Hey Everyone, we're going to win! We are going to Fucking Win!

GM

I am test driving #amythest and I started first on #primal I liked how primal had an explicit NWC menu option and the ability to customize zap amounts. Does that exist in Amythest? All I can see is three standard zap amounts (100,500,1000) and to pay it I have to open a wallet of satoshi app. There is more friction to zapping as far as I can tell. Am I missing something? #zap #asknostr

GN Nostr, I've been lurking on this protocol for months without posting as all the holiday madness had taken over. And I got a littlee to caught up in scrolling and less caught up in doing. On the bright side, my area of California is getting enough rainwater this year and not too much. So green grass season is here and well and the lavender plants are setting down deep roots. In mowed and weeded once, and soon another pass will be needed. 48 out of 49 transplants have taken and this year I will look for a second space in the neighborhood to plant. Gopher holes are tearing up my spaces, including the lavender area and my back yard. Those varmints ate one of my purple tree collard plants that was 4 feet tall! Erg. But I got even and trapped it successfully today. I'll spare you the picture of a dead gopher. The sandy loam soil of San Joaquin valley is gopher heaven and I never can get rid of them all. I am going to gripe about how my neighbors deal with the problem. They have like sonic emitters they drive into the soil and it chirps to drive off gophers. The noise also drives me mad too. Day and night, chirp chirp. I wonder howmy neighbors actually sleep. I guess they rest easy knowing that their lawn won't be full of gopher holes.

Project Video Update: Lavender are in the ground! #SanJoaquinVictoryGardens powered through the Labor Day weekend to finish bed prep and planting! Now we just keep these plants alive via the driptape until the rains come. 45 sturdy plants in the ground and now I need to make more cuttings! I'm already dreaming about starting a second location in the neighborhood. The food garden in the backyard will soon get the driptape upgrade to support a bed of lettuce, a bed of asparagus, and keep the blueberries and apple alive. I'll share a video of that work soon. #gardenstr #urbangardening #gardening #diy #lavender #permaculture

GD, for now my morning passed. As the heat sets in and builds past 103 through the weekend I am happyto report that irrigation is set! Irrigation is on and getting tested. Transplanting next! I need to find a video stitching app for mobile that is FOSS. Any suggestions out there? I've looked at Open Video Editor and Bunny Media both out of FDroid store, but some features I desire don't work/are missing.

GM Nostr. Here is a sub 2min, first ever Vlog. In the future I will make them polished but as of now I am super excited about this hose extender. #permaculture #sanjoaquinvictorygardens # lavender #DIY #urbangardening #gardening

NEW PROJECT ALERT: Farming in the city limits. Victory Gardens can happen in any place where there is sunlight and water access. This year, San Joaquin Victory Gardens will start about 50 lavender plants in the front yard of a family who isn't using that space. We will manage the plants for flower production, and plantoo plant soon. Each orange flag will be a plant. Irrigation with drip tape. The single bush in the third picture is the mother plant that I made clones from back in March. The variety is 'Phenomenal' lavender, which can stand up to the heat and blooms all summer. #growster #sanjoaquinvictorygardens #horticulture #permaculture #urbanfarming@

The picture about shows many hundreds of bulblets of the walking onion/tree onion harvested from the #homestead #garden this year. Every year I have this problem of abundance, lol, and my wife shakes her head when I try to plant more of these onions for the next gardening season. My solution this year is to give out many bulblets to my biology/environmental science students and make this year's teaching theme more about the intricacies of food security. Though the onion tops are now dead from lack of water, the bulbs stay alive in the ground until the next season....because onions. I love this plant. They grow fast, and are largely pest free (...damn gophers). They can substitute 1:1 for any other onion, but their taste is a bit spicy. The best way that I have found to eat a mass of these onions is by grilling them or laying them in a oven pan to bake with olive oil and salt. The picture below shows the difference in size between the 2nd and 3rd bulblet set that a plant can throw off. Even though the bulblets are small, they quickly grow into full size plants.

Tree onion - Wikipedia

When I harvested this honey in spring I knew that I had to make a batch of #mead with it. I wanted to keep the flavors of this honey at the top of the mead, so it is a basic show mead recipe (water and honey) with small variations of open air fermentation (wild, random yeast) and some black tea to add nice tannins to the finish. The basic ratio is 1 quart of #honey + 1 gallon of water. I always ferment completely, so I avoid broken, sticky glassware in my storage area. I end up with alcohol content in the range of strong wine. I'm still stirring a lot to wake up the yeasts. I'll later post a follow up picture when the primary fermentation foam head on this bucket is thick and fluffy. I think that many people are unaware of how easy it is to make mead. The hard part is waiting at least a year (preferably three years) for the sugars to properly oxidize and the real flavor come out. #homesteading #homebrew #brewstr #bees

I realized my misstep in opsec, so I had to create a new nsec. Follow me now at @San Joaquin Victory Gardens I will do my best to reestablish my previous follows. Cheers!

Go outside and continue the conversation that you have with your neighbor. Especially if that conversation is intermittent then good terms with neighbors is preferable because they are part of your #victorygarden . A trade here and a trade there makes all happy. It's been orange (BTC) season in California and concurrent with lots of citrus harvesting. A bag of oranges or lemons can be traded with the neighbor who started a flock of Covid chickens. Another bag goes to another neighbor because they'll eat it and be happy. We all win because, honestly, sometimes there are too many lemons and oranges. Circle that economy, yo. Build relationships to create your own luck beyond serendipity. Harvest the tree before it begins the next fruiting cycle. Be timely. #permaculture #permies #homestead #realfood #strongtowns

real food is still affordable and cheap. true that prices are going up in fiat terms. but real, unprocessed food is still within everyone's grasp. learning to cook is your superpower. shout-out to my local grocery outlet store. $119 for all this as always, is about knowing where to look and a medium to long time preference #groceries #realfood #foodstr #foodsovereignty

real food is still affordable and cheap. true that prices are going up in fiat terms. but real, unprocessed food is still within everyone's grasp. learning to cook is your superpower. shout-out to my local grocery outlet store. $119 for all this as always, is about knowing where to look and a medium to long time preference