Making progress on a large art piece. #artstr #makeyourownart #grownostr

Well, we had a good and loud dumping rain last night and this morning as I woke up I remembered all of my garlic, curing underneath one of the big cedar trees 😳 But! All of it was dry! I was so happy. Simple pleasures, grateful.

Last of my duck eggs. I had two ladies left from an older flock, and even though they were aging, they were still supplying me with eggs. Today's the day they were going to get out of the tractor and into a permanent pen. But last night something got into the tractor and got them 😔 I did shed a few tears. I'm going to miss their company (and eggs). We'll start again with a new flock, with plenty more protection.

Herbs and Other Helps for Travel

Including every day carry

I wrote a new post that you may find useful for your travels.

Haha let's try that Good Morning again! 😎

Good morning!

It's popsicle season! 1 cup pureed strawberries 1 cup cooked down/pureed rhubarb 1 cup rose simple syrup Delish!

Made some summer flower jelly to enjoy in February when I need a taste of summer. Lavender and calendula with a bit of rose and borage. Smells good and tastes real nice.

Found a treehouse to sleep in. It was pretty epic.

And just to keep me humble, *all* this from one of my potato bags. I definitely got them out too early. One of my bags was a total dud. Three more to go, here's hoping.

Very happy with my garlic harvest! Nice bulbs and plenty of worms I had to knock back into the garden. After it cures, I'll be drying and powdering most of it. That makes my kitchen smell like an Italian restaurant but I love garlic so much I don't care.

Crazy good garden this year and so very thankful. But I seem to have a glut on the veg side of things as my farmer friends already keep me well supplied. So I'm considering turning my beds over to more unusual plants and more medicinal herbs instead. I'm going to chat with some chefs in town and see if they'd like some edible flowers or whatnot, or if I can grow something specific for them. I've been harvesting every day, definitely in my happy zone. What unusual plant or herb would you grow if given the chance? Four of my five potato bags look amazing, the garlic is ready to pull, and the plums, figs, and apples are coming in strong. My chicken coop is almost finished and ready for a fresh batch of birds from someone wanting to downsize their year old hens. I'm really ready to retire from a decade-plus of chicken tractoring; hope I can keep the yard decent by limiting the size of the flock on it and perhaps dividing up the yard into sections. We shall see. The deer did finally discover the buffet 🤨 so I've been trying to thwart them without getting yet another outside dog (my maremma died of old age, there's no replacing him). Super enjoying the sunshine! 😎 How does your garden grow? #growsomething #grownostr

An example of homegrown/dried calendula and store boughten. #herbs #growyourownfood #grownostr

Good morning ☀️

First year harvesting has begun! I'm laughing at my small pan of flowers (lavender, calendula, borage, chamomile) because my first thought was to make a luxurious face cream. And I'm laughing because I was reminded of one of my early posts here on Nostr. It was about making herbal facial cleansers and some guy made a comment about just using water, which made me laugh even then. Just another difference between men and women! 😂 I'm guessing everyone can appreciate summer squash and fresh picked peas though 😋

Happy find of a handful of garlic scapes I missed on the first run. And! Got my 18yo on with an Exodus wallet after I grilled him about what Bitcoin was and had him explain it to other family members. Now I just have to figure out how to send him some. I have about $19 worth of sats (thank you, Nostriges!!) which maybe sounds like nothing but before I got here I had zero of anything. But I don't have zero. I now have five kids over the age of 18 who have a clue or two. #grownostr #preparethekids

My garden started pumping while I was gone. And look what I found growing in one of the beds! Wonder what it is?