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First post, so let’s start with the obvious: our spaces should support the lives we’re actually living. Sometimes that means too much stuff has to go. Sometimes it means the space needs more life—food, soil, learning, people. That’s why I started Common Ground. We help with everything from organizing and estate liquidation to Home Grown gardens and youth programs. So—who else still plays in the dirt? #Introduction #Oregon #Gardening #FoodResilience
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Fledgling crows: Day 35. Only random sightings of the gruesome twosome this week. The parents are keeping them on the go, flying and foraging. Itchy gets tired of waiting for a parent to come by with a snack but Dozy seems content to sit in one spot until the lunch wagon appears. No idea if this happens with crows, but Dozy behaves in a less developed way than Itchy. Itchy is almost a full-fledged crow but Dozy is either under-developed or just plain lazy. #Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #Gardening
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I wanted to add an interesting note about the gruesome twosome: both of them are leucistic, that is, they both have some pure white feathers on the undersides of their wings. That's how we've been able to tell them apart from the adults, there's a flash of white each time the youngsters spread their wings. https://corvidresearch.blog/2014/07/09/crow-curiosities-what-causes-white-feathers/ #Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #Gardening
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Gardening In Small Spaces "Every tiny patch of wildlife-friendly garden is one more link in the chain. Your pot of marigolds on your window-sill could be just the right pitstop for a passing bee. Your front door rosemary bush could be exactly what those ladybirds were waiting for. Your bare concrete yard could be transformed with just a few planters and ponds." https://mycoronationgarden.org/gardening-small-spaces #SolarPunkSunday #WildLife #Gardening #Nature #BioDiversity
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The up side of #Gardening: at some point, you get a bunch of food that is fleeting in its longevity, but better than any you eat the rest of the year, all things considered. The down side: Sometimes they need to be processed quickly, and sometimes the whole day that it takes to, say, turn a bunch of fresh picked peppers into a bunch of Chiles Rellenos, arrives on the same day that for instance is your first day with a new music tool that you ordered and paid for almost a year ago and is finally here, a Behringer XR-18 specifically, which is here to end all of my headaches with playing live. Oh, I need to route the 58 through the outboard reverb and out, while the harp mic goes through my amp modelling device and a verb/echo, while the guitar switches between the piezo pickup and the electric ones? (push button) Let's do it. But even though I've done my C reading and gotten some outdoor cleanup/winter prep done and could now theoretically head out to the studio and start making plans about what sort of box I'm gonna tote my whole musical world around in from now on my other hobby has these peppers sitting around getting wrinkly and the only recipe I can think of is Chiles Rellenos, which is just a wild amount of work. You have to blister the peppers then let them steam while they cool, and meanwhile you have to roast your tomatoes and get your sauce ready which is a whole other afternoon-long ordeal I swear, even the youtube guy I'm following for this, he pauses halfway through and points out that what Usians pay for this dish at restaurants is, well, it basically amounts to labour theft. He didn't say that, but this is a lotta friggin work this anyways after the peppers have steamed and cooled, you gotta do some fuckin surgery on the fuckers, scoop out all the seeds and slimy innards, all being careful to save your stem to grab onto later, just enough slit to push all that cheesykaysow in there, and then, you're basically fuckin Jame Gumm at this point, you seal em back up with a skewer so they hopefully stay shut. Then do you bread these maybe, dip em in a nice batter? FUCK NO YOU DAMN DIRTY APE We're making a fuckin meringue is what we're dipping those tasty garden fresh little bastards in, and then we're deep frying those little fuckers real good, cause fuck you that's why. I feel like everyone should have to do this once, before they're allowed to order Chiles Rellenos in restaurants. I just finished blistering them on the bbq, they are now steaming together in a glass bowl with a plate over em. They all died with an awful sound. Strongly considering skipping the deep fry aspect, and instead preparing some sort of rice/meat/cheese filling to put in em, and they can then be roasted again with more cheesykaysow I feel like I'm letting myself down if I don't go all the way. I wonder if there's an air fryer way to do these, I totally don't mind the idea of doing a couple at a time on the counter, but I try to refrain from putting a lot of greasy vapour in the air so if I was gonna go deep fry it'd be out by the garage. The deep frying being another thing I need to build some sort of easily draggable box/grease catching undercarriage for...
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#3GoodThings (#SF & the #brain)

  1. Was @ #UCSF yesterday & learned a bunch of cool things about the #brain & vision, specifically visual processing, which happens (from what I understand) in the occipital lobe. This info. will find its way into my WIP on #gardening.

  2. Walked 8 miles each day. The beauty of the bay & the bridges never ceases to amaze me, aka gives my brain a nice shot of #serotonin.

  3. Being a student again & having the best #neurologists share their time & expertise.

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This was my truck when I went to work today. I told my customer to help herself to anything she wanted, and to tell her neighbors to do the same, and the truck was empty in about five minutes. When I went back out, there was a loaf of fresh sourdough, and a gift card. Build your community people, it's going to be the only way forward very soon. #Gardening @gardening@fedigroups.social
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So you rinse it, seal it in a bag with barely damp sphagnum, and set it at the back of the refrigerator for ninety to a hundred and twenty days. In spring you plant it an inch down in a deep pot. Five to seven years later, fruit no corporation ever priced. Bi socair — be still. What are you growing that won't pay off for years? #Foraging #Pawpaw #Gardening #SeedSaving #NativePlants #Herbalism #FoodAsMedicine #Gàidhlig #MastoDaoine #Druid #Folklore #Solarpunk #Cooking 2/2
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This post contains several requests, so I will try to organise them in a meaningful manner. I am seeking the following materials. The more stars, the more I want it. I am fully capable of reading things at Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive, particularly in html and txt formats, but some of this is a bit specialised, and as regards braille music, those options won't work. Note that there is an Introd To Braille Music available, but it costs several hundred dollars!

  1. Old course catalogues and books from Hadley School for the Blind. In particular, courses on *** Latin, *** Italian (only if it's traditional with grammar, dialogues, exercises, etc. not just conversational or phrases), *** container gardening, *** braille music, *** crafts, *** home economics, *** cooking, *** general recreational activities, and other things that may interest me (for those who know me or have read my profile).
  2. The following books in hard copy braille. I would prefer to avoid UEB and to use either American Grade 2 or Standard English Braille. *** First Theory by Angela Diller, by the American Printing House for the Blind (also other books in the series, or other good music theory books in braille, including anything by Ebenezer Prout, whom I am currently using in txt format) ** Hadley: Braille Music Reading *** Who’s Afraid of Braille Music? by Richard Taesch and William R. McCann (found, must make sure it's in Grade II) *** Maeve Smith, A Course in Braille Music ** Edward Watson, A Guide to Braille Music Notation
  • Bettye Krollick, New International Manual of Braille Music ** BANA, Music Braille Code (prior to 2015) *** books on learning the classical guitar using traditional methods i.e. holding, finger positions, notes, scales, exercises, chords, and songs, not just chords and songs *** braille books on singing, using old methods breath support, notes, scales, arpeggios, vocalisations, exercises, ornamentation, etc. then arias (I don't even know if they exist in print, but I had to add them)

#accessibility #blind #books #braille #BrailleMusic #ClassicalGuitar #ContainerGardening #cooking #gardening #Hadley #HomeEconomics #music #MusicTheory #opera #recreation #singing

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this is my second year growing a genetically diverse mix of cucurbita moschata using adaptive gardening/landrace gardening principles. they thrive here in spite of the squash vine borers, squash bugs, and powdery mildew that plagues cucurbita maxima. i have a half dozen curing on a porch and another dozen still growing over my lawn (mowed weedy meadow). i eat them green in zucchini recipes and after ripe + a one month curing period, they are delicious and last for months, some all winter, in my garage. the pollinators do all the genetic mixing for me. i save seeds and they were triply as prolific in my kid's daycare garden as those pictured here in my garden. i only watered them the first few weeks after planting. most were direct sown and covered with plant cages, a few i seed started indoors. #gardening #moschata #squash #adaptivegardening
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#solarpunksunday #gardening #garden #jardin #garten #ClimateChangeGardening 1/2🧵 Leaf harvest: sweet potato leaves, papalo and muscadines. This is the last harvest for muscadines before they start to turn yellow. This is the first round for SP and the papalo got pulled bc the plants broke off from the base in the Nor’easter. My oven will only accommodate a few trays at a time so I can only collect enough in a day that will fit. It takes around 12h to dry SP leaves at 140F.
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As your garden winds down in autumn, evaluate what worked and what didn't and add it to your notes in Vegplotter! Need extra sunshade? Tall crops like sweetcorn & Jerusalem artichokes offer great natural shelter. Rethink your space & redesign your layout for next year! 🌻 #GardenPlanning #Gardening
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Jag inspekterade tomaterna som ligger på eftermogning (borde göras dagligen, men så blir det inte), och det visade sig att väldigt många nu var mogna. Vad ska jag göra med dem?

  1. Lataste vägen: skålla-skala-frysa? Det börjar bli väldigt trångt i frysen.
  2. Koka ner till tomatsås? Har slut på burkar.
  3. Koka ner till tomatsås, packa i plastpåsar och frysa? Det lutar åt den kompromissen. #tomater #odling #odlaEgenMat #matUtanSkit #tomatoes #gardening #growyourown
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