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Join me today for Episode 726 of Bitcoin And . . . Topics for today: - All About Comfrey - Get your Comfrey from @shishi21m on nostr (npub below) - USA wants "Accountability" for El Salvador's Use of Bitcoin - Fold goes to El Salvador! - Nutminer - Ethereum freezes twice in 24 hours. #Bitcoin #BitcoinAnd #BTC ShiShi's Email: [email protected] ShiShi's npub: npub1ugnq57hn8va6xqr5zywy2eunem6c624583vkt0dmv40ep7tnnxkqrr898l One full Comfrey root for 20$ Or root cutting for 1$ each Buyer pays shipping All about Comfrey -> - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3491633/ - https://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/comfrey-its-history-uses-benefits/ - https://www.permaculturenews.org/2019/07/26/all-about-comfrey/ - https://www.cnbc.com/futures-and-commodities/ - https://bitinfocharts.com/ - https://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/dashboard/ - https://mempool.space/ - https://fountain.fm/charts https://bitcoinmagazine.com/el-salvador-bitcoin-news/bill-requiring-reports-on-el-salvadors-bitcoin-adoption-introduced https://decrypt.co/139961/ethereum-network-suffers-finality-issues-heres-what-that-means https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/nutminer-cashu-pow-faucet/ https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/fold-bitcoin-rewards-app-announces-expansion-into-el-salvador https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/snort-v0-1-8/ https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-strip-ls-ethereum-dev-virgil-griffith-of-export-privileges-for-10-years https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/microstrategy-bitcoin-lightning-for-corporations-talks-online/ https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/us-31-trillion-debt-makes-bitcoin-case Find me on nostr npub1vwymuey3u7mf860ndrkw3r7dz30s0srg6tqmhtjzg7umtm6rn5eq2qzugd (npub) 6389be6491e7b693e9f368ece88fcd145f07c068d2c1bbae4247b9b5ef439d32 (Hex) StackerNews: stacker.news/NunyaBidness Podcasting 2.0: fountain.fm/show/eK5XaSb3UaLRavU3lYrI Apple Podcasts: tinyurl.com/unm35bjh Instagram: instagram.com/bitcoin_and Mastodon: noagendasocial.com/@NunyaBidness Support Bitcoin And . . . on Patreon: patreon.com/BitcoinAndPodcast Find Lightning Network Channel partners here: https://t.me/+bj-7w_ePsANlOGEx (Nodestrich) https://t.me/plebnet (Plebnet) Music by: Flutey Funk Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Good morning. This is David Bennett, and this is Bitcoin Ant, a podcast where I try to find the edge effect between the worlds of Bitcoin, gaming, permaculture,   podcasting, and education to gain a better understanding of all. Edge effect is a concept from ecology describing a greater diversity of life where the edges of two systems   overlap. While species from either system can be found at the edge, it is important to note there are species in the overlap that exist in neither system, and that is what I seek to uncover. So join me in discovering the variety of things being created as Bitcoin rubs up against other systems.   It is 12:0:1   PM Pacific Daylight Time.  

It is the 15th day of May 2023,   and I'm pretty much in trouble because of Mother's Day, but I won't get into that one. This is episode 726   of Bitcoin   and Comfrey.   That's right. We're gonna do a whole bunch   about Comfrey.   And this is something that I wanted to do last week, but as I noted in one of the other shows last week,   it just wasn't gonna happen because there was some other stuff that I needed to gather up. Because once you go down   the comfrey   rabbit hole and we're gonna be talking about a plant.   Comfrey,   comfrey.  

We're gonna talk all about it today. That's not gonna be the only thing that we do.   We'll do a regular market update. I got,   something about El Salvador and US senators are getting their panties in a snid about something going on down there and they wanna know more.   I got, oh, god Ethereum   network suffers finality issues. We'll we'll talk about that. That caused some issues.   There's this new thing called Nutminer.   I got full Bitcoin rewards app going somewhere.   I got some Snort stuff.   There is,   oh, Virgil Griffith, one of the Ethereum developers who got in trouble because of his, you know, hanging out in North Korea and all that kind of stuff.   He's back in the news. MicroStrategy is doing stuff.  

And we'll talk a little bit about the $31,000,000,000,000  

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in debt.   Right. But  

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let's talk about the things that we can control.   Okay?   What can we control?   It's springtime.  

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You can control   planting things.  

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You can control   making compost.   You can control   a bunch of stuff. If you got a house   and you're not using that house specifically the yard   to grow items of value   then you're kind of missing out.   Yes, none of us have time. Some of us have more time and   less intelligence and or not intelligence,   let's say experience and growing. Some people will claim they've got a black thumb that they kill   everything they see and that's   I don't know. It's just it's a myth.   It's a myth.   Generally speaking, when somebody plants a plant in the ground and it dies a week later, it's just because you forgot to water it.   It's not because or   or you know your soil   is like a pH of 3   or a pH of like, you know, 8 and a half   and what you planted there just isn't isn't gonna do well. Okay?  

But most most of the time, it's not that. You know, most of the time, soils aren't that extreme.   Right? So, honestly it really a lot of it boils down to you put it in the wrong place,   or you didn't   and   or you didn't water it.   Especially during those those transplant times, you know, like you plant a tomato plant and just like leave it for 3 days. No, man. No, you can't do it like that.   But  

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one of the easiest plants   in the world   to grow   is Comfrey.  

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One   of the   most valuable plants that you'll ever have  

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on your property   is comfrey.  

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One of the things that has the most uses   in your yard   and for you as a human being   is what?   Yeah, you know you guessed it, comfrey.   This stuff   is   this plant   has become one of my all time favorite top five plants.   Some people will call them, you know, like if you're a permaculturist,   they'll go, oh, it's more top 5 permaculture plant. Yeah.   Confrey generally ends up being on a list, you know of the top 10 permaculture   plants   or the top 5 regenerative agriculture plants or you know things like that. But you don't have to couch it in terms of regenerative   ag or permaculture.  

It's just a plant.   It just so happens   that this thing   is   incredible.   It's absolutely incredible when it comes to  

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all the things that it can do for you   and   for your soil,   for your compost,   for everything and we're going to get all into it. So,   what is comfrey?   Okay, fair enough. That's a good question.   There's a bit of history  

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about comfrey.   What it is, where it comes from, how long we've been using it, and we've been using it for a very long time. But the simple answer to what conferee is   will start here. It's a member of the borage family.   Okay, so that's not helpful. What the hell is borage?   Lots of people have heard of borage, but probably more often than not most people have not   heard of borage.   And it's not it's just I needed a place to start, where does conferee come from?   Well, the the overarching   family of plants is borage.   And   there's a lot of history about borage itself. In fact,   borage is a completely different show. I can do a completely different show on borage and I would   if I had direct experience with borage as a plant and what it does. So for now, because I, you know, one of these days I'll I'll start working with borage too. It's almost inevitable because once you start   understanding that each and each individual plant is its own thing, you're sort of getting to know it as a person and what its abilities are. Actually, yeah, like you're like an employee.  

You hire a new guy,   it came with all, you know, it came with the CV, came with the, you know, the resume and the cover letter and the references and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, it's sort of the same way with a plant.   But it's not until you start really working   with a particular plant   that you come to know exactly what it is that it can do and what it is that it cannot do. What it is that it's really good at and what it sucks at. And those times when some, you know, employee might be really good at doing something,   but you just don't like the way he or she does it. Well,   cut plants or in concrete in particular is   well definitely falls into that. So but borage   goes back in time just like   comfrey and and what goes on with comfrey has definitely gone you know, goes back into time.  

Now,   there's this dude that comes up every once in a while, the   stoics will talk about it, You know, the people that read the stoics will talk about it. But this guy's name is Pliny the Elder.   I love that name. Pliny the Elder. And there's this other   this other dude called   Dioscordes,   I think that's how you pronounce it. And both of them said that Borage was the nepenthe,   which is mentioned in Homer, right? So Homer wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey and you know he's   I think they call him the Bard   but he's the he's the guy that wrote about the Trojan War   and Odysseus's   travels   on the boat as Odysseus bailed out and said, you know what? You can take your Trojan War, and you can go pound sand. I'm I'm taking my army, and we're we're getting the hell out of here and that's where the odyssey comes from. But Homer mentioned it   as that well that borage when mixed with wine   causes   forgetfulness.  

So even though that's not that's not directly medicinal, right?   Or is it?   You know, I mean,   it's sort of where you're talking about Pliny the Elder these guys go back like to like before Christ or the before common era   and they're talking about that they notice that this plant   does certain things   when applied a certain way and comfrey   is no different.   Now, the Latin term for the   especially the confre that   that I use   is called   Symphytum   uplandicum.   And it is a naturally occurring hybrid of 2 wild species   of comfrey.   Right? Now that would be Symphytum officiantale,   and it's a and something called prickly comfrey also known as Symphytum asperum.  

Now here's the thing, we want to watch out for this.   The   Symphytum   uplandicum   or the confre that I have always worked with,   right,   is essentially sterile.   It doesn't produce   seed   and because it doesn't produce seed it's not   invasive   up to a point. We'll get to that just keep that in mind   because most people will say oh my god you've got comfrey in your yard it's going to spread everywhere. Well, yeah,   if you've got Symphytum   officinalis   the actual wild type of Russian comfrey because that's sort of where this stuff comes from the you know from Russia and Eastern Europe.   Yeah, it spreads like wildfire   and if you've got it in your yard, you're A) you're never gonna get rid of it, but B) if you don't have it in your yard and you're listening to me tell you about all the cool things that conferee does you   absolutely must   understand   just   how invasive   it is when you get the wrong   type or strain of comfrey. Now, I'll tell you which ones to get   but the officialis   the official I guess that's sort of Latin for official or like the other what what the go to strain   That's the one that produces seed.  

You do not want that one because it will spread like wildfire   throughout everything. Alright? And it'll start choking shit out. And you don't want that, okay? I'm not sending you I don't want to send you on a suicide mission when it comes to comfrey. This is supposed to work for you   not against you.   Okay. So, there was this dude back in the day,   Henry Doubleday.   How far back in the day?   He lived from 18 10 to   1902. And he was the guy that first championed   Symphytum   Uplandicum.   Now the Uplandicum   strain is the sterile   strain. It doesn't produce   seeds so therefore it cannot spread that way. And it's very easily contained.  

However, again once you put comfrey somewhere   it's going to stay there   forever because it's a perennial. We'll get to more of that. I just want to make sure that you're not planting the officinalis.   Don't do that. Don't do that. Alright, so Henry Doubleday,   he was the guy that first started he first found it I guess he was on a trip to Eastern   Russia or Western Russia, Eastern Europe   and you know started I don't know maybe he was here at Lourdes there's not a whole lot written about Henry Doubleday that I can find just yet.   But whatever reason,   he picks up this plant   and he brings it back to jolly old England   where he wants to find out more about this thing.  

And   he did so and he found out more and more and more and then he died.   But before he died or actually right after he died,   there was a guy   and he was a guy named Lords d Hills.   I   he was working with Doubleday   I guess it was not after he died, before he died. He was working with Doubleday. Right?   And he got the bug,   he got the conferee   bug, and he carried on Henry Doubleday's work   and what he did in 1950,   So here we are we're up to 1950.   He established a comfrey research program   in the village of, wait for it, Bocking   which is near   Braintree   in the United Kingdom.  

Now for those who know a little bit about conferee or have listened to my show and I talk about conferee,   I've said the word balking 4   and balking 14. You're about to find out exactly where that comes from.   So anyway, he establishes this research program in the village of Bocking, which is an English village,   And there,   he tried   21 different strains of comfrey.   And each one of the strains was named like Bocking 1, Bocking Baking 4, Baking   14,   Baking 18,   but only the only 2 that anybody knows a damn thing about is Bocking 4   and Bocking 14,   right? So, but that's where it comes from. So when somebody says Bocking 14 Confrey, they're talking about   a strain   that Lawrence D. Hills   was able to get   after he trialed all these different strains   in the 1950s to the 1960s   in this village of Bauchi. So that's where that name comes from.  

Now, again,   both all of the ones that he was trialing   as far as I can tell   were all sterile.   They produced no seeds and that was very very important to them because it can be so invasive if you use what Symphytum officinalis.   That's the one that goes to seed And this thing flowers   profusely.   And in fact,   it flowers   all year long. That's one of the reasons why it just it can produce seed all the time.   And we'll talk about cuttings and stuff, but I've I've   I've cut   you know, several of my old, conferee plants down when they were flowering.   And I was like, I when I first started working with it, I figured well, okay. Well, that this is the way. Not that I was worried about the flower spreading seeds. I was worried about the flowering taking a lot of energy   from the actual plant itself and I wanted it to spread because I want the leaf mass and we'll talk about why. But   I was thinking that if I could cut down the flowering parts   that that would be it, that it wouldn't flower again. Oh, no. No. No. No. It doesn't matter. That thing is gonna flower   all year long. So I finally just started leaving the flower bolts or, you know, what the the stalk where the flowers comes right out of the center and is taller than everything else   and   then I noticed   after all those flowers would dry up and start looking crinkly of course they're not producing seed because I'm you I was using Bocking 4   to be very specific about what I was using   another stalk would grow another flowering stalk would grow and then it would flower and then a third   and then a fourth. And there was like no   difference in how many flowers this thing put out each stock. They were all the same and it flowered profusely and they're very   pretty little   purple magenta   to you know I don't know like coral   color flowers.  

They're beautiful little bell shaped flowers on these bracts which is well no one get into that but just it's pretty. That's the whole thing. One of the cool things about this plant is that, yeah, it does all this stuff that I'm about to tell you about, but it's a good looking plant.   It's a really good looking plant. It looks really good in flower garden in well in like, I don't know, like mass plantings in front of your house.   And if you want something that you don't really have to take care of save just to water it   this is your guy   and it has these beautiful flowers and it flowers continuously throughout the year.  

So,   that was the reason that they were using and they trying to find the sterile strain of this plant was because of the profuse flowering and seeding   ability that this plant has and they ended up with Bocking 14   and Bocking 4 and there's some differences between them.   But   the big thing is is that going back to like mass plantings and this plant in general   is that it's perennial.   What does that mean? It means it comes back   every year.   Now, some plants are annuals like daisies,   right? They they grow from seed, they grow through the season, they put out a flower,   They use the rest of the season to develop seeds after that after all the little parts of that flower have been fertilized by bees wasps and ladybugs and what else at whatever else.  

And then   the plant dies   the whole thing dries all the seeds dry and then those seeds come back the next year if they're planted.   That's an annual. Then there's like biennials,   right? There's several different types of biennials.   Radishes are a biennial,   right? They'll   produce a root   and   a bunch of leaves the 1st year but generally you don't see the 2nd year because you're planting radishes for food so you pull them and you eat them. So you never really see the 2nd year.   In the 2nd year, what happens is that the radish, being a biennial,   establishes itself   and a big old tuber looking thing the radish   in the ground the 1st   year. 2nd year, it sends up a flowering stalk, and it makes seeds.  

And then it dies, the seeds dry out and if you plant those seeds again, you get new radishes.   But that's a biennial.   Then there are perennials.   Some perennials,   I don't think should be called perennials, because they live for 5 years and then they die.   But then we have a perennial and think of a pecan tree,   or a walnut tree   or a pine tree.   That's a perennial. Right? It's all it it just it always lives. But the trees aren't I don't think they're technically called perennials. Those are trees. I'm talking more like   plants.  

Right? A plant.   And while a tree clearly is a plant, it's not this kind of plant, you know, it's not like a tulip bulb or a comfrey root or whatever, right? It's different. But the point with some things that are called perennials is that sometimes   they if they live longer than like 2 years   technically they're a perennial   even if they die   in the 5th year because they just give up the ghost and that's just the way that whatever plant that is that's the way it works, right? It's just part of the part of its genetics part of its habit.   Confrey   is forever.  

That's why   I say   wherever it is that you choose to plant   confry   you need to make sure that you're good with that being its final resting place and that you're never going to get rid of it, ever.   You know, it's not something that can be transplanted   because of the root system. And we'll get it we'll I'll talk more about why that is so   in a minute. But you have to understand at this point,   you don't get rid of this plant.   Right? It's there forever.   So you've got to be very judicious about   where you're putting it and for what reasons you're putting it there.   Now in the United States, we have this thing called the USDA   zone map. Alright, United States Department of Agriculture   has always refined this map and that's where you see like on plants it'll say USD zone 6.  

So if you're in zone 6 like I am,   even though I'm all the way up here in Eastern Washington, I'm   literally in the same USD zone   as I was when I lived in Canyon, Texas.   Amazing, isn't it? That's the way the zones work. Okay?   So if it grows   in USDA   zone 6   and you're in a state with the USDA where that zone comes through,   if you move to any other state and it's got a zone 6,   that plant will grow there.   You don't really have to worry about why or or how just that it does. And that's one of the reasons why the USDA zone map is so very very helpful   when you're planting stuff. And that's why I say that this thing is hardy from USDA zones 4   through 8.  

So it can get really cold   and it can live through some hot stuff,   like 4 I don't know where USDA 4 is. I'm gonna say Minnesota,   USDA zone   4. Okay? Maybe that's a little too high. But   getting down into Florida, that's zone 8.   So this thing works   anywhere from, let's say, I don't know, Northern Illinois   all the way down to you know midway of Florida and and you'll be fine.   Chances are real good though it'll live   above those zones and below those zones. But,   you know, don't don't scream at me if you try to plant in zone 3 and it doesn't work.   It's just that it's so it's this thing is is really really hardy. It's like you can't kill this plant.  

Now here's the thing when you do plant   it and you're working with   it understand that this the leaves are kind of hairy   And some of those hairs can get a little prickly depending on how young the leaf is. The younger the leaf, the more hairy it is.   The older the leaf, the more those hairs get a little bit more prickly because they've dried out and get a little they'll get a little grizzled, right? And the issue is is that you will, when you're working with this thing, find out if you have sensitivity to those hairs.   For me, I'm fairly sensitive to this to the hairs on this plant not not the other stuff that I do with it. But I am sensitive to the hair so I will break out in a rash   on my forearms   when I'm working with you know trying to cut it down and those you know leaves brush against the inside of my forearms like you know like palm side you know where it's like where you don't tan because it's on the you know the inside of your arm I get a pretty good rash goes away in a day it's not that big of a deal but it's annoying so   you'll find out   I trust me, you'll find out. But it's nothing is gonna send you to the hospital.  

So just be aware. Now,   there's a thing that most people bring up with confre, oh, confre, it's got alkaloids, oh my god.   Yeah. Some.   Some do. And they're called,   pyrrolizidine   alkaloids or PAs,   and they are present,   and this has caused a, you know, much crying and a great gnashing of teeth.   So, symphidum uplandicum   crossed with   peregrinum   is free from PAs.   Now, I don't think that that's actually a balking, but I'm not sure. But a couple of people have said on several occasions, and it's throughout the literature that I used to research this entire thing, that the   Symphytum uplandicum   crossed with peregrinum   is the confre that doesn't have these particular   alkaloids involved inside of them.  

But this is coming from, you know, studies that were done years ago   where they force fed rats way more comfrey   than they anything should ever eat for its, you know, any weight that it should eat for its body weight. There's like you know it's like   if you were to sit around and eat a whole hay bale full of comfrey, yeah, you could screw your liver up pretty good.   You don't.   This stuff doesn't really taste all that good.   It just it doesn't. You're not going to be this is not something that you're just gonna have a craving for where you go outside and you pull a whole bunch of leaves off the plant, bring it inside and make   a a caesar salad out of it. That's just that's not gonna happen, so don't don't worry about that one. But it is something to be said because, again,   these alkaloids have caused a great amount of crying and a even greater gnashing of teeth. So   there is one that is free of those alkaloids and that is that one that I just told you about   named, Symphytum uplandicum,   crossed with peregrinum.  

Now   all the other stuff that I'm about to tell you   is illegal,   depending on the country that you're in. Alright? So I'm going to treat this   in a way that is sensitive to the fact that I have listeners in other countries.   Assume   everything that I am about to say is something that you should not do.   Okay? I don't wanna get sued. I don't wanna be taken to jail for telling people to use it as medicine   or use it in this other way or, you know, maybe it's good for ulcers so you can eat some of it. I'm not prescribing   anything that I'm saying. I'm giving you the facts of what I have found out   over the years   and in the research that I've done. Okay?  

So let's get into the uses   of Comfrey.   First up, medicinal.   Exactly what I'm not supposed to say. So everything I'm about to say, you you know what to do with it. Okay? I'm not telling you to do this.   It has been noted in literature   that it's   been used by human beings as medicine   since at least 400   BC   or BCE   depending on your sensibilities and your how easily you go into crying and a great gnashing of teeth. I don't honestly give a shit. I don't care. Right?   400 BC, BCE,   whatever,   humans as far as we know first started using this thing. That's well over 2000 years, ladies and gentlemen. I get that we're all still here.  

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you know, so I'm guessing that the Greeks and Romans didn't kill themselves out when they used   comfrey to stop heavy bleeding.   Heavy bleeding.   What are the Greeks and Romans doing that they would discover the comfrey   stopped heavy bleeding?   Greeks and Romans had a tendency to go to war.   They had a tendency to make spears and and and get into trouble with other groups of people that caused, yeah, a a a great crying gnashing of teeth and arrows flying and swords wielding and all kinds of shit. You know people are gonna get hacked. They're gonna get deep wounds.   And they used comfrey   to help   staunch the bleeding.  

But there's way more that this stuff does.   In wounds in general,   let's talk about wounds in general the kind of wounds   you're going to be looking at, right? Like surface laceration,   you scraped against a nail   or, you know, you cut yourself, you know, not deep but let's say you cut yourself chopping lettuce or whatever. Alright?   Bruises,   everybody gets them.   Broken bones.   I hope you never suffer a broken bone. But,   confre is used  

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for broken bones.   How?   It's   like a freaking miracle.   You wrap  

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where it is that you broke your bone, okay? After it's set, you go to the doctor, you do all those things. But if you want to help the bone set,   if you can get to it,   you can wrap it in comfrey leaves, which is ridiculous because if you ever seen a cast   Yeah. Although the newer casts have a way that you can release that cast because they're like those strap on things. So you can if you can get to it and you can like rub some comfrey salve on it or something like that which I'll talk about in a little bit then it'll actually help. That's one of the reasons why another   name for this plant is called knit bone.  

Other people called it bone knit. Other people just called it knit   because it has a tendency to heal these wounds   and it works for sprains.   How is it getting to the bone? How is it getting to these things? It's just transdermal.   The chemistry in the plant is going through your skin   and into your muscle tissue and it kind of stays resident and it does the thing that it needs to do.   That's why it works.   Right? You're not,   you know, putting a laceration on your leg and stuffing it full of comfrey. That's not the way this works. You're not, you know asking a doctor to make a preparation for injection no it's this is all topical you don't even have to eat it   again this doesn't taste very good but you don't even have to eat it. Just make a poultice out of it or something like that   and it helps. All these people   say that it helps. And I'm including   a link to an NCBI   study that was performed years ago   that talks about the efficacy   of just how well this stuff works in various types of wound healing because this can also be used for rheumatoid arthritis,   myalgia,   and insect bites. Yeah.  

Yeah. You know, like like if you're out and you get stung by a bee or stung by a wasp and it hurts like a son of a bitch or if you just get bit by a mosquito,   you got comfrey around go grab a you know pinch a piece of leaf off   crunch it up in your fingers make it where it's kind of a mash and shove it onto the bite or the sting   And it will help   because it's magic. This plant is magic. Now, here's the thing,   You're not a Roman or a Greek. So, I doubt very seriously that you're going outside and, you know, throwing swords and stuff around.   Which is why   you're probably not suffering   deep wounds.  

Okay, this is important to know. Okay, so now do listen up.   Deep wounds   do occur sometimes, like you cut yourself down to the bone, that's a deep wound. You cut your finger and you can see a tendon, that's a deep wound.   Right?   Yeah, you run over your foot with a lawnmower,   comfrey's not helping you.   Okay? In all of these cases,   comfrey is actually working against you. Why?   Because it works so well at sealing and helping to   your skin fuse itself back together when you're cut,   that if you do it on a deep wound,   the surface will heal where you put comfrey,   but the inside won't.  

And if you've got bacteria and crap and stuff stuck down there in that deep wound,   you've got a problem.   Because comfrey works so well at healing cuts.   If it's a deep cut   this is not a good application for comfrey   until after you go to the hospital, after you get stitches no matter if they're deep stitches or surface stitches whatever.   Then,   then after it's all cleaned and the doctor gives you the clean bill of health and you go on your happy ass way   go home and then   that's when you put comfrey on the cut because it'll help   heal all of this stuff. Got a bruise grab a big leaf and wrap it around you smash it though Bruise it up really good. Take a big old leaf of comfrey   and just I don't know if you got like some like a ace, you know, ankle bandage or something like that. You can keep it on with that or medical tape or, you know, I'm   not against using duct tape. I'm just just saying. You can take the whole bunch of leaves   and you can mash it up.  

Like throw it a whole bunch through a food processor with a little bit of like distilled water or bottled water,   you know, where it makes kind of a slurry,   you know. But I mean you want it thick though. If you just put in conferee leaves without any without any other liquid it did nah, it's not helpful. So put in a little bit of liquid to where it gets into like a very thick paste.   And then   you can dump that onto paper towels and then put another paper towel on it make a thin sheet of comfrey   goo   in between these two paper towels, throw it into the whole thing into   a like a ziplock and freeze it.  

And once it's frozen,   you take it out of the freezer if you've got like a bad bad bruise or a cut, not a deep one again remember. And then bend it around the wound and then wrap it and that way you've got a compress and that the magic of the comfrey   as it melts starts leaking out and getting onto your skin and it works its magic that way.   You can take that mash   if you want and you can squeeze it to where you've just got juice,   and you can mix it into, like, I don't know, coconut oil,   tallow,   lard,   something like that   and use it. But honestly, I don't think you have to go that far. I really don't. Most of the time you just bruise up a leaf, wrap that son of bitch around where it is you got a problem, wrap that so it doesn't fall off, leave it on there for a day, you're probably golden.  

And, you know, after a day I think, you know, the magic is done.   You know, it's gonna it just starts to heal and it heals faster   than normal healing.   But   there's so much more that you can do with this plant. That's what I'm getting at.   That's what I'm getting at here.   Biomass production. Yep,   any idea   how much shear mass   this plant produces? Well, I'm about to tell you.   2.2   kilograms   per plant   per year in one study   and 5.5 kilograms in another.   So a kilogram is £2.2   Do the math.   It's about, like, £12   in a year from one plant. One   plant.  

Alright. You can harvest this thing between 4 and 8 times a year depending on your climate,   depending on the plant strain. Is it Bakken 4? Is it Bakken 14?   Not a whole lot of difference but that you know could be your client you know wherever your climate is,   what kind of year you had, how much water you had, a lot of that's going to go into it. But, yeah, I was harvesting my comfrey   between 4 5 times a year. And literally, I would cut it off at ground level.   2 weeks later, brand new leaves.   I wait a few more weeks after that. I harvest it again.   I could do that from like May until whenever.  

Like whenever it freezes is when it falls over and   quote unquote dies, of course, it doesn't really die just the surface matter.   The roots will always stay alive. That's why it's a forever plant.   Now,   we're talking when you get if you want to go to scale,   okay? And and and talk about like real   mass production.   If you got an acre   and you plant the entire acre out   with   comfrey and it's gonna be there forever, so you've you've basically turned this acre into a comp free production unit forever, Laura. It's forever. You're never getting rid of this stuff. I mean, I guess you could poison the living shit out of it 8 or 9 times and maybe maybe maybe it'll die.   But   remember, wherever you put it, it stays there forever.  

How much would an acre produce   per year?   Talking   wet weight, not dry weight, wet weight   between 40   100 tons.   I'll say it again,   40 100 tons.   This plant   is one of the top 10, if not top 5   biomass production plants ever.   And we'll get into why that could be important here in a minute. But first,   what's the other thing that it does? So already we got medicine.   We've got this huge amount of biomass,   right? And you can say that you're sequestering carbon if you want to, I suppose, because you are.   But what else does it do?   It's what's called a bioaccumulator.  



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that's also known as a mineral dam. So, what's a bioaccumulator?   Well, let's just use the the example of comfrey itself   as what a bio accumulator   is and there's many of them. Okay, first of all, generally speaking they're perennial.   But this plant, comfrey has roots that go down to 6 and a half feet.   That's 2 meters   for all you guys living in, you know, not the United States which is everywhere else. We're the only people I think that still use the imperial,   system of measurement.   2 meters,   6 foot down.   Surface roots from most plants   that are not prairie grasses do not will never see   6 and a half feet down.  

Right?   While those roots are down there, what are they doing?   They're mining for minerals and other things. Not only that's one of the reasons why this thing becomes   after a couple of years being in a place, it becomes drought tolerant.   Because its roots are able to access water that none of the other roots can access because they're not that damn deep.   But   as it's those roots are down there and it's pulling all kinds of stuff out of the soil, different kinds of minerals, it's bringing it up to the leaves.   And then when you cut those leaves and use them for all the things like medicine,   the forage for animals,   and mulch, and the other stuff that we'll get into.  

Well, when you do that, when it brings those up, when when you put those into the usage,   it's because it's got all this huge   cacophony   of soil minerals   that you generally don't find in the first, you know, 6, 7, even 10 inches   of the topsoil of whatever land that you're you're on. Generally, especially in an urban area because everything's been fertilized and poisoned to death and you you name it, dude. I won't go into all that.   But this plant's got the ability. It's got the chops to be able to get down deep and bring the deep stuff that's good up to the top   and then you get nutrient cycling.  

And we'll get into a little bit of that. But first, first what's what's in there?   What is in the leaves?   What is the bio what is being bio accumulated?   Nitrogen.   0.75   percent of these leaves   are nitrogen.   Right?   Phosphorus   0.25   percent   is phosphorus. Potassium   0.2%.   Conferee leaves   also contain oh, this here's the break here's the other breakdown. This the the percentages came from one research   paper this of the other stuff that I'm about to get into comes from another research paper so let's break the nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium down a little further.   Alright. For every kilogram of mass that you get from this plant, you're talking about   a 186   grams   per kilogram of crude ash.  

532 grams   per kilogram   of crude protein.   285   grams per kilogram of that   is digestible protein, which makes it a good fodder for animals.   27 grams per kilogram of crude fat,   a   126 grams per kilogram of crude fiber,   10.8   grams per kilogram of calcium, 6 0.9 grams per kilogram of phosphorus,   64.9   grams per kilogram of potassium.   You know what else this thing has?   It has   these following vitamins.   A b 1, b 2, b 3, b 5, b 6, b 9, b 12.   It's a high source of   vitamin c,   and it contains vitamin e as well as these minerals.   Boron,   chromium,   cobalt,   copper,   iodine, iron, magnesium, manganese, selenium, sodium, and zinc.  

Have you heard about zinc?   And its relationship to fighting viruses   over the past couple of years?   I'll bet you have. I'll bet you have. In fact,   in human immunology   there is a structure called zinc fingers   that is specific to the human immune system.   I wonder why it's helpful in healing.   I can't imagine because the immune system is part of healing things like cuts and bruises.   Your immune system   is the same as your healing system. It's not 2 separate systems, ladies and gentlemen.   So, zinc is in there and it's pulling all this stuff up from 2   meters   down where no other plant can get it. It's going to be able to mine this   treasure trove of   elements   and produce vitamins and   nitrogen and potassium and all forever, Laura. Forever.  

So   okay. Well, great. It's a bio accumulator,   and we know it makes a lot of biomass.   How do we use those two things together? We got biomass production   and it accumulates   all kinds of neat stuff,   mulch.   Remember how I said, plant this plant   wherever it is that you want this plant to be forever?   I plant I used to plant these plants   in places that I also wanted to mulch.   So I would I had I had a like in Canyon I had a lot of goji berries next to a fence because I wanted to before we moved or I figured out that we were gonna have to move I was wanting to put enough goji berries there to start a living fence.   So I planted along with all the goji berries   a bunch of comfrey   and I would cut that comfrey and I would leave it exactly   where I cut it from.  

It's called chop and drop   and   the leaves   would then kind of dry out on the surface   and and trash, you know, trash bugs would come by and kind of like, you know, rip them to shreds and then out over time they would just slowly slowly break down into the soil.   Right? That's the chop and drop method. So if you had like, you know, I don't know you planted a fruit tree   plant for confere plants around it   And you'll have all the mulch for that tree that you'll need throughout the year. And it's right there. You don't have to move it. You don't have to walk around. You don't have to go, oh, I gotta go to the other side of the yard and go get some comfrey and then bring it back and no. No. No. No. No.   Just plant it   where you're going to use it.  

And that way, you kill 2 birds with 1 stone. Right?   So, you got a tree, you got bushes that you want to fertilize,   and mulch because the mulch of this plant is also the fertilizer.   Again, you're you're killing like 4 birds with 1 stone here ladies and gentlemen.   So just plant the plant where you also want the mulch to go   and if you if you make too much fine we'll use it for something else like, you know, compost.   But one of the other things that I used to do with this plant, I had a whole bed of it.   And when it got kind of, you know, a little lanky in the summertime, it gets a little hot in Texas.   I just mow it. I would literally get the lawnmower and I just mow it and mulch it in place that way.  

Seriously, man. Now if you put a bag   on this thing, here's the problem.   The leaves   are they can get fairly wet,   Right? So you can get some jamming action going.   It happened a couple of times. It depends on how big the plants are how much mass you're trying to get the   lawnmower to chop and throw into the bag.   It can overwhelm.   I never particularly had that problem because my plants didn't get to be   6 to 8 feet tall, which I've heard this plant can do. I've just never seen it up close personal.   So, I never had the jamming problem but be aware because you're talking about wet stuff if you've ever mowed your lawn when it's wet   just go slow. But that way you can bag it and it's all chopped up and macerated   and now   now   we can start talking about   using that for mulch.  

Except, the problem is that now that you've cut it all down or now that you've chopped it all   up you can over apply this   and you don't really want to do that. You want to like if you're gonna use this chopped up mash from your bagging   mower just kind of sprinkle it around don't throw it in big thick you know packs because it'll   sit there and compost in place but it will compost   in in my opinion an anaerobic way.   Anaerobic means without oxygen   and you can grow some some bugs and soil critters and you know bacteria and fungi fungi that you might not really find all that. You might not appreciate it in your garden. So if you're gonna do it this way and, you know, molt stuff with the stuff out of your bag,   go lightly with it. Kind of sprinkle it around. Use your hands and and break it up and, you know, don't pack it where it's all thick. Alright? So keep that keep that in mind. Because if it's too thick, you you might end up with problems.  

But now,   we have mulch,   right? We got bioaccumulation,   We've got this thing that produces a shit ton of mass.   Well, what happens if we do have too much? We've we've mulched everything.   Oh my God, I've mulched it   so many times and I've got so much of the stuff left over. Compost,   compost,   compost, compost, compost. Why? Because of the nitrogen.   Generally speaking,   you want   in good compost whether you're using comfrey or not, you want a blend of   dry   dead   leaves and grass. And I mean not fresh mown grass because that's there's still a lot of nitrogen, but that when that grass dries and it's all golden and 100% dry   it's basically carbon at that point. You want 30 parts of carbon   to 1 part of nitrogen.  

Generally speaking rule of thumb when it comes to any compost   you want a shit ton more dry carbon   than you want   green   leafy,   you know   chopped up gooey   conferee plants or you know grass   and you've got to mix those.   Otherwise, you get problems.   But let's just do this first.   Because the comfrey is so high in nitrogen,   that's why you can use it for this for the one part per 30 parts of carbon   for the nitrogen component.   Plus you get all what?   You get all those vitamins and you get all the manganese   and magnesium and iron and iodine and copper and cobalt and chromium and boron and zinc and sodium and selenium, by the way, which is essential   for photosynthetic plants to have. You ain't got selenium, you're not photosynthesizing.  

If you don't have iron, you're not photosynthesizing.   But,   again, you should not be using this in any compost pile at more than   10 to 1   of brown material to comfrey. Okay? I said 30 to 1, but that's when we're talking about pure carbon versus pure nitrogen.   There's not pure nitrogen   in confere so you can kind of go 101.   I've heard people use 15   to 1 you know 15 parts dry leaves   1 part   chopped up comfrey   and mix it all together your compost   is gonna be badass.   Now, here's the thing that happens   when you let too much nitrogen   get into your compost pile.  

I've composted since I was in my teenage years.   And I had no started noticing   very early on that I was losing a lot of mass in my, like, I would I'd have started out with this great big mass   it would get smaller   and smaller   and smaller and smaller.   Now,   if I was if I did it right,   my end product would yes, it would have less, you know, it would look   less in size.   But what I learned was what was happening is that because I had too much nitrogen in my pile versus carbon   the activity of the microbial community that was doing the composting   was composting so much   that nitrogen   was actually being released into the atmosphere and I was losing   mass as   nitrogen components   just like protein and whatnot like that   of the composting material was being turned to gas and that gas was being released.  

That's the way to lose compost. That's the way to do a shit ton of work and get not a whole bunch of stuff on the other end.   So that's why that 30 to 1 ratio is so important.   So that that nitrogen can be captured   by the carbon. Why?   Carbon as an element   absolutely   adores   nitrogen   as an element and they have a tendency to have a great big old hug fest   And they don't like to let go of each other once they've combined.   That's the important part. That's why you want so much carbon in there.   Now, and again, I've had like these piles I've seen piles lose like 25%   of their mass.  

Because I've been doing it for so long that's that's not   Yeah, that's not an exaggeration   at all.   And the other problem with too much nitrogen is that it can make the pile too hot. You want the the compost to get hot enough to kill your weed seeds from like anything else that you put in there.   But if it gets too hot, it starts killing the actual microbiology   that's doing the composting and creating the heat in the first place. It's like their critters inside of this thing are a little too dumb   to be able to regulate how much they're   because once they go to town,   they stay going to town.  

And they will literally eat the sun this son of a bitch all up, create so much heat that they literally kill themselves. So when that happens,   they've also used up all the oxygen in the pile and it gets anaerobic.   Smells   when you when you have to turn the pile at that point with a pitchfork and break it up break it open and then like literally turn it upside down. It smells like a sewer.   It's it's not a good smell. And when you smell something that's sour,   that tells you that you've got anaerobic conditions and you don't want anaerobic conditions ever.   Alright, so   30 parts carbon   to 1 part nitrogen   Or let's say 15 parts dry grass   and lawn clippings and or like like dried lawn clippings   like raked up leaves   to 1 part chopped up comfrey and that should that should keep you okay.  

Yeah, let's see here. Oh, shoot I just lost my place.   Oh, adding biochar   because like I said this stuff you know nitrogen loves carbon.   Well, yeah, biochar is a little bit more recalcitrant. It's not exactly free and easy.   However,   I have noticed that biochar   will has a tendency to soak up   everything.   Everything. It soaks up microbiology,   it soaks up all kinds of minerals. It's if it's like anywhere remotely   aligned with   moisture,   which a compost pile should be kind of moist,   it's like a it's like a straw and it just will suck this stuff up. So if you   add biochar   to your compost pile,   I would not say that that replaces any part of the 30 to 1 carbon to nitrogen ratio.  

You should still act   like you've got 30 parts of dry leaves   one part of chopped, you know, or   dried leaves or well 15 parts of dried leaves, one part of chopped comfrey,   and then   once you've got that then you can mix in biochar. Just treat the biochar like it's not part of the carbon. Okay? Just I guarantee that way it'll charge up your biochar   if you're making any and we won't get into how to do that, right? Just go look for you can buy it. But it needs to be charged before you put it in the soil to do all of the magic that it does.   This is a way to get that thing charged.  

Anyway,   liquid fertilizer. You can make liquid fertilizer out of this stuff. How? Get a barrel. I don't care how big. You can get a 5 gallon bucket or a 55 gallon oil drum. I don't care as long as the oil has been cleaned out of the drum.   You fill the barrel   with chopped leaves. You fill it with water, and then you cover it and you wait 3 to 6 weeks.   Your barrel should have a nozzle on the bottom of it and a screen on the inside   so that you can drain the water off.   It smells bad.   And this isn't this is a different kind of   reason it smells bad is not because of anaerobic stuff. This is a completely different reason, but it smells   terrible.  

You have to keep this covered,   right? You want to keep it covered anyway, so it doesn't evaporate the water but you also you don't want to piss your neighbors off too much and you will piss your neighbors off. However, what does it give you?   It gives you liquid that you can use   just drench on your tomato like drench the soil of whatever plants that you're growing whether they're for human consumption   or just pretty stuff that's in you know flowers and stuff that's in your flower bed. You can use it at full strength,   you can cut it by half with water,   I've seen people use 1 tenth of the strength of what comes out, but you gotta   you gotta wait. It's 3 to 6 weeks. I'd wait on the I'd probably   I wouldn't even look at it for 3 weeks and I might even go 4 or 5   before I even before I even did this. And yes, I have done this because I had a setup for   it. Works it works great because it's giving what? It's giving all those minerals and nutrients and whatnot   a place to get cozy with water molecules and that way when you pour it onto your soil   it soaks and drenches in and those roots   take it up and they're like, oh, look, boron. I need that. Oh, selenium. I need some of that. Iron. Holy shit. I gotta get some of that calcium too, brother.  

It's got everything it needs.   And you did what? You produced it on-site at your house.   You didn't go to a store and I'm not saying that this to do this to save money.   It's just why even go through the trouble of driving down to Home Depot and going and getting chemical fertilizer   when you can just make it yourself?   Because if you want to do this in a different way and have concentrated fertilizer, Comfrey's got you covered. How do you do that?   Well, you fill a barrel with a drain, of course, with chopped leaves.   Then you you mash it down and you keep filling it full of leaves until you just can't mash it down anymore. And then you put a massive rock or something to keep it compressed in the barrel  

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what? You got to make sure that you can you got a filter on that drain too, by the way, otherwise things get nasty.   You put a rock on it to keep it compressed and then you cover it.   This one you walk away   and a few weeks, let's say 6 probably more like between   68.   A black   slurry   will have started descending.   That's what you drain off and it's a slurry. It's not you didn't add any water to this one   and it's super   high   concentrated   fertilizer   and it smells   terrible   and your neighbors will hate you if you're just doing this out in the open or   keeping the barrel open   and not respecting, like, maybe I shouldn't open it because the wind is is blowing in the exact direction of my neighbor's patio and they've got   all their kids out there and they're having hot dogs,   maybe you should wait.  

That's how bad this stuff smells.   When the cover's on, that's fine. But when you start messing with it, yeah,   it's gonna stink. So don't do that when your neighbors are, you know, having a barbecue.   Anyway, so it smells bad. This stuff you use   at 1 tenth strength.   So, you got one part of this black slurry,   10 parts water.   And then do the same thing that you did with the liquid fertilizer   version of this. It depends on what you want to do, how much comfrey you have, how you want to go. But once you've used up all the slurry,   take the comfrey,   mix it with dry leaves and grass and dry grass,   and make compost out of it. Or take the leaves,   maybe even let them dry out you can use that as mulch, right? Just again,   not too thick because you cause that anaerobic thing to happen and   that's that's no no winnow.  

So like yeah, like you could mix 1 gallon of slurry with 10 to 15 gallons of water.   Yeah. One tenth, one fifteenth strength. This it it like I said, it's got you covered for all the same reasons. Now,   when does this stuff grow? It starts in early April.   Okay. The leaves start coming out in early April depending on your climate, of course,   But it's yeah. I I was I was getting comfrey pretty April, let's see. February, March. I was getting comfrey coming up out of the ground in late March where I was in Canyon, Texas.   Now this stuff can get like 35 centimeters high within weeks.  

It can grow depending on how much you water   and how much nutrient availability   the plant has. It can grow to be 6 feet tall. That's taller than I am   by an   inch. I'm I'm like 5 11.   I've never seen one that tall but it it happens. I've seen pictures. I just haven't been up close and personal.   It flowers in late late May, but that doesn't halt leaf production nor does does it stop flowering after that first flowering sprig comes up.   Bees   love this plant.   And this plant is good for bees and bees are good for us.   If you hate bees,   I don't really know what to tell you because without bees,   a lot of people on this planet would die.  

They're they're the only ones that figured out how to pollinate   at scale   that many flowers of that many different plants over that much area   that quickly.   Alright. So,   you want to feed the bees. And this plant,   this plant   feeds the bees. It's only pure conjecture when I say   that in the nectar of these flowers   these bees are finding   a pharmacy   filled with medicine that they probably need.   By the way, I didn't mention, but the flowers   are edible.   And they're gorgeous. You sprinkle a few on, like, a salad,   probably gonna be, probably gonna impress your friends on at a dinner party.   I wouldn't eat a whole bunch of them because they have a tendency to be just a little bit   like cucumber   y, vegetative,   but they are sweet at first. But if you eat out like I've eaten a whole handful of them before and I'm like, yeah, probably shouldn't have done that. But like 1 or 2,   maybe on top of the steak just for like, you know, floral, like a little floral arrangement,   the thing looks beautiful.  

Now, what does it require?   They say full sun.   Not not in canyon.   It liked full sun in the morning,   but after   like 10 o'clock,   11 o'clock, and then getting into, like, you know well,   10 like, for 12 o'clock in April, it was fine.   And getting into,   April, May, June.   Yeah. Then it starts going down to, like, 10 o'clock. After 10 o'clock,   your leaves start wilting.   If you have this thing, if you live in like Lubbock, Texas   or like zone 6a,   zone 6b,   or zone 7, and you've got this out in the middle of a field and it gets sunlight all day long, that will kill this plant.   It says full sun, but what it really wants is a shit ton of full sun in the morning   and dappled shade   in the afternoon   at noon and after.  

That's what it was.   You find places that that do that,   you're gonna these plants are gonna love you.   I'm just saying this is from direct experience with this plant. I've never used it in a place that like it was 75   degrees at the hottest time in summer. I've, you know, and it was full sun.   Maybe that maybe those plants work better. But I know that in Lubbock, Texas and in Canyon, Texas which is about a 135 miles north of Lubbock.   Yeah. Full sun, no. It's a it's it's definitely a no go. So you're gonna need some good shade,   depending where you're at.  

It needs irrigation   for especially the 1st year maybe 1st couple of years,   but it will never die due to drought unless you plant it and never water it.   Right? And then you get a drought, no that root is gonna die in the ground. We'll talk about propagation here in a sec. But that, you you once it's established, it won't die because of drought. Now that doesn't mean that it's gonna be pretty.   It's gonna look like crap.   And all the top leaves may if the drought's so bad, that plant's gonna go into dormancy. You're gonna think it died.   But let's say it goes through winter and then all of a sudden it rains in the spring,   that plant's coming back. You cannot kill this plant with drought   unless it's like a 25 year drought or something like that, but nobody ever sees that. It's soil adaptable. So loam,   sand,   clay,   any combination of all of them. It does not care. It also doesn't really give a shit about the pH of your soil, otherwise known as how acid your soil is or how basic your soil is.  

My soil in Canyon, Texas   was 8.4   of a pH.   Highly alkaline.   Highly,   highly alkaline to the point that a lot of other shit didn't want to grow. Conferee,   it's like a honey badger, it didn't care.   Now,   propagation.   It's easy.   You can get cuttings from a root crown   and plant that just cover it with some just dig a hole like   in a root crown. Let's see. Felt like you can get I've seen root crowns. I used to take root crowns. Like, I would chop the entire crown of, like, I'd dig the plant up.   I would chop the entire top of the plant off. I'd put the root part back into the ground cover it with soil boom new plant   within weeks.  

I'd take the top of the plant that I cut off and I would cut it into like 32 little individual pieces.   That's the root   crown.   It's the very crown, not the leaves, it's like where the leaves connect to the roots   that area you chop that off that's the crown and then you can divide that up and I would divide it up into like, you know, about the size of the first knuckle of my thumb   and then bury it,   cover it,   water it   make sure it doesn't dry out and in 2 or 3 weeks I had a brand new spanking confre plant that's setting roots.   That's how easy it is to propagate this plant.  

Once you have one of these   you should never have to order another one.   Unless you move and don't take any of the shit with you. Right? You can also take root cuttings   the part of the the plant that after I chopped off the crown and I put back in the soil. I didn't have to do that and I didn't   for a good friend of mine, which I'll mention here in a second. I would take the whole thing. I'd chop off the crown and do the root crown thing, and then I'd chop the roots up into like 1 or 2 inch pieces.   And then I'd bury those.   Except instead of a couple of weeks,   sometimes I would wait 4,   sometimes 6, depending on the time of year that I planted.  

I it could be like, you know, there was a couple that I didn't see for 12 weeks.   But that's the difference between planting   a root cutting from a root crown cutting   or a below the ground or below the root crown   root cutting. There is a difference   generally speaking that it comes up with the exact same plant.   It just takes longer for one than it does the other one. So now that I've mentioned all these   badass things that you can do with comfrey.   It heals.   You make compost out of it. You can make liquid fertilizer out of it. You can you'd like you mulch with it.   It never dies. It doesn't seed so at least if you get the Bocking 14 or Bocking 4,   right?  

It won't it's not invasive.   It's it's forever   wherever you put it. It's drought tolerant   and it produces   a shit ton of mass   and all that mass can do all the things that I've just mentioned.   It's a wonderful plant. Where do you get it?   You get your comfrey from my good friend, she she 21 m.   At nostr. That's at she she 21m. That's s h I s h I 21m   as in 21,000,000   on noster. You can also reach him if you're not on noster at   [email protected].   That's   [email protected].   He has both Bocking 14   and balking 4 varieties.   That balking 4 variety that he's now propagating,   he got that from me.  

We were doing a test to see if I could sell him some comfrey with lightning network and it worked. I sold him a $100 worth of comfrey.   I sold I gave him a 100 root cuttings   that I was able to get off of a single   one   of my plants.   Right?   And he's got them. He's got the genetics that I left behind   back in Canyon, Texas.   So   if you want comfrey and you want this plant,   get it from Shishi because he takes lightning networks.   He does, I mean, he takes the Toshi's via the lightning network.   He's much more responsive if you get to him on Noster, but if you're not she she [email protected].   He has both Bocking 14 and Bocking 4 that came from me. He will sell you one full root for $20   He will send you root cuttings for $1   each.  

You pay the shipping.   You gotta work this out with Shishi as to where to deliver,   how much you want. Do you want Bocking 14, Bocking 4? I suggest getting both.   I mean, why not? One of each. I forgot to mention that Bocking 4 is pretty good for human uses and the more medicine y kind of and composty kind of things.   Bocking 14   is when you feed it to rabbits and have it as part of your animal's diet. Not all of your animals diet,   part of your animals diet and you can do your own research as to how much to feed animals. Yes, you will find the gnashing of teeth and the crying and the whining   about how it kills everything. But you'll also find   and I've got 3 links that I'm gonna send that I'm gonna put in my show notes for this show of the of the 3 top three research things   that I want to send people to.  

1 of them is highly detailed, highly scientific. You may hate it. 2 of them are more written for layman's. Between the 3,   you'll find all you need to find out and if you wanna find out more about how to feed it to animals and how much,   it's out there. Okay? Just you're gonna have to   you're gonna have to wander through the crying and the gnashing of teeth. But again, get your confre from at she she 21 m on nostr.   She she [email protected].   She she and I have got a deal. Yes, I'm getting a cut of everything he sells.   I want to help   Xi Xi sell the conferee I sold him because that would be a perfect   circle.  

Let's run the numbers.   Pew doggy.   I got oil up   1.56%.   That was West that is actually West Texas Intermediate there for $71.13   a barrel. Brent Norsey, likewise, up 1 and a half points to 75.28.   Natural gas swinging for the fences,   just a hair below 5 full percent points to the upside, $2.37   a1000. And we got gasoline up 1 and a half to $2.46   a gallon.   Gold up scant. 0.05   percent to $2,020.70.   Silver up almost a half to 2426.   Platinum is up a third. Copper is up almost a half, and palladium is up 2 thirds of a point. Ag is pretty much in the green today. The biggest winner, wow, wheat.   4.3%   to the upside followed by coffee. 2.93%   to the upside. Biggest loser is rice   1%   down. I got live cattle up 0.08.  

Lean hogs up 2 and a half points. Wow. Feeder cattle are up 0.83%.   Dow   0.12%   to the upside. S and P is up 0.3. NASDAQ up a half, and S and P Mini is up 3 quarters of a point.   Real money is at $27,402.20.   That's after a 100 and 88   1,000 BTC been sent in the last 24 hours. I got,   point 34 BTC as the average transaction value. Median transaction value is 14¢   or   0.00.54   BTC.   Yeah. That 14¢,   15¢,   ordinals.   That's how you know.   They're ordinals.   9 minutes and 28 seconds for block times, that's kinda low. I got,   0.55   BTC taken in fees on a per block basis, and 83   0.74 taken in fees over all the last 24 hour period.  

7.74%   increase in hash rate puts us just below 400   to 398.23xahashes   per second. Your shitcoin indicator is Dogecoin, 7.2   United States pennies.   Looks like we're having a $530,900,000,000   market cap. That's 3.91%   of gold's market cap. You can get 3 13.5   ounces of shiny metal rocks with your 1 Bitcoin.   Looks like there is a 145   point $7,000,000   of capacity in the lightning network.   We got oh, what do we what do we have?   Where's our channels? Oh, 72,262   payment channels that we know about.   2.2%   difficulty   increase   coming up May 18th. So we had been showing   a decrease in the estimated difficulty change. Now, we've swung   to the upside. Why? Well, probably because there's a shit ton of blocks.  

A 180   no. A   192 blocks are waiting to clear,   and they are carrying 252,000   unconfirmed transactions.   Low priority   transaction fees are 49 satoshis per vbyte   and 91 satoshis per vbyte for high priority fee.   I am number   13 on fountain charts.   It didn't work, guys. It didn't work. I wasn't able to get back into the top 5.   I wasn't even able to get back into the top 10. Help me change that. I really want to displace,   fun fact Friday with Leila and David. I also want to be ahead of millennial media offensive,   the Lotus effect, the watchmen privacy report, Curry and the keeper,   and Lennox unplugged. Right now, I am lowly number 13,  

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but but I do got boostograms.  

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Let's see if I can get to them. If Fountain will work with me. You working with me? It's probably not gonna work with me. I might just go ahead and pick up my phone.   Yeah. It looks like it's gonna crap out on me. God dang it Fountain.   Their web app is,   it can get dicey at times as to whether or not it wants to show me what I want it to show me. But luckily luckily,   I've got my trusty old   phone right here. And once I can finally get it to a point where I can get my own show up,   I can tell you the boostograms.   Alright, here we go.  

Now,   from   Dale junior with 20,000   sats, Balla says, thanks.   No Dale junior, thank you.   Bay nerds has this message and he's my guy that sells you maple syrup and his sister Sarah's soaps.   Message from customer for your metrics.   I have to admit that I probably pulled the trigger on buying from you mostly because you accept Bitcoin.   But that's not a bad thing as a motivator. I like to support using Bitcoin in a circular economy.   The fact that my wife loves homemade soap and real maple syrup   definitely sealed the deal as soon as I heard about it.   Yeah. Okay. Great. That was with a 3,001   sat. So you guys are kind of doing a combination. I like that. I want maple syrup. I want your product.  

Oh, and you take Bitcoin.   Through the lightning network that makes it even easier?   Greasing the skids   greasing the skids.   I got Joseph Joey Joe with 3,000 says, looking forward to the confre episode, do well?   You just got it. Nick_dose   with 2345   says, I like to read from holistic management about mineral, paper, and solar as the three forms of money. Appreciate the variety of subjects you cover.   Cheers. And I got one from Dub Brofco with a 1,000 sats, but that one I'm not gonna read,   because I don't know if he wants me to read it or not. If he does, do you let me know and I'll read it next show.   Yegro   with a 725   says, brother?  

Oh wait, no no. I will read Dubravco.   I'm not going to read Yegro. Dubravco says, per Allan Savory,   it is refreshing refreshing   to see someone learn from their mistakes, especially one this big. It is also a person that has to starkly change direction   that is the most dedicated to the ideal, their ideals. Someone   should tell the United States Chamber of Commerce   that the purpose of the system is what it does, not what it claims to do. Stafford Beer. I don't know who that is.   Regarding the feds,   working with the Ukrainian feds, Foucault's   boomerang is in full effect.  

Corey doctor Rowe had a great interview   on Could It Happen Here that explained it well.   And last up is God's death with grassy ass.   He paid   370 satoshi's to say   grassy ass.   Okay.   I think he's saying thank you just in a in a different way that none of us know about. Now,   on to the news. US senators introduced bill requiring reports   on El Salvador's Bitcoin adoption, BTC Casey for Bitcoin Magazine.   A group of United States senators have introduced yet another bill   requiring reports   on the adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador.   The accountability for cryptocurrency   in El Salvador act   introduced by senator James Reese, senator Bob Menendez, and senator Bill Cassidy   require the secretary of state,   in coordination with other relevant   federal departments and agencies, to submit a report on the adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador.  

The report must include   an assessment of the regulatory framework in El Salvador and the potential impact of Bitcoin adoption   on macroeconomic   stability,   democratic governance, and the flow of remittances from the United States to El Salvador.   I'm not reading   anything else from this report. That's all you need to know.  

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What business is it of any countries,   other than El Salvador,   what they do?   What what are we gonna do? We gonna send in the marines   to El Salvador to do what?  

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Tell people take their nodes?   Look for the wallets on their phone?   Like El Salvador is gonna do what to the United States?   Ah, prove the point of Bitcoin.   That's why and that's the only reason why these ridiculous   bills   that   want accountability   of Bitcoin in El Salvador.   That's the the ludicrous freaking name. Well, you want accountability of what? The protocol of Bitcoin or do you want account accountability of   a country that's   you've gotten no business being in?   Their accountability for using Bitcoin, what's the accountability here?   Dude,   we   cannot stop   keeping our nose in people other people's business, and it's sad   and it needs to end.  

But   I want to tell you about this one. Ethereum network suffers finality issues. Here's what that means.   Pedro Salimano   with this one from decrypt dotco.   Ethereum, the world's 2nd largest blockchain by cryptocurrency market cap, suffered a technical issue on Friday,   causing its network to halt finalizing blocks for more than an hour.   Finality takes roughly 15 minutes and refers to the guarantee that a block   cannot be altered or removed from the blockchain without burning at least 33%   of the total staked ETH according to the Ethereum Foundation.   The network lost finality for roughly an hour midday Friday in what appears to be   the second issue of its kind in 24 hours.  

On Thursday, blocks were being proposed but not validated during a 25 minute window on Thursday.   The cause of these outages still remain unclear, which has spurred many in the crypto community to take to social media to discuss and try to figure out what went wrong. Do you need to know anything else?   This thing is, this chain,   you don't want to have anything to do with Ethereum.   This is par   for the course.   If you've been around this space for any length of time   and your head is not buried in the sand   and understand the truth of what Ethereum really is a great big massive pump and dump   You will have seen   issues like this   before   and issues that have nothing to do with this kind of thing that are still bad issues.  

Ever since the inception   of this   mediocre,   crappy chain,   Everything about this is wrong. Stay away. Stay away.   Stay away.   Nutminer.   Mind those nuts. Proof of work   based cashew faucet.   Nutminer   is a difficulty   adjusted proof of work based cashew faucet that emits a constant rate of tokens no matter how many people use it. This is from no bullshit Bitcoin,   aka   nobsbitcoin.com.   Quote, the miner runs in your browser and produces hashes that are submitted to the back end.   The more people use it, the higher   cash nut which you can cash out on lightning.   You can think of it as a proof of concept of what an e cash based mining pool would look like. Bitcoin miners do not need to reveal their mining rewards to the pool.  

Instead, they can accumulate e cash representing their reward and cash out anonymously, Cali wrote. Try it out.   Cracks nuts over there at nutminer.semisol.dev.   That's nutminer.semisol.dev.  

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Now I tried it  

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and it basically ate 20% of my computer's resources as far as CPU. It's instantly.   And I was nowhere close   nowhere close to matching the difficulty. So use at your own risk, but it runs in your browser. You don't need to set up anything. You don't need a node. You don't need anything. You just go to nutminer. Semisold.dev   and the thing starts running and it will give you a little bit of metrics. And then you can gauge and see if your computer is hot shit enough to be able to run this and crack a nut. Otherwise, we got fold.   Fold and El Salvador this time. Fold Bitcoin rewards app announces expansion   into El Salvador spearheading   Latin American operations.  

Bitcoin reward company, Fold,   has announced its expansion into El Salvador, establishing a new office that will serve as a space for operations in Latin America.   Fold, known for introducing the world's 1st Bitcoin rewards Visa debit card to the United States market in 2020, aims to make Bitcoin accessible and easy for users worldwide.   Oh, Fold CEO, Will Reeves, expressed enthusiasm about the move in a press release shared with Bitcoin Magazine stating,   quote, as a country that has embraced Bitcoin and has been a pioneer in adopting new monetary technology,   we believe that El Salvador is the perfect place for Fold to expand its presence in Latin America. Reeves   sees El Salvador as an ideal location due to the country's positive stance on Bitcoin   and its efforts to build new capital markets.  

According to the release, FOLD's expansion will bring valuable solutions to customers and businesses in the region   through its rewards program   and embedded Bitcoin infrastructure.   The company stated it plans to announce partnerships with major players in Latin America soon. Thank god. According to the release, to date, FOLD's Bitcoin rewards infrastructure has processed over $1,000,000,000   US in volume,   highlighting its growing success   and impact. So there you go, FOLD moving down to El Salvador has plans to infect   Latin America   later.  

And   I love Fold, I really do. I use Fold.   It's a great service   and I'm happy   that they're gonna concentrate first and foremost   in Central America.   Instead of, you know, go, oh, we gotta find something different. No, man. Central America. Concentrate your energies   on Central America. That's Costa Rica.   You know, that's,   El Salvador,   Honduras, Nicaragua,   those places. South of Mexico.   Anything south of Mexico and north of South America is Central America. There's like 7 countries there.   Go get them. That's all I gotta say.   Snort version   0.1.8,   wallet connect,   trending notes, and more. So this is an update to what Snort's been doing. Added to meal language support,   quoted notes are rendered embedded, multi account support for subscribers,   zapper key loading processing and background to speed up profile   loading, export keys page added to settings,   nip 90 4 support for rendering quoted file metadata events.  

Interactions,   cache, you know, like, zaps, likes, reports for a better user experience.   Full screen image and video previews in modal.   Rebroadcast   own events dialog. Gnoster wallet connect support.   Cashew token parsing,   preview with redeem link, and trending notes,   slash people tabs added to search page. So there you go, Snort   not lying down on the job.   US   strips Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith   of export privileges   for 10 years.   Amaka   Nawahatcha   is writing this one for Cointelegraph.   The United States Department of Commerce   has imposed a 10 year export privilege ban on Virgil Griffith,   the Ethereum developer that's serving a 5 year prison sentence.  

The ban restricts him from enjoying   export privileges   until April 12, 2032.   The export privilege ban affects   his ability to participate in international trade and business. On April 12, 2022,   he was convicted in the US District Court for the Southern District of, you guessed it, New York for breaching the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.   Griffith was found guilty of unauthorized export for services to North Korea and circumventing US sanctions   imposed on the country. So as a private citizen of the United States,   he can't participate in international trade   or business   until   5 years hence.  

Wow,   you know, honestly that I he might be an Ethereum developer, but dude   talk about freaking overreach. I just it, whatever whatever.   Alright, now I had this one on the list as I told you before, but we are running   way way long.   I might save this one for tomorrow, but yeah, $31,000,000,000,000   in debt.   That ain't nothing to sneeze at. That's gonna do it for the afternoon round up.   Alright.   Starting the week out with dad says jokes. How do you put a baby astronaut to sleep?   You rock it.   That's I guess that one is for Elon Musk who's doing   weird and wonderful well,   wonderful.  

Now cringe. Cringe things. Did you see his CEO that he hired?   Oh, my God.   I don't even want to talk about that one. But go off into this week,   get your comfrey   from [email protected]@sheshe21m   on nostr.   He'll sell you comfrey.   If you buy the Bakken 4 comfrey,   that's the stuff that I propagated.   All of those genetics I had my hands on, right? So if you want   a little piece of me, get the Bocking 4 variety.   It's good for the medicine part. It's good for everything,   especially the compost and whatnot. But I highly recommend that you get one of each.   I highly recommend that you get Bocking 14,   as well as Bocking 4. [email protected]   has both of them. That's s h I s h I [email protected].  

And I'll see you on the other side.   This has been Bitcoin, and and I'm your host, David Bennett. I hope you enjoyed today's episode and hope to see you again real soon.   Have a great day.