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To: greeneyes
Garlic braiding is a learned skill, and I clearly need more practice:



The hardneck braid is already coming apart. I'll wait until they dry a little more and redo it. The softneck braid is messy, but holding, so it can stay as-is.

While talking with an advisor about some unrelated matters, I mentioned my plans for my farm. He suggested that I rent the unused fields from 2 of my neighbors. That would give me almost 3 additional tillable acres to work with, and the average rate of $200 per acre per season is certainly reasonable, if I can be sure the lease period is 3 years or more. Pleurisy Root should bring in an estimated $14,000 per acre every 3 years, so I'd be able to rotate a full acre every year, where before I was assuming 1/3 of an acre. With my expenses as low as they are, that's enough to live on. It'll just have to wait until my hours pick up, because I don't have the money right now. Those neighbors are currently letting a local farmer use the fields for hay, but he's not paying rent on it at all. And when I spoke to him last spring, he said he was mainly farming those fields because it pained him to see them go unused. I think I can make this a win-win-win situation. Eventually.

We had a gullywasher of a storm last night! The backyard garden seems to have come through ok, in spite of the hail. But a friend on the other side of town posted pictures, her street is flooded 6 feet deep in spots!!! Thankfully she's ok, but there's a lot of cars that tried to go through it that are total losses.
10 posted on 07/22/2016 10:02:02 AM PDT by Ellendra (Those who kill without reason cannot be reasoned with.)
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To: Ellendra

Nice looking garlic. Thanks for the pics. Great Idea about renting the land. Since they aren’t getting any money now, they might be willing to wait for the rent check, till after your harvest, or maybe for a small % share of the profit after expenses?


14 posted on 07/22/2016 10:13:18 AM PDT by greeneyes
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To: Ellendra

GREAT LOOKING Garlic Ellendra. I could never master the braiding


36 posted on 07/22/2016 5:04:39 PM PDT by tubebender
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