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Dave
Dave
12 years ago

Jack,

All links for tsp mint go to a site the doesnt work. It states that the servers are being migrated. Is there a new tsp mint address?

Thanks

Lee Bouma
Lee Bouma
12 years ago

Try http://www.tspmint-moving.com
That’s where I got in.

Paul Ely
Paul Ely
12 years ago

I took a 9 day intensive with Dave Jacke last fall. Great course. If you can make time for this class – go.

Dave
Dave
12 years ago

Thanks Lee. The links seem to be working now but they were originally sending me to http://www.tspmint.com and not redirecting to http://www.tspmint-moving.com.

All good now, order is in 🙂

BarnGeek
BarnGeek
12 years ago

Thank you for answering my question! After hearing your answer I went out and took a look and what you suggested should work perfectly!

I found two pond sites on the high side of the driveway that will feed a culvert under the road to a swale on the low side.

I found a contour line that will work for a swale on the low side of the drive, and following that contour line out about 200 feet I found a great spot for a spillway just uphill from my large blackberry patch that I had planned to install a sort of irrigation system in, so the spillway will take care of that! (last year I had to irrigate the blackberry patch)

Then downhill a bit from that blackberry patch is a natural little gully where I can put another dam and build a large pond. From there I plotted out a swale that will help establish a pasture area directly behind my house. So once I got that answer from you the whole system kinda laid right out in front of me… I am excited to get started. Thanks again, I will be doing the earthworks this year and will send you more videos on the progress!

Lee Bouma
Lee Bouma
12 years ago

Hey Barngeek,
Just thinking is there a way that you could put a pond as well as a spillway uphill from your blackberry patch. I’m thinking you will need uphill water to hydrate your blackberries. Or are the ponds beside your driveway going to be able to accomplish that job on their own? You must have some dry periods or you wouldn’t have had to irrigate last year. I looked at the video that Jack posted but I am having a little trouble piecing this together in my mind’s eye.

BarnGeek
BarnGeek
12 years ago
Reply to  Lee Bouma

Hi Lee,

That’s a great idea, and I would but the only thing uphill from the blackberries is the county road, as it is I will have to take out some of the blackberries to put in the swale spillway.

However it just so happens that the county road has a dip just uphill from the blackberries where the water funnels and pools in the ditch, where it sits and soaks in… which I think is the reason there is the huge half acre blackberry patch, it gets all that water from the road run off concentrated on that spot. It’s kinda like an accidental swale.

Ben Falk
Ben Falk
12 years ago

Jack –
65″ in a climate that has a lot of EVAPORATION can actually dry out. We get 50-60″ here in Vermont where you were and it does dry out a bit at times. And if it’s too wet, swales are still JUST AS KEY – to get ABOVE the water table.
We are flooding ourself at times – but that’s ok – because the plants get above it – on the mounds. It’s actually great, because it stores the water for dry periods.
You are certainly NOT drought proof just because you get 60+ inches of rain a year. The dryer season can always get drier. Climates shift and even a dry windy hot month can drop a water table by 5-8 feet. I’ve seen it. I think you should address that question again. Swales are super key in inundated areas – not just dry areas.
-Ben

Ben Falk
Ben Falk
12 years ago

Sounds reasonable Jack – didn’t know about the forest upslope. But there’s still the issue of getting above the water table – essentially growing a wetland – that’s what our swales in our wet areas do here. They are basically chinampas in this way. Swales as chinampas. And they work awesomely.

jessie
jessie
12 years ago

About TSP Mint…I think they’ve gone up on their prices as well. I don’t have a problem with that, but they’ve priced themselves out of my market. I haven’t heard Jack talk about that price increase. I was planning to buy 5oz each paycheck. Back to JM Bullion for me.

jessie
jessie
12 years ago
Reply to  jessie

actually, buying 5 ozs with the member’s price is still a good deal, forgot about that

Brent Eamer
Brent Eamer
12 years ago
Reply to  jessie

Asking price above spot is increasing everywhere Jessie. I physically cannot buy any from my dealer. And even then, his prices were about $7 over spot. I’m still ranting about not being able to get physical silver. So I coined the term “Fractional Silver”, cause the paper and the physical do not match IMHO

/rant over :0

Jake
Jake
12 years ago
Reply to  jessie

I saw this too. 29.18 when silver is trading for 23.09… thats the decoupling greggory mannarino was talking about.

Jessie
Jessie
12 years ago
Reply to  Jake

Jake, if you plan to buy at least 5 oz from TSP Mint (3 dollars off each oz), you get a good price break, and then when you use your members discount of 1 dollar off each oz, you get a good deal, still very competitive with other dealers. Although the Buffalos at JM Bullion are the best price around.

CJ Verde
CJ Verde
12 years ago

There was a question about moving animals in paddocks with swales. A key point is that ANIMALS NATURALLY WALK ON CONTOUR and they can help you pick which contour lines to choose for putting in swales.

markl32
markl32
12 years ago

The part about using the swales as pathways / roads was break through for me. I never got that until now.

Urbivalist Dan
12 years ago

super interesting podcast, but remins me that I still have so much still to learn… I haven’t even graduated from square foot box gardens yet…