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Growing Oca: July 2010
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Top Tips for good yields. List of Oca Trials. Tuesday, 20 July 2010. This Oca Relative Tastes Better than Oca! Here's another Oxalis weed which has arrived on the plot. I only took notice of it when I dug it out with a trowel during some detailed weeding. It had a substantial (for the size of the plant) tuber. Having a curious nature, I washed it and tasted a corner. It tasted good, so I munched the whole thing. It tasted sweet, moist, succulent, and had no hint of oxalic acid. Update: My later post.
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Growing Oca: Extending the Oca Growing Season through Frost Protection
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Top Tips for good yields. List of Oca Trials. Thursday, 12 December 2013. Extending the Oca Growing Season through Frost Protection. The death of foliage from frost signals the end of the oca season, but at this time of year when tuberisation is in full swing, any slight extension of the growing season will have the maximum effect on crop yield. I stress that again; even one extra week without killing frost could easily have more effect on yield than any other factor over the whole growing period. Avoidi...
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Survival in the Wasteland: January 2013
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Survival in the Wasteland. Thursday, January 24, 2013. Thoughts on arts and crafts pt.1. The way we make things is very important to us. We strive for beauty and functionality in everything we craft, and we long for a return to beauty in the things we use everyday. Following are thoughts on arts and crafts that i simply couldn't have stated more clearly, so i'll echo th' words of th' late Soetsu Yanagi as translated by Bernard Leach, from the book The Unknown Craftsman. The Facts have to be faced concern...
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Survival in the Wasteland: "Now kids, never play with fire."
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Survival in the Wasteland. Tuesday, March 11, 2014. Now kids, never play with fire.". We recently held a traditional fire making class for kids. It was a cold day, 12 degrees fahrenheit and snowy, yet still th' kids came out. What a great day to make fire. Learning how to make fire with many different methods is a very empowering skill set to have. Fire is one of the basic elements, and has been used by mankind through out history. Why, i wonder, did we trade fire for electricity. The snow packed down qu...
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Survival in the Wasteland: Wild foods of Northern Colorado
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Survival in the Wasteland. Wednesday, October 19, 2011. Wild foods of Northern Colorado. Wild foods of northern Colorado,. Specifically Ft. Collins and surrounding areas. Only food parts that we've actually eaten are listed. Let Food be thy Medicine, and Medicine be thy Food. Acorn Elm - (seeds). Salsify - (flower, stalks and buds, roots) Linden - (leaves, flowers, berries). Black Locust (flowers, beans) Burdock - (flower stalk, leaf petioles, root). Apples - (who knows how many kinds? Clover - (red and ...
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Survival in the Wasteland: May 2013
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Survival in the Wasteland. Tuesday, May 28, 2013. Foraging Tour and Oil Lamps. We just led our first official Foraging tour, and were pleasantly surprised at how well it went. We had about twenty folks there, and planned th tour for two hours. But as always with foraging, theres no end of surprises. . Rosemary with a nicely twisted string. Th kids in their hobo shelter. Links to this post. Friday, May 10, 2013. Stalking th' wild Asparagus, and other spring goodies. On these, and how to find them amongst ...
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Survival in the Wasteland: December 2012
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Survival in the Wasteland. Tuesday, December 04, 2012. Sinew Backed Hackberry Bow. Finally, if the student be observant, the arrow will write for him long chapters about the people, the fishes, birds and beasts of the separate regions and their peculiar habits. From North American Bows, Arrows and Quivers by Otis T. Mason, 1893. Finished up my favorite bow to date- it's a sinew backed hackberry. Measures 62 inches nock to nock- pulls 48 pounds at 26 inches of draw. Nice little design/knot on belly fade.
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Greenwood Working and Woodland Crafts. 2014 Courses and Events Calendar. This years calendar of courses. A new course this year is Wooden Rake Making at the Weald and Downland Museum and I am planning to run a scything course which will include bracken management and weed management rather than lawns and grass in July – date to be confirmed – now confirmed 18th July on Lynchmere Commons. The Scything courses are located under Smallholder/Heavy horses. 8211; Yes it took me a while to find them as well!
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Growing Oca: Skirret—Growing, Selecting (and Eating)
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Top Tips for good yields. List of Oca Trials. Friday, 3 January 2014. Skirret—Growing, Selecting (and Eating). From two sources last year; seed from a commercial supplier, and a few root-cuttings presumably from plants which had already received some selection. Seed-grown plants are highly variable, and give the chance to select for larger root production, so rather than lift the plants piecemeal as required for the kitchen, I'm checking the whole crop to choose and propagate from the best. I can also se...
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Growing Oca: September 2010
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Top Tips for good yields. List of Oca Trials. Monday, 27 September 2010. Inky Oca Lands in London! I've just received a sudden and unexpected surge of oca germplasm direct from darkest Peru! Thanks to friend, Joel Carbonnel. For giving me the pick from his box of mixed Andean tubers. Pride of place must go to this almost-black oca. It seems different to any of the other varieties. Its rarity (or non-existence? The second tuber was nearly ignored, being a variety that I already have, but. The tubers will ...