Wish I could join you

# GM Instead of a coffee I offer you something wholesome 😉 The world might be healing if you look in the right place I had the privilege to visit this homestead and it is well worth it when you are in neighborhood 👇🏻 #meshtadel #permaculture

I hope you keep holding these; maybe one year I will be able to attend.

I plan to do them more than once a year but following the permaculture principle of small and slow for now.

What is the closest airport? How far are you from it?

You want this in the Circle P?

Yeah, I was going to reach out to you about it again. Do you need any more information to add it to the circle p?

Largest airports are in Chicago but grand rapids is about the same distance too. ~1.5hrs. You can also take the south shore line or amtrack from Chicago and get close enough to the homestead where I can pick you up.

Nah. This write up has all the info I need. I'll schedule it for today and put it in rotation until the event.

Everything gets cheaper when priced in Bitcoin. Last year tickets were 250k sats. Now you can get the same value for 100k sats. If you wanted to attend last year now you can get tickets for over half off.

I would love to do this next year.

This sounds wonderful. Are you going to make any part of this available online for those who live elsewhere?

Cointards -- but at least they're putting their money where their mouth is and price in Bitcoin.

No, in person only for now. You can attend my monthly live streams to get bits and pieces over time.

Is this a backhanded compliment?

shaka brah, not in the cards for me this year but this is something I would very much be interested in at some point. Bitcoin meetups should be about sharing information on what the world of the future will look like, not just little bubbles for pep talks or technical jargon exposition, while people's minds never leave the golden cage of fiat-world consumer capitalism. onward 🫡

I think I’d like to join.

Wow, sounds interesting. 🤔

Lacto fermented pickles This season has been the most hands off we've ever been with the vegetable garden. No watering, minimal weeding. Pretty much just planted and harvested. While we could be getting more out of the garden, I've been impressed with how much it's been producing with minimal interaction. Ended up with almost 3 gallons of pickles from this batch and we have more cucumbers on deck. All homestead grown cucumbers, garlic, dill, and grape leaves plus some salt. We will be munching on these pickles for a few months. #permaculture #permies #homesteading #meshtadel #garden #cucumber #pickles #fermentation

The Applied Permaculture Class seats are on discount today in fiat terms! DM me to sign up!

***Permaculture Ethic: People Care*** Helping a neighbor reclaim his trailer that was loaded with spoiled hay A neighbor down the road has been having continued health issues limiting his ability to do physical work. He generously lent me his disc to plant the turnips in another neighbor's field across the street from me. I called him asking for advice on how to plant the turnips using the limited equipment I had available and he offered up the disc without question. After returning the disc, I told him I would be happy to help him out for a few hours as a way of saying thanks for the favor. He didn't hesitate to take me up on it because he needed to get rid of the spoiled hay on one of his trailers. I was happy to take the hay and use for bedding in my chicken compost system. By helping the neighbor across the street manage the weeds in his field by planting turnips to graze my sheep this winter, I was also able to help the neighbor down the road by returning the favor of him lending me the disc. In each instance I was trying to take care of my community and in return I was rewarded by gaining access to marginal land and renewable resources that those neighbors didn't value as much as I did. It's taken me several years of living in this area for the relationships to build but we are all winning by taking care of each other. #permaculture #permies #homesteading #meshtadel #learnpermaculture #peoplecare

# Dialing in the chicken compost system # Refining and improving the animal systems at the homestead have been on the back burner because we were focusing our attention on completing the tiny house rental and providing the best experience for our guests. Now that we have the tiny house all set, I've started working on the chicken compost system. Right now, there is a pile of winter waste hay from our dairy sheep and some wood chips. The chickens scratch through the pile breaking it down as the gobble up all sorts of bugs and other things to eat. When I come to collect the eggs each morning, I spend 10 minutes building the pile back up. The pile is starting to go thermophilic and develop some nice heat. Now that we have ducks in addition the guard goose, we have a couple different water troughs. The water gets pretty stinky and nasty after a few days, so I've been using a drill pump to saturate the compost pile with the nutrient rich water. Our chickens system is inspired by Karl Hammer, Perma Pastures, and Edible Acres Karl Hammer Perma Pastures Chicken Tractor on Steroids https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaAkONMPbRRdpu49GNp-vHfOP7qb2DNDa& Edible Acres #permaculture #permies #homesteading #meshtadel #chicken #compost

i love reading your homestead journal, so can't wait until i can do my own thing

## Permaculture Principle: Produce no waste ## Using hay nets and cattle panel rings to reduce hay waste Today I had to put out some fresh bales of hay for the horses and katahdin ewes which had me thinking of the permaculture principle produce no waste Hay is the largest input at the homestead so we have an incentive to get the most out of it. The first way we do is to make sure as much of it ends up as food for the animals as possible. We do this by putting the bales in hay nets and cattle panel rings. After the sheep have eaten the bale down and pooped/urinated all over the straw, I collect it and use it as mulch for garden beds to grow food for us. Plus any manure from the horses ends up as food for our chickens, the resulting compost to grow more food. Even though the hay is an expensive input we get the most out of it by producing no waste. Anything that ends up as waste in one system becomes food for another until all that's left of it is soil in our garden beds. #permaculture #permies #homesteading #meshtadel #learnpermaculture #producenowaste #hay #mulch #compost

Bargain for 100k sats 🤙🏼

Oh this looks amazing! What a great event! I would go if I was closer

I’m feeling such FOMO around this. I admire - maybe envy(🤢🤮) - what you do. I know envy isn’t a helpful emotion, but alas, I must be honest with myself.

I will be doing more and more educational stuff here on Nostr in addition to in person at the homestead. You can definitely do something similar, especially with Bitcoin. The lifestyle definitely has its trade offs but there's no turning back for me.

Awesome! DM me to secure your seat at the class!

I have an inner debate with myself constantly about whether or not I’d even like it despite feeling somewhat called to it. I also worry that I’m just romanticizing it in my head. I’m not much of an outdoors person but I see the value in it. Anyways, I’ll keep a finger on the pulse and follow what you do and see if it sparks me.

I got started trying to make my own stuff while I was living in an apartment. Sprouts grown in jars on the counter, homemade toothpaste, homebrew beer, cannabis in the closet, work compost bin under the sink. One thing sort of snowballed into the next.

##### Permaculture Principle: Catch and Store Energy ##### This pasture is an young example of the my vision for the what whole homestead will become once mature. A giant battery charged by natural energy flows. Catching energy from the sun in the form of solar panels at the yurt, but also in the form of photosynthesis in the plants. Strips of pasture are segmented by swales which act as a pattern for planting rows of fruit trees intermixed with other perennial plants. The rows of plants add much greater surface area for catching and storing sunlight. Additionally, the swales, which are level ditches dug on contour of the slope, are catching and storing energy too. When grazing the sheep in-between the rows of trees, they deposit fertility which is washed down and captured by the swales depositing the energy directly at the roots of the perennials. This pasture used to be a corn/bean field that only photosynthesized from ~June-October. Now it's able to catch and store much more sunlight by integrating animals and perennial agriculture together. #permaculture #permies #homesteading #meshtadel #learnpermaculture #catchandstoreenergy

**Permaculture Principle: Creatively use and respond to change** When I first arrived at the homestead, there was a ~2acre stand of mature woods which I didn't have any intention of using for production. I thought it would just be a nice area to enjoy. Once I started making maple syrup, I realized there were a lot of sugar maple trees in those woods. So, I hired a forestry consultant to advise me on which trees I could sell to promote the growth of the sugar maple trees. After the logging the forest was vastly different. We had the loggers make paths through the woods as they dragged the trees out which we used to create a track around the woods for our horse to run on. At the same time, so much light had opened up in the canopy that there was more growth in the understory than we could have expected. This undergrowth was a problem, because it was obstructing the access to the sugar maple trees. At the same time I had a problem managing our rams, we were moving a handful of rams every 2-4 days same as all the ewes and lambs together. It was roughly the same work for just a few animals as the large flock. There is a permaculture saying, the problem is the solution, this rang true in this instance. I realized I could put the rams in the fenced in center of the horse track to eat down all the understory growth keeping the forest clear for collecting maple sap. Eventually golden oyster mushrooms started fruiting from the all the stumps and tops from the logging. Now we get buckets and buckets of mushrooms from this area as well. By creativity responding to the changes from the disturbance of logging we turned this 2acre woods into an incredible useful and productive space. #learnpermaculture #permaculture #permies #homesteading #meshtadel

**Permaculture Principle: Observe and Interact** Rabbits trimming cannabis buds Last season, a cannabis branch broke and fell onto the ground in the rabbit colony. I noticed the rabbits did a pretty good job of eating all the fan leaves and some sugar leaves but seemed to leave the buds alone. Since it was on the ground, the buds were pretty dirty and I didn't end up doing anything with it, but I kept the observation in mind. Recently a branch broke off one of the plants and was hanging tangled up with the rest. I took the opportunity to do a little test to see if the rabbits would trim the bud again. I hung the branch on the fence for several days, and to my surprise, they did an excellent job trimming! Trimming the cannabis is the most labor intensive step of the cannabis production system here. I'm looking forward to using the rabbits to trim the cannabis at scale for me this year. They do the work, get a free meal, and I get the product and a free meal too! All thanks to that observation last season and a little interaction with it this season given the opportunity. #permaculture #permies #homesteading #meshtadel #cannabis #learnpermaculture #weedstr

haha that's awesome, i'm gonna remember this one

this is the purpose of those buds sticky bitter resin also... to protect the seeds until they are ripe it also should be added that aside from being mechanically unpleasant to tangle with, that actually they are not intoxicating to mammals, that requires heat to break the carboxylic acid groups off the THCA in the resin, so it's not an aversion from the psychoactive effect it's the smell and the goo

There are still seats available for the Applied Permaculture class but the cost in fiat is going up! DM me to secure your seat.

Applied Permaculture is next weekend at the homestead! All the lodging is booked but there are still some seats available and plenty of room to camp. If you can't make it out on Saturday, swing by Friday night for the fireside bitcoin meetup, it's shaping up to be a great time!