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    Britesea - Living the good life in rural Oregon

    Keep in mind that carpenter ants are a warning that you have damp wood somewhere Black mold and milldew will grow there unless the moisture is taken care for good. Most lenders will not make a loan on a house with mold because of the health hazzard it carries. Good pest control will warn you...
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    I'm thinking of dabbling in the farmers market next year.

    Yep it Does! Here we are not allowed to sell food unless the kitchen has been inspected and passed. 4 of us got together and beat that restriction. How? "free" samples! I was the egg man and would cook fresh eggs with yokes that were orange because of free ranging [I had duck eggs too for people...
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    Let's bring in some new members!

    To be honest I never could see where the personal journals had anything to do with SS or to put it another way if you are SS why would you feel the need for a public [personal] journal on the internet. I have slowly learned the accepted bias of this forum [I expect to get disagreement but I...
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    Who has solar panels?

    OK.
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    I'm thinking of dabbling in the farmers market next year.

    Usually there is someone in charge of farmer's markets Find him/her and findout the rules of your market.
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    Who has solar panels?

    OK i will buy your arguement on Solar panels [I never invested or spent money on them] you have some strange take on bonds however.It is possible that the issuer of the bonds goes brole a week or a month after he issued the Bonds [like General Motots did] There is usually a secondary market...
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    I was offered some free grape vine starts...

    Also many wild grape vines produce very little fruit and if you had a late frost even very heavy bearers may have no grapes this year. It boils down to do you trust your neighbor who said she had never seen fruit on it. Why should she lie about something like that? I would look elswhere for my...
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    Who has solar panels?

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    egg safety

    An estimated 142,000 Americans are infected each year with Salmonella Enteritidis from chicken eggs, and about 30 die.[31] Beleive it or not I have tried to lay low on this subject I once worked in a vaccine factory Bacteria are easy to grow compared to virus All the flu vaccines have been...
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    Anybody developed any useful tools for raised bed SFG?

    How about a small short handled hoe and a sharpened stick? We losen up the crust on the bed with the hoe and use the stick to poke holes for seeds and transplants then backfill with the hoe. BTW tHE WOOD CHIPS will tend to steal nitrogen from your bed untill they break down.
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    Full-Time Tethering a Milk Cow?

    Searching? sounds to me that you are asking.
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    egg safety

    If eating out avoid things like omlets acrambled eggs and egg McMufflings the eggs come in contairere not shells if fact they may contain eggs that were cracked before they were opened and dumped, one bad egg can ruin a whole container.
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    egg safety

    Much of the fuss is because of Factory eggs The chickens are locked in cages stacked in banks while their eggs are transported to a common area. The old way people used to gether the eggs and if the chicken appeared sick the egg woulld be discarded The other reason is that as people lost contact...
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    Organic Agronomical Tips

    I think English is not the primary language I think it was run through a machine translation program more than once?
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    Solar Laptop Charger?

    ONE problem with his "details"both solar panels and your lap device run on DC so no inverter is required however a current controller is required Those Li-ion batteries are trickly. Try to charge them too fast or overcharge them can indeed resullt in battery failure. fires and explosions. I...
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    Heating with wood

    Only one comment, Where is your air supply coming from? If you are using inside air the heated air is going up the pipe which is bad enough but it has to be replaced by sucking cold air into the house whereever there is a leak. We pipe in outside aiir to feed the stove and furnance. One...
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    warring with the dear...

    No reflection on your post but many animals love eggs I have film of racoons eating eggs and carrying them away. Your facts may be straight for herbivores but carnivores love to eat eggs No real opinion on omnivores except chickens pigs and men they all love to eat eggs.
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    Has anyone used these before?

    We used to just go the woods and cut young 'trash' trees with lots of limbs and stuck them in the ground as the tomatos grew each side shoot was wrapped around a limb while the main leader climbed the trunk. Clean up was easy just push into a pile and burn them.
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    The Little Dutch Maid Off-Grid Hand Crank Mixer is made by The Amish

    Gee how do they do a powder coat without using electricity? Do they hand cut those hardened steel gears?
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