By doing it at the beginning of the dormant season, the collateral damage is very low. Permethrin is toxic to bees, fish, amphibians, and others, so we don’t use this method during their active seasons. This way, we can minimize the chances of any unintended species interacting with the tubes during the 45 day period when the permethrin is active

We put cardboard tubes from toilet paper rolls, stuffed with shredded natural fibers (I’m clumsy and ruin shirts), that have been doused with permethrin out in the areas where voles and mice are each autumn. The rodents use the bits of cloth for their winter nests and the permethrin kills the ticks they’re carrying without harming any of the other arthropods we want around. It’s an easy, inexpensive, and reuse-minded way to help mitigate tick levels. Before doing it, I’d pull off several dozen ticks before June but the past few years I’ve pulled maybe five or so. An ounce of prevention, and all that jazz

I don’t advocate use of urine for folks on persistent medications and the like, but otherwise the guidelines I use are pretty basic:

Direct use is fine for plants not being used for consumption, or for trees and shrubs where the food portion is off the ground and away from splash back. If they’re where others can see you it might be better to use a container to be more discreet.

Anything else will get a helping of the homemade compost with homemade charcoal that’s been used to sequester the nutrients (also homemade).

Iirc many of the contaminants will be salts which will get flushed with irrigation or precipitation, but folks can also just dilute urea with water 10:1 or more to reduce the likelihood of salt buildup in the soil

“Invasive species” is a technical ecology term used to describe plants and animals that face no predation in a given environment and have a negative effect on the other species native to that environment. Like many other scientific terms, it was misused by people without the technical understanding.

The crux of your argument is species drift compared to forced mass introduction, but there’s a huge difference between them. It’s similar to the difference in outcomes that can occur when somebody surfaces after deep diving. Go slow enough, and the systems have an opportunity to acclimate to the changes and respond. Go quickly enough, and things break and start impacting systems around them in a cascade. That’s the thing that gets missed every time I see this sentiment.

I can’t really tell you about your situation, but my wife and I did the math for our ROI on a set of roof mounted panels by assuming that the power company would continue raising rates. We averaged the delivery increases and generation cost increases over the number of years we had been in our home, then ran that annual increase over the lifespan of the panels. Rather than being a twelve year break even point it worked out to about seven. In our case, Maine has okay laws about net metering so check what your state and municipality’s regulations about it are. Look at your overall financial picture. If you can’t do it without a loan, shop for your own loan rather than just taking the installer’s.

To answer your question anecdotally, this past summer we were very happy to only pay our grid connection fee of $18 monthly while our neighbors complained about $300 (or higher) each month. You might not hit your full generation needs, but you might make enough of a dent to make it worth your investment

Ceanothus americanus produces the same compounds as C. sinensis, just without the caffeine. You can even make green or black teas with it depending on whether you oxidize the leaves or not.

But that’s how I remember to Rest, Ice, Compress, and Elevate injuries

Mushi-shi. Incredibly beautiful art and wonderfully written stories about a guy who travels the countryside, using research and nonviolent methods to resolve issues between humans and the spirit creatures known as Mushi

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Will give you this picture of me holding a goat

The last episode of Sliders had the main character and troupe finally make it back to their original dimension after 5 seasons - Quinn runs up to the gate at his mother’s house exclaiming that he knows this gate and it’s been squeaky forever, only to open it with no squeak. Demoralized, they all walk back into the dimensional gateway and leave. As the gateway closes, Quinn’s mother runs outside - calling to him that she finally got the gate fixed but nobody’s there anymore.

How is Sliders not the top of this list, let alone even on it? I haven’t seen the show since it went off air 25 years ago and that last scene and fade to black still haunts me to this day.

No you don’t

600G of strawberries retails for £4.50 (Tesco). If this whole setup cost only a million pounds, a producer would have to grow 133,333,332G worth of strawberries to pay it off, and this assumes nothing breaks (ever) and that there is some way to harvest that many strawberries without paying labor, packaging, licensing, and other costs. I feel like this was a cool tech demo but that’s about it

Which is probably a first for some of these folks

Whitewashing is the act of minimizing or covering up vices, crimes or scandals, or of exonerating the guilty by means of a perfunctory investigation or biased presentation of data with the intention to improve someone’s reputation.

Seventy secondth

I truly apologize for not reading your username correctly before making a snarky comment, and deeply regret and am sorry for any negative feelings I may have caused.

It is my hope beyond hope that you are able to have your body match who you are inside, you beautiful beautiful wonderful person, you.

I’ve heard it’s not the size of the pickle but how flavorful the brine is.

Or something, I’m not crazy about pickles or cucumbers

Push for it in your state, first. We’re still in the first few cycles using RCV in Maine (I like STAR better) where folks are learning to love it, but there’s no time like now to get that ball rolling. More people need to experience it to shift the national conversation of “whether we should” to “which should we use”