Off-grid post, 4.28.20

alfalfa: link;

Alfalfa is useful in feeding animals like rabbits, which I am considering as a meat source.

Off-grid post, 4.13.20

I've been consolidating my info sources lately. I may resume making informational videos. However, they'll not be posted on Youtube. These will be for my own use. Since I expect to not be so much online as before, the videos won't be useful online. They'll be on a stick for my reference.

There are three books on my old Kindle. I've been upgrading the bookmarks and notes on the device. The one I've worked on today was the one about shelters. It is a comprehensive book on how to make shelters out of available materials. In my own case, it may be hard to make a shelter out of trees when there aren't any.

But not to worry. There are a lot of good ideas here that I can use. I haven't given up on the idea of making the Quonset concept work. As a matter of fact, the book gave me an idea that gives me the confidence that I can make that work after all.

I don't know when I'll make the move, if ever. My health is the deciding factor. If I feel good enough in the next year and a half, I may do it.

Pigweed: A possible food source?

Pigweed: Pictures, Flowers, Leaves and Identification | Amaranthus retroflexus: Pigweed (Amaranthus retroflexus) is wild, edible and nutritious food. Identify pigweed via its pictures, habitat, height, flowers and leaves.


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Yucca faxoniana - Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_faxoniana

As a part of my goal to consolidate all my info sources, I am studying the Kindle book about plants that are found in the Trans-Pecos region of Texas. This is where I have my 40 acres.

I list a couple of links. One is for amaranth, aka "pigweed". It so happens that this plant is just about everywhere. It is thought of as a weed, but it does have food value. I'm not so sure that I have any of this growing wild on my land. If not, it could possibly be considered as a "crop" to cultivate.

The other link is to the yucca, which is definitely present on my land. It is a species known as "Spanish Dagger". In one of my videos, there is one visible that was overturned. I suspect that it was overturned by some free-ranging cattle in the area. Cattle will knock one of these over in order to get at the flowers, which are edible. But there aren't that many of these yucca, so free-ranging cattle have to work hard for just a little nourishment. That particular one was just about 5 feet tall. The bigger ones on the property can be too big for even a cow to knock over.

I don't like the idea of somebody else's cattle to be free-ranging on my land. But that is a different subject.