HeyJaredThe Book of the Barracks
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KW-40 Quinces be crazy (opens the original)
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I was a little bit disappointed with myself at 4am this morning, when I found myself irretrievably awake, so I popped on my clogs and went out for a little wander around under the stars. It is blindingly, dazzling bright out there. It suddenly all makes sense. Of course, I’m awake. It’s the Harvest Moon1 - the closest full moon to the autumn equinox - I can’t imagine there are many people out there who it doesn’t affect at least in some small way. My best take would be that I hope everyone is aw
KW-39 Stacks of Cucumbers (opens the original)
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Half a year separated from the middle of September is the middle of March. In the past and in the future alike. Long time readers of this newsletter, or studious gardeners in the northern hemisphere will know that there is a week in March that is a big old lie - a temptation of summer where the snows disappear, the sun warms the air, and the soil dries out. It is too early to sow most seeds, but the weather outside is trying to trick us into it. But winter will return again. Maybe for a week, ma
The Book of the Book of the Barracks (opens the original)
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Is going to be published by Dorling Kindersley on the 22nd April, Earth Day, 2027. Here are some links:Thalia (German)https://www.thalia.de/shop/home/artikeldetails/A1081053948Waterstones (UK) https://www.waterstones.com/book/self-sufficiency-at-the-end-of-the-world/ben-green/9780241829462Bookshop.org (UK)<a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/self-sufficiency-at-the-end-of-the-world-ben-green/e05c2fde4d62c1
KW-38 Birdbrain (opens the original)
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This week was all about starting the preparations for winter. Pre-preparing if you will. All jobs are better if you plan for them, including planning for them. Conserving and preserving food for the next 12 months needs a lot of jars and pots and bottles and crocks to put them all in. Before they can be cleaned, they need to be found. Most of what I do at The Barracks is moving things from one place to another, it’s only the size of the things which changes. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewab
KW-37 Time for the kitchen (opens the original)
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Because I don’t have enough to do, I have started writing Volume 2 of The Book. No-one has asked me to, but I have told everyone that I have spoken to at the publishers that I am doing it, and none of them has tried particularly hard to discourage me. <img al
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