Fiskars still makes knives in Finland, their chinese chef is something like 30 Eur, Finnish chef is 250 Eur, versus japanese or swiss at 150 Eur. Duh. Such is the cost of labor here.
And all steel stock for abovementioned blades (except for chinese) just comes from Japan anyway lol.
No, it's mostly "what else can we do with a good forge (and guys who keep smiths operational)?"
And then, sadly, "how do we improve sales performance for things where customer would not notice it's unethical shit"
They have a brewery too!
Also Sorsakoski is my neighbour village just across the lake, yay, mom, look, we are on TV!
Fiskars things are good as long as they are actually made in Finland. Pity that many of their products are just chinese junk and you've got to read the labels even though you know the brand.
Ultimate heatpipe if condenser is replaced with reflux. Well, that's what heatpipes are.
I remember cooking scrambled eggs on amd topped with a few coins.
Nah, that's mushrooms farming us by maintaining our food garden
Print me something
I do not have a lawn, I have several ha of forest and grassland. I have about 25 nest boxes for wild birds, occupied 2/3 (last year I had a huge owl living in one!) and countless other nests, several snakes, snails and frogs, lynx and I see bear tracks and scats now and then. I keep bees and allow wasps to build wherever they like, there are lots of bumblebees everywhere and birds sure have something to eat. I mulch a lot and keep loads of rotting leaves. I mow with scythe when I absolutely have to clear small area. I know there are fireflies in Finland.
Never saw a single blink.
I've seen them once in my life, in Smoky Mountains, about 10 years ago. It was pretty much spiritual experience. The darkness came alive. I cried when I saw their luciferase smeared over windshield and glowing long after the creature was dead. I knew lots of lore about them, saw them in mass culture - never realizing I never saw one myself, even though I take care to notice all living things around, from bacteria and yeast to mycchorizal networks.
I live in Europe.
I had (still have) huge problems growing from seeds. The only things that help are:
Then things start to move.
Unfortunately, this way I can't get anything exotic. Even the places that seem decent enough, like Palmatum, send the seeds that just do not work (I had better - order of magnitude better - results with seeds from supermarket apples than from apple seeds they sent me; I wish they sold 5-needle pines and sequoias fruits in supermarkets!). Things are so desperate we've made BAP-6 growth hormone and I'm going to try it on purchased seeds, it must work, I just didn't try yet (someone told me it does exactly the right thing - germinates strong seeds - after trying it, it's my turn now). Here, you can buy some from my store if you like to try it too https://store.zymologia.fi/hormones/24-37-6-bap.html#/17-weight-1_g - it's just as hard to cook 1g as 1kg (apart from reagents cost and work of putting this stuff in jars), so why not share.
And, furthermore, large potential market for less-than-masterpiece artisanal is in DIY. But kitchen knives are occupational hazard if they are crappy. Needless to say, there is an artisan smith in my village, so who cares for brands.