036 – Aquaculture Community, and Weeds

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In this podcast Paul Wheaton sits down to a roundtable discussion with friends Rob, Krista, Suzy, and Caleb at the Iron Horse Pub in pThe discussion begins with Caleb and Suzy briefly mentioning their conversion to a href="http://www.richsoil.com/cast-iron.jsp"_blank">Cast Iron cook wear and their shock that the ‘non-stick’ modern cookwear actually seem to stick more. Suzy confirms that she has removed the ‘non-stick’ wear from their kitchen and that no one has even noticed. Paul then delves into a rather in-depth discussion regarding his experience building pThe pond talk continues with some anecdotes of dealing with the authorities and installing poly pipe into the pond damn to help ensure year long water flow and aeration. He discusses keeping the line buried in the damn to avoid freezes, and transitioning from one inch to one and a half inch poly near the apex in order to avoid siphon effects. Paul discusses the pros and cons of running poly pipe at the apex, rather than the base, of pond damns. /p pPaul’s food arrives and Krista discusses her experiences while traveling and living in Armenia. In many Armenian communities a href="http://www.permies.com/forums/f-60/cattle"_blank">cows are owned individually by family but are grazed collectively. Each family houses their own animals on a postage square of land half the size of a city lot, but each morning a professional herder will come around town to collect the animals and bring them out to pasture before returning them each evening. Paul likes the idea but maintains that in his opinion such an idea would fall flat on its face in the USA. Krista for her part still views it as in interesting idea and method of organizing a community and food system, while agreeing that the average American is no where near responsible enough to maintain livestock. She notes that every Armenian family had a garden rather than a lawn. Paul goes on to talk about his idea’s of pThey finish the round table with discussion of a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4putIxHsNCk"_blank">Mullen , <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpzsnG8VFeY"_blank"Knapweed/a as well as utilizing other ‘weeds’ even if only as chop and drop mulch. Mullen seems to thrive in compacted sandy and gravely soils and has numerous uses for home remedy including a lung cleansing tea, throat soothing smoke, and soft ‘all natural’ personal wipes. Paul notes that a href="https://www.

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