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- Mon Mar 20, 2017 11:29 am
- Forum: New Members Start Here
- Topic: New here from Somerset and sometimes Transylvania
- Replies: 5
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New here from Somerset and sometimes Transylvania
Hello everyone! I'm from Somerset! Old lady at 67 years old. I retired from owning and managing a children's nursery, and now we own and manage a small, traditional, off-grid farm in Transylvania, north central Romania. We also have a 'normal' home with a big beautiful garden and orchard in Somerset...
- Sun Mar 19, 2017 11:19 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Space saving ways to grow food.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5038
Re: Space saving ways to grow food.
There is great information about this in the field of permaculture (pun intended
). A tree, with a ring of bushes, underplanted with lower plants, grapes growing through the tree (grapes produce much much more if allowed to grow in an apple tree rather than on a built structure.
- Sun Mar 19, 2017 11:06 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Growing food that don't look like food
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8518
Re: Growing food that don't look like food
We plant normal peas and beans, but very few people would see them. Next to the mulch pile, I dig a circle down about three inches on the rim going down to about 8 inches in the middle. Line it with a bit of sand and a fair few flat rocks. This needs to look unintentional and messy. Then we plant pe...
- Sun Mar 19, 2017 10:53 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Where to buy long term storage foods
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2642
Where to buy long term storage foods
Please pardon me, I looked around here, but couldn't fine advice for this. I'd like to buy at least six months long term storage foods for the family to stand behind the normal one year or so rotation and garden that feeds us day by day. BUT... brands such as Mountain House are insanely expensive. I...
- Sat Mar 04, 2017 7:39 pm
- Forum: Radio Communications
- Topic: Morse Code
- Replies: 33
- Views: 107408
Re: Morse Code
I learned with a couple of apps. Now around 8-10 wpm. It's kind of fun to work with the apps, and nice to have this information. Who knows if it will ever come in handy.