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MANUAL FOR CREATING A COMMUNITY FOOD FOREST ON PUBLIC LAND
https://permaculturenews.org/2013/01/23/manual-for-creating-a-community-food-forest-on-public-land/
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B7DO4X94zZqGZ3ZyT05TUjh6UWM
Permaculture Activist
http://www.food-skills-for-self-sufficiency.com/
Raising chickens
https://www.backyardchickens.com/
I think I'll just use my private property I don't need no commies or blacks stealin my foood
so many rooms now and still no #tradworer for shitposting
@Commander Davis (TWP)
Ya, I would stick to my own land, but the notion is still intriguing.
HOLY SHIT
A channel I can get behind
All berffed frum da erff
This is the best book I have on the topic
Highly recommended
Noice!
I was raising a bunch of animals the past few year, but kept having issues with dogs.
Im just gonna do a massive garden this year, and maybe do a couple pigs again.
@Fash Dragon
Can u get that book on pdf?
I could try to find it. It's more of an encyclopedia than anything
See I'm a forester and homesteading is a major hobby of mine
I would be happy to share my different recipes if there's a way to do so in an organized fashion
Nice!
As well as some general redneck engineering
This is literally my bathroom sink
Ha!
Meat is murder
I raised meat rabbits for a couple years...I will say it made me sad when I had to kill em...felt better once they were in muh belly
How much land you on?
A bit over a acre (cleared), but I have a few more acres of woods that are at my disposal
@John Mosby Rabbit meat?
I don't know if that will give you a lot of meat.....
I'm coming down on the 17th. Would you permit me to take a tour of the property? I could show you a couple wild food sources if you like
Unless you've got one of the giant ones the size of a dog.
@Dangerlurking
Ya, Rabbit meat is one of the best meats there is...super high in protein, and their poop is the BEST for composting (u technically dont even have to compost it, as it is so clean).
@Fash Dragon
Most definitely
U can crash at my place, too, if u want
wish I could come down
@John Mosby I was hoping so!
@Dangerlurking
I was raising Californian Rabbits, and u actually get a decent amount of meat off of them.
You pretty much kill the kits, as soon as they ween, which will net u a bit of meat, but if u kill a few, then that is plenty for a stew that will last a few days...cleaning rabbits takes only a few minutes, too
Yhea, I doubt you can feed a whole group with just rabbit meat.
That's the first time I have seen discord censor an image.
It just depends how many u raise...the term "fucking like rabbits" doesn't just come outa nowhere.
I started with 3 breeding pairs, and could hardly keep up with all the babies they produced, and keep producing at a constant rate.
Which brings into issue the food supply for them.
I put them in a rabbit tractor, and they just ate my grass...no money required to feed em.
In a what?
Really? I thought you would have had to gotten something like hay.
A bit in the winter, cuz the grass grows slowly, but I let my grass grow super long, before winter hits, so I have an abundant supply during the slowest growing months.
I would be concerned about them getting drenched in freezing cold water if you let them out during the winter.
I say to feed all the rabbits, I probably spent less than $100 a year (I supplemented them with some hay and pellets during the winter).
I covered the top with a tarp.
Winter is no problem for them...the summer can be a bitch...I lost a few to flies one year
Yhea, flies are naturally attracted to shit, and they shit like nothing on earth.
Ya, I would move the cage a couple times a day, and collect the shit for the garden, after I moved it.
What got my rabbits is when they had babies one time, the flies got to em before I knew they were getting attacked.
Wait, have you tried setting up fly net's around the cages so they can't get to them?
I never did...
Mate what the fuck.
I only had a problem one time, out of over 2 years.
That's like being asked to be eaten alive by flies and mosquito's.
Nah, they generally did fine.
We dont have many mosquitoes here...if u live somewhere with a bunch of em, then u probably would need to put up a net.
Yhea, I do.
We also get tons of ticks that have a fairly good chance of having lyme disease as well.
We get ticks sometimes, but the rabbits seemed to be pretty resistant to them...I rarely found ticks on them, and I would handle them all the time, to keep em docile.
During the late summer, and all of fall, the ticks are EVERYWHERE in west NYS.
That sucks...I freaking HATE ticks...the worst are chiggers, though
Chiggers?
Little bugs that get under your skin...they are the WORST
I don't think we get them here.
Thank God we dont get em here, either.
I got em BAD in Missouri before, though
"They are not present, or barely found, in far northern areas" HAH.
I'd never live anywhere those things are prolific...they definitely came from to bowels of Hell.
I woulden't doubt that if you purposefully went out into the swamp and dug through all of the mush and dirt in there you could find a few, but they are only prevalent in tropical and very moist area's, which we don't get in NYS.
The only time it get's extremely moist around here is during the summer before a big thunderstorm strikes.
It gets pretty wet here, but we are lucky to not really have em.
Even when I lived in Houston we didn't have them
Who know's, they might become more prevalent as time goes on.
DONT SAY THAT
They will hear u
Ticks were fairly uncommon here, but soon the population exploded and they became very prevalent.
We had a BAD tick problem last year, but we generally dont get them much
I remember I had maps from the CDC that showed the tick population from like 2012 to now, and it shows how much the tick population has grown.
Ill tell u what are spreading across the States, bad, are freaking fire ants.
Fire ants?
Sounds like an arizona, california, and texas thing.
They are making their way across the states...they are now popping up in TN.
@John Mosby you got armadillos there yet?
We got them down in SoIL
@John Mosby I doubt they will make up to NYS though, the climate is too hostile for them.
The species migration is the only thing that really makes me wonder about global warming
It has happened all the time and will continue to do so.
@Fash Dragon
We had a TON in TX, but haven't seen any in East TN.
@John Mosby Tell me about the fire ants.
@Dangerlurking
Scientists have said that fire ants will make it all the way up to Alaska, as they are so resistance to the elements.
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