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Farming Chitchat 10/10- Now VIRUS-FREE!

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  • #5222
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,503 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    _Brian wrote: »
    Did grocery shopping earlier.

    Started to wipe down groceries when I came home but quickly lost the will to live and just stuffed them in presses.

    Town was quiet.

    Wash everything in soapy water here. It's some amount of work when you've got 5 or 6 bags of groceries.


  • #5223
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,170 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Wash everything in soapy water here. It's some amount of work when you've got 5 or 6 bags of groceries.

    And your right. My god it must take forever, we do a big shop and my willpower just isn’t that strong 😒


  • #5224
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,390 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    _Brian wrote: »
    And your right. My god it must take forever, we do a big shop and my willpower just isn’t that strong 😒

    Big job alright- but simple things like having a designated clean area and a way opening multipack items saves plenty of time


  • #5225
    Tileman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,541 ✭✭✭Tileman


    Anybody know where I’d get a pair of depth wheels for a Tripple k


  • #5226
    Dinzee Conlee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,176 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    kollegeknight wrote: »
    Big job alright- but simple things like having a designated clean area and a way opening multipack items saves plenty of time

    I’m with you Brian - far too much work in washing all shopping...
    We put all the non fridge/freezer items into big plastic boxes in the garage for a few days, hopefully that’ll be enough time to kill whatever is on them...

    The fridge items do get a wipe down all right... even that is work enough...


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  • #5227
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,014 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    I went to a super valu today. Had to queue to get in. Alot of the food with best before dates today and tomorrow. Waste of a trip. Lidl much better imo.


  • #5228
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,503 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    whelan2 wrote: »
    I went to a super valu today. Had to queue to get in. Alot of the food with best before dates today and tomorrow. Waste of a trip. Lidl much better imo.

    Lidl & Aldi are much better here also. Supervalu was a disaster last time I was there, aisles are too narrow and unlike the other two the SV staff didn't care for any form of distancing.


  • #5229
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,349 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Know this is a, virus free thread, but as we're discussing shopping, one of the multiples, not mentioned above, was visited by a family member yesterday for some supplies. Was aghast at the lack of control and social distancing. Being a hospital front line worker, they ended up talking to the manager and telling him if he didn't get his act together, the guards would be called.


  • #5230
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,578 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


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  • #5231
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,390 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    Dunno is it happening nationally or what is going on but our postman just gave all the children (3 to my bros kids and 2 to mine) Easter eggs. I didn’t meet him myself to size up. But they are delighted. Shur I’m delighted with the thought.


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  • #5232
    visatorro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,961 ✭✭✭visatorro


    kollegeknight wrote:
    Dunno is it happening nationally or what is going on but our postman just gave all the children (3 to my bros kids and 2 to mine) Easter eggs. I didn’t meet him myself to size up. But they are delighted. Shur I’m delighted with the thought.

    I'm lucky if I get post.


  • #5233
    mayota
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,573 ✭✭✭mayota


    visatorro wrote: »
    I'm lucky if I get post.

    I’m lucky if I don’t.


  • #5234
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,636 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    mayota wrote: »
    I’m lucky if I don’t.

    Same as myself. Only bills


  • #5235
    KatyMac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,209 ✭✭✭KatyMac


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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Lidl & Aldi are much better here also. Supervalu was a disaster last time I was there, aisles are too narrow and unlike the other two the SV staff didn't care for any form of distancing.

    Went to Supervalu last week and social distancing must have been a distant idea. Aisles full of customers and staff. I left without buying anything, it was ridiculous and I later heard that it was worse later on in the day. I don't mind standing in a queue to get into a supermarket - feel much safer.
    I made face masks yesterday with scrap material I'd around the house. Managed to put together 4 that are washable/reusable.


  • #5236
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Just came across this article, about the near famine in the west in 1924 and the relief efforts to stop it.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-forgotten-famine-and-how-it-put-the-fledging-irish-free-state-on-the-brink-1.4218048?mode=amp&__twitter_impression=true


  • #5237
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,503 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    KatyMac wrote: »
    [HTML][/HTML]

    Went to Supervalu last week and social distancing must have been a distant idea. Aisles full of customers and staff. I left without buying anything, it was ridiculous and I later heard that it was worse later on in the day. I don't mind standing in a queue to get into a supermarket - feel much safer.
    I made face masks yesterday with scrap material I'd around the house. Managed to put together 4 that are washable/reusable.

    Shopping tomorrow again, decided not to go to SV anymore while this virus is on the go.

    In better news, small local shop has implemented a one way system for customers.


  • #5238
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,014 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Shopping tomorrow again, decided not to go to SV anymore while this virus is on the go.

    In better news, small local shop has implemented a one way system for customers.

    Our small local shop is great. One way system. You have to wait outside to be told if you can come in. Well stocked and daughter works there too:) hand sanitizer inside the door and gloves for filling fuel


  • #5239
    dzer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,979 ✭✭✭dzer2


    Gary Lightbody streaming live now


  • #5240
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,578 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Our understanding of farming and civilization constantly gets pushed back further and further in time.

    Farmers in the Amazonia region of South America were growing Manioc and Squash as well as peanuts and sweet potato, over 10,000 years ago. This was a warm time after the ice age and seemingly like wexford atm any ground that was available for tilling was tilled and sowed.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52217636

    Edit: for context the Ceide fields in Mayo were farmed and walled 5,500 years ago.


  • #5241
    Gillespy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,636 ✭✭✭Gillespy


    ''Stuff just keeps on getting older and older'' - Graham Hancock. Do you know him? Few good Joe Rogan podcasts with him.


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  • #5242
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,578 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Gillespy wrote: »
    ''Stuff just keeps on getting older and older'' - Graham Hancock. Do you know him? Few good Joe Rogan podcasts with him.

    I think I may have seen one or two of those alright.
    It's amazing to think people were the same then as now.

    What's not so amazing is that in a few short years with modern machinery and diggers that traces of those are disappearing for ever. Having been there for thousands of years previously for the want of looking for it and the lack of such machinery.

    We don't know that much really about our forebears.


  • #5243
    Gillespy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,636 ✭✭✭Gillespy


    Say my name wrote: »
    I think I may have seen one or two of those alright.
    It's amazing to think people were the same then as now.

    What's not so amazing is that in a few short years with modern machinery and diggers that traces of those are disappearing for ever. Having been there for thousands of years previously for the want of looking for it and the lack of such machinery.

    We don't know that much really about our forebears.

    Talks about just that here. Amazon being cleared for soyabeans and beef without being studied first. Biochar gets a mention too.:D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn1MugPalaA


  • #5244
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,578 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Gillespy wrote: »
    Talks about just that here. Amazon being cleared for soyabeans and beef without being studied first. Biochar gets a mention too.:D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn1MugPalaA

    I have a feeling their biochar was a particular success was because of their proximity to the waterways of the Amazon.
    The same way that native Americans taught the pilgrims to stick a fish in with each planting of maize. I'd say the Amazon farmers were catching fish and putting that in with their biochar and village waste, etc for fertilizer.

    You listen to the regenerative preachers today and THE product if you want to get away from nitrogen fertilizer and it's guarrenteed to be a success for putting nitrogen down is fish.
    All the biochar does is hold onto those nutrients and microbes and start its own soil life metropolis.


  • #5245
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,562 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    What is the story with Teagasc these days? Is anyone working in the offices? I sent an e-mail to somone there over a week ago and still no reply.


  • #5246
    Dinzee Conlee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,176 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    What is the story with Teagasc these days? Is anyone working in the offices? I sent an e-mail to somone there over a week ago and still no reply.

    How’s the ankle Patsy?


  • #5247
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,562 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Dinzee Conlee wrote: »
    How’s the ankle Patsy?

    Not too bad, thanks. Still getting around on crutches. Work building up on the farm though.


  • #5248
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,503 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    What is the story with Teagasc these days? Is anyone working in the offices? I sent an e-mail to somone there over a week ago and still no reply.

    These days? Were they ever in the office.


  • #5249
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    What is the story with Teagasc these days? Is anyone working in the offices? I sent an e-mail to somone there over a week ago and still no reply.

    Supposed to be working from home afaik. I've had a few replies this week to emails from last week but they weren't urgent questions.

    Supposed to be starting DG meetings on Zoom in the next few weeks so maybe they're a bit caught up in that?


  • #5250
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,349 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Patsy, you aren't hoping he's come out and help on the farm, as you're laid up?
    BTW get well soon.


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  • #5251
    Bleating Lamb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭Bleating Lamb


    Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »
    Supposed to be working from home afaik. I've had a few replies this week to emails from last week but they weren't urgent questions.

    Supposed to be starting DG meetings on Zoom in the next few weeks so maybe they're a bit caught up in that?

    What does ‘DG’ stand for?


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