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Revision as of 17:03, 22 February 2011
General
- metal stakes, fence posts, other posts for fencing and staking of trees
- pipe wrenches; wrench, socket, screwdriver, drilling bit sets
- nuts, bolts, screws, fasteners of all types
- Metal- shafts, rods, tubing, sheet, bar, etc - aluminum and steel
- Lumber - studs, 4x4s, 4x8 sheets
- chicken wire, fencing
- hand tools, garden tools (shovels, rakes, etc), power tools
- hammers, crowbars, pickaxes, wedges, and deconstruction equipment
- rope, wire, chain, electrical wire, electrical cords (broken ok)
- poly tubbing, rubber hose, fuel line, PVC pipe, garden hoses (broken ok)
- canned food, quart jars
- rebar, cement
- manure, pots, soil, organic fertilizer, strawbales
- beehives, bees, honey extractor
- 5 gallon buckets
- 1/4 hp and higher electric motors
- hinges, shelving
- Exterior paint; wood varnish, wood shellac (for cordwood building finish)
- Good gloves needed for work doing a lot of handling of rough materials. Most cheap gloves wear out within 1-3 days.
Plants
This includes seed, nut, cuttings, divisions, etc:
- Excess or unwanted full-size fruit/nut/berry trees/plants for propagation and transplanting (such as when you're taking out a tree)
- Plants for propagation by cuttings, rood division, etc -
- Cold temperature kiwi
- Nanking cherry
- Yellow, full size sweet cherry
- Gooseberries, currants
- Aronia viking cultivar
- Trazels and hazelnuts (blight resistant)
- Diversity of other useful, edible plants
- Perennial garlic
- Perennial parsnips
- Perennial onion
According to the book "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell,
The hunter-gatherer ǃKung people work no more than 19 hours a week.
They do not grow any plants or raise any animals, but subsist mainly on perennial fruits, berries, roots, and nuts.
When a bushman was asked once why his people hadn't taken to agriculture, he looked puzzled and said,
"Why should we plant, when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world?"
Books
- Hartmann and Kester, Plant Propagation Principles
Richard: I have this book ^^, i didnt have enough space to bring it with me to CDA. Ill bring it out next time. I have several others as well:
The Nature and Properties of Soils: Nyle C Brady, Ray R. Weil Introduction to Environmental Soil Physics: Daniel Hillel Home Horticulture: Principles and Practices: Marietta Loehrelein Textbook of Dendrology: Ninth Edition: Hardin, Leopold, White Environmental Science: G. Tyler Miller, Scott Spoolman Welding: The fundamentals of welding, cutting, brazing, soldering, and surfacing of metals
- The Second Industrial Divide by Piore
- Fruit and Nut Production by Brenda Olcott-Reid and William Reid, 2007
- The Creature from Jekyll Island