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This Farm Keeps Every Drop of Rain & NEVER Uses Fertilizer
Living Roots Farm is a regenerative farm in northern Thailand focusing on growing techniques that use biology to feed the plants and improve soil. They grow rice, vegetables, sugar cane, cacao, and countless species in their permaculture designed farm utilizing techniques such as syntropic agroforestry, make bio-complete compost, make custom biology to suit their customers needs and even work on products to reduce crop burning and eliminate pollution.

What To Plant in August - Urban Farmer Seeds
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Pretty cool... I caught a huge 20,000 - 30,000 wild honey bee swarm in my homemade swarm trap.

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❄️How to make an Igloo a Yeti ❄️

Or, how to make a cheap cooler work like one that’s obscenely expensive.

What’s the secret?

Wool blankets. 🐑

That’s it!

I borrowed this idea (and I’m sure I saw this somewhere along the way and stored it in the back of my head, I take no credit here 😁) from the process of making ice box yogurt. Basically you put your warm cultured dairy in an ice box cooler and cover it with a wool blanket. The wool keeps the temperature in the box warm and stable so the yogurt ferments as it should and does not get too cool. The wool blanket does this by stopping heat transfer from the inside of the box to the outside.

Conversely, wool blankets have the same effect of keeping cold things inside an insulated box cold. In this case, they do this by stopping heat transfer from outside the box to inside the box.

So, when faced with the conundrum of how to keep over 100lbs of ground pork VERY cold, without a fridge or freezer, over the course of many days while I worked through canning it all, I figured I’d try it out.

I packed the coolers full of pork and ice, and wrapped them up with layers of wool blankets. And it worked like a charm!

The last picture is ice and pork after 72 hours. Still plenty of ice there, and at the next check 24 hours later, at 96 hours, it was pretty much the same!

Uncovered, these coolers do not keep their contents cold/frozen nearly that long. Trust me, I’ve been using various coolers instead of a fridge for over a year and have seen it all. Even the expensive ones do not keep ice frozen 3-4 days.

I could see this coming in handy in a couple other ways. Like during power outages, or long road trips with coolers in the vehicle.

The magic insulating powers of wool! 🐑❄️

Herb spiral

Creating a balance in nature.

How to keep food cool without electricity

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Sunflower leaf snack recipe

Note: please use natural ingredients only like butter when oiling

Credit: boss mama

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Seed Saving Reminder

Drying Seeds:
Too much moisture left in seeds can easily lead to seed rot or the development of molds that can spread, often effecting a whole batch of saved seeds. This can lead to a reduction in seed viability, and at worst loss of all seed.

Drying seeds at home involves air drying. Spreading collected seeds out on plate or paper towel in cool dry area, leaving some space for air flow between seeds.

Seeds ideal moisture content varies from species to species, but most require a moisture retention rate between 5 percent and 8 percent. As home growers/savers our best access to that accuracy is our tried/true experiential knowledge.

Dry seed typically for a few weeks turning seeds over then physically feeling for dampness and use your amazing intuition. If unsure leave out a couple more days -weeks. 4-6 weeks ideal for most to be safe. Store in low humidity environments always!

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Soil Jar Test —Part 2 of 2

1. Fill a large glass jar half way with collected soil sample.
2. Fill remaining half with water leaving 1” space from top for air.
3. Put on lid tight & shake sample till no chunks of soil.
4. Place jar on counter so it is undisturbed for 24 hours.

In 24 hours being untouched the soil will settle into distinct layers of sand, silt, clay and loam (organic matter) for viewing.

Notes—

-If gathering soil from in ground we want to get a great sample from where the roots of our plants will be reaching/feeding so dig down at good 12” for soil samples for this test.

-If taking sample from a slope in landscape soil composition can change quite drastically from top/middle/bottom of a slope/elevation so keep that in mind and test in multiple areas if growing on slopes.

-within aprox 1000 square feet of flat land for growing, 3-4 soil samples to learn about our soil is ideal. And 1-2 for raised beds depending on size.

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