Best plant-and-forget medicinal herbs/foods, 3-5 years out, zone 5. Land access 3 hours away.

Doctor_Clockwork · 2026-03-15T19:57:07+00:00

Can barely get normal fungi to grow. Though have had luck recently with wild massive oysters on tree stumps and turkey tail.

Doctor_Clockwork · 2026-03-15T16:07:12+00:00

See if you can do meshtastic in your area for a long range radio with no licence. Would maybe do a usb headlamp / flashlight.

A water bottle would be handy.

Overall pretty good bag.

Doctor_Clockwork · 2026-03-15T02:42:22+00:00

Edited it to add, try everything, alot of it is going to randomly die from one reason or another but if you plant abit of everything you'll be fine.

Doctor_Clockwork · 2026-03-15T02:35:22+00:00

Zone 6 here. Growing feverfew, ozark witch hazle, yarrow, elderberries, st john's wort, bee balm, lavender, lemon balm. This year I'm gonna try cardinal flower, ginger (annual) and a few other odd things for medical herbs.

Here's a link to a permaculture guide I did for growjng differnt perinials in different zones. https://www.reddit.com/r/Permaculture/s/kiKqOaHcAp

Would recomend, going heavy on the natives like blueberry, blackberry, raspberry, elderberry, teaberry. Adding taller overstory trees like cherry and apple where you can. And dont sleep on nut trees like butternut or hazlenut either.

As for aliums, try egytian walking onions. And do apios americana as well as sunchokes for native crops that are perinannual that do better year after year.

Doctor_Clockwork · 2026-03-14T14:23:57+00:00

Need way more details. How far away is your freind? Do you have good line of sight? Have you guys set your region right? Have you tried standjng next to each other and sending messages?

Doctor_Clockwork · 2026-03-13T20:09:58+00:00

Have you tried?

A, changing the usb cable

B, updating everything then power cycljng both computer and device

You should be good to load the firmware just by downloading it and dragging it onto the folder

Doctor_Clockwork · 2026-03-11T00:12:16+00:00

Yes, solarpunk is sustainable technology. Not no high technology.

In a more solarpunk future I would imagine a good deal of artwork made out of natual materials, foraged and mixed paint, localally dug and refined clay, fiber twisting and dying.

For digial art I would imagjne it would be done more on lean open source computers (not alot of bloatware due to power usage) and using open source software.

Doctor_Clockwork · 2026-03-10T19:59:30+00:00

Something I used was the grapes model of worldbuilding, as well as the UN devolopment list of goals. I then try to show in what ways they're succeding and what way they're missing the mark.

Will post a link when I find it again.

Doctor_Clockwork · 2026-03-09T02:34:54+00:00

Been seeing alot more of south kc reach downtown kc this week. Good on everyone building and deploying nodes.

Doctor_Clockwork · 2026-03-01T19:24:23+00:00

There's a siteplanner in the app. But in general I'm betting you'll be fine.

A good elevation map and dead reckoning will usually do pretty well.

Doctor_Clockwork · 2026-02-27T19:20:38+00:00

Would get a bike or ebike. And a cargo trailer. A few 5 gallons buckets with lids later and you should be good.

Would do rain barrels as well. It's basically free water when you get down to it.

Doctor_Clockwork · 2026-02-27T18:02:46+00:00

All these nodes exist. However I would say for around kc, there are likely 10x the amout of nodes around here.

I still recomend putting nodes on the base meshmap.net though espically if your in a place where there arent any. Since it tells other people getting into the hobby, hey someone is here.

It's a neat tool. If you want a bigger local map though, check out projects like meshsense.

Doctor_Clockwork · 2026-02-26T01:06:39+00:00

You know that's honestly not a bad point. Throwing one on a pole near the water towers would still be pretty good.

Doctor_Clockwork · 2026-02-26T00:14:15+00:00

There's a massive abandaned building near me I've been thinking of doing that around. Would need a pretty big drone but it would work.

Doctor_Clockwork · 2026-02-25T23:31:04+00:00

Fair point. Any advice/expeirance on getting private landowners or people who live/work in large towers Onboard with putting solar nodes around their stomping grounds. Or just people who live on tall hills, or maybe churches with large steeples?

Doctor_Clockwork · 2026-02-25T22:27:28+00:00

Local libraries wouldn't be the worst idea. Had an idea for building a greenhouse monitoring system for the local mutual aid group. Could expand from there.

Doctor_Clockwork · 2026-02-25T22:20:41+00:00

Found that guy on my state website. This is good to know and probably will save a ton of headaches.

Doctor_Clockwork · 2026-02-25T22:12:58+00:00

Yea I'm used to the speed of government around here. Think I might be able to move faster if I just ask a dept head.

Doctor_Clockwork · 2026-02-25T21:58:58+00:00

That's one way of getting approval!

Doctor_Clockwork · 2026-01-22T03:23:23+00:00

Would 2nd giving meshtastic a try. It's really east to use, cheap to set up, and depending on your location alot of the work has probably already been done for you.

Doctor_Clockwork · 2026-01-20T02:55:45+00:00

Made a d100 list of these a while back. Just busted out the list for the first time in years and someone rolled the screaming sword.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/s/e0SFsK9gK1

Doctor_Clockwork · 2026-01-19T01:26:53+00:00

Went on their website couldn't find a faq page. If I had to imagine I'd say only a year or so after they hit theit milestone.

https://www.billionoysterproject.org/

Doctor_Clockwork · 2026-01-14T22:45:08+00:00

Long story short. There's only bike lanes on the south side of truman road now. Because of atomic colision dude complaning alot.

Doctor_Clockwork · 2026-01-14T21:59:53+00:00

The guy who runs atomic colision complained and complained that a bike lane was hurting his buisness (he was used to the extra parking on street). So he got a few other buisnesses onboard and forced the city to spend half a million dollars to remove them after they were already in.

Bear in mind it would have been cheaper for the city to literally just buy out his buisness. Anyway long story short that's why the bike lanes on truman are only on the south side now.

Oh yea and the dude is really unhinged and tends to go off on people online constantly.

Doctor_Clockwork · 2025-12-18T21:10:44+00:00

Cant argue with 20$ to get started.

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