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I sometimes spend hours reading about rare plants or ordering weird seeds online. I am interested in growing exotic/unusual/poisonous plants. My Desert Rose (Adenium Obesum) seeds had a germination rate of 100%, pretty cool. These desert plants have a poisonous sap that, if consumed, stop your heart. Some african tribes use them to poison their arrows.

>watering my cannabisplants
>left my growbox half a day without ventillation
>come back home and see 99% humidity
>plants have lime on their leafs
>everything is back to normal
>see that arround the plant itself its still wet and arround the wet spot everything is dry
>check moisture on the bottom of pot
>its >80%
what to do? pot size is 5 Gallon / 20 Litre Cannabis in sprout stage a little over a week, soil is pre-fertilized. Did add a little guano fertilizer before the ventillation failure. Watered with 180ml

>>2724900
and also, which humidity should be near the bottom of the pot?

>>2724900
>>2724901
It's probably fine. You can trim the lower leaves and branches to lower the humidity at the base

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Planted 2 acres of corn last week

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wheres that tree

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>>2725422
Along with a side plot beside the corn field that has rattlesnake pole beans, squash, okra, cucumber, a ton of cantaloupe (put half my seed direct sow and half are in starters, probably not warm enough yet for direct sow but im experimenting), zuchini, pumpkin, turnips and radishes, taters, and onions

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>>2725424
Plowed all of my furrows with this 1944 Farmall A tractor. Walk along rows and drop seed in then come back along with the under-body plow and covered the seeds up

>>2724375
Have you ever looked into Poison Hemlock? The leaves are very very cool, smell interesting, and the flowers and pleasant. Grows all over the place around here and I let a lot of it grow up because I think it is pretty

>>2725426
one of my favorite children's books a kid was about an old red tractor, kind of like that, i would say it was a Fergusson, but not sure, was probably the first book i read all by myself.
if anyone knows the book, post it hell yea

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Should i just remove one of each of these pairs? Bell peppers. They grew in the cell together and i neglected to thin them but they seem fine.

>>2725432
>Fergusson
Ferguson (single 's') is a brand of tractors, named by their constructor.
In Poland in 70's (when we were still forcefully assigned to the 'red' side of the political world), for reasons unknown the socialistic government decided to buy a license for these and the state companies started manufacturing and selling Ferguson tractors.
This ended up in a total mayhem in farmer's garages as well as farm machine repair shops, for these f***ing tractors had imperial sized bolts, screws, axels etc. and if any part broke or got loose and got lost, it was virtually impossible to find a replacement.
The machines worked fine, but once a fault occurred (and 50+ years ago all the machines were not as reliable as they are now), it was a nightmare to repair.

>>2725450
Peppers do better as a pair

I'm wanting to build an earth ship out in Terlingua or Marfa Texas due to the complete lack of building codes. The problem is that very little grows out there and there are no aquifers so I would have to rely on rain water alone. I was thinking of buying 40 acres. Is it doable? I don't expect this to be easy or something that will be set up in a day.

>>2725547
If you collect rainwater from most of your property then it might be doable. Dig a bunch of trenches to guide the rainwater to a holding pond and pull your water from there. You should build something over it to prevent it from evaporating and check the annual rainfall for the area. Expect to collect less than half of the water.

>>2724375
Neat

>>2724900
checked. need pic to help more
canna dont humidity above 50% after germ.
how tall is the one you talk about? 20 l sounds a lot.
also that 20 l bucket is dif to water and 180ml is just shite. show more from your setup also state what light you use.

>>2724900
Put a thick layer of straw over your soil to reflect light away from it and prevent moisture loss.

>>2724900
>sprout stage
>5gallon container

Start in a solo cup and progress to larger containers as the roots develop. Where do you think the water in the bottom is going to go if the roots can't reach it?

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>>2724333
Speaking of bio char, spread most of my charcoal out, now in the process of covering it with compost, very dry lately though so it's an absolute dust bowl, though that makes the compost really easy to spread as it's so light and airy. Ran my sprinkler over the spread material for about 45 minutes last night, and it just sponged it up no puddles at all.

anyone have resources on how to keep ELK off your fucking property
>shoot them

they have rfid chips in their ears and are protected by the government. any time one of them sneezes some government employee goes to the location to check on it. I just want them to stay the fuck away from my fruit trees.

Blackpill me on beekeeping

Does anyone here actually homestead or is this LARP central?

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>>2726571
I'd be on the more optimistic side of actual homesteaders and those that dream of homesteading.

>>2726571
You've got several anons ITT posting pics of things they grow, one on two acres.
I'm sitting in the tropics planting trees for the last two years.
>>2726441
If you're in the americas, honey bees are an invasive species.

dogs killed my last rooster. I’m in city limits so would have trouble if I stay up and shoot the fucker but I built a big ass trap for it. Also putting in for a suppressor for my 22LR.

>>2727917
Avenge the cock, Anon. The blood of hounds must nourish your garden.

>>2727917
Xylitol is a water soluble natural sweetener which is completely safe for human consumption (and quite sweet) however it's extremely poisonous for dogs, as little as 0.5g per kilogram of dog's body mass will usually cause acute liver failure, higher doses practically guarantee death.

Does code require you to build houses of "engineered" wood instead of real wood?

>>2727917
Get a rooster that can kill dogs. Maybe a Malay.

>>2727976
The have collars but they've been coming on the property for a while now shitting in my garden. I almost caught them in the trap but I left the hotdogs out and they ate the whole pack instead and then took a gigantic shit on my potatoes.

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>>2728858
here's the photo.
You can see the one in the back is mid-shit on my potatoes.

now I have to build a rail for the door. Did you know a shitty 1/4 inch aluminum channel from home depot is 15 dollars? 2 of them costs more than all the wood I had to buy, how does that make sense?

>>2726373
>shoot them
>with a paintball gun
ftfy.
Eventually they will associate your land with pain. Just make sure the government never figures out where all the rainbow elk come from or you're screwed.

>>2727917
>>2728858
Buy a motion activated sprinkler

>>2729212
no water or electricity back there.

>>2729336
The sprinkler is battery powered. If you can get a reservoir of water and a battery powered pump over there then you'll be good to go.

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>>2727917
like >>2727981 said, xylitol is your answer
i don't wanna kill things, but when shits a problem, it should be solved

I bought a home with a creek last spring. In the summer the mosquitoes were awful. It was one of the hottest summers on record so I figured it was a fluke but this year already walking outside I am bombarded with mosquitoes.
The creek is about 150 feet from the house and it is fed by a reservoir at the school where they release the excess into it whenever it gets too full, so the creek usually is just a bunch of standing water. We had two really heavy rains that caused it to overflow a lot but now it’s all just standing pools in there and now we swat off a mosquito per minute when outside and they are sneaking into the house and getting us at night even.
Am I fucked or is there anything I can do?
It got so bad last year that to go out after dark I had to wear my bee suit. I had walked out without it at first and was swarmed like literally 50 biting me in a span of a minute and now they’ve detected mosquitoes here with zika or west nile or one of those. Dunks don’t do enough and I don’t even know how to fog that much i’d need a fog truck. it’s 6 acres with the creek right through the center and lots of trees and vegetation.
also they evolved and there are the biggest mosquitoes i’ve ever seen. we had the zebra ones but these ones can feed THROUGH clothing.

>>2729791
Drink a bunch of vinegar and they'll stop biting you. Make switchel and drink it constantly and you'll never be bit again. You can also try keeping ducks or ibis and encouraging dragonflies to breed near you.

>>2729791
There are several things you can do.
One is revegitate, certain shallow rooting plants will just drink all the surface water, they're known pond destroyers.

But this might have a significant impact on the volume of water in the creek.

Another option is to try and boost the number of animals that eat mosquito larvae. Some native fish might pond hop, there are frogs etc.

Are electric tractors viable?
On the one hand, a conventional tractor is cheaper if bought old and used, but it also makes you dependent on big oil and if SHTF, you're pretty much fucked. Moreover, the pollution from the tractor might contaminate your food, air, and water.
On the other hand, electric tractors are more expensive and their reliability hasn't been confirmed yet, it seems.

>>2730012
If you have enough money then electric everything is recommended.

>>2724333
Nice thread

>>2730262
Adorable. My broody girl has a clutch of eggs that are getting ready to hatch and I can't wait.

>>2730012
I've thought about getting an old tractor and converting it to run on ethanol. Grow enough corn or sugar beets to make alcohol for fuel, and stock several years supply of lubricants.

>>2730012
Machinery will make you dependant on one kind of big business or another anon.
Do whats cheapest for you, any kind of serious economic problem isnt going to be fixed by using electric over diesel.

I'm getting a lot of pressure from the wife to start keeping a few chickens. I've done farm work before and know what that would mean, and I will be doing all the work. She knows a good amount about this, but has not had experience. Likely she will be at her job and I will be doing the animal care (scheduling just works out that way).
This would be a residential, backyard situation. They would have space inside a large coop which is part of a detached garage used as a shed, and a connected chicken run outside that we can move.
It's been a while since I've worked with chickens. How much cost to feed 3 or 4 hens? Any easy to forget tips before starting out?

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>>2731177
Hens eat roughly 1/4 lb of feed per day. I buy the organic feed because it's mostly grains and non-organic grains are often dried using glyphosate. It's about $26 for 40 lbs or $0.65/pound which translates to about $0.17 per hen per day. I pay a bit more than that because I ferment my chicken feed with apple cider vinegar and greek yogurt and I add garlic, cayenne pepper, and crushed lump charcoal to their feed to improve their health, the egg quality, and the quality of their manure. Once you have a good culture established you can stop adding the vinegar and the yogurt and just use feed from the previous batch to ferment the new batch. Hopefully I'll be able to grow enough peppers and garlic this year to feed my chickens all of next year and that will cut most of my costs and I can work on making my feed from scratch. Here's a good guide on how to do that.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/wholesome-home-made-chicken-feed-without-sweat-tears-a-calculator-or-deep-pockets.78655/

As for a tip, if your city doesn't allow roosters and you have issues with hawks then you can paint eyes on something or buy a bird scare like pic related and move it around your yard a couple times each week.

>>2730012
Best SHTF tractor is a workhorse. Runs on gras and hay, multiplies, isn't dependent on any industrial parts or fuels, has all terrain 4WD, pulls ploughs, wagons, logs etc.

Is there an area of a red state that doesn't drop below 20 in winter/over 90 in summer, has water, is naturally green, and minimal natural disaster risk?

>>2724333

>>2731301
Thank you, this was helpful!

>>2731545
No problem, anon. Good luck with your girls.

>>2731449
No.

>>2731080
>>2731174
Alright. Thank you.

>>2731449
Congrats on your new home in Appalachia, the poorest and least desirable area of these United States.

What do you guys think of all the small/local farms and home gardens that are being shut down in the US and Europe?

>>2731925
if they dont comply with regulations, then they get closed. If they comply with regulations it gets expensive. But the big companys are somehow able to survive, arnt they?
So in total, they need to step up their game if they wanna keep their farm, some middle aged farming techniques with old ass machines doesnt work today.
Same as jobs are being laid off because people dont wanna educate themself.
>dont educate yourself somewhere else.
Its easy being lazy and reap the same rewards as someone who does R&D.
Our whole land is contaminated with nitrate, it stinks everywhere, its bad for the soil in the long term as the bad parts of shit go deeper into our water thus why water treatment facilitys need to up their cleaning capacitys. Its like to clean up after yourself.
The planet is not yours, you cant do whatever you want, you can on a small scale as a hobby, but as soon you get money, there will be people watching.

Anyway, why are the small/local farms are being shut down from your point of view?

>>2732096
>Anyway, why are the small/local farms are being shut down from your point of view?
Greed, of course. Possibly Agenda 21/30 conspiracy where they intend to prevent everyone from growing their own food so a large portion of the population dies of starvation while the rest is forced to eat bugs.

Your post is confusing, btw. You list these things big corpos do but get away with, then blame small farmers and hobby gardeners.
Organic small farmers (such as the Amish and others) don't use the synthetic fertilizers contaminating everything; they don't need to. Neither are they trying to cheat the system someway; people are simply willing to pay more for the health and quality of their products. Yet they are the ones getting targeted and forced to sell their land for cheap.

>>2732096
>$1 shopping credit has been deposited to your monsanto-fanclub membership card
Small farms still feed more than half of the world population with much less land, industrial inputs and funding. They also keep the genetic diversity of our crops and domestic animals alive and are generally less harmful to soil, water and natural ecosystems.
Small farms have just been taken out to remove competition for agrochemical cooperations. All regulations and laws are written by their lobbyists. They are trying to even make exchanging your own seeds illegal ffs. You already need a loicense to sell seeds and it needs to be from registered variants. Supporting this is suicide on a civilization level.

>>2724900
Weed bad

>>2732839
So true

>>2731925
I think that it's being intentionally done by corporate agg to simply help their bottom line by destroying what is essentially a small business. Exactly what's happened to other kinds of small businesses, regulated into the ground.
Culturally farming is an undesirable job, the children of farmers are ingrates that have no desire to work hard and pass the family farm to future generations, they just wait for their parents to die and sell the farm to pocket the cash.

>>2734433
>>2732543
Mostly these but >>2732096 has a few points. Most small farmers refuse to learn more agricultural science or change their practices. This tendency towards stagnation contributes to small farms being shut down because they end up destroying their soil and they can't absorb the loss like big companies can.

Hello
I've been growing various sprouts in pots outside and they're getting devoured by snails and slugs
I don't want to use pesticides.
I've tried some diatomaceous earth but the weather here is so rainy, the earth get soaked right away.
The space I have my pots in is shared with some neighbors and one of them have this tray full of withered plants that is also fill to the brim with snails. I have moved this tray further away from my pots for now.
I feel bad about killing them myself cause I find them cute, but picking up all of them to drop them somewhere would just move the issue, though my sprouts would be safer.

Am I retarded for feeling bad?
There is a lot of field and forest around my area, should I drop them there anyway?
Should I summon my inner french and cook them?

I have a bokashi bin, if I kill them, do they decompose well in that?

>>2725424
>>2725422
Nice depleted dead dry soil faggot

>>2734691
Crush up some egg shells and scatter them over the soil. They'll stop moving over any soil with the egg shells on top because the sharp edges hurt. Look up what plants repel slugs and snails and grow some in small planters that you can put in between your seed trays. Pick something long lived and hardy like mint or chives. Dropping them in your bokashi bin is fine, but the shells probably won't finish dissolving by the time the batch is ready. I have a friend who swears by beer traps, but it would be hard to use them to protect your seedlings. Good luck and don't give up, anon.

>>2725547
Google The Field Lab. The guy recently died but his over decade blog is still up and he posted everyday. His earlier entries are gold for ways to survive out in the Big Bend.

I do know that he would pump water out of the creeks during rain events. He never ran out of water.

>>2734710
I'll try the egg shells
I wonder if applying sand on my pots would also work, or sand paper
I"ve noticed my plant on my higher pot aren't as damaged
So basically I have to make a whipeout trial to reach my plants if I want to go the pacifist way

>>2734691
>>2734766
Don't bother with dumb shit like copper, egg shells, cinnamon and all that other slug repeling stuff that does nothing.
They hide under pots, stones and any other shady, moist places, take a knife, look under those and cut any slug you find in half, do it a few times and you won't have a slug problem anyone, 1000% more effective than anything else.

>>2734766
>I wonder if applying sand on my pots would also work, or sand paper
Give it a try with a few pots and see which ones get more slug damage. You can also use crushed oyster shells which you can buy in bulk at any store that sells animal feed. It should be near the chicken supplies and a 50lb bag should cost about $20.

>So basically I have to make a whipeout trial to reach my plants if I want to go the pacifist way
Pretty much. Once you take them outside you should use trap crops, intercropping, slug/snail traps, and put down eggshells, oyster shells, or sand if it works. Using multiple strategies is always more effective than using one, but you could experiment by sectioning up your garden and using different combinations of strategies to see which ones you find easiest and most effective. While you're there you could pick up some chickens or ducks to help eat your slugs and snails. Nasturtiums are a good trap crops in general and they act as a natural dewormer for birds so allowing your birds to forage in your nasturtiums could eliminate your need for traps and you'd get a free deworming treatment at the same time.

>>2734769
>>2734774
I dropped 2 of them in water to drown them but after 10-15 seconds of watching them trying to reach the surface to breath, I've decided I wouldn't be living with that kind of guilt

I took a box, taped it so they wouldn't come out of it and gathered about 30 of them in
then the next day I dropped all of them behind my work office
Office isn't in a completely urban area and the place I dropped them has a bit of greenery
I'll keep relocating them until there isn't as much near my pot and I have the money to get some abrasive surface to stuck on my pots

>>2735536
Solid plan. Let us know how it goes. Good luck, anon.

>>2734696
I couldn't help it being dry then, it hadn't rained in a while, but it is definitely not dead, I amend it with compost and cover crops after season. Seethe harder nigger

>>2735555
If you add biochar to that compost then you'll help increase the water infiltration and holding capacity of the soil more than you would with just compost. That could help get you through when the rain doesn't cooperate.

>>2726176
whats the plan behind this & what are the benefits?

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wife and I bought 10 acres in 2022. she designed hoose/floorplan, had it turned into official blueprints. construction began June 2022. sold old hoose (fully paid off) may 2023. moven into new homestead June 2023.

so far we have:

planted 30 trees. at least 20 of them are fruit trees.

built barns and enclosures for livestock (chickens, ducks, turkeys, guineas, quail, rabbits, pigs (sold), and dairy sheep.

2x frost free heads installed 175ft from hoose. one at livestock, one at orchard.

3 seperate irrigation systems for berries, trees, and other garden areas.

cattle panel arbors installed in raised beds for tomatoes, peppers, melons, squash.
built a "solar shed" from scratch, using leftovers from hoose construction.

mounted 2500w PV on shed roof, 12k charge controller/inverter & 300AH battery storage.

DEEP water well installed w/ Grundfos10 effecient pump.

2 EG4 12,000 btu HVAC mini-splits w/heat pump.

3 wood burning stoves. one in Great Room. one in Master Bed. 3rd is wood fired oven/range in kitchen.

basement is already stocked with canned harvest from 2 years prior, and 3 years of freeze dried foods.

Building and acquiring wool processing equipment.

it's a GIGANTIC project, having just been here one year, next month. it's nowhere NEAR what we want it to be, but it is amazing how far we have brought it in 12 months. each day we further improve upon it.

well... there's my blog. my apologies.

>>2735601
NTA. There are a lot of benefits to amending your soil with biochar. It improves the texture of clayey soils, improves water infiltration and retention, holds nutrients, indirectly helps to buffer pH, increases the number of soil microbes, ect. Charcoal is considered uncharged biochar, which is what anon put down, and it can suck up nutrients when applied directly similar to wood chips. Applying it with compost or manure will mitigate that. Charcoal can be "charged" by soaking the charcoal in compost/manure tea and optionally adding beneficial microbes, which is the ideal form to use as a soil amendment. It also has benefits as a livestock feed.

>>2735634
Living the dream

>>2735637
i understand the use of biochar but why cover the ground like that with it?

>>2735682
That's how you amend soil without tilling or digging. Eventually worms and such will move it into the ground

>>2735634
sounds like a great setup anon. re:
> it's nowhere NEAR what we want it to be
it's a lifelong process. you're lucky if you don't have a year where some crop or group of animals doesn't go to shit, so you're always pivoting or improving or delaying. it's what you make it though so there's an incredible amount of freedom in what you can do if you have the funds to do so. my grandparents were still caring for chickens, picking apples, and cutting firewood well into their 80s.
just do what you can, maybe look into a side hustle of selling whatever your homestead produces, and enjoy the process. keep us updated.

>>2728211
he thinks well be living in houses!

>>2729020
idk what ur building but u can get dirt cheap or free materials from construction sites that are knocking down old buildings

>>2729791
stop mowing lawn and throw food scraps all over. ensure as little edible food as possible is thrown outside. just mostly the greens of carrots or roots of onions etc. once ur lawn grows to natural there will be more biodiversity and insects and birds that will predate the mosquitos

>>2731309
>workhorse
Why not an ox?

>>2737185
You have enough resources to feed and upkeep?

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Anons is building a small house that difficult? Unfortunately im a worthless suburb fag so I don’t have any experience with construction. Would it be better to just continue to save and buy a small structure or prefab house or some thing?

>>2738357
Depends on what kind of house we're talking about. If it's a fully modern one, with plumbing, sewage, electricity, heating, etc., it can be quite difficult a single person to build.
On the other hand, a simple house with foundation, walls, and roof, maybe a chimney for heating? It is simple enough that you can learn from reading and watching YouTube videos.

>>2738357
>>2738392
There are also public forests in USA where you can get logs for free to build a cabin (though you may need a permit).

>>2738395
What to search to learn more?

I understand that when harvesting rhubarb you don't want to take too many stems else subsequent ones will grow more slowly, but how many is too many?
My current practice has just been to leave them three stems per crown and harvest one when a fourth develops, though I've no idea if I ought to be allowing them more.

>>2738509
No idea. I simply saw mentions of it while reading about log cabins, land management, land clearing, etc.
Try googling it just like that and see what comes up.

>>2738627
>>2738509
>>2738395
https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/forests-and-woodlands/forest-product-permits

You know google is free, right? You can just put in any search term and see what comes up.

>>2731301
>non-organic grains are often dried using glyphosate.

I didn't realize that the big brand layer and broiler feeds were dried using glyphosate until very recently. I've raised chickens in the past with the same feeds and used the manure just fine, but things must be different now. My hens are a year old but have been given this for roughly 6 months, and the non organic straw we use for bedding has never caused issues when used for mulching strawberries, etc.

I had been wondering where the toxicity was coming from for so long.

>>2738631
>>2738627
Thank you much

>power cut
>python discord bot venv gets reset
>5Ghz wifi network gone
Kinda weird but not too bad
sad my uptime is gone, i was al smost 300 days, wanted to make it a year

>>2724333
> 2 months ago got rid of my blackberries and dropped a thick layer of walnut leaves+cardboard+bark mulch on it.
> no plants
> fucking great
> step on it to put some pots on it
> 100000 spiders
fuck this. I am so fucking close to getting a flamethrower why the fuck do I have a spider infestation now.

>>2739704
lmao

>>2729791
Bat boxes. Three bat boxes is enough to eat all the mosquitos.

>>2731177
I run my chickens in a chain link dog kennel with a sun screen over the top. I fill it with wood chips I get for free from the landfill. They make good compost out of that. When it starts smelling, just add more wood chips. Use some for your garden in the spring. I have a rain barrel on an auto waterer and today I’m building an auto feeder like this

https://youtu.be/nnCCyh5ftPA?si=qCK6VjckJ6fdl9pr

Test

>>2740227
That's practical. You should consider adding crushed lump charcoal to your chicken feed. It improves the quality of their manure and decreases the odor while improving their digestion which can increase feed efficiency.

>>2729791
>>2740221
Hummingbirds also help to eat mosquitoes

>>2740353
Interesting. I toss the ash and char from my fire pit in there too so they can scratch and spread it around. Didn’t know they’d eat too.

I forgot to mention we give them all our table scraps too. So they get plenty of greens and such as well.

>>2740371
Personally I think it's better to compost ash, but whatever works. I give my chickens crushed charcoal sifted through a 10 mesh screen at a rate of 2% of their feed weight. When they forage more and their manure becomes two toned I use half 10 mesh and half 1/4" sifted charcoal. The larger size makes it stick in their crop with the grit and it's dispensed as they forage. Mixing it with their food helps encourage them to eat it. You can find better information if you look up biochar feed additives.

>>2740386
Well the chickens are my composters. Before I drop new wood chips or leaves or whatever I’ll clean my fire pit and spread the ash out.

>>2740416
Fair enough. That's basically sheet composting which is what I'm going to start doing in my garden.

>>2740535
Your autism tells my ADHD that we shouldn’t be garden center business partners.

>>2740556
I appreciate your eloquence

>>2740566
I appreciate your ordered logic. My personal countenance can’t survive in such an environment. But, I appreciate it from afar.

>>2725450
I chaos planted peppers and so far they're growing great as bundles of 5 or 6 plants

wife's folks came over so she let the ducks out without telling me.

She didn't put them away and now we have no ducks.
Told the kids they fly away when all grown up.
Predators seem to be really bad out here.

>>2740682
Rough.

I moved to a bad area. I guess it explains why every previous person lived here for no more than a year. literal swarms of thousands of mosquitoes. the house is right outside most of their search area. will have one or two on you every time outside but you walk 20 feet back towards the creek and it’s over. it sounded like i was getting a buzz cut.

>>2740735
Can't you bury it or something?
So often think it would be nice to have water on their property not realizing the downsides, whenever I see someone doing some sort of standing water here I know there is 90% chance it'll be filled back in 2 years at most.

>>2740740
It's fed by a cite reservoir.
Whenever it rains they release pressure and it causes the creek to flood, then it dries and pools. Makes for a mosquito hell hole.

>>2740735
>>2740748
Get some mosquito dunks and tie them to a weight so they don't float away and toss them around the area

>>2735536
you have to drop a bug in soapy water to kill it fast

>>2740798
I once dropped a tick into a dixie cup of rubbing alcohol. It walked around the bottom of the cup for ten minutes before I lit the alcohol on fire. Then it just walked around to slow metal music.

>>2740804
Ticks are on a whole other level. I poured pure dish soap on one and it crawled around for minutes while I kept pouring more soap on it.

>>2740740
If I build a pond, would mosquito-eating fish plus a nest for mosquito-eating birds nearby be enough to control mosquito population, or would mosquitoes still come out of the pond?

>>2741082
It probably wouldn't be enough. A water feature to keep the surface disturbed would work, or you could toss in a mosquito dunk every now and then. Hummingbirds eat mosquitoes too.

>>2741123
Thanks

>>2741154
No problem. Try everything and if it works then see if there's anything you can cut.

>>2741082
It'll help but keeping a pond simply takes work no matter how well you prepare it, just like lawn or veggie garden, sometimes you'll have to clean it up or throw in something to kill some sort of pest like mosquitoes.
As long as you understand it and you are fine with putting effort into it then go for it, just don't assume it'll be maintenanceless once you dig it out like some people do and end up regretting digging it out.

>On a dry weight basis, earthworms are typically composed of 65% protein, 14% fat, 14% carbohydrate, and 3% ash
Holy shit, is this true??
65 grams of complete protein for every 100 grams of worms.
That's a lot. No wonder the jews want to make big profits by making everyone eat ze bugs.
Would you eat ze bugs?

>>2741568
>65 grams of complete protein for every 100 grams of worms.
dried worms*

Worms are mostly water. This is like being surprised how much protein is in beef jerky or whey protein.

>>2741573
Ah, you're right.
Then fuck jews. TKD.

>>2724333

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ALL FUCKING OFFGRID/LARPING YOUTUBE CHANNELS ARE FAGGOT GRIFTERS

THEY ARE EITHER BOOMERS/GEN X TRUST FUNDIES FROM THEIR PARENTS, TRUST FUND KIDS OR INHERITED A HUGE SOME OF MONEY OR BOUGHT PRE 2010.

https://youtu.be/4_W6MSyTCO8 [Embed]
https://youtu.be/YNATdFzbe8E [Embed]

>We live in this cabin on this land we bought and built it on
>forgot to mention it costs 250k and we inherited the money from our parents

EVERY SINGLE FUCKING TIME. Why does a youtube video about a stupid fucking cabin get 3 million views and this faggot acts like its nothing?

BECAUSE THAT'S 3 MILLION PEOPLE THAT WISHES THEY HAD A FUCKING CABIN AND REALIZES ITS UNOBTANIUM SO THEY WATCH A YOUTUBE VIDEO.

NOBODY GETS PAID MORE THAN $20/HR IN WEIMERICA.

ALL LAND COSTS 10K/ACRE MINIMUM IN AMERICA STOP FUCKING LARPING.

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ALL HOMESTEADERS ARE KIKE GRIFTER TRUST FUND BABIES

Anyone here trying to homestead in the desert? I would love to hear how its going...

I just finished fencing my property and now I guess my next project will be digging swales on contour. Also need to get some shade trees planted to help cut down on the wind

Desert homestead is hard lol

bumping soley to piss of more minimum wage faggots with no desire for self improvement

>>2743100
I don't think they know or care

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finally got some goats

>>2740735
I live in a literal swamp and have almost zero mosquitoes on my property. It's probably my free-range landrace chickens that keep the mosquito population down. They're constantly in the swamp, walking around in the water and eating things

Just get tough chickens and let them live outside naturally like their junglefowl ancestors

I haven't had a single tick on my land or any bug problems since getting chickens 3 years ago

>>2743233
How many chickens do you have? I got a small flock for pest control and grasshoppers are still eating everything.

>>2743539
Last count was ~50 adults

>>2743646
I don't have nearly that many. I have 13 hens, 6 chicks, and a rooster. Do you have an enclosure for them or do you let them find their own places to sleep?

>>2743650
I have a coop for them but the door is always open and only mothers with young babies ever choose to sleep in there. The vast majority of the flock sleeps in trees at night, which is the safest place for them

Over the years a variety of predators have tried catching them during the night but they just fly away. Confined birds on the other hand are dead when predators show up

Tree roosting is superior to an enclosed coop. I've been doing this for 3 years now and have not lost one chicken in a tree

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>Remember, if women don't find ya handsome, they should at least find you handy

>>2743781
Owls aren't a problem? Maybe I'll have to encourage them to try it. I'm worried that they might freeze in the winter because it's very cold and windy where I live.

>>2743781
Nice, not losing a single bird is impressive. Do they still go into the coop for laying eggs or just hide them out in the brush?
I've been thinking about how to keep some myself. Have seen a coop design where the entrance is at about 2m high with a free rolling perch in front. Chickens can fly up, perch and go in but everything that could jump that high hold on to the perch and just rolls off. A farmer had that one out in his apple orchard for insect control and they required very little care.
Was thinking about building one like that to give them a homebase, but allow them to stay out if they really want to after a while.
Theres a local landrace breed many people keep that is quite small and slender and a good flyer. They should do very well like that.

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Its gonna be HOT all next week. Im in a 4b climate. How should I prepare? Extra watering?

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>>2743828

>>2743821
>Do they still go into the coop for laying eggs or just hide them out in the brush?
Typically when given an easy option most chickens will choose it. I have several nesting/laying sites I've made outside and I'd say 95% of eggs end up in these locations plus the coop itself

There's been a few times over the years that a hen shows up out of nowhere with new chicks, so even on the rare occasion they make their own nest it still works out in the end

>Theres a local landrace breed many people keep that is quite small and slender and a good flyer. They should do very well like that
I would strongly recommend that whatever you get camouflages to your environment

>>2743835
How do you make outside nesting sites? Like just a little nestbox that they can go into? Would not have thought of that, sounds easy and useful, thx.

>camouflages to your environment
Yeah, I'm inna jungle and these bird look a lot like wild jungle fowl. People have them free ranging all over the place here.

>>2743850
Any wooden box, or even milk crate, stuffed with leaf litter. I use pine needles personally, and get most of my nesting boxes from thrift stores. Little cabinets and stuff like that

Just make sure they're comfortable, in a safe, calm and easily accessible location

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gonna call this bundle michael myers, 'cause i can't kill it

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Seed jar for the summer. Gonna collect seeds everywhere, don't care what kind, then toss them in my backyard come ~october. should be cool enough then to toss the seeds and just hope some of them root and break up my dead sandy clay.

grabbed some palo verde seeds and clover flower heads at a nearby park the other day. now i just need thousands more.

How do I even go about finding property for sale in the complete middle of nowhere? Do I just ask some realtor wagie for help, or look online for plots of land? The only property I'll ever be able to afford is gonna be ridiculously rural to the point where I don't even know how to begin finding out who owns it in the first place.

>>2744335
start by searching the following
>(your county name) county assessor
>find the gis interactive url
>click it
>get used to your county's assessor page, literally every single county is somehwat similar and different
some states are built differently than others. in southern nevada, clark county actually has one of the best gis systems in the country. i say that not as a hyperbole, but as someone who has completed some due diligence projects in ca, nv, az, ut, nm, idaho, wy, and or. clark county nevada's page is great, you can search properties by any metric. address, owner name, owner address, parcel id, you get the point. california is the most restrictive regarding property info. generally speaking, finding the owner name and address is more difficult than other states. i recall having to make quite a few calls to assessor offices just to clarify basic shit for CA projects.

https://maps.clarkcountynv.gov/openweb/

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>>2744342
ty anon

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Buddy's wife is afk this weekend, comin' on over in a bit. Trading him a jerry garcia necktie for a good agave, dealer's choice. got thirty jerry garcia ties, but only two agaves.

>>2742933
Checked

I have some desert property I’m in the planning stages on. If you have any washes you’ll need to handle those as well.

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>>2744414
>I have some desert property I’m in the planning stages on.
Same. I've been roughing it on the property for awhile, saving money and learning about my soil (or lack thereof) and how water moves across the land. I think I finally have the layout put together, minus the well and septic location.
I love the desert, so underrated.

>>2744447
How much land do you have?

>>2744458
5 acres

>>2744460
Oh. I have a bit more than that. Is it flat?

>>2744468
>Oh. I have a bit more than that.
in the desert?
>>2744468
>Is it flat?
its about as flat as flat gets

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decided to use my firewood for raising my backyard soil, instead of fire. now i just need roughly two entire pickup truck beds full of more yard trimmings. neighbors started giving me some tree trimmings and bagged grass since i let it known im just using this shit to raise my soil. once i get enough in the summer, i just pick up more composted manure and apply. the yard trimmings REALLY help keep the manure in-place, particularly with frequent 30-40 mph winds.

any yard trimmings except oleander

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>>2744469
Yeah I have 70 acres. I’m not sure how I’d work 5. Maybe something like picrel.

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and this is what a engleman's prickly pear flower looks like. they usually stay open for like...three days maybe? a lot of desert flowers close up once they get fertilized. they dont really stay open very long to look pretty, unfortunately.

savour it while ya can, i guess. more constantly grow, no big dealio. only got one flower going right now, finished a bunch of pruning on the main cactus. next season, this thing is seriously gonna be covered in new growths and flowers

>>2724333
Got two sets of goats from two different farms: Lot of 5 and lot of 2.
If I decided to test them do I need to test all 7 or the youngest from each lot or one from each milk line?

>>2746088
test them for huwhat?

>>2746134
CAE, CL, and Johnes

>>2734691
Put out a pot of beer. They're attracted to the smell of hops but can't swim and will drown.

>>2734696
You work with what you got. In my case it was a year's worth of compost tilled in. I would like to put up a dyke around the garden though that will allow me to fill it with a lot more stuff and it keep hold of it unless the rain gets real heavy, but I don't wanna drown it.

>>2724333
How does /out/ innoculate their biochar?

>>2746292
Usually I just feed it to my chickens. When I want it separate from manure I make compost or manure tea and soak the biochar for about a week. After that I drain out most of the water and stir in a mycorrhizal inoculant then I let it sit overnight.

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>>2744335
i googled cheap land for sale and bought some land in the ozarks for $1k/acre. there are no jobs here but since my house is paid for my bills are like $300/month. kand has went up but i know where you can get 1/4 acre plots for $895 each. buy 4 and make an acre homestead

>>2724333
Interesting thread

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>>2744564
bermuda appears to be encroaching closer to the 150°F rettaunng wall. i wonder if placing logs displaced haete

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>>2749309
last photo update for today. just my uh, main, vegetative waste dump area mix with sand and composuted manure.

the black rotting banana is visible on the right-side. it is now like a black...pencil-dildo cracker

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>>2749311
all righty. i collected a ton of mature clover seed heads at a park yesterday. whatcha think guys: throw the seeds in my backyard now, or wait until october when we have double-digit temperatures again?

>>2749579
The cooler weather might be better for the seedlings

>>2749579
Red clover or white clover?
Red clover gets annoyingly tall in places you mow, white clover is much better for a lawn.

Do half before lower temperatures with rain in forecast and then the other half in october, if you are lucky with weather they might establish themselves now.

>>2749598
funny you ask. this was the first time ive seen entire patches of red clover. most is red, some on my way back to the car is white. sounds like hold on to the clover. its fuckin hard to find clover in ANY store. ive got a couple small white clover patche sin my backyard, but theyre staying small.

>>2749612
It's not that bad but it'll grow much taller than white clover and is significantly denser making it harder to mow

>hard to find clover in ANY store
White clover is sometimes used in cattle pastures so try wherever they buy their seeds, they usually sell those in 10 kg or 25 kg bags tho.
Some gardening stores (at least here) have it too.
You can also try online if nothing else works.

>>2749614
>It's not that bad but it'll grow much taller than white clover and is significantly denser making it harder to mow
did not know that. i may actually want to focus on collecting red varieties now. again, vegas. im terraforming my backyard piece by piece, so ill basically take anything strong. red clover sounds good.

>>2749617
ah, forgot to add
>when i go to parks or see some commercial landscaping with seeds i like, i grab some
>i rockhound, so i always have a lowes bucket, trowel, rock hammer, and some sort of scooper in my vehicle
>i go out to dinner with visiting family, outback steakhouse has some red bulb flower green grass succulent i forgot the same, seed bulbs are mature
>on our way out, i unlock the car doors, everyone gets inside, i open the trunk hatch, grab a handful of mature bulbs, toss in Lowe's (you're gonna love the way you look) bucket, drive home

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>>2744941
fruit update. still a fruit.

>>2749617
Try sweet clover if you are fine with tall and hard to mow stuff, biennial, it can grow up to 1.5 meters in second year, even 2 meters rarely.
Very drought tolerant with massive tap root and extremely pollinator friendly, flowers from mid May to late September (at least here where I live) producing a ton of nectar, they are always swarming with bees during good weather.
Yellow sweet clover starts blooming a week or two before white sweet clover best plant both of them.
I got mine from pollinator friendly seed mix years ago and it has been regrowing from previous year seeds since.

>>2749617
I'd recommend crimson clover. It's beautiful.

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What does this pale plant look like? Its been light deprived.

Can wheat and barley be cultivated near eachother without crosspollination?

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>>2749309
all right. made my decision. i'm 100% doing at least one chip drop mulch some time real soon. the logs are helping, which means mulch will help more, which means a standard landscaping truck dump of mulch will help even more.

at least, for starters.

>>2743233
Do you feed them?

farmers are faggots who feed the nigger armies of your destruction. go pick seeds like a bird brained faggot farmer. ill be hunting niggers and cooking their big fat asses on my grill.

>>2749894
This is unusual

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>>2749841
adding a ton of fresh mulch to the borders of my retaining wall would decrease soil pH over time, correct? i should probably lay down some lime prior?

>>2744468
>>2744566
Trying to mog people over acreage is pathetic. Good job that you own more sand than the other guy

>>2750037
Grow prickly pears. Work with what God has given you instead of trying to terraform that desolation

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photo of cactus limb that fell off during high winds a couple days. into the vegetative waste pile it goes. i have like twenty cactus pads wilting all over my logs and mulch. like dali meets boy scouts.

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prickly pear disconnected from the cactus this morning, i flicked it off. time to let it dry out. then, i finally have my first batch of engleman prickly pear seeds. after drying, the next step is to test the germination rate.

I spent one summer eating a ton of prickly pear fruit, to the extent that my poop was bright purple for a couple of months. Anyways I would just shit out the seeds on my land in strategic places. Germination took two years with this technique

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>>2749579
Both. Do it now. Go back get more do it in the fall. Where’s that faggot that said you couldn’t propagate four leaf clovers at?

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>>2750562
good call. part of me was thinking
>bro, just fucking use the seeds now and get more later, the park ain't goin' nowhere, we can collect more over the holiday even though the temperature will kill a decent percentage of juvenile birds over an entire week
>just hydrate, bro, and put on your hat, lets get more red clover, you know it's there

i guess i just want to make sure i'm not wasting ALL my time, just some of it.

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I have powdered wood coal and bits. I want to add liquid plant shit feed to one. Help me decide which would the better option. I think the powder type would be later mixed into my comfrey compost. Maybe the bit type could just be added to anything that needs perlite-like material.

>>2751065
I think you have a solid plan. How do you make your liquid plants shit feed?

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>>2751074
You wish to venture down the Comfrey hole?
Here is an old resource; no idea whats in it.
https://aeronvale-allotments.org.uk/downloads/Comfrey_factsheet-01.pdf

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raising a couple wrens for a month now, cute little things. i collected a bunch of local seed pods and whatnot, now im showing them a few to see if they wanna crack them open to eat. gonna make a list to see what local seeds they eat. surprisingly, they actually like parakeet food more often than bugs, like mealworms. they might only eat one mealworm a day, even though online stuff says they mainly eat small juicy bugs.

took them two days to eat a cricket once. they just ignored it.

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>>2751075
Plant manure can be derived from any rotten source; what many call compost tea. Rotting comfrey smells horrific.

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>>2751078
Is the final compost.

picrel is the middle step.

>>2751075
>>2751078
>>2751081
I'll check it out. I figured it was compost tea, but I wasn't sure if it was something more like Cho's fermented plant juice.

>>2751075
>>2751090
I'm going to have to get some comfrey.

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corn. vegas corn. will it survive? who cares.

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do not buy pavers. find your own. it's free. but rocks have a lot of mass. take your time

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>improve front yard so much, it slows down neighborhood traffic just a bit to be safer
>put out some labels on stakes denoting the name and species of my obscure plants
>one old fuck walking his dog smiles and asks if i want one of his aloe pups, he noticed i dont have any aloe
>hell yeah, old timer
>he continues walking his dog at 5:15 am, i'm on my porch with a cig and coffee

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I have 36k saved and want to get the fuck out of new jersey.
where can I get 10 good acres without having to be within an hour drive of blacks or jews?

Are there any US native plants you wish you could make a huge of your diet if they were improved by breeding or just produced better for you?

>>2751840
you can never be hours away from yourself.

>>2724333
Is mycorrhizae good for potted plants? Is it worth it? I'm not sure if this is where to ask.

>>2752046
Sure, there's no downsides. You can use the soil to inoculate other plants later.

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>>2750527
dried

>>2751997
i dont really care about enhancing plants. i just want all plants in america to be legal. legalize nature.

>>2751077
discovered something hilarious today. every resource online says desert wrens rarely ever drink water. this is fairly true. i only ever catch my wrens dipping their beaks when i change out their water.

instead, they like to chillax in their water bowl. they just sit in it and chirp with one another, two wrens in total. and they shit in it. all day long. their water bowl is now like some roman bathhouse.

>>2729791
spider docktor system if you're just chilling by the porch

Anyone in the San Luis Valley?

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>>2751364
bigger temperatures, bigger corn

What's the point of buying rural land to homestead if you'll always be an outsider to the community there? So many hate outsiders even if you're trying to live a decent life by getting land out there. Boomers there will view you as competition

>>2752842
Drop some money with the local booster club and get proactive in one of the 87 churches and you’ll be fine.

>>2752842
Who gives a shit about the "local community"? The whole point of homesteading is to build your own local community.

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vegas terraformer update. something neato that has been happening with my neighborhood and neighbors. my neighbors have started giving a shit about their properties over the past month. even the renters. people are cleaning up their trees and trimming them so birds quit shitting on their cars. people are removing weeds from sidewalks in front of their houses. people are walking their babies in strollers in front of my house at six am before temperatures can cook beef.

you just give a lot to your own property and goal, people see you having fun and doing well, then they copy you. highest form of flattery. no conversations needed.

>>2734766
I know pacifism feels good inside, but European brown slugs are a highly invasive pest and should be destroyed on sight at any costs. They do not deserve to live on US soil. These Spanish assholes have spread far, far out of their home territory and it's time to make a fucking stand.

Ducks and chickens will eat them, else snip in half. Leave the remains on the ground and other slugs will come to eat the remains, snip them in half too until all the slugs are dead. You can also pick them up and put them in a bucket of soapy water if the former technique sounds too gross for you.

If they're not brown, rufous, black, or leopardy they may be native though. Look up slugs native to your area. If they are native just relocate.

Can you guys tell me whether these weeds are edible? >>2753060

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guys, i got him. i fuckin' finally got him. the alpha pigeon that has been harassing my property for a month now. this fucker is as big as a football. his feathers are like fur.

hopefully next season, my garden, and others nearby, are that much safer. serenity. peace. let it go.

had some old rice i dont like. spread it across the bare sandy clay soil and soaked it in. seems to be helping keep soil in-place during winds.

>>2754178
Rice is good. Dairy products and sugary things are also good for soil.

>>2754190
i also tossed some ~five year old bag of beans. decomposing dried beans will also help, in your opinion, correct? im purging my pantry and utilizing what i can.

>>2754196
Pretty much anything that decomposes will be good for your soil and as the soil organic matter increases you will have less erosion. Beans and rice are both particularly good for soil because they're glutenous (not actual gluten) and that helps to bind the soil while microbes feed on them. Eventually, as your soil improves, the microbes will create compounds that bind the soil and you just have to feed them organic matter like compost. You might want to consider getting a worm bin and doing some vermicomposting.

>>2729791
Bucket with water + screen door mesh is all you need, heard about this on permies... They said a few around the property eliminated their mosquito population after a few years.

Hang the mesh so that it dips just below the water level. They lay their eggs which fall through the mesh, and then become too large to get out when mature.

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>>2754229
yeah, 'bout that. vegas. worms do not survive naturally. last time i saw some worms was at unlv. best i can do is let the soil do its thing. it was hard enough getting the soil alive to get pioneer grass growing.

>>2754250
You can keep your worms inside. It's just a way to make high quality compost without needing a cubic yard of material or having to turn it twice a week.

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Let's discuss bird shit. Say I want bird shit in an area in my yard and it has a living tree. is there any harm in putting regular sprinklings of bird seed around the base of the tree to start getting some organics into the soil?

specifically, the bird shit would *hopefully* be mostly tiny birds and occasional doves and jaybirds.

>>2754403
Nah, do it. Try fermenting some of it overnight with some apple cider vinegar and crushed lump charcoal. They'll probably like it more which means more bird shit for you.

>>2729148
Indoor speedball places use re-usable balls. maybe those would work, but then you have little plastic balls everywhere.

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>>2754440
pro tip: no wild animal appreciates fireworks. see some elk moving towards your shit? grab a smoke bomb and some fire crackers. throw at elk, doesnt matter how far or close you get. just get the animal's attention. then light some fireworks.

works on all animals. live in a suburb and some little shit pooch keeps barking at you whenever you walk outside? light a firecracker lol.

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>>2754558
i will also say this works on wandering cats. i used to have multiple cats (estimate three or four) that would see my bare desert soil as a litter box, and just shit along the entire perimeter of my backyard. i wake up early. real early, 'cause i'm kinda in pain in the morning. like 4:30 am. one particular morning, with a cup of coffee and ciggy, i had a firecracker in my pocket and a lighter on my patio table. saw one of the fuckin' cats jump on top of my retaining wall and then jump down into my backyard. calmly lit the firecracker, gently tossed it to the cat. cat was confused and stood still.

BAM! cat was gone for good. no more cat shit problems.

Do you believe cloudbusters work?

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what do about an off center node being the main trunk? i dont want to prune it because ill just have the same issue later on and its doing really good right now with the summer rain. That said, why wont it branch out?

its a mulberry tree.

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>>2756059
this is the whole tree

Hello /out/, the time has come for me finally. I have about 7 acres of land and plans to do a cabin kit build but am in very very early stages. What should I look for and what would be the best way to go forward with this as a plan? Looking to have a 3/4 bed 2 bath and something large enough to raise my family in proper, In the WY area and could use as much advice as possible.


>Well included
>Septic
Are already accounted for.

>>2756062
Green manure crops and compost. Everything else is secondary.

>>2749894
Based nomad anon

>sparrowhawk ate two of my hens today
:'(

>>2756482
Do you have a rooster? Having all black breeds for a quarter of your flock also helps keep hawks away.

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my chickens started laying and they are laying everywhere but the nest box.
Those are wood eggs you see in there.
Running out of things to try. any tips?

>>2756499
I have a rooster, but apparently he is a coward
he was hiding with a hen in the chicken coop while the other was inside the greenhouse watching as the hawk ate her sisters

>>2756503
That sucks. Sounds like you need another one. You can put up bird scare balloons and move them around like twice a week.

>>2756500
Make it shadier. If you see them laying somewhere they shouldn't you can move them to the nesting box to train them to lay there.

>>2724333
Is compost, dirt and coco coir enough for vegetable container gardening or do I really need to wheel out money to buy perlite/vermiculite? I was thinking of hotcomposting the weeds around my yard and mixing it with dirt to plant tomatoes on but I don't really have the space for a traditional garden

>>2756607
as a general rule, no one needs vermiculite. its use is very niche. disregard it.

>>2756610
What are some cheap alternative to amend fertility issues? My soil is rather on the sterile silty side

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>>2756611
how many of these can you fit in your vehicle at a time? i can usually do eight, sometimes i get greedy and bump up to ten. id estimate my backyard has roughly 150 bags of this stuff by now. it's getting healthy. previously, my soil was basically pure sandy clay with de minimis organic horizon.

i will brag and i say i bought most of my bags for 1.79, and now, they're like 2.50

>>2756611
Biochar or crushed lump charcoal and an organic fertilizer like manure. Call around and see if you can get the manure for free. Mix in about 20% charcoal and soak it in a bucket for about a week before application.

>>2756607
Look into vermicomposting. Vermicompost has roughly twice the nutrients of regular compost and has a bunch of other beneficial properties for seeds, plants, and soil.

>>2735555
>>2734696
This is a natural given that anon is using agricultural methods; agriculture is designed to reap produce faster rather than to work in ecolibrium with the land.

Perhaps also, the anon's estate doesn't have good soil quality due to there being no ponds nor natural flowing water source nearby to keep the soil vitalised. I assume anon's also been using some form of chemical product to help aid in the produce which especially doesn't help keep the Earthworms alive and would especially explain why the fields especially look like dried out.

What do you guys recommend for looking for plots of land to purchase. I heard Billyland is good but I’ve also heard it’s a scam. I was curious of what you guys thought and if you had any alternatives

>>2751840
Last i checked there was acreage for sale in yellowstone or next to yellowstone for under 5k/acre.

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https://youtu.be/-MJmNK-OKjI

ya the common question is what I'm asking too where to find land and how to search and buy it. I want to get away from suburbs and leaf blowers 24 7 and build a shack in the woods

>>2735634
sounds awesome I want to do something like this but just looking for land still

>>2757132
MLS listing service

What's the best US state to homestead in? I realize this might depend on personal preferences and what you want to do on the land. Just in general. Also any anons interested in starting a wiki for this general?

Thoughts on microgreens? I have all these shallow pots so anything I grow won't have soil deep enough for the roots so the seedlings will not mature. I've heard microgreens are good for you

>>2758509
Microgreens are great, but the seeds will cost you about twice as much as buying your yield as regular greens at the store. That's worth it when you consider that microgreens are a lot more nutrient dense. You'll want something without holes in the bottom. You can plug up any holes on your pots with clay if you need to, but it would be better to use a 1020 tray. You might also need a light, unless you have a sunny window. Here's a good resource to get you started.

https://www.bootstrapfarmer.com/blogs/microgreens/the-ultimate-microgreen-cheat-sheet

>>2758509
grow microgreens for one season. then drop it because it's a joke. nutrient density is completely true. however, that means you have to eat basically sheets of turf to get the same mass as you would from eating say...a couple servings of broccoli. microgreens are a fine fancy thing to add on top of bacon on a hamburger, but thats it. youd have to dedicate your lawn to growing "micro" greens, when you could just allow the micro stuff to fully grow into the real plant like a normal garden.

>>2758557
Thank you and yes I have a light

>>2758559
I have a herb garden that I'm expanding (I only have basil and parsley at the moment) because I bought a lot of shallow pots. When I have more lawn space, I'll definitely take your advice into consideration

>>2758559
>you have to eat basically sheets of turf
So... A salad. I think you might have a better experience if you grow different microgreens. Cilantro, radishes, mustard, chives, nasturtiums, and beets are all very flavorful and you can use them for nearly anything.

>>2758578
No problem. Have fun with it.