condition/red-clover-poisoning

Not just that source but several sources I have read over the years.

deb

 

[Fishkeeper]

Be careful with lilies if you have or like cats. Every bit of the lily, including the pollen, is deadly toxic to them.