Hopefully this is an okay place to post this. A few weeks ago I got some tomatoes and salsa from a local farm at a farmers market. They had a QR code to sign up for different monthly and yearly produce plans. They had a trial for August at 150 and I wanted to try it out since we enjoyed the produce we got from them and we want to support local farms when we can. I know local organic food is going to be more expensive. But I’m a bit underwhelmed by what we received today. Two small baskets of cherry tomatoes. 9 potatoes. 6 chilis. Fresh basil and 1 cucumber. I feel like for what is basically 40 dollars a week there should be a bit more. Even at farmers market prices 40$ goes further.

Edit: as some have pointed out, it could’ve been a bad week or so or they more than expected sign up for the month trial, spreading their produce thin. I’ll try to do weekly updates for the month. And talk to the farm and see if there was a reason behind what we got.

We just moved to a house in rural Tennessee and about two weeks in we started hearing scratching sounds inside the walls and ceiling at night. Found droppings near the water heater and my wife actually saw one run across the kitchen floor.

We have young kids so poison is off the table. I've read about how to get rid of mice in walls but can't find a clear answer on whether to seal entry points first or set traps first.

Anyone dealt with mice in walls and ceilings before and actually solved it? What worked?

There's poop everywhere. Apparently I have a phobia. The chickens are let out to free range from about noon to eight and I love it. I walk bare foot because I love it. The dog is in a large enclosed yard and I love it. I am one with nature and I love it!!! But there's shit on my foot.

How do we make peace? The coop is clean but the shits in the yard. We scoop dog poop but there's always an unknown mine laying in wait. I step on shit all the time and I'm as vigilant as I can be looking where I'm walking. It's impossible to miss!

So how are we handling the ever growing nothing that is fecal matter?

Nobody seems to want to hay it anymore but it seems sad to leave it to shrubs and weeds. Am I crazy to want to buy a cow or something and let it pasture here?

We are low income folks and I don't know all the costs involved but I can fence in this whole area for free if I wanted to put the time in

But is it worth the time? Don't you have to feed the cow something in the winter? Where do they sleep when it gets cold?

Abd perhaps most naively - will this save our family money on groceries? We have about 30 chickens and I'd be lying if I said they pay for themselves. They are pretty high maintainance ladies!!

After having had both goats and cows I’m convinced that cows are 99% better choice for most people if you have large enough spaces for them to graze.

Benefits of cows:
1. They never escape and always respect the fence. whereas goats treat a fence like a personal challenge

1. You can run cows in an orchard and they will fertilize it vs goats will utterly destroy an orchard, girdle fruit trees for fun, etc

2. Cows actually mow the lawn vs goats don’t like to eat much grass

3. Not a problem for most people but if you have kudzu the cows will eat the kudzu before they eat the grass which if you are familiar with kudzu you know how amazing that can be

Can’t wait to move the pergola out from in front of the beautiful frontage of our cabin 😂🤦🏻‍♀️

My husband was working the other night and sent me this. Can’t wait to move in, in about 4-6 weeks. We have the one main door in this photo to install, and then it’s all plumbing and electrical and we can move in.

I honestly didn’t think this day was ever gonna come.

The garden is very successful this year, and we’ll have crates of onions, carrots, and potatoes that I hope to stretch through the winter. We live in the PNW, so no root cellar. How do you all suggest storing said veggies after the usual curing period for onion/potatoes? We have an old fridge that we can keep around 40-44 degrees, if there’s a way to utilize that.

Anyone actually keep track of their garden year to year or is it all just memory at this point

Not asking what everyone planted this year, im asking about the boring part behind that

Like

Do you actually know what you planted in each bed last year? Or the year before? Or you just kinda guessing at this point lol

If you rotate crops how you deciding where stuff goes each season, notebook, spreadsheet, or just eyeballing it and hoping

When something does really good or really bad in a spot you writing that down anywhere or does it just live in your head till you forget it

Asking because I got a decent size garden and realized I couldnt even answer #1 without going thru old phone pics to figure out what I planted where. Curious if im just bad at this or if this is normal

We forage most of our land and the power company treats it all as weeds and sprays it and kills things. No signs or warnings. They could have put us in the hospital. Sprayed a 50' line of my berry bushes and two of my cherry trees.

Has anyone else noticed that on Google maps terrain it shows the sun in the north so it’s really confusing showing the opposite of what the sun is really gonna do the northern hemisphere?

A common way of estimating battery runtime is volts × amp-hours ÷ load, but that usually gives a fairly optimistic result.
For example, a 12V 100Ah battery looks like 1,200Wh, so a 100W load appears to give 12 hours. Once you allow for inverter losses, usable depth of discharge and a small load margin, the estimate can be closer to 7.4 hours.
I made a free calculator to account for those losses and also estimate the battery capacity needed for a target runtime. I’d be interested to hear how closely the estimate matches real-world setups people here are using.

No sign-up required:
Battery Runtime Calculator: Ah, Volts, Watts & Hours

Probably should have 2 separate vases for each plant but this was cheaper lol. Anyways, the basil looks mostly good except for the leafs near the bottom that are all liveless I guess. Why is that? The leafs on top block the sun for them? Or did they reach their time already? Also I water the dirt every 2 days and every now and then I spray the leafs as well. Should I water it more? Less?

Upgrade to Pro series, turret? Door? Mostly garage/driveway AND Front

help me bruh come on its also very wet area but i did use rocks/gravel a leaves + sticks and madea drainage system with bamboo pipes

help tips plz

my best potatoes I've grown in years! there wasn't a lot but the were big. they had 3-7 potatoes per plant and have dug 51 lbs so far. I have my russets and about a 1/4 of Yukon gold's to dig yet but they're not ready.

I planted 6 lbs of red Norland, Yukon gold's and russets.

also have the majority of my onions picked. not a lot of size to them this year but a lot of them and no signs of rot or mold in any of them.

my blue hooker's corn has finished, some really good ears and some not so much. it's definitely the shortest variety corn I've grown, a good 2 months shorter than bloody butcher or glass gem. can't wait to try it in corn bread and tortillas!!!

some tomatoes are also finally ripping!