u/hycarumba

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I take a couple of tablespoons of chia seeds in almond milk every day or so. Within 1-1.5 hours, I have to poop. Not a huge morning one but enough that I am very uncomfortable if I am not near a bathroom. It's way too fast for it to have gone all the way through and my next day poops are great.

I don't have this extra poop unless I have the fiber. This happens with flaxseed as well but not psyllium (though I have only done that in 2 teaspoon doses, not tablespoon doses).

I'm super curious as to what is going on that my body reacts this way every single time I take my fiber. It does happen if I don't soak the seeds (like if I put them in my salad) and it doesn't happen with just the almond milk alone.

Thoughts?

I just do daily fasting, anywhere between 18 and 19 hours, usually. I don't start eating until 11am at the earliest.

Problem is that the heat is killing me and I am getting light headed and dizzy when I am working outside (we own a small vegetable farm and orchard) lately and I have been eating at 10 or so out of necessity.

I do drink water and lots of it with lemon and pink salt. That works great as long as it's not over 85. When it is, I just can't.

There has to be people doing IF that work in the heat. What are your tips?

Last meal every day is regular supper, it varies but protein, fat, carb. Last night was a lot of extra vegetables so I think that's contributing?

Help? I really want to make it to past 11, 12 is better.

Hi, I'm new to cover crops but experienced vegetable grower. Last year I planted daikon in two, 40' x 4' rows after the garlic was harvested from those spots. It flourished and later died in the frosts pre-flowering.

This year one row is planted in assorted summer and winter squash seeds with a few plants and the other was planted in bush green beans seed. That was 3 weeks ago. To date, exactly 6 beans and one squash have germinated and all of the plants but one have either died or are struggling bad.

Any thoughts as to what happened? It's just where I planted the daikon that things are struggling or not germinating, everything else is growing fine.

Hi, all, my provider is closing. She provides bioidentical HRT, which I prefer. (I don't want to hear about it if you don't, thanks.) I am looking for an online provider that is either reasonably priced or takes insurance for the "office" visit AND who prescribes both E and T AND does bioidentical HRT cream (the amounts used per dose for hormones from the regular pharmacy are disgusting and I greatly prefer the smaller size of the dose with bioidentical).

Barring that I am happy with an online provider in Colorado who meets these criteria.

Yes I read the wiki and checked out all the listed sites but cannot find the answers to these specific questions on their sites.

Thank you all!

Not sure this is the right flair.

I, a fiber artist, have been working on pieces for my own family and friends for about 6 years. Four years ago after so many, "wow this is so cool you should sell these!", I got in mind to do some art festivals and for 3 years I have been.

Some sales, great responses, etc. I primarily now choose subject matter based on a combination of what I am inspired to do combined with what I think will sell, rather than just what I want to do.

I'm older, semi-retired, sufficient income without my art. My husband and I were talking about the shows I'm in later this summer and what a pain they can be. We're deciding if this is a lifestyle we want to participate in.

My question is: for those of you who make physical art just because, what do you do with all that you make if you have exhausted the areas of your home to place it and all of your friends have enough?

Do you just have piles of art laying around? Do you sell it cheaply to get rid of it?

I don't envision not making anything as part of my future but I don't know that doing these shows is worth the hassle. I have almost zero renown and don't do social media marketing (also exhausting) so don't anticipate having a bigger market share to readily purchase my work.

So what do I do with my art? And, perhaps more importantly, how do I escape the mindset that I need to monetize my creations?

I am a semi-retired vegetable and garlic farmer. We also have a good sized heritage apple orchard and sell apples and apple products every other year when we get apples.

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Two years ago we retired from selling garlic and turned one area into more apple orchard-in-progress but kept about an acre of garden space. We've just been growing vegetables for sale and for us.

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We're in yet another drought and I would also like to spend my time in the summer doing some other things besides weeding and watering. Our back up well went dry before the end of last summer and this year it's so low that we can't draw from it. We don't have to sell much to maintain our ag status. I'd like to cut the remaining patch down to about 2/3 of an acre for vegetables.

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My question is what to do with the area that we will no longer be planting? Originally I was thinking some more fruit trees, but they take a lot of water. Right now we're thinking raspberries (with a barrier). We have two big patches now and they are very productive with only weekly water.

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There has to be other things that we just aren't thinking about potentially planting that would give a good return with less water and less work than veggies. Any ideas?

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We are in 5b/c with a pretty short season but I can still get small pumpkins and such.

Every time I think I find one, turns out it was just a trial and I have no money. It's a huge pain to keep track in a notebook. I don't need macro or micro information, just straight up calories and the ability to type in "cheddar cheese" or whatever and get how many calories an ounce is and put that down for me as something I ate that day.

I can't find anything so simple. They all are charging initially or at some point. I'm on android. This has to exist, right?

Through every fault of my own I ended up with a couple of dozen failed grafts this year. All apple or pear.

I'd like to recoup some of my investment by saving the rootstock for use next winter. Would I just plant the rootstock in a pot like a finished graft and keep them watered through the winter until grafting time? Would it be better to put them in a pot or in the ground (presuming I can dig the ground come February)?

Please let me know how things are done, if this can be done.