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I found my receipt: I paid $69.95 for the Flowbee system and $28.00 for shipping to Canada. Grand total of $97.95. I didn't need a shop vac as the house had built-in vacuum system. Looks like the Flowbee system currently goes for $149.95 nowadays. $69.95 to $149.95 in 13 years, I guess that's 6% ann...

Just cut my hair with the Flowbee I bought for my dad in 2010. Another great hair cut. It's the gift that keeps on giving. You know how the best hair is usually a few days after a haircut - once those cuts have become less obvious? Flowbee gives you that right away. I would estimate it's been used a...

Thought this would be interesting for some folks here.

Could potentially reduce photovoltaic needs by more than half by replacing heating needs with a windmill.

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/ ... -windmill/

I suspect a surprising amount of health problems could be improved dramatically with some sort of intermittent fasting scheme. Minimize eating windows and maximize the body's chance to drop into autophagy and do self-repair. Fasting tends to lower blood pressure, and reduce inflammation - it's like ...

framework laptops are one of the few linux-compatible laptops out there and well worth supporting! The 13.5” 3:2 screen with 2256x1504 resolution seems like a great choice, high enough in resolution to keep most people happy. I know some people that have bought one already and are satisfied. My tip ...

https://www.netcredit.com/blog/cost-com ... und-world/

Saw this article and it reminded me of y'all

https://schoolofdecorating.com/2014/06/why-i-quit-diy/

If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.

When I graduated HS I did everything I could to leave my parents place, such that I picked a university in another city altogether. In retrospect I would have been far better served by staying at my parents and attending the local college for the first year, before transferring to a better universit...

@Alphaville I started looking at what it would take to do pasture-raised meat rabbits, seems like a great way to get started experiencing what it takes for raising livestock. Could start with a couple does and a buck and see how it goes. Thanks for the tip. @7Wannabe5 Very good points about Observat...

i like solving problems, and i like getting help solving problems, but this thread seems to me more like idle speculation about vague unrealized notions than actual work on something. My preferred thread format is one where the thread isn't about the OP but about the topic. That didn't really happe...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqAj_m-RG-A I was just watching this and shortly after 12:30 minutes Paul Wheaton says that a hundred pounds of food were harvested from a 2 year old berm, which is mainly composed of poor sandy dirt, and never irrigated (except probably at the very beginning). Does t...

The pig raising and rotation of paddocks with Joel Salantin's system seems interesting. The pigs are trained to respect a simple electric wire (you have to get them early, weaners might be too old by then?), and they are rotated every 5 to 12 days. Apparently someone does check on them every day and...

Good points about the work involved. Hopefully there's room for the lazy farmers that can find creative solutions to reduce the overall person-hours required to keep a farm going. Especially after the startup work involved. Could possibly create some weird limits and constraints and then try to solv...

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Tue Jul 21, 2020 7:21 pm

some people who’ve been there haven’t liked it, but i wouldn’t universalize their particular experience.

I'm not super familiar with the permies forum, is there a good spot to see the negative reviews?

I get the sense it definitely caters to people that are willing to work hard.

Yeah I found https://www.workaway.info also and I see some permaculture farms in my areas, definitely worth spending some time trying it out. Paul Wheaton also has a bootcamp in Missoula, Montana which could be cool to check out sometime.

Yeah cows seem like a whole 'nother level of effort. Pigs at least seems easier (and possibly profitable) based on what I've seen from youtube about Joel Salntin's approach. Maybe for dairy I'd just stick with goats. About famines that's true, but permaculture is all about regenerating the land and ...

Does anyone here have land large enough to feed their families 90-100%? Does anyone raise livestock? Does anyone build weird houses like wofati, oehler's earth structure, or cob houses, straw bale houses? I originally found out about Permaculture through this forum, so thanks a ton for that. I've al...

How about considering farming, like permaculture or pasture raised livestock.. That could influence where you want to be. For example Paul Wheaton prefers west Montana to many other states because it has 4 seasons and that's a benefit to his farming.

For most of my 20's and early 30's I had a couple of associations in my head: 1) The main purpose to drink coffee is to acquire caffeine (and thus be stimulated/wide awake!) 2) Decaf is for the weak, is dumb, is crap. .. But when I realized the caffeine was interfering with my work, I was forced to ...