Comments on: Goats, Guests, Garlic and Chaos

By: Claire

Claire — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:23:14 +0000

My neighbor, the one I help with her garden, has a toilet planter in her front yard, in deep suburbia in the most populous county in Missouri. It doesn’t look bad, either. But I have no sense of garden design for prettiness at all. You need only look at my front yard to know this.

Soon my DH and I will be replacing our toilet; we will be tiling the bathroom floor and we have a used 1.6 gallon toilet to replace the current 3.5 gallon once the tiling project is completed. Maybe my neighbor’s planter would like company …

By: RudolfC

RudolfC — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:07:21 +0000

One solution to an unwanted toilet (if you’re not wedded to the planter idea): one toilet, several children, several hammers. The result: white stone for a garden path. The biggest problem is having them keep at it after the novelty wears off…

By: Gail

Gail — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:37:29 +0000

In my community the Resource store actually wanted old toilets. Contract with the city to grind them up for road base.

By: sealander

sealander — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:29:34 +0000

I know someone who converted a toilet into a goldfish pond. However, that led to an unfortunate incident when they held a rather drunken party………;)

By: Shira

Shira — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:15:42 +0000

AIP sounds great but I’m still working off the incomplete the I got in Disaster Preparedness at the community college. Hmm, an incomplete would mean that I am… not prepared for a disaster, eh?

Perhaps Sharon will be able to run AIP again in the winter. While she is trying to write a book solo. For those of us hit with a tsunami of gardening and preserving in August, the winter might actually be do-able.

Shira in Bellingham, WA

By: Judy

Judy — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:13:53 +0000

Just want to second Susan’s feelings about the AIP class — it is life changing. No matter where you are on your preparedness scale, or how much you put into it, you’ll come out with so much more. I’m still going back to the class posts, a year later, and using information I wasn’t ready for at the time.

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By: Susan

Susan — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:19:07 +0000

For anyone sitting on the fence about taking the AIP class jump over to the ‘I’m doing it’ side. It’s well worth it. I didn’t put the energy and care into it that some did, but it really made me thing — hard — about stuff. I still worry, but at least now I worry knowing what our assets and liabilities are rather than vague worry I can’t do anything about.

By: Dwig

Dwig — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:16:57 +0000

Your Week 6 struck a chord with me; it relates to a project of my own (that’s going all too slowly). If you can find a bit of time, I’d love to hear your reactions to it: http://dwigki.wikispaces.com/On+Community

As a teaser, here’s the core idea: “A major theme in the series is exploring what factors contribute to making communities strong and robust in the ways that increase their viability. (Also, I’m claiming that these factors will be helpful to communities even in more benign circumstances.) Note that I’m not claiming that “communities are the solution” to these challenges. I think that there may be many local solutions, rather than a single global one, and that many factors will play a role in them. Still, I claim that there are factors that will be common to successful communities, and that it’s worth discovering and elucidating them, both for theoretical and practical reasons.”

By: Sharon

Sharon — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:26:47 +0000

Oh, yeah, I forgot the garlic. I meant to add that the garlic needs harvesting. Duh .

Sharon, who wants a toilet garden now .