RAF,
FOXFIRE books are a core part of my cellulose, cerebral, muscular, and steel,
wood, and etc., Library.
Many empty jelly jars here. Now I know what to do with them. Hope not to have
to. ;-)
Be seeing you!, no matter what happens.
;-)
--Joe
PS Radio shack here is up on battery power, solar re-charged. Backup is City
power. ;-]
> R A Fonda <rafonda@...> wrote:
>
> On 11/29/2012 8:40 PM, Joe wrote:
> > Hope you saw it last night, both the moon and Jupiter
>
> The moon just rose above the ridge a little while ago, behind the bare
> branches of the trees; very dramatic, with a strong halo ... pink outer
> ring and an inner white to faintly golden ring almost as wide as the
> moon's diameter. One of the all-time great ones.
>
> > What else should I stock-pile? <
>
> I dunno ... I'm not 'that kind' of a stock-pile survivalist. I am just
> working toward as much self-sufficency as is practical: kinda like the
> old-timers around here lived in the late 1800s, with orchards, gardens,
> vineyards, berry patches, etc..., and I am not expecting things to get
> suddenly savage, but just to spiral downward in a continuation of
> current trends. For instance, I am maintaining heirloom seed lines in
> our garden crops, and have scrounged up old fruit-tree cultivars that
> will live without spraying. I found varieties of cherry and plum trees
> that the Amerinds grew, which can be propagated by root-shoots, so they
> don't need to be grafted, and they don't need spraying though, of
> course, they don't make commercial quality fruits or yield heavily.
> Eighty + years ago people were living all over these mountains, which
> are now part of the national forests, and there are still apple trees
> growing out in those forests where there were small farms. The trees now
> growing there are either root sprouts or seedlings from those old trees,
> that have survived without care for all these decades. I went out, some
> years ago, and gathered half a pick-up load of apples from the better
> trees with nice fruit. I planted all the seeds, and got hundreds of
> seedlings, and gave them very little care for a couple of years. For the
> last couple of years I have been planting the most vigorous survivors
> wherever I can find a good site, and I gave a lot away to people who
> appreciated the idea of saving these old cultivars. Last year I found
> fox-crap full of wild persimmon seeds, so I planted them. I dug up some
> really antique grape vines where an old house was being bulldozed, so I
> do things like that rather than just 'stock-piling' stuff, though the
> day will come when buying vast amounts of consumer goods that wont spoil
> (aluminum foil and canning jar lids come to mind) might be a great
> investment.
>
> RAF
>
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