Wanted Items

=General=


 * 1) metal stakes, fence posts, other posts for fencing and staking of trees
 * 2) pipe wrenches; wrench, socket, screwdriver, drilling bit sets
 * 3) nuts, bolts, screws, fasteners of all types
 * 4) Metal- shafts, rods, tubing, sheet, bar, etc - aluminum and steel
 * 5) Lumber - studs, 4x4s, 4x8 sheets
 * 6) chicken wire, fencing
 * 7) hand tools, garden tools (shovels, rakes, etc), power tools
 * 8) hammers, crowbars, pickaxes, wedges, and deconstruction equipment
 * 9) rope, wire, chain, electrical wire, electrical cords (broken ok)
 * 10) poly tubbing, rubber hose, fuel line, PVC pipe, garden hoses (broken ok)
 * 11) canned food, quart jars
 * 12) rebar, cement
 * 13) manure, pots, soil, organic fertilizer, strawbales
 * 14) beehives, bees, honey extractor
 * 15) 5 gallon buckets - check with local drywall and painting businesses they sometimes have stacks and stacks of these
 * 16) 1/4 hp and higher electric motors
 * 17) hinges, shelving
 * 18) Exterior paint; wood varnish, wood shellac (for cordwood building finish)
 * 19) Good gloves needed for work doing a lot of handling of rough materials. Most cheap gloves wear out within 1-3 days.

=Plants=

This includes seed, nut, cuttings, divisions, etc:


 * 1) Excess or unwanted full-size fruit/nut/berry trees/plants for propagation and transplanting (such as when you're taking out a tree)
 * 2) Plants for propagation by cuttings, rood division, etc -
 * 3) Cold temperature kiwi
 * 4) Nanking cherry
 * 5) Yellow, full size sweet cherry
 * 6) Gooseberries, currants
 * 7) Aronia viking cultivar
 * 8) Trazels and hazelnuts (blight resistant)
 * 9) Diversity of other useful, edible plants
 * 10) Perennial garlic
 * 11) Perennial parsnips
 * 12) Perennial onion

According to the book "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell, The hunter-gatherer ǃKung people work no more than 19 hours a week. They do not grow any plants or raise any animals, but subsist mainly on perennial fruits, berries, roots, and nuts. When a bushman was asked once why his people hadn't taken to agriculture, he looked puzzled and said, "Why should we plant, when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world?"

=Books=


 * 1) Hartmann and Kester, Plant Propagation Principles

Richard: I have this book ^^, i didnt have enough space to bring it with me to CDA. Ill bring it out next time. I have several others as well:

The Nature and Properties of Soils: Nyle C Brady, Ray R. Weil Introduction to Environmental Soil Physics: Daniel Hillel Home Horticulture: Principles and Practices: Marietta Loehrelein Textbook of Dendrology: Ninth Edition: Hardin, Leopold, White Environmental Science: G. Tyler Miller, Scott Spoolman Welding: The fundamentals of welding, cutting, brazing, soldering, and surfacing of metals


 * 1) The Second Industrial Divide by Piore
 * 2) Fruit and Nut Production by Brenda Olcott-Reid and William Reid, 2007
 * 3) The Creature from Jekyll Island