Cover Crops Gone Wild + Why Farming is Puzzling

[@tammiesanty941]

Prayers for you and your family going through this journey with dementia. My Dad had it too, I feel your pain

[@haleya9526]

I really appreciate the advocacy talk about alzheimers/dementia. Health is wealth.

[@bradliston8990]

That's awesome for coach Jesse, what a weekend!

[@rachellemazar7374]

I love the puzzle talk and the tie ins throughout the show.

[@emkn1479]

I’ve heard the praises of tiller radish sung loudly so I grew them last year. This year I used field peas from the grocery store and a mix of deer food plot seeds that included grains, legumes and brassicas. Then it occurred to me, when I saw multiple cabbage butterflies flitting over the plot, that perhaps I’m perpetuating my pest issues…lots of harlequin bugs this year too. Going forward maybe I’ll just focus on legumes and grains. Dementia is a fear of mine as well…

[@momcomputer6461]

emkn, read my post above. For decades I have been an Alternative Medicine Researcher. Add grass fed meat to the mix, too. If you really want to go whole hog, start taking coconut oil or MCT oil several times daily. Proven to reverse Alzheimer's & dementia. Feed your brain what it needs to be healthy. Good luck!

[@LittleKi1]

Side effects are the worst! I have to watch how much mulch I use because....SLUGS.

[@emkn1479]

@ saaaaaame 😩😩😩 shredded leaves did me wrong last year

[@jennablorezone8Band9A]

Our whole family does Wordle on a text thread. It is a morning ritual for me too with my espresso. I’m freaked out about brain health too ever since my memory is playing tricks on me after years of sleep deprivation and starting our ‘test garden’ this year solo it seriously amped up that fear. Exhaustion overload. 🤤😵‍💫

[@Dirt-Fermer]

I want my cover crops to run wild as the new “weeds” that I slowly replace with selected crops or perennials later. Looks crazy but seems to work well.

[@BruceGlider]

I also believe word puzzles improve cognition and teach us to recognize patterns. I've done these since a teenager especially cryptograms. It has made me an awesome guesser and test taker.

[@goldstandard3714]

FYI alert for Mr. Jesse. Your "FARMHAND" Advertisement was a blank screen with just a "FARMHAND" Logo in the bottom corner. Watched it twice to be sure so I doubt it was just me. If that was the plan, apologies for cutting into your busy schedule brother.

[@cliffpalermo]

Ari is great!

[@YOOTOOBjase]

We have a food forest that's still only a year old. There's sweet pea growing in one spot, and my wife keeps telling me to cut it to mulch the spot it's in, but I don't have any plans for the spot yet, so I'm letting them keep going until I do We also had a frost just two days ago (I'm in New Zealand), which is nearly unheard of at this stage in the year. The peas were just beside and semi sheltering a jwala chili seedling, which may only just survive because of that protection

[@denisekelley2292]

I do word puzzles and read daily for the same reason, keep me sharp and delay dementia also. My grandpa lived to 95 and was sharp and aware until the end, doing puzzles and reading daily. Good enough proof for me.

[@jakoblarok]

There's a podcast episode or 5... My grandparents used to vex themselves over the newspaper's available puzzles, too. As we grandkids sat around reading "the funnies" after breakfast and relating them to each other, and our own takes on them and their meaning to us, the adults would parse out the news and debate about that around the 18-seat main table. But then that too would die down, and we children would watch the adults melt into polite competition in communally solving the various crosswords included in the several publications that had been passed around. It's kind of charming for me to suspect that pre and post internet farm life might not have changed that much... Of course, I'm mostly gleaning this memory from when the whole extended family would be over; but when just a few of us kiddos stayed behind to spend our summer on the farm, I saw the same dynamic play out daily between Grandma and Grandpa...

[@JohnClark-jv8zk]

I'm Mark. Retiring to Lee County Kentucky. 125 ac. Mixed creek bottom land and forested hills,savanas. White/Red oak, typical other soft wooks. Need mass planting to defeat the existing weed growth WITHOUT ROUNDUP!! Wont someone help me please. My plan is to mow . Had it mowed in June. 3200.00!!! Neighbor/prior owner did that. Plan to mow and broadcast in spring. I've read for a couple of years on Permaculture and polinator meadows. Final goal is a food forest/ u-pick blueberry/ huge vegetable fields. It's a poor area and can help with my PAID FOR property. Can easily use 70 acres to plant. Looking at government agencies to provide more seeds. I have thousands of dollars of seed at 38 degrees. Second year of stratified seeds. Late in selling corporate business. Took to long. Spent a fortune in legal fees and other unexpected issues. In other words , i didn't make the money I should have at no fault of my own. That didn't need to be gone over. I digrest!! So sorry. Looking to do a National Geographic moment with pollinaters and mutispecies for wildlife laying / brooding. No quail calling on the property. Can't believe it. I know what to do. I've read so much. I'm exhausted and frustrated. I'm two years late in starting this. Anyone have agencies contact numbers, volunteer groups with wild seed or the cover crop seeds to cover the weeds. NO Herbicide is to be used. Jessie would not appreciate that as would anybody else. Property numbered in increments . Planting into groomed fields never been exposed. Old forest groung!!! Do l blast the acres , post mowing with a white clover/ bean/alphafa/ sorghum blends just to out grow the weed seed population???? Mow thru out the year to build soil in the garden. Next year broadcast and roll my vast list of meadow varieties. My hill plantings will not be mowed. Left wild for periodic control burns. I guess my question, is their a "boots on the ground" availability to help see this thru. Do it right the first time!! Their has to be groups and agencies that would be ecstatic at providing such acreage for the Monarch and bees. I will proceed with my fruit/berry/hardwood varieties as it goes. I'll need volunteer help or provide a barter system. I'm 65 and need to jump start as soon as possible. Any like minded people to get involved!!????. My will is going to be to a college/ university for further use and studies ...I'm just exhausted. Just sold my business career and watch Jessie and thousands of hours of others. No children. Married my career. This is my dream project from childhood!!! Long message...sorry!! Mark Clark

[@johnrosier1686]

The Alzheimers/dementia issue is rough. We have had it in our family and extended family. We have one member of our family dealing with it now and they tried to keep their mind and body very active but unfortunately it took over. On another note- we still haven’t had a killer frost in my area of the Midwest and I am quite a bit north of Jesse. Strange how that works.

[@mindyrider3538]

We just got finished planting 3,000+ daffodil bulbs. Their main purpose is to help deter voles from eating our baby fruit trees. But we are hoping that they can also be used for pick your own bouquets in the spring.

[@Firefox-s3v]

intro is fire

[@gcc2313]

Theres a few low effort perennials that can double both for pollinators and cutflowers in home bouquets. If you like more low effort flowers hat dont need much maintenance. Put them in some corners of your area. Think peonies, perennial phlox, veronica, rudbeckia, echinacea, roses, echinops some alliums and more.

[@michaelgroce966]

Man I haven’t done the wordle in probably a year- got this mornings in three!

[@johnsix1749]

Here in central Ohio cover crops will nit grow until we get some rain. I managed to get oilseed radish up last month but now the soil is super dry and I have cereal rye but until it rains it will just be bird food.

[@kirstypollock6811]

I love Squaredle! Kind of like your Strands but also not.

[@Aluttuh]

I live in zone 9a, too late to plant some winter wheat for my beds or should i just toss on some mulch? curious what people who have more experience think.

[@lenamccubbin1068]

In addition to good sleep, regular exercise, and brain stimulation (puzzles, planning one’s garden layout), the data strongly points to excessive amounts of carbohydrates as a cause of dementia. Go veggies! Cut back on starch and sugar.

[@ronaldcummings6337]

So I just realized that your style and humor greatly reminds me of Alice Cooper.

[@Keith-w6k]

Wouldn't that mix work as fodder for animals also in combination as ground improvement?

[@sociopathmercenary]

I do periodic long-term fasting of seven to 30 days. This initiates intensive autophagy in your body, which is your body's process for consuming and cleaning out garbage in your cells and plaques in your body. There is some great research showing that autophagy also consumes amyloid plaques in your brain that cause dementia and Alzheimer's disease... As well as the plaques in your blood vessels that cause heart disease. Our bodies did not evolve to eat three meals per day. Look into it. Fasting is great for you and also a good way to lose weight. Use caution with long-term fasting if you don't have excess body fat to burn for energy. Organ damage can result. I love puzzles and reading as well though.

[@Blynn-md4dx]

Puzzle nerd here. Glad also, my gmother had alhzheimers and it is horrible.

[@lomdan]

Tsumego pro for puzzles

[@christopherdelisle558]

I'm going to school with a Blankenship in california right now lol

[@crystals14acregarden61]

Riddle...you have a 3 gal bucket and a 5 gal. You have the only well in the area that hasn't gone dry. A neighbor needs to buy 4 gal of water. How do you measure exactly 4 gal, with only the two Buckets available, which have no marks on them.

[@notillgrowers]

Love it! Assuming I have to take it over all at one time, I would fill the three gallon bucket one time, leaving 2 gal in the five gal bucket. Then I would toss the 3 gal bucket back into my well (or maybe onto the ground in front of my neighbors just to be cruel because I am probably a jerk anyway if I’m selling water back to my neighbors in a drought anyway 😂 ). The remaining 2 gallons I would add back to the three gal bucket. Then I would fill my five gallon bucket again and top off the three gal leaving me with 4 gal to sell to my neighbors and 3 more gal to wash my car in front of them while I’m over there!

[@rondavis2791]

3gal. Into the empty 5 gal. Fill 3 gal. Up. top off 5 gal. Bucket with 3 gal. Bucket. 1 gal. Left in 3 gal. Bucket. Dump 5 gallon bucket out. Put the one gal. In 5 gal. Bucket. Now put the 3 gal. In. It will be 4 gallons.

[@rondavis2791]

Die hard 3 1995 great movie lol

[@crystals14acregarden61]

@notillgrowers you're awful, and sarcastic, and I love it! You know you're right too

[@robertcotrell9810]

The NY Times game workers (Tech Guild) are on strike. Don't cross the digital picket line! I look forward to this every day!

[@notillgrowers]

Amazing timing haha! Had no idea but good for them ✊🏻

[@iancolburn4054]

Fyi the NYT Tech Guild is on strike and playing Wordle is crossing the picket line!

[@that9blife465]

Riddle me this batman. if the patrion question has a financial incentive, what time did the show honestly start ? Funky show but i liked it lol

[@Power_Prawnstar]

More ya plant, the less.....ish fails ya have. My rottweiler child kinda learnt to roll over ❤

[@SommaRob]

Smh… I do Sedecordle

[@LuanneMcCollum]

take up learning a stringed instrument for brain health. doing something different with each hand and reading music is supposed to help.

[@kirstypollock6811]

Sleep deficiency is very bad for the brain. Bad sleep associated with dementia onset. (But again, associated... Who knows). I hope you go to bed early!