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Well I've never actually done it but I vaguely remember reading somewhere a long long time ago (so I'm not accurate ok :wink: ) about a simple drum made of chicken wire. Wheat was rotated inside that and apparently did the job This chicken wire must obviously have been the small mesh type..I suppose.

oh by the way that wipe down with a damp flannel followed by a vigorous drying with a clean towel is very effective and quite invigorating if there are no other facilities available. There's no need to be dirty if there is no shower around!!

The smell issue is interesting cos everyone is a bit different. Smell has a lot to do with levels of stress and more especially diet I think. Some people who have lots of meat in their diet for example tend to pong more than a more moderate meat diet. Personally however I wash or not wash I find tha...

I think it is likely to be far sooner than that but time is a relative thing and doesn't change our individual responsibility to do the right thing.

Gidday Yeah, but Robin, that's the scientific ways. Therefore if you want to follow that line you gotta go chemical farming. Just leave it to nature and put on as much un-decomposed green vegetable matter as you can onto the surface or top layer of the soil and nature will do all the hard expensive...

I agree ph is not worth worrying about - whether your soil is too acidic or too alkaline the remedy is still to add plenty of humus/compost to your garden.

It is inevitable that the earth and our solar system should die - just as we all do.

Be careful about heavy meal contamination when using human manures. Your diet would need to be pretty clean to be relatively free of heavy metals.

Well I guess it has a lot to do with real education - if people have never had the exposure to the origin of things and have never wondered about things then it would be quite easy to be ignorant. Its quite easy to get stuck in one little world and not realise that there is more. At least there's th...

Nepal

I'd like to be still breathing if God wills

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I voted yes but its taken me a while to think about why! Basically to me names are not important - I'm more interested in the sharing of ideas and information in the hope that we can help each other with the selfsufficientish principle in mind. Guess I enjoy the anonymity and freedom of the internet...

Just like to offer the warning that baking soda is quite abrasive so really good for general cleaning. I wouldn't use it on my skin. I use baking soda and white vinegar for most stubborn things but due to its acid nature I wouldn't use vinegar for my personal cleaning. Most personal cleaning for me ...

My first thought that there was too much nitrogen as well.