Tag: suburban resilience
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Car park salad greens.
Wild mustard and thistles. They will make a good salad starter. I found them next to a carpark in town.
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Gourmet carpark mushrooms.
Mushrooms growing in a carpark close to the centre of town. I’m not sure what kind these are, but remember having eaten them before.
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Rosehips in time for cold and flu season.
Rosehips are around this time of the year, and appropriately, are full of vitamin C.
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Keeping compost hot.
Bagging the compost bin against cold winds and inclement weather. A garbage bag helps to trap daytime temperature as well as stop the wind while being loose enough to allow air to move around the compost. It’s a cheap and efficient way to improve the efficiency of the composting process.
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Our first (proper) solar panels.
A couple of 50W solar panels and a regulator, secondhand through the good graces of a friend. Its charging an old motorcycle battery at between 15 and 19V depending on the mood of the sun. Soon, I will have to mount it to the house and get a really good battery.
