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November 16, 2008

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Here is last years xmas light! Any ideas for this year?

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Apiary - Warré or TBH or Langstroth = Happy Bees

This spring, {2013} we plan to add Bees to our sustainable farm project. Like most of our project we are trying to do as much research before we get our creature. At the moment I’m trying to figure out if I want to get a Top Bar Hive or a Warré Hive. Let’s begin with some of the research I’ve done.

Let's take a step back and look at the way honeybees live in the wild. Most feral honeybees prefer to nest in hollow trees. That means they are quite well insulated from the elements, with thick wooden walls on the sides.

Nest chambers of wild bees are vertically elongated cylinders with a capacity of about 8 to 16 gallons. The deep brood box that most Langstroth hives begin with has a capacity of about 11 gallons, and beekeepers generally add on at least one more deep brood box or two shallow supers. That makes the wild bee hives sound small, but keep in mind that wild bees don't sock away as much honey as we ask our bees to. Instead, they swarm as soon as conditions in the h…

Why I don't panic during crypto price swings.

If you haven't heard my story on how I own 400 Bitcoin at one point please listen to my podcast. The clifnotes are in 2009/2010 I own 400 bitcoin, dbled my money and moved on to other things. It wasn't until late 2011 when I bought Litecoin till I got back in.

Morning Mountain Chat Podcast: Crypto

BitCoin History:

05.10.2009
official exchange rate was the following: $1 = ฿1,309,03 (so ฿1 = $0,00076). Satoshi weren't a thing. (one-hundred-millionth of a bitcoin); mining was something you did for he love of the blockchain not for the profit. Hardware and electricity bills were expensive.

Mid 2010:
$0.08 = ฿1

Late 2010:
$0.5 = ฿1

2011:
09.02.2011 - $1 = ฿1
02.06.2011 - $10 = ฿1
09.06.2011 - $31.911 = ฿1
12 June 2011 - $10 = ฿1 (First major correction)

Late 2011:
$10 = ฿1

2012—relative stability in the $8 range.

2013:
28.02.2013 - $31.92 = ฿1
22.03.2013 - $74.90 = ฿1 — a noticeable growth:
10.04.2013 - $266 = ฿1 — another noticeable growth:
02.10.2013 - $109.71 = ฿1— a steep decl…

Chukz - Chicken Tractors - Beginners "A Frame

With Spring just around the corner, I though we should start talking about chickens. I want to begin with some very simple plans for building chicken tractors.

What is a chicken tractor? a movable chicken enclosure to allow the chicken to do their natural chicken activities, scratch, dirt bath, solar panel ( where they lay on their side spread out a wing, and absorb the sun's rays ). What's great about chicken tractors is how you can use them to mow your lawn. It might take a month, but chicken are awesome at chewing down grass. Here is a great basic plan to begin with.
One square (10 by 10 feet) of weather boarding Frame for chicken coop and run (above).
6 inches wide, for covering in the coop.
44 feet of 4 by 1, for base and ridge.
56 feet of 3 by 1, for eight rafters.
28 feet of 3 by 1-1/2, for four rafters.
50 feet of 2 by 1-1/2, for door frames and doors.
6 feet of 2 by 2, for tie T.
45 feet of 2-foot hardware cloth.
Two pairs of hinges; two locks; staples, e…

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