Here’s a good list of garden survival foods that were common in the Depression years, extracted from a YT video of the same name: 25 Forgotten Vegetables That Grandparents Grew to Survive the Great Depression 1. Rutabaga 2. Mangelwurzel 3. Salsify 4. Jerusalem artichoke 5. Winter radish 6. Parsnip 7. Hamburg rooted parsley 8. Turnip 9. Collard greens 10. Swiss chard 11. Winter cabbage or Danish boarhead 12. Navy beans 13. Kentucky wonderpole beans 14. Ground cherries 15. Field peas 16. Field corn 17. Storage onions 18. Cardoons 19. Skirit 20. Good King Henry 21. American ground nut 22. Runner beans 23. Dandelion 24. Lambs' quarters 25. Seakale #gardenstr #prepping #grownostr

Oh yeah and not to mention, you end up with carcasses to boil down later for soup stock! View quoted note →

I just parted out and freezer bagged two $15 freshly killed chickens we got from the local Hutterite colony today. We had all the same parts in the freezer packed and labeled from the grocery. The combined parts from the store were $27, were much smaller, and were most likely injected with water and sodium and were given antibiotics. Each chicken took only 5 minutes to part out and another 5 to freezer bag into portions. This is definitely the way to go. I can’t wait till we are slaughtering our own. #prepping #grownostr

The rare time I use iOS’ pathetic voice to text or Siri, all I can think of is the Blockbuster Video sized product development failure that someone at Apple is going to swing for. I mean, this system can’t even sort out basic context for the proper spelling of four letter words, and it’s clear whoever trained it doesn’t even know the proper spelling or usage of the words in the first place.

I’m not starting much from seed this year, just big beef tomatoes, red bell peppers, and wicked ghost peppers. Everything else in the garden this year is going to be high nutrition root crops, tubers and curcubits (squash). I wanted to try growing sweet potatoes this year and perpetuating root stock, but they appear to be some sort of highly guarded food technology in Canada. Every outlet that sells slips is out of business and the one I did find in Ontario informed me when I sent in my order, after 2 months of correspondence confirming availability, that they won’t be filling orders this year. No explanation given, just “due to circumstances beyond our control”. They wouldn’t even tell me what happened when I pressed them on it. I’ve tried starting my own with store bought organic sweet potatoes, but I suspect the anti-sprouting compound they spray on them was the reason I couldn’t get them to sprout after several attempts. One experiment I am excited about is doing some totally unattended potatoes and onions at a local spot where tree companies have been depositing wood chips for years. It’ll be cool to see if I get any yield in the piles that have fully composted to soil. #prepping #gardenstr

It’s pretty impressive that the world’s superpower has managed to get a node running 17 years after the protocol that some claim they invented was released into the wild. View quoted note →

Have you ever avoided playing one of your fav songs during a turbulent time of life, so you won’t attach bad memories to it? #asknostr

Practice daily acts of non-compliance. #grownostr

When was the last time you asked a local vendor if they accept Bitcoin yet? #asknostr

The indica has turned my whole house sweep-and-wet-mop project into a career. But at least the tunes are on, the house is empty and I’m taking breaks to make it fun. The in-laws are arriving Tuesday for a two week visit. It’s funny that we live at a level of clean that is below what we pretend is the norm when houseguests arrive. Stands to reason. Spending too much time building others’ empires through the week.