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Frogs, Water Pipes and Grow Beds

2025-04-27

It is pretty much time to propagate some more sunfish in our outdoor water trough. As usual, with water left in the trough through winter, the tree frogs moved in to make it their own. There are hundreds, possibly over a thousand tadpoles meandering up and down the shallow water. Although I encourage the frogs, and have even put out totes with water in them for the frogs to have some standing water each spring, I had intended to empty the trough. Not ideally, mosquitoes have also squatted there. I expect that when I move in some of the sunfish that will make short work of any mosquito larva swimming around it there. They will likely chow down on the tadpoles too, but I don't expect that they will be endangered considering their large numbers and the maturity of some of them.

I had started on rebuilding the water connections outside of the barn last year, but that got delayed due to some personal problems (no!, not that I'm too lazy!). In any case I took the opportunity to work on that since I will need water going though the barn wall and into the mushroom growing area. Those connections shown will allow me to divert water from two sources to each of the areas below. That includes the restrooms, the aqua house, the barn interior, hoses, and the orchard. It will eventually be insulated and covered to prevent winter freezing after the rest of the connections are made, and the wire coming from the pressure switch is run down from the top room.

As mentioned many times, we can't grow normal crops due to voles. So we are trying a few protected beds. The first few will be located in the fenced in orchard. Neither the OSU Extension, nor organic certifiers could tell me of any studies concerning galvanized cloth to protect plants, or whether it may be a concern due to heavy metals leeching from the hardware cloth and into any food plants. As galvanized materials are ubiquitous (field fencing, gates, greenhouse pipes, etc.) on farms, I was surprised. The only guidance I received was that if I used any metal material to grow plants, then I need to test them to be sure no heavy metals are present. Geeze! You'd think someone would know! Anyway, we are digging several beds and lining them with 1/4 inch mesh galvanized hardware cloth and with stainless steel hardware cloth. Then, of course, after we plant the tea in them, we will have to keep spending money on testing for years. The first bed completed below is eight feet wide and 46 feet long and will use 1-1/2 rolls of 4 foot by 100 foot mesh.

Frogs, Water Pipes and Grow Beds

2025-04-27

It is pretty much time to propagate some more sunfish in our outdoor water trough. As usual, with water left in the trough through winter, the tree frogs moved in to make it their own. There are hundreds, possibly over a thousand tadpoles meandering up and down the shallow water. Although I encourage the frogs, and have even put out totes with water in them for the frogs to have some standing water each spring, I had intended to empty the trough. Not ideally, mosquitoes have also squatted there. I expect that when I move in some of the sunfish that will make short work of any mosquito larva swimming around it there. They will likely chow down on the tadpoles too, but I don't expect that they will be endangered considering their large numbers and the maturity of some of them.

I had started on rebuilding the water connections outside of the barn last year, but that got delayed due to some personal problems (no!, not that I'm too lazy!). In any case I took the opportunity to work on that since I will need water going though the barn wall and into the mushroom growing area. Those connections shown will allow me to divert water from two sources to each of the areas below. That includes the restrooms, the aqua house, the barn interior, hoses, and the orchard. It will eventually be insulated and covered to prevent winter freezing after the rest of the connections are made, and the wire coming from the pressure switch is run down from the top room.






As mentioned many times, we can't grow normal crops due to voles. So we are trying a few protected beds. The first few will be located in the fenced in orchard. Neither the OSU Extension, nor organic certifiers could tell me of any studies concerning galvanized cloth to protect plants, or whether it may be a concern due to heavy metals leeching from the hardware cloth and into any food plants. As galvanized materials are ubiquitous (field fencing, gates, greenhouse pipes, etc.) on farms, I was surprised. The only guidance I received was that if I used any metal material to grow plants, then I need to test them to be sure no heavy metals are present. Geeze! You'd think someone would know! Anyway, we are digging several beds and lining them with 1/4 inch mesh galvanized hardware cloth and with stainless steel hardware cloth. Then, of course, after we plant the tea in them, we will have to keep spending money on testing for years. The first bed completed below is eight feet wide and 46 feet long and will use 1-1/2 rolls of 4 foot by 100 foot mesh.







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Merchants of Poison Report final 12/05/2022

(with 579 cited references)


Find out about: America's (now the World's) Favorite Poison By Far!


“In order to save glyphosate, the Monsanto corporation has undertaken an effort to destroy the United Nations’ cancer agency by any means possible.”[10]

... " just four companies — Bayer, Corteva (formerly DowDuPont), BASF and Syngenta/ChemChina — controlled 75 percent of plant breeding research, 60 percent of the commercial seed market, and 76 percent of global agrichemical sales in 2019."[78]



Just gotta' LOVE glyphosate, right?????

Yes, the second link is old news, but not forgotten and more importantly, as the first link shows, not remedied:

Monsanto / Bayer's Roundup Triggers Over 40 Plant Diseases and Endangers Human and Animal Health. Protect yourself and those you care about!

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/argentinasRoundupHumanTragedy.php    

http://www.NaturalNews.com/031138_Monsanto_Roundup.html

[10] Foucart, S. & Horel, S. (2019, April 7). Monsanto Papers. European Press Prize. https://www.europeanpressprize.com/article/monsanto-papers/

[78] ETC Group. (2019, April 06). New report: Putting the cartel before the horse…and farm, seeds, soil, peasants. https://www.etcgroup.org/content/new-report-putting-cartel-horse%E2%80%A6and-farm-seeds-soil-peasants

Just Say No To GMO by Michael Adams - Video
https://www.naturalnews.com/NoGMO.html

Just Say No To GMO by Michael Adams - Music
https://oregonTruffleTryst.com/_MEDIA/JustSayNoToGMO-192.mp3 Song Lyrics

Song by Mike Adams, with spoken lines from Jeffrey Smith

I’m lookin at the food that’s in the grocery store
They say it’s safe, everybody eat more.
On second thought, I don’t really know if it’s made with those GMOs

So I’m lookin for the non-GMO label ‘fore I bring it home and put it on my table
I wanna know it’s verified so I don’t
Harm myself with genetically modified

Uh-Oh
They don’t want you to know
All the poison they grow
The corporate profits they show from those GMO OH

Those Frankenseeds that they sow
They’re gonna hurt us we know
It’s time we told ‘em to go, say GMO NO!

I don’t want eat poison, I don’t want gene mutations at my dinner reservations
it’s a food abomination what they doin’ to this fast food nation
They take artificial gene combinations
inject them in seed variations
so they can grow their Frankenfood imitations
while the side effects cause medical patients

Keep their profits alive while they
spraying all the food with name brand herbicides
and all the while they’re spreadin’ their lies
Monsanto (Bayer now!) destroyin’ farmers lives
and the FDA keeps it all going
saying it’s safe even though they all know it’s just
poison stealing away your life, and that’s what you eat with genetically modified.

GMO safety huh that’s a corporate myth
if you don’t believe me listen to Jeffery Smith
He’s the man with plan gonna do what he can
To help us all get those GMOs banned
But we need you to lend a hand
take a stand against this food scam
It’s a mission for the health condition worldwide
We don’t wanna live genetically modified

Don’t eat food unless you know what’s in it
Don’t believe the propaganda cuz the press will spin it
Affects everybody, we all up in it
Stand up to Monsanto (Bayer now!), tell ‘em oh no you didn’t

Reject Frankenfoods in the store
demand honest labels so we can be informed
We have a natural right to know
What we buyin’ Just say no to GMO

Before our farms start dyin’
Just say no to GMO

Those corporate crooks are lyin’
Just say no to GMO

This time we’re not complyin’
Just say no to GMO

We’re just not buyin’ it
Just say no to GMO

Song and Lyrics © 2010 by Michael Adams, All Rights Reserved

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