One of the skills I have picked up this year and continue to work on is cooking/smoking with charcoal. And for my birthday this month my family bought me one of the best grills for the money for this purpose. #homesteading #grownostr #cooking #meat

Sometimes a person just has to do things themselves. Getting bees this year ment a lot of new equipment and using a horizontal hive design ment that most equipment in the market place just didn't fit why non standard frame design. An extractor being one of the biggest investments a beekeeper can make, it just didn't make sense to drop a grand on a special extractor my frame size. So I designed and built one myself. I used fusion360 to create the design, my cnc router to machine out some parts. A little cutting, grinding and welding along with a few parts from Amazon got me an extractor that should fit my small apiary needs for under $200. #grownostr #beekeeping #homesteading #DIY

Nice harvest of tomatoes today before the storm arrives. #grownostr #growtomatoes #homesteading #gardening

Not to many on our second year vines, but these grapes are ripe taste fantastic. #grownostr #homesteading #growyourownfood

Watching the bees work. # grownostr #homesteading #beekeeping

Egg storage for winter begins! #grownostr #homesteading #eggs

Got the bacon seeds planted today. #grownostr #homesteading #pigs

I'd say the rhubarb is doing good this year..... #grownostr #homesteading #food

Break time at work. Good time to get stronger. #grownostr #workout #weights #survivalist #neverstop

How is this different than what ledger is doing? @Guy Swann

Skills. Humans have the unique ability to learn things outside of the instinctive neccessary activities of survival. But our modern, soft, easy culture of on time living has left masses of peoples with no skills other than one specific area of training. This only works because we live in easy times. Hard times create people with a diversity of skills and knowledge. But moving into hard times without those skills is painful. Be diverse in your skill sets, learn new things always, don't rely only on others for your practical needs. As a wise man once said, specialization is for insects. #grownostr #homesteading #skills

My layens hive, setup and ready for bees, scheduled to arrive early June.

Framework of my pastured pig shelter. Going to cover either a tarp and possibly work on a wheel solution to make it more portable.

First day on nostr, trying to figure out how it all works. Definitely seems hard to find people that I might know or want to follow. #grownostr