Don’t sleep on tossing in some red bell peppers into mix while sauteeing… takes it up a whole level.

Her name is Albert, and she lives in Vancouver, right?

Because they swore the server was powered on…

Starsan works, but I’ve even just used a hot dishwasher with a sterilization cycle. Whatever you’ve got handy.

You’re welcome! Hope it works out for you.

Yeah… if you’re growing fungi, you’re up on sterilization and cleanliness.

I’ll assuming you sterilize your jars first and stuff then? You can also grab a mason jar “vacuum” sealer. It’ll pull most of the air out and help with that sort of thing… could make a difference, worth a shot anyway.

Surface scum, or actual mold on the pickles themselves?

Oh yeah, definitely. And no worries, as soon as I heard Amish, I’d assumed they bought them. The Amish have two or three little enclaves where they interact with the “secular world” and trade goods and serbices so that’s where my mind instantly went.

Your edit clarifies things, I thought I’d missed something. Ours sell all sorts of stuff, and as long as you’ve got the cash they couldn’t care less what you do lol

I buy all my plants from them in the spring, they’ve got awesome greenhouses where they start them. Then I’ll come back a few times throughout the summer and a few more times in the early fall and grab what I didn’t grow well in my garden.

They’re an absolute banging resource for gardening and fresh produce, and I’m glad they’re within driving distance.

Congratulations! It’s a great pastime! If you’re approaching the winter months, now is the time to start prepping your beds. The freeze/thaw cycle of winter helps break down compost and fertilizers into usable nutrients for spring planting.

I look forward to hearing about your harvest next year.

Buy the cucumbers from them, make your own. Pickles are easy and fun.

In the future, make sure you take a warm, barely damp cloth and wipe the top of mouth and threads. Helps prevent this sort of thing, and helps them seal better.

Prions

Thought it was a freaking tattoo gun…

Congrats neighbor, this is wonderful news. I hope to start this as well before much longer, thanks for mentioning the other compound, I’ll have to read into it.

You can read my full reply lower…but that isn’t the case with the Vital operations.

They require a minimum of 60 acres per operation with the land sectioned off and the flock rotated between parcels. Parcels and production have to meet certain, fairly rigorous, quality control standards or Vital can pull the contract and no longer will purchase eggs. Contracts renew every 5 years, and if it’s not to the QC standards and proper maintenance/upgrades aren’t maintained, the contract will be pulled.

In my experience they’re not as terrible as some of the otheres… definitely not where production farming chickens are concerned.

They require a minimum of 60 acres per operation with the land sectioned off and the flock rotated between parcels. Parcels and production have to meet certain, fairly rigorous, quality control standards or Vital can pull the contract and no longer will purchase eggs. Contracts renew every 5 years, and if it’s not to the QC standards and proper maintenance/upgrades aren’t maintained, the contract will be pulled.

This is all personal experience from looking into contracting with them and raising eggs. I didn’t wind up going through with it due to startup costs and certain logistics… but I did speak with them quite a bit before I waived the whole thing off.

The weird… aggressively “barely legal” crowd…

Isn’t this just designating it as a crosspost? That’s what I’ve always interpreted it as anyways…

I think they were asking for a timeline… you gotta start the popcorn at just the right time so it’s nice and hot when shit starts to get good… you don’t want it during the previews.

SCP-2.6*10²¹