well, during my moments of clarity i try to get a bit of coding done on my own "projects" (sounds so fat when i use that word lol) but i have had an eye on homesteader ichiban #1 for a while, i think its a shining example of how its actually possible without daddy money, or cryptonnaire money or rolling over for cookies for a whale, just by doing what you do, because if you do what you, even if it doesn't pay off right off the bat, you will just be doing what you do anyway and that's not gonna burn you out :)
i wish stuff like that were possible in concrete belgium, but, despite the fact that i'm a bum and 45 yo i still plan to move out to a place with
more space and less humans ... if something hits my head with a meme i'll be sure to attend, otherwise i'll be cheering from the sidelines until the next one :)))
Haha yes! Steem on!
This is an interesting story to me, because I started growing on concrete, I built up bricks into a high planter and collected organic wastes around my community with a wheelbarrow. People looked at me like a crazy person as I filched their lawn clippings or transported bags of restaurant waste back to my home. But in the end we are still being rewarded with flowers, greens and tomatoes!
Do what you do, that way there is no burn out! I am in complete agreement, and hope to check out what you do soon too!
Edit: can I get a link to ichiban? I can't find that user name :/
ah sorry sorry, (too much anime) "ichiban" is japanese , it means "number one" lol, its not a person i was referring to the way @papa-pepper does his "thing" ...
yea my parents just got a batch of tomatoes from my aunt and cousin, not sprayed, not tampered, the taste really can't compare to these frozen-waterballs you buy in supermarkets. Lots of people here spray poison still, weedkiller, with the notion that it is "bio-degradable" but i dont think they really understand that it just permeates the whole ground and BEFORE it's degraded actually gets sucked up by about everything that grows in it and subsequently by everything that eats that, and eventually by meat-eaters who eat THAT
i actually wanted to ask a question to someone who knows a bit about perma, but i didnt come to it yet... in my parents garden there's these little pathways laid in bricks but the weeds always grow from between the cracks, now both they and me are 100% opposed against any kind of weedkiller but my mother really likes it when it looks crisp so its literally scrapping it from every crack and crevice so i wondered
do you know anything that might act as 100% natural weedkiller there, when sprayed or bristled on the paths because im really not one for scraping on my knees, something must exist, right ?
Well, we've actually been talking about this over in the comments on ichiban's cobblestone pathways post ;p
There are some good suggestions, planting an irish moss in the gaps was maybe my favorite, a bit of work but it grows so tight that no weeds have room. With more work you can lay plastic under the bricks and fill the gaps with gravel,but it sounds a little late for that.
Maybe, now we have used this strategy around the farm, you can lay black plastic over the weeds for a few days (some plants take weeks), the lack of sun is the no. 1 one hundred percent natural plant killer I know of. Thats all I can think of right now, maybe hire a neighbor kid and pay him in ice cream sandwiches?
yea, i have black plastic (well i should say "we", its my parents house after all , no im not a basement nurrd, i left here first when i was 21 but life ... well, "life", right) in a lot of places here, i feel it not only prevents all that stuff from growing so you don't have to pluck it but when it rains and the water seeps through the sides it doesnt evaporate that fast as it condenses when the sun is really hot. It just condenses to the bottom of the plastic and then when it cools down goes back into the soil, a bit of a saver too seeing as water is costly (here).
Irish moss huh ? i will relay the proposal, do you have some kind of latin or official plantname for that please, i'll check out the post tonight too, i have too much mindstorm right now to focus
THANKS A LOT !!!
sustainable green solutions, i luvz it ! , i think the mother will too
Sagina subulata, hope it works wonders for you!
At some point we stop living with our parents and they start living with us. Family is important, take care of those relationships! Working together is what humans do best.
in some cases, i feel what humans are best at is destruction mostly but i guess point of view is built by experience ofcourse. I'm still hoping to get out of the country and get enough to take care if they need it. Dying or spending my last days in belgium is a bit of an obsessive nightmare to me :|
Oh I see! I have been working with Steem, I think it has the potential to help us reach our dreams, but always remember its a journey not a destination.
Creation/destruction, its a spectrum - I try to lean towards the light ;p