Today, we talk about what steps I will take to prepare the aquaponics system for winter, as well as go over what you can do now to get your garden beds ready for a great spring!

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

• Phase 1 has been completed 
• Final canning events of the year (after Jack’s)
• Drying Mushrooms
• November: Meat rotation in the freezer
• Time to extract honey, or package it in tinfoil to avoid freezer burn
• Gluehwein season is here

What Mother Nature is providing

• Ap: Swiss chard and not much else at the moment
• Time to winterize. More on that later
• Winterize the bees
• Mushrooms are exploding
• Firewood

Stump the Sauce

• Oxtail: Part 2 with BRETTChef
• Elderberry Syrup Stability with John Moody of (http://abbyselderberry.com/)

Operation Independence

• Tile, Tile, Tile, Tile on the rental that has taken forever. Tiling on a wavy wall (operation independence)
• One annoying thing season

Main topic of the show: Winterizing the Aquaponics System and garden beds

Four things to to to the ap:

• Stock tank heater
• Bed hoops
• Insulation on the feeder hoses
• Bring in the frost sensitive plants

How to prepare your beds for winter

• Clean them out
• Layers: manure, compost, forest dirt, leaves, straw or wood chips or another mulch. (My thoughts on local wood chips)
• What to do if you interplant like I do

A Final Winter checklist

• Waters ready to be ice-free?
• Bees?
• Animal bedding sufficient?
• Goat hay needed
• Pump house filters changed
• Bring in the banana trees
• Try to overwinter a rosemary plant and the tabasco peppers

Make it a great week.

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