Our reality is choked out by thoughts, static, noise, and by the “cares of this life”. Decrease the noise in your life. Live in the Moment. Live Life Uncurated.
In NE Kansas, we do not get “April showers bring May flowers”. We get May and June thunderstorms. I used Historical Aerials and Google Earth History slider to look at historical water patterns across my land.
How I created an Apple Guild – Permaculture – Turn a corner of your garden into Hassle-Free Permaculture Perennial Production. Apple, elderberry, blackberry.
Tips to evaluate the Homestead Property that you are considering. Are your neighbors growing gardens or lawns? Finding land – Check the land use over time.
I converted some of my garden into perennials, with annuals in the middle. I get an earlier harvest of perennial greens in the Spring and heat of the Summer.
Autumn Olive is a superfood Autumn olive berries have a high amount of Vitamin C. The Ruby red variety has more lycopene than even tomatoes. I have autumn olive growing in my pasture. I harvested the berries in October and froze them for use in this recipe in the winter. Autumn Olive Oxymel Recipe Ingredients: Step 1 : Blend autumn olive and filtered water in a blender. Step 2: Strain through a fine mesh sieve to remove the seeds and debris: Step 3: Add raw honey to taste. I add as much honey as I like. Make sure it is …
A garden built to reflect the balance of nature in our daily lives and the model for a proposed intentional community. An Essay by Yardbird Modern culture is out of balance with nature. In fact, I’d say most people in today’s modern culture have a dysfunctional relationship with nature. This is a consequence of people’s separation from truth. The philosophy garden, as I see it, is a system to observe and winnow the grain of truth by living and experiencing life through its daily processes. We transform ourselves through the correspondence between our inner self and aligning our perceptions with …
It’s not about money. Our local group put on a great #GSD Workshop on Saturday. As part of the workshop, we had a barter blanket session. Now if you haven’t been to barter blanket session, this is how it works: Someone puts an item on the blanket-covered table. For example, I put a bottle of my homemade asparagus vinegar as seen below on the left. Other people put trade items on the table as well. The person who put on the original item can choose one of the other’s items as a trade, or choose none of them and withdraw …
The idea lightbulb came on for this chocolate mead based on the fermentation prep stage for making chocolate vinegar, from: Homebrewed Vinegar: How to Ferment 60 Delicious Varieties, Including Carrot-Ginger, Beet, Brown Banana, Pineapple, Corncob, Honey, and Apple Cider Vinegar by Kirsten K. Shockey: Wait…chocolate vinegar? Yes. The first step to making chocolate vinegar is to make a chocolate mead primary ferment with a chocolate nib tea before adding the raw vinegar or an existing vinegar mother. Chocolate Mead Recipe Prep time: About 20 minutes total (plus 4 hours wait for the chocolate nib tea to steep). Ingredients: Brewing the …
Focus on What Matters There it is again. My heart races for just a few moments. “What am I going to do about…?” the voice inside my head asks. Anxiety, you are a familiar “friend” in this New Normal, The Dim Age. But with “friends” like this, who needs enemies? Circle of Concern I stop and ask myself: How much of this really matters? – That is the Circle of Concern. Does it really affect me? Let’s get real. That thing that is happening in Texas that is the Outrage-of-the-day on social media. Does it really impact me? If I …
Skills over Stuff Among our group of friends we get together and do workshops to learn and share skills. We have done apple cider pressing, planting trees on contour, and, since we have farms, we have have processed chickens and ducks. We learn enough on the internet to get going and then figure the rest out together. We learn by doing. The key is to Get Stuff Done. Develop Skills over just collecting Stuff. Spreading those skills. Empowering others. Making a difference. It transfers tribal knowledge, which is especially important to impart to the younger members. You can have all …
Time to preserve and process that bounty. The growing season has come to an end but the preserving and storage is still going strong. This was a good season, as you can see from this basket full of tomatoes, hatch peppers, purple peppers, and okra. We canned > 25 pints of roasted tomato sauce, stored up four buckets of potatoes in sawdust, and shelled gallons of cowpeas (black-eyed peas) and beans. The totals: Apples were cooked into many pints of applesauce. Apple cores and scraps fed to the horses and donkey. Or turned into apple cider vinegar (recipe and pics …
We want to talk about solutions, not problems “I don’t care what the news says. I create my own news.” Justin Rhodes This website, the podcast, and the Telegram group are all about solutions. We want to talk about original evergreen content. Evergreen content is content that still matters a year, or many years from now. Everyone is posting (and re-posting) someone else’s content (usually about the “big C”). All day, everyday, on all social media. I listened to a podcast from a year ago. It was from a few days before the election. It did not age well. The …
Our reality is choked out by thoughts, static, noise, and by the “cares of this life”. Decrease the noise in your life. Live in the Moment. Live Life Uncurated.
I foraged persimmons from local trees, gathering fruit that was already over-ripe. How to grow these into tree seedlings?
My friend implemented an Ecoflow Power Station and Solar panels on a rack system to power his house. Check out his implementation.
How I Built a Greenhouse from Recycled Windows. Extend your growing season with greens in the Winter and start new seedlings earlier in the Spring.
How to Thrive in a power outage. Prepare for a power outage with multiple backup power sources. Battery Bank, Inverter, and generator.
In NE Kansas, we do not get “April showers bring May flowers”. We get May and June thunderstorms. I used Historical Aerials and Google Earth History slider to look at historical water patterns across my land.
Make comfrey salve using the cold or warm infusion methods
How I created an Apple Guild – Permaculture – Turn a corner of your garden into Hassle-Free Permaculture Perennial Production. Apple, elderberry, blackberry.
How to Create a Food Forest. Permaculture Orchard From Design to Delivery. How I Hand Dug Swales and Mounds.
How to Do a Property Walk, to assess the contour of the land and the soil type. Use as a tool with your permaculture business or side hustle.
Tips to evaluate the Homestead Property that you are considering. Are your neighbors growing gardens or lawns? Finding land – Check the land use over time.
You want to grow your own food. You want your own land. The first step – Identify your goals.
In this episode I will share tips on how to discover and develop your side hustle niche.
In this article I will show you how to forage, cook, prepare, and store stinging nettles.
I converted some of my garden into perennials, with annuals in the middle. I get an earlier harvest of perennial greens in the Spring and heat of the Summer.
You want to grow chestnuts from seed, but don’t know where to start? This will give you a step by step guide to grow chestnuts from seed.
Foraging and Pottage – Moving Foraging from a Skill to a Mindset. How to Use foraged veggies to extend Your Oatmeal without the blood sugar spike.
Step by Step to Propagate Elderberry
Autumn Olive is a superfood Autumn olive berries have a high amount of Vitamin C. The Ruby red variety has more lycopene than even tomatoes. I have autumn olive growing in my pasture. I harvested the berries in October and froze them for use in this recipe in the winter. Autumn Olive Oxymel Recipe Ingredients: Step 1 : Blend autumn olive and filtered water in a blender. Step 2: Strain through a fine mesh sieve to remove the seeds and debris: Step 3: Add raw honey to taste. I add as much honey as I like. Make sure it is …
Real-world aquaponics – step by step. The World’s Greatest Ebb and Flow Bed.
A garden built to reflect the balance of nature in our daily lives and the model for a proposed intentional community. An Essay by Yardbird Modern culture is out of balance with nature. In fact, I’d say most people in today’s modern culture have a dysfunctional relationship with nature. This is a consequence of people’s separation from truth. The philosophy garden, as I see it, is a system to observe and winnow the grain of truth by living and experiencing life through its daily processes. We transform ourselves through the correspondence between our inner self and aligning our perceptions with …
How to tell a chick’s sex – is it a pullet (female) or a cockerel (male).
It’s not about money. Our local group put on a great #GSD Workshop on Saturday. As part of the workshop, we had a barter blanket session. Now if you haven’t been to barter blanket session, this is how it works: Someone puts an item on the blanket-covered table. For example, I put a bottle of my homemade asparagus vinegar as seen below on the left. Other people put trade items on the table as well. The person who put on the original item can choose one of the other’s items as a trade, or choose none of them and withdraw …
The idea lightbulb came on for this chocolate mead based on the fermentation prep stage for making chocolate vinegar, from: Homebrewed Vinegar: How to Ferment 60 Delicious Varieties, Including Carrot-Ginger, Beet, Brown Banana, Pineapple, Corncob, Honey, and Apple Cider Vinegar by Kirsten K. Shockey: Wait…chocolate vinegar? Yes. The first step to making chocolate vinegar is to make a chocolate mead primary ferment with a chocolate nib tea before adding the raw vinegar or an existing vinegar mother. Chocolate Mead Recipe Prep time: About 20 minutes total (plus 4 hours wait for the chocolate nib tea to steep). Ingredients: Brewing the …
Focus on What Matters There it is again. My heart races for just a few moments. “What am I going to do about…?” the voice inside my head asks. Anxiety, you are a familiar “friend” in this New Normal, The Dim Age. But with “friends” like this, who needs enemies? Circle of Concern I stop and ask myself: How much of this really matters? – That is the Circle of Concern. Does it really affect me? Let’s get real. That thing that is happening in Texas that is the Outrage-of-the-day on social media. Does it really impact me? If I …
Skills over Stuff Among our group of friends we get together and do workshops to learn and share skills. We have done apple cider pressing, planting trees on contour, and, since we have farms, we have have processed chickens and ducks. We learn enough on the internet to get going and then figure the rest out together. We learn by doing. The key is to Get Stuff Done. Develop Skills over just collecting Stuff. Spreading those skills. Empowering others. Making a difference. It transfers tribal knowledge, which is especially important to impart to the younger members. You can have all …
Time to preserve and process that bounty. The growing season has come to an end but the preserving and storage is still going strong. This was a good season, as you can see from this basket full of tomatoes, hatch peppers, purple peppers, and okra. We canned > 25 pints of roasted tomato sauce, stored up four buckets of potatoes in sawdust, and shelled gallons of cowpeas (black-eyed peas) and beans. The totals: Apples were cooked into many pints of applesauce. Apple cores and scraps fed to the horses and donkey. Or turned into apple cider vinegar (recipe and pics …
We want to talk about solutions, not problems “I don’t care what the news says. I create my own news.” Justin Rhodes This website, the podcast, and the Telegram group are all about solutions. We want to talk about original evergreen content. Evergreen content is content that still matters a year, or many years from now. Everyone is posting (and re-posting) someone else’s content (usually about the “big C”). All day, everyday, on all social media. I listened to a podcast from a year ago. It was from a few days before the election. It did not age well. The …