I like them, but the main reason I use them is it leveled out the garden and it really helped out with areas that water gathered in the winter. I no longer have puddle issues. Some spots the chips are a foot deep. It seems to be improving the soil in the paths. Accidentally dropped seed if left alone are growing some decent quality plants.


Garden 1 of 4.
40. 100 sq ft beds.
Total space about 8500 square feet.
Mostly veggies.
Other 3 gardens are still under construction (permaculture).
Main issue now is keeping up on harvest, processing and watering.
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Pretty much on everything, but on pizza may be my favorite. It helps that they are one of the easier peppers to grow in my conditions.


There are so many things to cut that need a good tool but the chainsaw is such an overkill. For instance making stakes. I have been using a bow saw. But not satisfied.


Damn! Amazing!


I really need a Katana pull saw


Add an axe and pickaxe. Unstoppable.


Power of the sun
#gardenstr

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Now that I know how do I refuse


I’ll get some. I’m such a sucker for all things health related. I take so many things I no longer know what is doing what. But, on the other hand,  I seem to be doing good for now at least.


Have you noticed anything. I think I took some in pill form years ago.


First time doing a lamb roast on the grill. Will see?
#foodstr
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Beautiful!


The tree/shrub is cascara


While picking blackberries on the property I discovered something I had not noticed before. Native plants brings a smile to my face. I guess I never will have any issues taking dump here on out.
#nature #medicinals #nativeplants

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I’ve come to the same conclusion.


I was this kid, but it was with the elderly neighbor next door and he clearly understood our situation. It was also the early 80’s, things were much different than. Most kids I knew were latch key. He was very kind and I will never forgot him. Now that I think of it he had a profound impact for the positive on my life.


They a great, but you can’t get ride of them and they are everywhere. They form huge impenetrable thickets.


Slow roasted tomatoes.  I like to vac seal them in one pound increments. We usually go through about 150 per year.
#tomatoes #gardenstr #homedteading
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Foraged invasive blackberries. We got about two gallons. Only cost hands tore up.
#blackberries #foraging
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I like sheep cheese so that’s what I’m going with.


Still. Pretty good!


Very doable


I saved the earliest of the crosses for the first year, each year I add bought seed to the mix. Now I am selecting early and tasty. I probably will add seed one more year. Then select from there with only my seed. I’m not concerned with stability I just want ripe sweet melons that are above 2 pounds. 4 to 6 pounds better, but for my climate that might be asking too much.


I’m starting tonight.


First ripe melon. I hope it tastes good it smells amazing. This is year 3 or 4 of crossing pretty much every melon a PNW seed company has to offer.
#landrace #gardenstr
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Breakfast: grilled pork steak, grilled tomatillos, grilled summer squash, grilled Italian hot peppers, Sauted beans, roasted beets, and some tomatoes in olive oil.
#foodstr #gardenstr
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Jimmy nardello’s are my favorite pepper


My shoulders are too jacked to do bench presses.


In my estimation they are heavy feeders. I spray them with a fish emulsion every 3 weeks. And I water them every day when the rain stops here, if hot twice a day.


Pulled the Rossa di Milano onions. These onions are great keepers all the way to April and good growers better than most hybrids. Highly recommended if you live in intermediate or long day.
#onions #gardenstr #homesteading

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Escargot!


We will never get completely what we want, but we should never stop trying to. For me, that is the game.


Never tried. I’m will now.


That’s what I thought but didn’t have better idea.


My guess is tylopilus indecisus or look up tylopilus


My go to simple workout is 100 kettle bell swings 100 pushups. It takes 20 minutes.


I’ve broken the habit. I learned that I’m not disciplined enough to stay on target and watch only the intentional videos.


True


Update, after spending way too many hours on bird sites and listening to different calls all the hawks make. I am 95% sure it is a Cooper’s hawk.


We are lunatics


I did this shit over ten years ago. Nothing is new.


We have a bad pic.


I’m so confused, sorry to bug, but it might be a northern goshawk. If it isn’t very obvious I suck at bird identification.  Now not sure if it is a Merlin. 🤷🏻♂


Looked it up definitely a Merlin. Never even heard of Merlin before. Thanks!


I keep about  pint jar. The rest I give to the local library. They have seed library that I guess is popular.


I was wondering if it was a merlin. From certain angles it looked like peregrine


A few weeks ago a peregrine falcon couple set up shop in our woods next to the garden. I was thrilled when I saw it dive and snatch a vole from the garden. I have a huge vole population in my garden. I thought finely nature balancing itself out. I’ve actually talked to a great horned owl several months ago scouting in an alder tree, I complained that he wasn’t doing shit about the voles. Anyway, last night while letting the dogs out for final pee, I saw the said owl swoop across the woods edge talons out snatch the falcon,  the flacon screeched, it was over in an instant. Now I have only one lonely falcon taking care of the garden. lol 😂 Nature.
#nature #gardenstr


2 1/2 pounds or around a kilogram of a landrace spinach seed, mostly sifted. Next it is on to the perennial kale seed. Seed saving is simultaneously gratifying and eminently tiresome.
#seedsaving #gardenstr #homesteading
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Do what thou wilt.


This evenings pick.
#gardenstr

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What a great pepper.
#peppers #gardenstr

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Hope it’s nice and sweet


Made me More discerning


I’ve got everything thing either planted or sowed except the mustards. I tend to wait on those until last week of August first week of September. But I’m in Washington state.


Gorgeous


Zucchini quesadillas for breakfast for the week. Reheat, top with 1/2 dozen eggs. Nothing better. Then do shit.
#foodstr #gardrnstr
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Tri tip sandwich on focaccia with tomatoes marinated in garlic confit olive oil, provolone and garlic aioli. Also, some roasted beets and summer squash.
#foodstr #gardenstr
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No, I am in Washington


I hope we have a good mushroom season here in the fall.


Beautiful!


Garden is at a transitional stage some summer crops have to come out for the winter garden. Pulled some beets in exchange for cabbages. The beets highest calling in my opinion is kvass.
#homesteading #gardening #fermentation
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It is a rainforest in the winter and a desert in the summer. Very acidic soil. We get plenty of slugs but it isn’t too big of a problem. I had way more of a problem at my last place. I wasn’t sure if iron would be problem. But like you said it’s probably locked up or if it isn’t its presence does not cause a problem. Biggest problem I have is them burrowing in the lettuce. If you have a severe problem try sample spraying see what it does. But if it rains a lot you will probably have to keep replying.


How’s the iron in your soil? My soil report has my soil at 450% iron. I would not spray iron with that amount already present.


Beautiful loaf!


Awesome!


I’ll keep an eye out. This one is new to me.


That’s about right!


The most “orange pilling” I have ever done with friends and family is to say now is a great time to look into it.


3 tablespoons is salty but my batches have been staying relatively crunchy for up to a year. That being said I try 2 tablespoons.


Cloudy and some times I pull a pickle out to taste.


If it’s hot out it is usually ready in 3 days. But if we are going through a cool spell 5 to 7 days.


First batch of cucumber pickles. I like a head of garlic, 4 serrano peppers, 6 dill flower heads, pepper corns, mustard seed, celery seed, coriander seed, and stuff the top with raspberries leaves to hold everything in place. I use 3 tablespoons of real salt per quart of liquid.
#fermentation #foodstr #gardening
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I like it!


Gfy


Keep us posted on how it goes. I’m interested in seeing how the cover crop germinates among the strawberries.


Agree!


I am gonna try your way


Very solid!


Not a fan of Ernst Hemingway, I bet.


Do be a dick. It is actually wheat broth.


That’s the dream.


Yum!


We are on the same page. Plus just eating meat is boring as shit!


Agree. But bread nutritionally is mostly filler. I eat plenty of carbs in fruits and vegetables. The more bread I eat the less meat and vegetables I can consume. It’s better to eat more meat and veggies. I should have just said I have been staying away from bread. But bread is not bad in of itself, it just less nutrient dense than some other foods.


I’ve been largely staying away from carbs, but tomato sandwiches beckon. Focaccia.
#bakestr #foodstr

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I add slowly every year. Last year I got Asian plumes, mulberries, and apples in. This coming fall and spring will be Asian pears, more raspberries, hardy kiwis, goji berries, and maybe hazelnuts inoculated with truffles.
My main goal is varieties that keep.


Took about a week but the mead is alive.
#mead #fermentation
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Summer breakfast.
Eggs, beans, peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, and avocado with salsa macha.
#foodstr #gardening
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Coffee


Pole snap beans are getting ridiculous.
I grew Early Riser and Kew the purple ones. I am getting about 12 pounds every other day. I like them cooked with garlic, peppers both sweet and hot, and onions.
#gardening #homesteading
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That is how we do ours. It is still a major pain.


I cut the spinach plants for seed now I just have to thresh and sort. I’ll do that when I get a chance. This is enough seed for at least a few years. With plenty to give to the seed library.
#gardening #seedsaving #homesteading
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Agree


Purple glazer
#garlicstr #gardening

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Yes


The kvass is finished. I did 3 weeks. It is delicious, effervescent, and sweet. Look at that color.
#kvass #fermentation #foodstr #gardenstr
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Pizza dough sandwich, pepperoni pizza, and bruschetta. Plus garden haul.
#foodstr #gardening
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Like all the hot sauces!


Some tomato pics.
#gardenstr #gardening #homesteading
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I always have a battle with myself whether to make kimchi or just kraut. Kimchi is way better as a side, but plain kraut is more versatile in the kitchen.


Yes, I’m not sure if you can go too long. There are kimchis hundreds of years old I think.


What are they doing with him? 🧐


2 1/4 gallons of kraut. 5 week ferment. Nice and sour.
#fermentation #gardening #homesteading

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Sorry if I’m going on, just thinking out loud. I wonder how much space you would need for perennial wheat to feed the ducks. I know chimacum grainery grows it. But probably too much of a pain to harvest thresh and sift.


Duck eggs are more nutritious and much easier to produce without  outside inputs. You can almost get away with feeding them cooked potatoes, corn, and cooked squash if they have ample forage opportunities. Chickens which I love are just not great foragers.


Dry corn, winter squash, potatoes, beans, duck eggs is the resilient garden.


They are. Looking good!


Beautiful! So clean!


Yes, I grew up on them.


True


We are told to hate the Himalayan blackberry PNW, but we know we love them.


Added to the list


I’ve had luck with elder berries


Looking up the bitter bolete it seems to develop a pink sponge gills when older. Have you taken a nibble? I am curious.


Is it a king? It looks different than the kings I find around here but there is a lot of variance in size and shape. Boletes edulis has white reticulation.


It is easy to start goji berries from store bought berries. I started these in June.
#gardening #premaculture

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I think it looks good! Not any easy project. I did one similar years ago. I’ll never do it again.


Salal berry mead. 4 to 1 ratio water to honey. Stir four times a day in biodynamic fashion until awake.
#mead #foodstr #forage #gardening #permaculture
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Good sweet ripe melons where I live is not the easiest thing to achieve. Night time temperatures regularly in the 40’s in the summer. I have been working on a melon landrace going on four years. I purchase any melon seed that says it is early maturing and I purchase any melon seed that says super sweet no matter what the maturation date is. I let them cross naturally. I keep the seed from those that mature and taste good. I think from here on out I have enough genetics to just select from my seed. This year I planted out 18 plants, I think right now I have counted 60 melons any where from two to five pounds.
#melons #landrace #gardening #homesteading
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Thanks!🙏


I got old and found the virtues of classical music. Ha! My favorite is Bach. If you would have told my younger self.


I need to start growing more flowers.


Awesome! I had to go back to milk in the coffee. The acidity without milk on fasting messed up my stomach. So now instead of intermittent fasting I just limit my carbs. It seems to work too.


Seen this going around. Decided to give it a try. Sourdough chocolate chip loaf.
#breadstr #foodstr #grownostr
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Not certain but it looks like a bitter bolete. Tylopilus felleus.


Enjoyed your podcast immensely


Simple creamy garden coleslaw.
Red cabbage, yellow beets, carrots, parsley, green onion, red peppers, and some raisins for a sweet touch. Dressing is mayo, butter milk, whole mustard, celery seed concoction.
#foodstr #gardening homesteading
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Definitely Amanita Muscara


A true black flour corn. Montana morado maize. Supposed to be 5 foot tall plants here they are almost 8 feet tall.
#corn #homesteading #gardening

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Have it on my coffee table right now.


I eat the blackberries until the alders then the Douglas or the hemlock or the cedar take over. Unless I want the spot for something else. Blackberries if you get a good ripe crop without it drying out is a good indicator for growing fruit trees without the need for watering. Just need to make the spot a little more fertile.


These things are so rewarding


Beautiful


Exactly!


Good cat


Perfect!


Looks like health food to me.


It’s all experiment. We have salal berries everywhere around here ripening right now I think I should follow your example. Thanks for the inspiration!


I know that has to be so good.


Looks tasty!


Great job!


Spicy Dead Lady
#drinkstr #foodstr

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Of course.


A good first pick of peppers. Anaheim, pardon, Big Jim, cubanelle. I think I am going to make zucchini quesadillas with peppers.
#peppers #gardening
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I’m bitches brew Miles Davis fan


Plus it tastes so good


Very nice!👍


Beautiful pepper


Mine is the clean and press


I always go for the ribeye.


Pulled all the sprouting broccoli today, napa cabbage will fill the vacancies. first harvest of the warm season veggies.
#gardenstr #homesteading #gardening
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Excellent. None on mine. Starting to wonder if I’ll get any.


That brings me back!


Proof of fermented food scraps compost.  Maybe it’s the soil biology, maybe it’s the minerals, maybe it’s both. I say it’s chaos magick. 🧐 what’s more important following what people tell you or casting your own spells. I know, magic is on my mind. I am reading a book by Neil Stephenson, where the government is using witches in a schrodinger’s cat box to time travel and run psyops operations through out the ages. Sounds ridiculous, but It amuses me.
First year apple whip and delicata squash.
#permaculture #gardening
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What artistry all around.


Hucksters abound, but if you are into nerding out about soil, there is some useful shit to sift through in this guys podcast.
The soil matters with Leighton Morrison:

https://fountain.fm/show/fomPs62kYVyG5yEES8a6

#soil #compost #permaculture #regeneration


Just like love


It sure is


So sorry.


I love experiments like these. Last year I used rotten wood of alder trees. The ones that are hollowed out but still standing. I scooped up all of “compost wood” from the base and hollowed hole and used that as potting soil and most things grew well in just that, but when I added half chicken compost to the mix it was the best results I had have ever seen.


A lot of happiness


Nice! Interesting how your chanterelles are more yellow than ours. Ours are more orange/brown


That looks so good!


If it produces some runners and you transplant those next year you have at least two plants. Before you know it you are strawberry rich.


I have a  always found chioggia to be especially vigorous too.


Chioggias are real good!


Me too, I was wondering the same thing but I have a seed addiction. I am definitely going to grow these again, they are really good, just a little different.


Badger flame beet. This is the beet to convince those who do not like beets to like beets. They are sweet and do not have the earthy flavor that normal beets have. They also are great raw. Row 7 seven seeds are the only seed company that carries them.
#beets #gardening #homesteading
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Love it!


Maybe if it is heavy clay soil. Onions are timing, fortunate weather, and are heavy feeders. Soil also must be kept moist at all times. Shallow roots.


It doesn’t matter what happened they can spin anything in the long run to suit their desires.


The boys love the summer
#dogdaysofsummer #grownostr

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I was thinking smoked pork belly extra salty


TATLI ÜÇBURUN pepper. A standout two years in a row easiest pepper for me to grow and delicious in so many ways. Traditionally a breakfast pepper.
#peppers #garden
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Matina tomato
#tomatoes #garden
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GIANT ACONCAGUA Pepper. It is a sweet fryer. Very excited about these I didn’t think they were going to do well in my climate.
#peppers #garden
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It’s a shit show out there.


Red acre cabbage. I probably will not grow again. It did well, but the plants are huge for the size head it produces (3lb). It grew 3 foot by 3 foot. Primax cabbage that I planted at same time was month earlier more compact and heads were 4 and 5 pounds. Maybe the case could be made that the red acre are more nutritious but how would I know.
#cabbage #gardening
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Beautiful! We grow the Georgia fire variety we love it!


Cubanelle peppers
#peppers #garden

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Rational when defending one’s own bias, conspiracy everything else.


Midnight Roma tomatoes
#garden #gravy

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Diavolicchio peppers
#garden #hotpeppers
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Radicchio transplanted
#garden #salad
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Weasels maybe? But usually blood on neck. We had a weasel problem last winter.


Just picked up some Pasubio


The Winter garden has begun. Transplanted radicchio today. Last week put in January king cabbage, kohlrabi, and rutabagas. Next week turnips and daikons. Carrots and fall beets have germinated. And always transplanting lettuce when spots open. Today starting napa  cabbage and endive.
#gardening #wintergarden


It’s was formulated for plants.  https://www.teraganix.com/products/em-1-microbial-inoculant-soil-amendment


My wife has had good luck applying em1 on flare ups usually gone in two days.


Is the mag worth getting


Thanks Kimberley🙏
Learn something everyday
Self-heal
#weeds #forage #herbs

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Thanks! So this is self heal? I thought it was dead nettle. Seems to like growing in the gravel.
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Kafka on the shore - Haruki Murakami
Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
Naked Lunch - Burroughs
Illuminati trilogy- Robert Anton Wilson
Murphy - Beckett
Concrete Island - J.G. Ballard
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
Gold Finch - Donna Tartt
The sisters brothers - Patrick deWitt
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
Bonus:
The last American Man- Elizabeth Gilbert
#nametenbooks


What’s better than that?!


It’s just beets


Will do. 1/2 the time I try I get kham yeast. Yuck.


Starting Kvass
#foodstr #gardening

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I have been experimenting with growing fruit trees in marginal and seasonal wet areas with this method. I dig a little add broken down wood, then layer with fermented food scrapes, various rock dusts, clay, bio char if I have it, soil. It takes several layers. Let it cook over winter, it stays between 110 and 120 degrees, then plant in the spring. I’ve done this several times seems to be working well. Mind you this is in an area where fruit trees would not be possible because of wet feet. They basically are super nutrient rich spot swales.

#permaculture #gardening
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I was just about to make a batch!


No. I just experiment with using or making things that I have around my property.


Grilled steak salad with olives and feta. Dressed with a basil lemon vinaigrette.
#foodstr
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I spray it on my plants once every week or two with a few other concoctions. Works like a charm.


I eat bread, I am ripped.


Nice haul! Baker creek is one of the best seed companies. They have such an excellent selection of Asian greens.


I am going to experiment with cover crops using this method this fall I have some ideas.


I am here because it is a Temporary Autonomous Zone. Not terms of privacy, but because it is outside the everyday for now at least. There is some truth to statement first a revolution, than a business, than a racket.


What’s the saying? who controls the past controls the future, who controls the present controls the past. Something like that.


I wish mine knew the difference


Nothing is perfect, but I definitely can ride that vibe.


I do! Breakfast was 6 eggs and some livers.


I’ve noticed the volunteers grow better than the ones I sow.


Perfect


Thriving


Everything looks super healthy


1000 years that’s more than just food. I think that is important.


Of all the ferments it is the most challenging for my palate. I just think, historically without fermentation of some sort we all would not be here. It is why we survived. Now I don’t think are diet should only be fermented things, but now and again must be healthy. This one I trust tradition not the science.


I’ve heard that also. But how long have people been eating it? That must count for something.


I second the Duluth firehouse pants


Polos, American giant


Quince, for oxfords


Polo or dress shirt?


I think Tim Ferris experienced debilitating Lyme disease. years ago he talked extensively about what worked for him.


My guess is lots of probiotic foods, plenty of protein, vigorous exercise even if you feel like you can’t and cold and hot exposure.


I think we have to learn to live and except that confusion


Meat, vegetables, fruits. Nothing processed. From my understanding your culture mastered fermentation eat that too.


Maybe even multifaceted?


I did for blueberries. I like the concept not sure it matters. But it is useful if you need to raise the bed for drainage and do not have extra soil. About a quarter of my garden beds are huglekulture and I’ve seen no difference in quality or moisture retention or mycorrhizal symbiosis. On the other hand, I haven’t noticed anything detrimental.


I wonder, I really don’t know shit, but to have a functioning group, tribe, society, whatever, you need most of its constituents be of the follower category. We split into our segments for diversity of outcome “play” it out and see what makes it. But like most things I think I probably full shit. “My” mind is a contradiction! Ha!


It’s just my experience. I could be wrong. I give you that. Right know it feels to me the words I am writing are just “appearing” in my mind. Other than that, I got nothing. I wasn’t trying to come off as confrontational. “I” just have a different opinion. And it is not that uncommon. Maybe, I just meditated too much, and now I am looney!


That’s nice! I’ll take two.


That looks amazing! You got a recipe?


Must of came in some flower mix seeds I threw around a few years ago.


Thanks! You are too nice!  😊


It amazes me how they just fall inline.


Roasted cabbage with a dressing consisting of raisins, capers, hot pepper flakes, garlic, parsley, olive oil and sherry vinegar. Topped with almonds.
#foodstr #gardening
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Delicious


Pulled most of the garlic. Purple stripe variety needs another week.
Pleased with the quality, mostly large heads, some medium, and a few smaller ones. Radicchio will fill the vacant bed in a couple of weeks.
#garlic #gardening #grownostr
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I don’t know either they just showed up


#flowerstr
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It’s the right shape for San marzano. Hope you have a good harvest.


Does well in cool climates as well. I grow it every year in western Washington.


Looks great!


Very nice what are the sausage ones? They look like prairie fire.


You better be ready


Beautiful


Patty melt
#foodstr
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Calendula and California poppies
#flowesrt

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Disagreement has nothing to do with love. You can’t think a thought.


Nothing is control


I do it all the time


You have more resolve than me by the time I harvest everything i have had enough so I just spread them on cookie sheets and freeze.


Wild black cap raspberries are ripening.
#forage #nature #grownostr #foodstr

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I’ll have to try making cheese it been on my to do list for years.


Too many good things to eat!


This seems to be a consistent problem. The incremental creep of government policies or even our own personal choices and the incentives and environments they “nurture” (self effect). How do we find away out? Is it incremental or is drastic? And all the risks associated with both. I guess i just had a reactionary opinion without any true idea to a better solution.  I’m just in such an antigovernment mood as of late! That sometimes makes me stupid.


Once AG subsidies end. This could come to pass.


Good episode, but no matter what you do and how good you think you are doing someone one is going to see what you are doing and say you are doing it all wrong.


We are distinction discovering animals


Sweet cookie


Yes!


I don’t think they really exist


Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson


Ha! I rented it from blockbuster on vhs in ‘97.


Here are some garden pics. Everyone’s garden is at a different state depending on climate and timing. This is an idea of where mine is in the cool maritime PNW.
#gardening #foodstr #grownostr #homsteading

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## Chef's notes

I got the idea for this recipe from row 7 seeds.

## Details

- ⏲ Prep time: 15 to 25 minutes
- 🍳 Cook time: None
- 🍽 Servings: 8

## Ingredients

- 2 small red onions thinly sliced
- A handful or more of herbs chopped. I like dill, cilantro, parsley
- Dressing:
- 2 tablespoons whole grain mustard
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 clove garlic, I used a few garlic scapes.
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 4 tablespoons rice vinegar or vinegar of choice
- Salt/pepper to taste

## Directions

1. In mixing bowl combine mustard, honey, garlic, salt/pepper, and vinegar. Slowly drizzle olive oil while whisking to emulsify dressing.
2. Combine vegetables in large bowl. Pour dressing over vegetables and combine and mix till dressing has fully coated vegetables. Test for seasoning. Adjust if necessary.

This is basic slaw that can be made with any crunchy vegetables.


Fuck that thing


I’m going to use this


For the next couple of weeks the question around here is what can we do with this cabbage? This worked, the cabbage absorbed all the chicken flavor. Will repeat.
#foodstr #gardening
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That’s a pretty good system. It’s hard to regulate when so much needs done.


We liked it


Garden slaw:
Cabbage
Beets
Red onion
Scapes
Herbs: dill, cilantro, parsley
Dressing: whole grain mustard vinaigrette
#foodstr #gardening #grownostr
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That’s why I got t boned a few years ago


Yum


I love figs also. I Haven’t planted any yet. I have couple of spots open, but I am debating persimmons or figs.


Excellent!


It’s a spritzer summer
#drinkstr #grownostr #foodstr

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Basque peppers are one of the best in my opinion.
#gardening #grownostr
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I think it looks great.


Can’t wait for my cucs


Negroni spritzer
#drinkstr #foodstr #grownostr

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Well it’s beautiful


Congratulations! I’m happy for you both.


Lunch: thin sliced short ribs with sugar snap peas and onions covered in salsa matcha.
#foodstr #grownostr

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I wonder if that is main reason why saved seed is almost always more vigorous than bought seed.


lol! I just started listening!


Seeds


I’ve got plenty of


You can’t pass that up.


Those are the methods industrialization. That’s not what I mean by ancestors.


Thought: is it just a coincidence that the rise in popularity with intensive style gardening coincided with the shrinking of the average plot size of homes there on? Our ancestors were not stupid. Inflation controls us.


Hallmark for the progressive


I’ve never had a batch go wrong in it


Nice!


I am pretty stoked. I am going to have to make a day of it and get oysters Hama Hama.


I have been looking for a local mill. Thanks! You don’t know how much I appreciate it. 🙏


It is. Primax cabbage. I highly recommend. The easiest cabbage I’ve ever grown + it is extra sweet.


I get mine from central milling in Utah it’s a reasonable price but shipping is what gets you. I like mixing type 85 with high protein mountain bread flour. The main factor in airiness is protein amount contained in the flour. Amount of protein in flour is a result of it being grown in highly nutritious soils, particularly volcanic ones. Types of wheat play a role but that is because only certain types grow well in certain regions.


20 lbs of sauerkraut
#fermentation #gardening #foodstr

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Success!


Impressive oven!


There are cattails In every roadside ditch near me but I can’t seem to establish them. I think my soil just dries out too much in the summer. I have seasonal wetlands two foot deep of water till April than completely dry until fall.


If you haven’t heard of it you might like this book by Herwig Pommereshe, Humusphere, Humus: A Substance or a Living System


How did you ferment it?


I read that note of yours awhile back and I also read one-straw revolution. I’ve not tried his method but i do collect seed from all the native plants while hiking and broadcast the seed all over my property with limited success. Problems I have found,  I have way too much scotch broom which I have to knock back until I can get around to pulling it. The deer seem to love any young tender plant that is not protected. I have had most success with cuttings. Most of the natives will root from cuttings. I am starting to get a growing patch of camas from broadcasting seed. I am excited about that.


Yum!  enjoy!


I also love dill weed every where. I just pull it where it’s not wanted.


Agree!


We like uncle nearest


I love Seattle, but the cool aid is strong right now.


That would be better way to


It’s not a scam it is retard sifting


That’s good to know because Merlot lettuce also very cold hardy too. Maybe they go hand in hand?


Am I not mistaken but isn’t this what childhood was all about. Getting burned by those you thought were on your side. Than slowly learning to rely on your instincts and if they are wrong so be it because you take responsibility for the course you chose.  Fuck! Being a human 101.


I think this is the way with everything. We can’t judge too harshly because somewhere in are own life we are missing something that seems vital to someone else. Hey, but I think the same things.


Sable, onyx, maybe hades. Nickname gorgeous


Nice convert


Perfect


They are beauties


Sauted gai lan in bacon fat with salsa matcha.
Sauted sugar Ann peas in garlic butter confit.
#foodstr #gardening #grownostr

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Mostly for the stems and florets. But I actually like the leaves best. It’s kinda like a bok choy meets broccoli but sweeter than both.


Anybody else grow Gai Lan, Chinese broccoli? I have been growing it for several years now. I think it is a delicacy.
#grownostr #gardening #homestead #gailan
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They know we like to repeat what we are told.


They are. But they nearly eat everything.


True! We already have all the varmints! So many voles.


Very nice!


Delicious!


Project blueberry is complete! A 76 foot hugelkulture row. 10 plants, all high bush. Ripening times from July through September. 7 foot spacing. Mulched with cardboard and wood chips.
#grownostr #permaculture #homesteading #gardening #blueberries

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Menopause hits some woman harder!


Over the years I have found that it’s harder to keep close friends when you achieve.


Same old, same old


I just dress it simple, olive oil and I switch the vinegar from day to day. My favorite with this  is version of the salad is balsamic. I think blue cheese and balsamic go together.


Breakfast salad. Egg, blue cheese, and bacon. We eat a lot of these around here during lettuce season.
#foodstr #gardening #grownostr

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Looks like another fun thing to get into.


White


It’s a beauty


I’m going to get a copy.


Nice! I don’t know that one.


Which book is that? I remember reading about it. Thanks for reminding me. I am going to build one over the winter it’s a great idea for fertility but also heating the surrounding area for crops that like it warm.


Good reminder


Beautiful


Ha!


Really? How do they know that shit?


The joy of hilling potatoes
#gardenstr #homesteader #grownostr
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Bear tore the shit out of this big leaf maple for the sap.
#nature #grownostr
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Looks fantastic. I’ll give it a shot.


I like to Pay in cash and refuse self check out. If there is only self checkout I don’t buy anything.


Just looked it up, I guess it doesn’t repel fleas!


Does it have any uses or just a noxious weed


Thanks! They turned out real nice.


This shows flower and frilly leaf and a pic of whole plant
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I feed mine voles that I catch. They fight over them.


Homemade garlic scape Naan
#foodstr #grownostr #gardening
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See you outside


From my experience a biochar charge with it makes the most sense. I think for a fertilizer your soil has to be in pretty bad shape to notice an immediate reaction. But there is probably a ton of life in the tea that can support the health of the soil over the long term.


I stopped using it for that very reason


This shit never ceases to amaze me.


Camomile is a weed in my garden, but a useful one. Pick the flowers, dry, make tea. I am not going to lie, picking the flowers is tedious, but future self will be thankful.

#herbs #tea #medicinals #gardening #grownostr #gardenstr
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I clipped and hung up Oregano to dry about a month ago in a cool dark place (my utility room) and separated from stems today. Oregano grows everywhere, in the sun, in the shade, dry locations, wet locations, it doesn’t care. Mildly invasive but easy to eradicate. It is the ultimate giving plant. Antibacterial, it makes a tasty tea, it is great in a variety of dishes, what’s not to like. When you have had home dried herbs, you just can’t buy that shit in the jars at the grocery store anymore.

#foodstr #gardenstr #oregano #herbs #homestead
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Yum!


Very nice


Aioli


Fox glove
#flowerstr #grownostr

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Purple of Sicily cauliflower starting to head.
#gardening #gardenstr #homestead #grownostr

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I think it’s just the leaf pattern.


Hey! I had the same thing today!


Very excited about summer cabbages. Primax and
Chateaurenard cabbage shown here.
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What a beauty!


Lettuce and fall mustards are my favorite to grow.


The dark red one, might night be Merlot, it could be a Frank  Morton variety.


Merlot, Optima butterhead, pirat butterhead, Vulcan, Bath island cos, Teagan.


Lettuce near its prime.
#gardenstr #lettuce #grownostr

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I like the set up. Super efficient! I haven’t heard of sieglinde’s. I’ll have to look those up.


Pepperoni pizza
#pizza #foodstr #grownostr

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Potatoes in new beds emerging. This is a pic of two of our 4 beds, 100 row feet. This amount is way more than enough for us to eat. This year I was patient. Every year I plant potatoes too early and they have to be harvested in late August when it is still too warm out. This year I hope to harvest at the end of September when my storage conditions are cool enough to keep the potatoes in good condition till spring. I don’t have a basement and my soil is too wet for a root cellar so I use my unheated pole barn.
#potatoes #gardenstr #homestead
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Very nice set up!


Day two of project blueberry. Next,  find more punky wood and fill crevices with wood and bark debris, back fill, then mix top soil with peat for added moisture retention and the mycorrhizal connection.
#permaculture #blueberries #gardenstr #grownostr
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Yes, in the US.


I painted for 15 years or more. Ha! I suck. You got talent. There is that something in it. But what do I know, I’m just one person. No need to thank. Just keep plugging away.


My garlic is just getting its scapes. Nice harvest.


I think it is pretty good.


Project blueberry.  70 foot Hugelkulture bed of mostly rotten alder and pine.
#blueberries  #gardenstr #homestead #permaculture #grownostr

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I’ve used them around fruit trees never had a problem, I only use at least one year old wood chips on veggies.


Sounds delicious. Only edible mushrooms right now for us are oysters.


Had enough chicken bedding to make another compost pile.
#compost #gardenstr #homestead #grownostr

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Meatballs for lunch.
#foodstr #grownostr

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Is that a butter bolete (Butyriboletus appendiculatus)? How are they? We don’t have those where I am.


Nice bear pic caught on the trail camera. The date ob the camera is wrong it was May 14.
#wildlife #homestead #nature

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Used them in a mead


Nice! I need one.


More songs about fucking my all time favorite album!


You are not crazy you just only see your self, that’s all. I am sorry the world and everything in it isn’t exactly the way you want it to be.


Wilted spinach in bacon grease salad with artichoke hearts, Kalamata olives, feta, Calabrian chilis and red wine plus balsamic vinegar.
#foodstr #grownostr #gardening
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Enjoy! I planted peppers yesterday.


Spinach going gangbusters and a beautiful lettuce bed.
#gardenstr #grownostr #homsteading #growfood

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Jambalaya
#foodstr #grownostr

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Just another fake guru. On the other hand there is something to learn from nearly everyone.


I know! That is why we are adding a 75 ft row of blueberries this year.


Tomatoes transplanted and pole bean trellis completed. Now I have to mow. Oh, By the way don’t sleep on sea kale it has been hanging around the edges of the garden for years completely neglected. I ate bunch of florets with lunch, makes me question why I go through the trouble of growing broccoli.
#gardenstr #grownostr #growfood #homestead #perennialvegetables

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That is a good plan.


So carbon is good!


It’s starting to dry out here. Nothing in the forecast for the next ten days. It won’t be long until everything is brown again.


Or not


Try gaba + taurine


Just checked out the audio from the library


Not bad! Asparagus in a lemon butter sauce.
#foodstr #gardenstr #homestead

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Planted black corn today!


Sowing dry beans and flour corn today. These beans are now in there 4th generation. Some don’t believe beans cross but they do. Every year a new color or type shows up.
#gardenstr #grownostr #landrace #resilient
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I probably don’t need to say, but eat a small sample first, some people have an allergy to Agaricus mushrooms. (Just upset stomach), in truth I have never met any of these people.


Very good. Grandma use to pick them every spring.


Spinach and beet bed coming along. Young lettuce bed with Japanese long onions planted in between. I’m not one to inter plant, but I sometimes find it difficult to find a place for green onions. I have love hate relationship with them, (queue Sound Garden). They are a must for certain recipes, but usually they are never at the right stage when I want them.
#gardening #grownostr #homesteading

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I thought it was because my internet sucks.


Isn’t the whole genre played out.


We have cabbage root maggots also. I thought that was only a Pacific Northwest west thing. I hate using row covers but I have capitulated. I used to cut a slit in cardboard and carefully slip the stems in between then cover with wood chips that was about 80 percent effective. So much work, but I like being able to see the plants.


Impressive big starts.


First mead in many years. This one is a show mead, just honey, I want to get a feel for how things turn out before adding different flavors.  I am thinking about brewing a small batch with mulberries when they come in next month.
#mead #brewstr #grownostr #homestead

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There are also pockets like the one you described all over the country. Just not generally near cities.


Guisados
#foodstr #grownostr

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Happy Friday!
#grownostr
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Looks fantastic!


I use to do that, now I murder them.


Privilege is a meaningless, simplistic, over moralizing, and an absolutely retarded concept.


Seed saving to me is even more motivating than eating the harvest. Few people ever see the full life span of there vegetables.


Nice bed of spinach! I wish I could grow spinach without row covers we have a nasty leaf miners problem in our area.


Nice selection, good price!


He did! Sounded like a nightmare to me.


It will work. Still not sure what method I prefer.


Planted leeks. Any body else grow leeks? Which method do you use?  I think I settled on using the handle of a hoe to make 6 inch deep holes and drop the leeks in. The holes fill in on their own overtime. It gives a nice long white shank.
#gardening #gardenstr #grownostr #homesteading

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On my walk this morning, Amanita pantherina and Amanita aprica. Paul Stamets was on Rogan the other day talking about his experiences with A. Pantherina, no thank you.

#mushrooms #nature #grownostr
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I don’t have those. I don’t think. I’m at a loss.


Is it purely from bugs or has a bird pecked a small hole attracting the bugs? That’s what usually happens to mine. Sometimes slugs and sow bugs just have a fest. I just eat them any way. Probably the only way to stop this is to grow them in one of those towers.


Nobody knows shit!


Nice! Happy planting.


I do the intermittent thing. I have been doing it since 2009. 6 hour eating window. I also learned over the years if you want to be ripped you just eat more protein and less carbs. To stay sane, occasionally just eat huge amounts of whatever you want.


I feel the same. Mine out grew there pots, so I had to up pot to1/2 gallons and now the spend there days outside, they don’t fit under the lights, but still to cold at night to go in the ground. So I am lugging 200 half gallon pots in trays of 8 inside and out every day. Ugh! I think I have to do this minimum two more weeks.


I found that all in one sharpener by stihl works pretty well, until sharpening skills improve. And sharpening every time I fill the tank has greatly improved my cuts.


Nice


Barter is so very satisfying


Loud machinery destroys enjoyment of the outdoors, but maximizes time efficiency. For me, the equation starts out hand held tools, saws, axes, etc. then the body says fuck it, time for the farm boss!


Very nice!


Welcome to nostr!


Getting some nice asparagus.
#gardening #gardenstr #grownostr

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I like to add sugar, lime juice, guajillo chile, cayenne, and sea salt. Give the strawberries a good coating and dehydrate. They make the most delicious spicy, sweet, tart strawberry gummy. Super addictive. I only make one batch because I don’t like to eat sugar.


Fellow #gardeners and aspirational gardeners, hit me back so I can follow you. And boost this so others can find this thread and thus, each other. #GrowNostr #liberty #freedom #security
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Ha! I think the rule of thumb is pull when you still have five green leaves left. I usually just do test pulls to see where they are. Green garlic is delicious!


Never used a Zebco, but fished a lot as a child. Most I do now is pick oysters.


Bulb size has a lot to do with the variety grown. There are some nice ones there. The only tip I can give is pull them earlier. The separation of cloves from the head is a sign they are over mature.


I wonder why I never see anything offensive?


Astro Arugula, spinach, and Ishikura long scallion. The spinach is a landrace from about a half dozen of saved varieties. I use a row cover for my spinach and beets, leaf miners is an issue.

#landrace #gardenstr #gardening #seedsaving #homesteading #grownostr

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Can’t wait to see picks! Damn you jam them in.


GM! Cacao, collagen, reishi, cordyceps, chaga, and lion’s mane mycelium powder.
#cacaochain #grownostr #foodstr

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Siletz, Oregon spring, and Oregon star, are all determinant bush type. No need to prune. I try to stay away from cherries now, too much picking.


I’ve grown all of those in the past. Growing Siletz this year. I think there is a frost tonight.


Looks real good!


I know nothing about the best, but I’ve always enjoyed the painter Robert Williams.


Meatloaf, basically a giant meat ball, one of my favorites. This one is composed of 2/3 Italian sausage, 1/3 ground beef, prosciutto, shiitake, button mushrooms, bread crumbs, garlic, shallots, parsley, oregano, and I don’t even know how many pounds of tomatoes. All season long I like to keep slow roasting maters drenched in olive oil.  I vac seal them and freeze. I have an entire chest freezer just dedicated to tomatoes.

#foodstr #grownostr #gardenstr
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Thank you 🙏


Once I get my fencing situation right in the orchard I was thinking about adding ducks. Any breed recommendations?


Damn cute!


PNW 8B


Garlic looks good. The stems are indicating big heads. I think we might be a little ahead this year time wise. I think the varieties in this bed are Georgia Fire and Mt. Hood. I have been replanting the biggest heads for five years now.

#garlic #gardenstr #growfood #homesteading #grownostr

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He is a good guy,  northern alligator lizard. He snacks on slugs.
#nature #lizards #gardenstr #gardening #grownostr

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Not a bad guild. Mulberries, peas, morels and not shown, mint.
#permaculture #gardenstr #gardening

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Playing the inside outside game with the warm weather starts.
#gardenstr #gardening #growyourownfood

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Most definitely! It’s not just big gardening,  it’s percolated through all facets of the gardening world. My advice always is soil test, soil test, soil test! Don’t trust verify!


Cabbages, broccoli, perennial kale, and maybe some more lettuces.


Thanks!


Paper plane
#grownostr #foodstr #drinkstr
#cocktail

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I have found that squash thrives in bokashi compost. i like to make a trench about 12 inches deep, mix fermented food scrapes with soil, then cover, wait 3 weeks, sow squash or pumpkin seed.
#compost #bokashi #gardening #homesteading

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I have found that squash thrives in bokashi compost. i like to make a trench about 12 inches deep, mix fermented food scrapes with soil, then cover, wait 3 weeks, sow squash or pumpkin seed.
#compost #bokashi #gardening #homesteading
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Roman style pizza is my new favorite.
#foodstr #grownostr  pizza
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Do it! Hope you like it.


Mixed green salad, mostly arugula with some Greek olives and parmigiana, dressed with olive oil and  balsamic vinegar.
Left over pork and bean chili topped with avocado and salsa macha.
I’m serious, if  you like spicy and never had salsa macha, look up a recipe. Since I discovered it I have been making a pint a week. It goes on practically everything. It has even changed by garden planning, most of the hot peppers seeds I now select are me dreaming of the different combinations of peppers I can put in the salsa.
#gardenstr #foodstr #peppers #homesteading
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Beautiful! Welcome!


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Morning!


All resting on a mountain of hormones.


Saw some trillium while taking the doggies out for a spin.
#nature #flowerstr#grownostr

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I do it every night. It’s how I get through the shittiest books.


Nice! What type of yeast?


Top o’ the mornin’ to ya. Kona coffee in the mug, time to make the pizza dough.
#coffeechain #grownostr #bakestr #pizza

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Looks great!


I haven’t made mead In years. you’ve inspired me. Time to break out the old brew equipment. I use to do a purely raw honey brew, raw honey, water, yeast. Then whatever flavorings in the secondary ferment. If i remember correctly braggot was my favorite.


Good day, almost finished another cloche and made a small batch of biochar. Plus, I no longer have to be jealous of the warm weather dwellers asparagus is starting to pop.

#gardenstr #homesteading #gardening #grownostr #asparagus
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Salmon berries are blooming. The first time I ate one I thought they were absolutely disgusting.  Now I look forward to them every spring, one of my favorite berries, the only way to describe its flavor in my estimation is that it tastes like the woods. The bird’s and the bears also love them.
#foodstr #nature #woods #homesteading #grownostr
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Agree! A staple in my winter garden.


Looks like it. Gardens beds are beautiful, you can’t beat the sun exposure. I hope the harvests are bountiful!


Very nice


Welcome! Enjoyed your garden content for years.


I’ve watched your YouTube channel for years. So glad you are here!


Long ferment sourdough sandwich bread.
75% hydration
75% type 85 flour
25% AP flour
2% salt
Autolysis 2 hours, flour, water, and salt
125 gram 100% hydration starter
3 minute knead
3 turn and folds every 1/2 hour
Roll, place in bread pan, I used 10 by 5
Cold ferment in fridge overnight (20hours)
Ferment at room temperature till doubled (at 65 degrees it took 8hrs)
Bake at 425 for 20 minutes then another 20 minutes at 400.
#foodstr #sourdough #bakestr #homesteading #bake bread
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I sowed today a 70 day choy sum, 50 day choy sum, and Gai Lan. Transplanted purple of Sicily cauliflower and snow crown cauliflower.
#gardenstr #gardening #homesteading.


I make roasted chicken mainly for the potatoes being cooked in chicken grease.
#foodstr #homesteading

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Deer coming to check out my new fruit trees I planted over the weekend. Two Apples: Monty’s surprise and enterprise. Also, planted two plums: Shiro and satsuma. Planted comfrey cuttings around the base.
#permaculture #homesteading #gardening #gardenstr

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That sounds delicious! I’ve never made tagine. I’ll will definitely have to give it a try.


Hunger gap bean chili. Beefy resilient beans originally from Carol Deepe, pardon peppers, shishito peppers, shallots, garlic, roasted tomatoes, smoked pork, dry Basque chiles, Aji Colorado Chiles, and Targu Mures chiles.
#foodstr #gardenstr #homesteading #gardening
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Transplanted 450 onions, Newburg and my favorite Rossa di Milano.
#gardenstr #gardening #onions #homesteading

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Breakfast toast
Sautéed shallot, jack cheese, eggs, and salsa macha.
#foodstr #grownostr #homestead
#gardenstr #gardening
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Perfect day for ramen. Last of the mustard greens, smoked pork belly, eggs, shiitakes, topped with chives, and furikake.
#foodstr #homesteading #gardening #gardenstr.

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I like to add a cabbage leaf under a weight to the top of the jar to keep smaller pieces from floating to the surface. Helps prevent mold.


Up potted the tomatoes. I cut down from 100 starts to 64. Some hard choices made. I am also running a saladette trial this year. My goals are always the same: no blossom end rot, great tasting, no cracking, early and late varieties, keeps well off the vine. If I see any signs of blossom end rot whole plant gets pulled. No weakness allowed in the garden. I save all my seeds, plants cross all the time, I don’t want to introduce any unwanted characteristics into my selections. Blossom end rot usually happens through inconsistent watering, or cold night temperatures. Well, they will be treated to both. Plants have to adapt to me and my climate and not me to them.

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Some new to success can be dicks though


Ukrainian purple look beautiful, is it a paste type?


Potato beds finished! Might not look like much, but I am satisfied. Turned out to be a 14 hour project.   The beds are now about 18 inches deep of loose sandy loam soil, although rocky, and mostly sand. I am planting Baltic rose, Elba, Masquerade, La ratte, Caribou Russet, and Pinto Gold. So
God willing it will be a bumper crop. 🥔 🥔 🥔
#gardenstr #homesteading #potato #gardening #garden

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We don’t need to do anything, everything does itself.


Feeling very stoked about the upcoming gardening season. Peppers are getting a bit of there first real sun. Tomatoes need up potting, but they are going to have to wait a couple days too busy preparing the potato beds.
#gardening #homesteading #peppers #gardenstr
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Kale rabe, onions, peppers, mushrooms, pine nuts, covered in fresh pressed olive oil.
#foodstr #homesteading #grownostr

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Morels are popping in the orchard!
#mushrooms #morels #foodstr #homesteading #grownostr

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Experimenting with pizza
Peppers, leeks, prosciutto, Calabrian chili’s and few different cheeses and some basil.
#grownostr #foodstr

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Pizza dough sandwich:
Prosciutto, calabrese salami, capocollo, olives, burrata, arugula, and Calabrian chili’s.
#foodstr #grownostr

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Sourdough Pan de Mie
#foodstr #bakestr  #grownostr #breadstr

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Can’t wait for the pollen. Every year I think i should harvest that but I don’t, maybe this will be the year. I wonder if there are any benefits of being covered in it, because that happens effortlessly. Cool video!


The babies are coming along. This weekend I will direct sow beets, carrots, and parsnips. The onions are almost ready to transplant. I’m thinking that will happen mid April.
I like to get them as close to a pencil size as possible. They already spend most of the day outside.
#gardenstr #gardening #homesteading #peppers #onions #tomatoes #asparagus #kale #broccoli #lettuce #parsley #leeks #cabbage
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I’m glutton for punishment. No really, I tried, the tiller broke 😂. A back hoe for the tractor would work. But I also don’t like mixing all the layers. I scrape off the first few inches and sift, set that aside then dig up the rocks, loosen the soil to about 16 inches. Add the sifted top soil back on top.


Super simple dessert
6 daylily flowers
3 cups raspberry sorbet
3/4 cup fresh raspberries
6 sprigs fresh mint
Pick flowers in the morning. Wash them and remove stamens refrigerate in covered bowl.
When time fore dessert, place each daylily flower in a goblet (whatever!) fill each with 1/2 cup raspberries sorbet. Top with 1/8 cup fresh raspberries and sprig of mint. Serve immediately.


Got this recipe from pacific northwest forage book: Daylilies with ginger and red bell peppers on rice.
1/2 teaspoon salt
11/2 cups rice
3 cups water
1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 tablespoon water
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon oil
1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger
1 red bell pepper, cut into long thin slices
3 cups fresh daylily buds

Cook rice
Combine vinegar, soy sauce, water and sugar until dissolved. 5 minutes before rice is done, heat oil in skillet or wok until very hot. add ginger and stir briefly. Add red bell peppers and stir a few times quickly. Stir in vinegar mixture. Toss daylily buds to mix well. Cook just until daylily buds are heated through. Serve with hot rice.


Expanding the garden this year with two new 100 square ft beds. I like 25x4 beds for a lot of reasons. I will plant potatoes in both beds. That is my usual sequence, first year potatoes, build soil, second year peas or beans, build soil, so on and so forth. The first time I build a bed it’s quite the chore with my rocky soil I try to double dig but usually it’s the pick axe all the way. I can usually fill up 6 or 7 wheel barrels with rocks per bed. After that it’s no till except for in rows that I want to plant carrots, I have to sift out the rocks if I want decent carrots.
#gardening #homesteading

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If you put the recipe on zaps cooking I will definitely try to make it.


Monstrous rise on an enriched bread!!! Beautiful!


Looks very tasty! 🤤


Very nice!


Have you played with temperature. I use to autolyse my multigrain breads up to 12 hrs in the fridge. Doesn’t moisture also have an effect? If I remember correctly my autolyse for the whole grain breads would be the consistency of almost a brick.


I get it. I do the same.


Mix all ingredients except salt, rest 40 minutes, mix in salt with a little water, do turn and fold method every 30 minutes, 5 times. Make into a ball, proof 20 minutes, shape, put into basket then refrigerate overnight.
Take it out of refrigerator about an hour before baking. This never fails makes the perfect loaf.


Shredded short rib sandwich with provolone. Short ribs are cooked in tomatoes with onion, garlic, mushrooms, Italian frying peppers, and parsley.
#foodstr #grownostr
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It’s ok, there is nothing to do you are human.


Hoagie rolls
#bakestr #foodstr #grownostr
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Interesting discovery in the cold frame, volunteer tomatoes germinating at the same time as indoor sown tomatoes. These tomatoes have experienced several frosts already, hopefully they make it, if so that would be an incredibly local adapted variety. 🤞
#landrace #homesteading #permaculture #gardening #tomatoes

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But 8 hours is sleeping, intermittent fasting is at least 12hrs more like 18 hrs. Trust the science.


One of the few ways I do compost. I think I got the idea for this from a Will Bonsall book. It works well, it is a 4 foot by 4 foot lasagna layer. Nitrogen mostly chicken manure and crop residue. Carbon a combination of straw and wood chips with some biochar thrown in. I also add rock minerals.
#compostr #compost #permaculture #gardening #gardenstr #homesteading #grownostr

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Thanks! They turned out well. First time making them.


Thanks!


Smoked pork belly Sammy for lunch.
#foodstr #grownostr #homesteading
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I made ciabatta rolls and focaccia bread to make short rib sandwiches.

#foodstr #grownostr #bakestr #homesteading
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Katja tomato from adaptive seeds easy to grow delicious, but then again tomatoes are highly subjective when it comes to flavor.


Smoked a pork belly
#foodstr #grownostr

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Mache, corn salad, vit, call it what you want it is any easy cover crop that overwinters and you can eat it too.

#gardening #gardenstr #homesteading #covercrops #permacultue
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It’s such a hopeful time!


Just read up on it, sounds like an awesome tree. Good luck!


Tomatoes sowed. Next, summer cabbage’s and broccoli.
#gardenstr #gardening #homesteading #permacultue

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Pizza party
#pizzastr #grownostr #foodstr

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Can’t wait for ours to pop.


Yum, yum!


We have had for two years and we say every time “why didn’t we always have one.” Thanks for the zap!


Broke out the flat top today.
#foodstr #grownostr #homesteading #grillstr

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I modified my sourdough brioche style hamburger buns. I thought the last batch a little too dense, so I snuck in 1/8 teaspoon commercial yeast, sacrilege I know.
#bakestr #foodstr #grownostr

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Garlic is my favorite thing to grow. I wish you good luck come harvest.


Growing two beds of garlic this year about 300 plants.
#garlic #homesteading #gardening #grownostr
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Our first real nice spring day I was able to start building this simple twenty foot cloche. These work real well for me. They are just the right height for growing most peppers and in the winter it keeps my plants dry from the deluge.
#gardening #homesteading #permaculture #grownostr

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Gorgeous!!!


Those look real nice.


Today I sowed sugar Ann dwarf peas and spinach taking advantage of the week of upcoming nice weather.
#gardening #homesteading


8b but it’s the pacific northwest west. cool summers.


Onions, leeks, and asparagus are doing well.
#gardening #homesteading

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Almost all of the peppers have emerged. This weekend I’ll start the tomatoes.
#gardening #homesteading

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Sourdough brioche hamburger buns. I saw the post by karnage about improving food pics, that is great, but I have no time for that, I made these In between post hole digging and felling trees. Shitty picture, tasty buns!
#homesteading
#foodstr #bakestr
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Chili for the week. Everything home grown.
#foodstr
#homesteading

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Roasted salsa
#foodstr
#grownostr

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Very nice!


Negroni
#cocktails #happyhour #homepour #grownostor

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Broth for ramen.
#foodstr #grownostr

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Last batch of fermented carrots till fall. I like to put garlic, sarit gat hot pepper, and onions in the batch. A 5 day ferment at my usual house temperature (60 to 66) works without getting that nasty kahm yeast development.
#carrots #fermentation #gardening #homesteading #foodstr
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Chickens are happy with the new wood chips.
#chickens #permaculture #homesteading #grownostr

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Pulled pork, shiitake, and mustard green fried rice.
#foodstr

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Received a chip drop. I’m happy and the chickens will be happier. Looks to be about 1/2 Doug fir and 1/2 big leaf maple.
#homesteading #chickens #woodchips #permaculture

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Not enough gardening nerds, I guess.


Me too!


I do cover crops every year but they are tricky in the Pacific Northwest, nothing wants to die or rot in our cool springs. I’ve found using a hand held scythe just under the soil does the trick. Good video! Thanks!


I’ve grown sora it’s a good fast variety. I’m trying dulcinea for the first time, I’m pretty excited about the carrot. I’m not sure if I’m going to do the carrot as a spring or fall crop.


Pulled the last of the overwintered carrots. Lowe’s bucket filled with munched by voles or tops rotten, flat tray are the good ones. About 50 lbs. good, 50 lbs bad. Probably ferment most of these, roast up what I get tired of fermenting.
#gardening #grownostr #homesteading

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Tomato, goat cheese, and kale shoots pasta with a couple of fried eggs thrown on top.
#foodstr #grownostr #homesteading
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Definitely going to work. Another benefit is the chickens eating all the slugs and grubs reducing pest pressure.


Pit bull approved Sunday dinner. Pork steak, black bean chili, roasted potatoes, a side of chips and salsa, with a beverage of nettle tea.
#foodstr #dogstr #homesteading grownostr

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Enjoying a matcha tea after a workout.
#grownostr #teastr

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Did another workout by the master Dan John:
The Humane Burpee
10 rounds
15 swings every round
10,9,8…1 squat
10, 9, 8 … 1 pushups
Try to rest as little as possible
#grownostr #workout #health  #fitness #KB


100 pepper starts.

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Steak and roasted carrots cooked in the wood fired oven with black bean chili.
#grownostr #homesteading #foodstr
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WOD:
Warm up 5 min jump rope
Double KB Complex:
2 clean
1 press
3 squat
Repeat on top of every minute, I did 20 minutes.
#grownostr #health #workout


Hippie breakfast.
Chia pudding with blueberries, dark cherries, and goji berries, washed down with matcha tea.
#foodstr #grownostr

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I mix it with cacao and reshi mushroom


I could be wrong but I think that is a brown cup fungus part of the pezizales, the auricularia group I believe are jelly fungus often growing on trees or logs.


Simple cold frames make seed starting easy in the winter. I started broccoli, cauliflower, arugula, spinach, and lettuce a couple weeks ago, many nights have been below freezing, snow has covered the plastic for a few days and the seedlings keep shrugging it off. There is no need to harden plants off, it is easy to scoop entire root structure when transplanting. What’s not to like.
#gardening #homesteading #permaculture #grownostr
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If you are not talking about the union city market please dm me I love to find another place. And the doughnuts at saboteur are excellent as well.


Sunday chicken dinner with peppers, potatoes, green beans, and radicchio roasted in schmaltz.
#foodstr #grownostr #homesteading
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One of the first signs of spring around here. Wood nettles.
#nature #homesteading #grownostr
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Every weekend we make pizza.   This is a grandma style, but I think of it as a fancy stouffer’s pizza.
#pizza #foodstr #grownostr

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I was out this morning preparing a spot at the end of the wet land area where I want to plant a few cherry trees this fall when I saw this cutie , the pacfic chorus frog. thier singing every night has reached a crescendo. these simple things bring such joy.

#homesteading #nature #frogs #grownostr
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rosemary, onion, and goat cheese focaccia.
#foodstr #grownostr

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i've havn't noticed kernals ripening at different times. my interests are in breeding a flint corn that drys down before the heavy fall rains that has excellent flavor. I have noticed dry down times vary. in gardening there are always so many variables it is hard to discern which one is causing which thing to "act" in a certain way.


nice warm action!


#Wod
I did an old Dan John #KB workout  called Body Armor. it is simple and effective. 30 minutes, on top of every minute perform 2 cleans, 1 press, 3 squats. the volume adds up.
#fitness #health


alliums seedlings have emerged. they are such slow growers. they will not be ready for transplanting until around mid April.
#gardening #homesteading
#grownostr
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wife made chocolate cherry cinnamon scone bread.
#foodstr #bake #grownostr

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pork chile verde is ready. maybe not the best color, used purple tomatillos, but it is so good. my favorite chile.
#foodstr #grownostr #homesteading #gardening
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love to see the ducks using the pond.
#nature #homesteading #ducks #permaculture
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Popcorn, Early Pink Pearl (Organic)
Zea mays. Popcorn. 90 days. does well in cool summers. I got mine from adapative seeds in Oregon, US. I like Dakota black better though.


right now I am listening to When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro and reading The Genesis Book by Aaron Van Wirdum

#bookstr

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I've been using the barrina for the last 3 years. works like a charm.


we are making roasted tomato salsa and roasted chile verde from last summers harvest.
#homesteading #gardening #foodstr
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yum!


daily workout
10 to15 mins: mobility
20 mins: 200 swings, 100 pushups
5 mins: stretch
1 min: hang
#workouts #exercisestr #grownostr #fitness #Wod


pizza pie!
#foodstr #grownostr #gardening

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I didn't think we were going to get snow this year. sowed some asparagus in plugs today to fill in some bare spots in the rows.
#homestead #seeds #gardening #nature #grownostr
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this batch of bio char was made with douglas fir limbs and last years dead asparagus fronds. i've noticed that when I use doug fir I sometimes get a flush of burn morels in my garden beds.
#biochar #homesteading #gardening
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glad I saw this post. this has me thinking. if you are into breeding and seed saving I highly recommend Joseph Lofthouse "Landrace Gardening" it really got me over the hump to start doing vegetable breeding.


steve Solomon and carol deppe are my go to's


another batch of fermented carrots. i like them on sandwiches. we didn't eat a lot of carrots this fall and winter so now it is a mad rush to get them out of the ground and do something with them. they have begun growing again. side note, the fat short carrots are oxheart carrots they are excellent for clay soils or high water table soils.

I like to use a fairly salty brine 3 tablespoons per quart of water. that amount will cover a 1/2 gallon jar jammed with carrots. I put a head of garlic smashed and a handful of dried hot peppers from last summer, aji crystal, and hot Portugal. #gardenstr #homesteading #fermentation #foodstr
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peppers are my favorite, but that might be because they are difficult to ripen in my climate.


similar situation here, sandy rock.


tri-tip in the wood oven.
#meat #foodstr #homesteading #grownostr

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i am taking a yearly soil sample. I will admit I am mineral guy first. I believe mineral balancing in soils to a certain degree is of foremost importantce for growing nutrient dense produce. if the minerals are not in soil they will not be in the plants. However, I somewhat agree with the biology (only), camp, the regeneratives, that a healthy soil food web ecosystem (the endaphon), is the be all end all. I guess like everything it comes down to location, if you happen to garden/farm in mineral rich soil, than the regenerative system will be all you need to do. but for most us there are going to be some glaring deficiencies, or sometimes worse excesses. the only way to know for certain is through a soil test. it's also a great way to catalog the changes from year to year. the first few years I found I had to add quite a lot of amendments now i mainly add only the sulfur elements that readily leach from the soil in my rainy climate.
#homesteading #permaculture #gardenstr #grownostr #homestead #nutrientdensefood

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i am taking a yearly soil sample. I will admit I am mineral guy first. I believe mineral balancing in soils to a certain degree is of foremost importantce for growing nutrient dense produce. if the minerals are not in soil they will not be in the plants. However, I somewhat agree with the biology (only), camp, the regeneratives, that a healthy soil food web ecosystem (the endaphon), is the be all end all. I guess like everything it comes down to location, if you happen to garden/farm in mineral rich soil, than the regenerative system will be all you need to do. but for most us there are going to be some glaring deficiencies, or sometimes worse excesses. the only way to know for certain is through a soil test. it's also a great way to catalog the changes from year to year. the first few years I found I had to add quite a lot of amendments now i mainly add only the sulfur elements that readily leach from the soil in my rainy climate.
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sowed onions and leeks. sowing them in open flats with drainage slits is my new favorite way. each flat can hold 400 or maybe more of mature seedlings. I find this method efficient and and easy when planting outdoors. just scoop and plant. i've been experimenting with planting about 2 to 4 a hole for onions. the onion doesn't get as big but total weight per bed almost doubles.
#gardenstr #homesteading #grownostr
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made 25 gallon batch of seed start mix. most years I need about 100 gallons but I didn't have enough storage containers to make a larger batch.

this batch I did 10 gallons garden soil, five gallons homemade compost, 5 gallons peet, 5 gallons perlite. the compost and garden soil already contain biochar. in addition to all that I added a cup of bokashi bran, 8 cups home made fertilizer plus 2 cups aglime. age for 3 weeks.

#gardenstr #compost #homesteading #grownostr
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fermenting carrots today. I find carrots to be the most problematic of the ferments. I find they are the most likely to form kahm yeast which won't hurt but tastes nasty.
#garden #fermentation
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built new tops for my two cold frames. both are four feet by four feet. it is surprising how many seed starts these can accommodate. the real issue is my bitcoin problem, every time I look at purchasing a high tunnel I look at the price and instead of buying a greenhouse that i definitely want, I buy bitcoin, which offourse I want the most, and that's how eveything goes. be frugal stack sats.
#gardening #seedstarting #grownostr #stackingsats #bitcoin #homesteading
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when it comes to building fungal dominant compost there is no need to overthink, pile woodchips, wait. in my climate I find wait one year mulch everything let nature incorporate. added bonus if you like psychedelics the fall of the following year there will be a bumper crop psilocybe cubensis.
#homesteading #permaculture #mycelium #mushrooms #grownostr
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these mushrooms are growing on the wood log borders of my garlic beds. I think they are trametes hirsuta but not 100% sure. they are beauties though.
#mushrooms #mycelium #gardening #grownostor
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potting soil mix (works great for me)
1 part garden soil (screened)
1/2 part compost (screened)
1/2 part sphagnum moss
1/2 part vermiculite or perlite
for every cubic foot about a five gallon bucket I like to add a 2 cups complete organic fertilizer plus 1/2 cup agricultural lime.
#gardening #homesteading #seedstarting #pottingsoil

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this is an old polypore mushy (polyporus melanopus) that has lasted from early fall. they grow on dead hardwood and conifers from what i can tell. every day I walk by it and can't believe it hasn't rotted. when fresh they are a good looking orange color.
#mushroom #mycelium #grownoster
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a chicken salad
#homestead #chickens #grownostr

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a break in the atmospheric river, it is really warm today a chance for a leisurely walk around the property.
#homestead #nature #forest #grownostr

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I really enoy seeing bird nest mushrooms, nidula candida, all over the forest floor. They like to consume woody material.
#mushrooms #grownostr #mycelium #nature
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wife and I made chicken parm.
#foodstr #grownostr #gardening #homesteading

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ol' boys love meat and eggs for breakfast.
#dogstr #grownostr

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wife made tomato gratin from last years slow roasted tomatoes.
#foodstr #garden #homesteading #grownostr

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starting to harvest leeks before they bolt and go to seed. I find that leeks freeze super well.  we eat onions harvested in September through march than start working are way through the leeks. overwinter onions are harvested in may or June weather depending this keeps us in a continuous supply of onions throughout the year.

#gardening #homesteading #permaculture #grownostr

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for breakfast carne guisado over rice.
#foodstr #grownostr #homestead

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cocktail time.
The Tartine
#foodstr #cocktail #grownostr

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carne guisada now in the oven will be done in 3 or 4 hours.
#foodstr #homestead  #garden #grownostr
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it has been above freezing for a few days but the wet lands are still frozen solid. on the other hand it was such a nice morning I was able to tend to the compost do some raking and weed the brambles around the mulberries. hoping to seed some snap peas around the mulberries in about a month.
 #homesteading #nature #winter #garden #grownostr
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patty melt, roast potato, and slaw.
#foodstr #homestead #garden

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did a garden check to see what survived what didn't. overwintering onions will be fine . beets are thrashed but the roots might be ok. kale took a beating but there are plenty of good leaves left, and to be honest they are mostly chicken feed. leeks are practically indestructible.  mustards destroyed but they will probably put out shoots in February, March. Rutabagas seem fine which is a suprise to me.  Brussel sprouts shrugged it all off. biggest suprise to me was the Italian parsley I for sure thought they would be liquified.
#homestead #homesteading #garden #grownostr

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Daily sourdough loaf. one of the perks of the winter months is making bread. once the weather settles it gets more difficult to find the time. thinking about making patty melts later.
#homesteading #foodstr #baking #grownostr
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Dowinda cabbage survived 5 nights around16 degrees.
simple cabbage, beet, carrot, and onion slaw.
#garden #homestead #coldhardyveggies #foodstr

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I am now in year 3 of my landrace maxima squash breeding project. My goal is to breed a squash that is locally adapted, low imput, drought tolerant, cool summer ripening, high beta carotene content,  long storage, and of course tasty.
#garden #landrace #vegetable breeding #homesteading #permaculture

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I second and third the two previous responses. Grow what you love to eat. I like to focus on staples. Nothing brings me more joy in the winter than having garlic, potatoes and onions at the ready. If you like them they are pretty easy to grow. Potatoes always are a great choice for the first bed in a new garden space.


Breakfast today is sauted onions, smoked porkbelly and eggs on toast with jack cheese, on top a drizzle of salsa macha.
#foodstr #garden #homesteading
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chicken dumpling soup on super frigid day.
#foodstr

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Sicilian style pizza. My favorite toppings peppers, prosciutto, castelvetrano olives, and leeks.
#foddstr #pizza
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Last jar of fermented cucumbers.
#fermentation #garden #permaculture #foodstr #homesteading  #pickles

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A cold snap is coming lows down into the teens. I pulled some carrots, beets, rutabagas plus a few radicchio.
#homesteading #garden #permaculture  #veggies
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ciabatta loaf for garlic confit garlic bread. #foodstr #baking #sourdough
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Bolognese lasagna!
#foodstr
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during the winter not many chances at seeing the mountains with constant cloud cover but here is a partial view of Olympics.
#nature #mountains  #grownostr
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Messy breakfast sandwich. Roast chicken, fried egg,  jack cheese, sautéed cabbage,  with a dressing of olive oil and balsamic vinegar, smeared with Calabrian chiles on focaccia.
#foodstr #garden #grownostr #focaccia
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Walking th dogs around the property started to see #amanita pantheria #mushrooms popping. This has been a long mild fall and winter so far. There are still reports of forgers finding chanterelles.

#grownostr
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So this is an experiment for a high water table area of my property that I want to plant 6 fruit trees. 2 mulberries, 2 apple, and 2 plum trees. Each bed is about 6 foot diameter, 20 inches tall. They are all huglekultures with the wood being mostly rotten alder wood top layered with bokashi mixed with 10 percent biochar and remineralized with all the necessary minerals my native soil lacks.

#huglekulture #biochar #bokashi #permies #orchard #grownostr
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Our take on ramen with smoked pork belly. Most of the ingredients are home grown.
#foodstr  #homesteading  #grownstr
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Found these in the garden while mulching the strawberries, psilocybe cyanescens.
#mushrooms # permaculture #woodchips #grownostr
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Congratulations!!!


It’s raining cats and dogs so I thought let’s get rid of the most dreaded garden task of the year in my mind, the veggie garden plan/crop rotation scheme.
#garden #permaculture #homesteading #growfood
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Meatloaf on focaccia with fresh mozzarella.
#foodstr #grownostr #Homesteading
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It’s has been mild so far this year and the garlic is starting to pop.
Overwintering onions seem to be doing well also. With onions I am now going with 3 transplants in each hole with 10 inch centers. I find the onions are smaller which to me makes them more useful in the kitchen. You don’t have that leftover half of an onion growing bacteria.
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I enjoy simple minimalist workouts. This one is 100 swings, 100 pushups with a band.  20 minutes, start set on top of each minute. Stretch the body out at the end by hanging from something for about a minute or two. I have rings that I hang from the garage beams. That’s it. Workouts like this keep me limber for all the homestead chores one must do.
#grownostr #fitness, #homsteading #kettlebells
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I’m a newbie only used Damus a week switched to primal, seems much more stream line in my humble opinion


Chipping branches and tree limbs today.
#homesteading
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Big bubble focaccia with Maldon sea salt.
#pizza # bake  #foodstr
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Cocktail time. A smooth rich scotch makes an excellent rusty nail.
#scotch #foodstr #cocktail #grownostr
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Making fermented black garlic will be ready in 7 days. I’m not sure it really is fermented but it makes a delicious black gummy garlic that is supposedly good for you. In addition the dogs love them too!

#permaculture #foodstr #grownostr #garden #fermentation
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Meatloaf with porcini and prosciutto.
#grownostr
#foodstr
#dinner
#meat
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Dry farm wines.
This one is nice and spicy.
#wine
#foodstr
#farm
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Pond is nice and full.
#homestead
#nature
#permies
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Branches removed!
#permaculture
#homestead
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The question I always ask myself when removing branches from trees to make posts; Do I want to be efficient with time and energy (chainsaw) or do I want to work hard be less productive and listen to the birds or maybe a podcast (hatchet). Today I chose hatchet.

#permies
#homstead

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My favorite way to make natural leavened bread. My go to recipe for almost ten year now.

https://tartinebakery.com/stories/country-bread

#grownostr
#bake
#foodstr
#homestead
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This is how I bokashi compost in the winter I use 32 gallon garbage cans, food waste is layered in between ordinary soil. I also dust the scrapes with clay and minerals. Will be ready by spring.

#grownstr
#garden
#bokashi
#permies
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Would like a NIP-O5 Nostr address