Does #forestry fedi have any tips for dealing with pine bark beetles? My neighbor has been cutting down impacted trees-- great on him for caring about forest health but it's the middle of the beetle active season, won't they just infect another tree?
The Wind in the Willows is such a wonderful book.
I'm reading it to my kids again, I think this is the third time through. My grandma would read it to me on nights I slept over with her.
If you haven't ever read it, do yourself a favor and pick it up. The writing is lovely and fluid, the characters are superb, the illustrations and it just bursts with heart and imagination.
And it's public domain.
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/kenneth-grahame/the-wind-in-the-willows
Unseasonably early plums calls for jamming. This batch was just plums, sugar and pectin. Anyone have a better #recipe?
Went on a tour/lecture of First Rain Farm. No till and the only soil amendment is an on-site compost made of wood-chips and goat piss applied on the beds once a year. Prescribed burns and grazing for land management. Inspiring simplicity #permaculture
New blog post! I finished reading The Travels of Sir John Mandeville and wrote down all of the fun middle english words I didn't know. Here are a few examples:
mickle: a great many
"Men go to the city of Rames, the which is but a little thence; and it is a fair city and a good and mickle folk therein."
septentrion: north, or northerly regions
"And therefore in the Septentrion, that is very north, is the land so cold, that no man may dwell there."
Bonus! This little seedling hitched a ride with one of the strawberry plants. My mother bought them from a nursery so perhaps it'll be interesting.
Proprietor of Grumpys, potential doppelganger of every white nerd you know.