Ep 64: Supply Chain Resilience

Original Transplants Episode 64: Supply Chain Resilience Original Transplants Podcast Episode 64: Supply Chain Resilience finds Satoyama Homestead stewards Will and Sarah planning for the year ahead in 2022 in the bee yard, chicken coop, and edible landscape. Will is researching spring bee package suppliers following the demise of his beehives, with one colony absconding and the other dead-out. In better news, the four pullets he raised from chicks during the summer are fully integrated into the flock and have begun egg-laying. Sarah is slowly prepping the vegetable garden beds for the off-season and plans to identify some of the weeds to see if any are useful and should be saved during clean-up. The homesteaders are enjoying the previous season's harvest, including glazing a roast ham with kiwiberry preserves and using dehydrated vegetables on veggie pizza. Will explains harvesting vermicompost and leachate from the worm farm, and the homesteaders plan new storage methods to prevent clumping in key homemade soup ingredients borax and washing soda. Sarah looks forward to enjoying bird watching with Lucy and her birdseed bell from Santa, and is browsing seed catalogs to plan next year's vegetable garden. The homesteaders review new science about the discovery of microplastics in infants at ten times the rate in adults, and discuss agricultural news about how to evaluate your supply chain vulnerabilities and make your supply chain more resilient. Notes Infants have more microplastics in their feces than adults, study finds - American Chemical Society https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2021/september/infants-have-more-microplastics-in-their-feces-than-adults-study-finds.html Microplastics revealed in the placentas of unborn babies - The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/22/microplastics-revealed-in-placentas-unborn-babies Vermicomposting for beginners - Rodale Institute https://rodaleinstitute.org/science/articles/vermicomposting-for-beginners/ Bacterial diversity in a finished compost and vermicompost: differences revealed by cultivation-independent analyses of PCR-amplified 16S rRNA genes - Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology via Academia.edu https://www.academia.edu/20157205/Bacterial_diversity_in_a_finished_compost_and_vermicompost_differences_revealed_by_cultivation_independent_analyses_of_PCR_amplified_16S_rRNA_genes Assessing the impact of composting and vermicomposting on bacterial community size and structure, and microbial functional diversity of an olive-mill waste - Bioresource Technology https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2008.08.014 What to do about hard clumpy borax and washing soda - The Make Your Own Zone https://www.themakeyourownzone.com/clumpy-hard-borax-washing-soda/ How vulnerable is your personal supply chain? - Charles Hugh Smith, Of Two Minds Blog https://www.oftwominds.com/blogdec21/personal-supply-chain12-21.html