I'm currently planting and building a #foodforest garden in the 🇨🇦 #pnw. I like to cook and eat locally grown and foraged food.
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Last Notes npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @nprofile…hnya would love to hear more details if you have the energy! npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @nprofile…9a98 looks great! npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @nprofile…kjv8 damn, I am so far behind on bottling my cider.... npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium It's been a long time since I posted here. How is everyone doing?? npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium the first frost the other morning was very pretty in the yard. I like fall a lot, but I really struggle with winter approaching! the only thing I've got is that winter is a necessary valley in the cycle, but that ain't much by itself. npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium Send me blog recommendations! I want to diversify away from legacy news to great independent writing: npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium new portrait just dropped npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium best scene of GLADIIATOR is when Denzel says thats politicsssssss-ah npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium if you're looking for some good listening, the striking CUPW folks have a picket line playlist that'll get you in the mood for some class war: npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium Send me blog recommendations! I want to diversify away from legacy news to great independent writing. npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1rje…l738 @npub19lc…h3vq they look mostly like normal pears, except all but one tree has tiny fruits no larger than golf balls. I believe the area I harvest from was once a dry-land log sort, and I suspect they are all seedling trees with varied genetics. These wild pear trees (non native btw) grow up and down the coast of the Salish sea where I live, on the margins of wild, parkland, shoreline, and urban spaces. The wild fruit will make your mouth feel like dry velvet if you bite into one due to tannin, but the juice is fantastic. I have a map of many wild apple and pear trees around me for these purposes and have been learning to graft some onto rootstock to preserve them. They are in a shoreline park that I am worried will eventually flood as the seas rise. npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1rje…l738 @npub19lc…h3vq there is a lovely cidery local to me that makes great cider and perry blends. I have also made perry before as a very amateur homebrewer. I'd say the same rules apply as in traditional cider, and you need a blend of fruit to provide enough sugar, acid, tannin, and aroma to make a well-rounded final product. Pears also have a non-fermentable sugar (sorbitol I think) that remains after fermentation, leaving residual sweetness and body. I use fruit from wild pear trees which are absolutely loaded with tannin, and I use apples from neighbouring trees which lend sugar and aroma npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium Simultaneously soothing and mobilizing my energies with Pete Seeger on repeat this week: npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1pns…47ph sorry to hear about the struggles with your mom. I can't imagine navigating the health care system currently with ongoing needs. npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1pns…47ph beauty! npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1se6…cmph on my corner of the coast, we went from cool and damp to over 30° C for a week. My plants were slow growing and small and then got blasted with heat. Every year has a new challenge npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium How's it hanging here? npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1vyd…jph3 lmao npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub15a8…hj5c can you winter sow a lot of things? Do you worry about freezing temps damaging anything that sprouts before the last frost? npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1p43…f4ce one reason why we're delaying devices for my kids. That design is intentional npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium Exciting outlook for 2024 at work! npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1uul…dkn7 @npub1n5w…7cxt yes, it was some kind of Asian viburnum I believe! npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1ye6…6a2z @npub16a6…8qn5 I've never watched anything of his, but I see it in my YT algorithm all the time npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1qfg…f8mt which org do you do this with? Important work! npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium Wife and I watch the Voice as mindless wind-down entertainment after putting kids to bed. The show is admittedly quite problematic, but my God do America's TV voters hate talented black women. Not a single one was won the the show, and they are routinely kicked off to make space for mediocre white folks. npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub14ha…pqf0 do you ship to Canada? npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1mmf…eknq that is.... bizarre npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1mmf…eknq people are doing this? npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1hyk…3p33 @npub1uul…dkn7 @npub1rhr…gh5p thank you, that is exactly it! npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium What is that acronym that is a criticism of silicon valley philosophical worldview? I think it includes effective altruism and longtermism?? Help! npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1r2a…00kx open chest npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium Ok so I've had a week with bluesky and I wish to express my complete and utter disinterest in cultivating yet another social media presence npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1yn5…h50w how is it these days? What's good in the #unrealfoodcourt npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium I imagine this is what it would have looked like where I live, about 20,000 years ago or so npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium The slow death march toward right wing authoritarianism around the world I have to admit is terrifying. npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1yn5…h50w mostly back to normal, just a little tired still npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium Well that was fun — one week sick with COVID npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1a3z…srpt good idea. I am sure they are some kind of walnut or related species, I just don't know which npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium I found a sorbus domestica at the Prague botanical gardens! npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub14ha…pqf0 @npub1p9h…n3uq wow this looks and sounds delicious! I'm very excited to try processing quercus robur acorns for the first time this year. npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium Did some watercolour with my kids on the weekend. Please rate my jay npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium Otters loudly crunching shells and messing around in the bay npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium More npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium More npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium Pics from recent trip to Kyuquot. No pics of faces since I didn't ask everyone for permission to share. npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1n5w…7cxt yes absolutely npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium Just got back from a work trip to Kyuquot to talk food security and it was the most inspiring work thing I've done in years npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1xrr…nftg ah yes, I see them npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1xrr…nftg cool! Have you posted pics of your solar oven before? npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1xrr…nftg they make you pay for them in scratches and by simply growing over everything possible if you don't cut them back every month npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1zt3…0v09 how poisonous are they and what do they taste like? 😸 npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1r3u…srva thank you! npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1ena…yyv4 yes, I think you're right and I am a fool to be surprised or shocked by this. That's my white privilege showing. Makes me sick to my stomach. npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1ena…yyv4 to clarify, if they had given them naloxone in the past week or so prior. npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium I just learned some horrific and disgusting practices that the Campbell River RCMP are up to, anecdotally, which is refusing to administer naloxone to anyone overdosing, if they've given them naloxone very recently. Convenient that this story involves an underage indigenous girl being exploited on the streets. This is family of a coworker, so I won't give anything identifying without permission, but holy fuck I couldn't believe this when I heard it. @npub1ena…yyv4 npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1yln…e2vv I've wanted to try eating them, like the Inca! npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1h06…qlze @npub1p9h…n3uq good ideas! I also have guerilla gardening designs too npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium This is too crazy for me to understand. This is like anti masking but even more insane. People don't trust the government to fight wildfires now??? npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1j0e…lnhe thanks for the link! npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub18lj…80hq this is only a tiny amount of what's getting picked these days! npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium A big part of my job is running our fruit tree project. We come.pick your trees, you keep 25% if you want it, volunteers who come help split 25%, and we donate the rest to food security partners in town like the food bank. It is absolutely a bonkers year for fruit. Picked over 600 lbs from a single tree last week. Lucky / happy to be working here! npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1ads…sg7a right?! npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1ena…yyv4 daaaang npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium This is kind of not really important, but in my new job, we use exclusively MS office shit and I've always used Google docs products for administrative tasks. Seems like picking between two Satans, but holy hell do I find MS complete trash and not very user friendly. npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1zt3…0v09 @npub1pur…z24k @npub1p9h…n3uq interesting about the terraces. You're growing them like they were grown generations ago by the inca with their andenes when they were first domesticated npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1yn5…h50w I am lucky because I own, but I / we had parental help. We bought in Hamilton first, and within 12 months of owning, we would not have been able to buy the same house, and this trend has only gotten worse. Our housing costs are bad enough, but still workable. I cannot imagine being a renter in this market. I would have fewer children most likely. The only way to get ahead in this country is to have the means to extract wealth from others via real estate. npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium I've lived in 3 big Canadian cities and 2 small ones, and started loves of bathing lengths and degrees in all of them. Sometimes I think about what my life would be like had I stayed in any of them, but mostly I realize how completely out of reach most of those alternative lives are simply due to the fact that Canadian rentals and real estate is completely fucking bonkers. npub16l7j8zmyft4w5t2ne8j0jtz8j77hzle5e807j53cg7dcv3u5qmmsfau7j9 Silphium @npub1ena…yyv4 @npub1yln…e2vv yep, it's no mystery why both healthcare and education have been starved for the past 3 decades.
