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It is time to participate with real food again. Be bold, try something old.

#grownostr #eggs #chickens #homesteading

We parted with 10 dozen eggs today to a few different families! what a great way to end the weekend.

hey #plebster friends, I have a question about lightning nodes. I have an extra Odroid H2-x86 and a Rasberry Pi 4 laying around not doing anything at the moment.

would those be able to run a #btc #lightning node? is it worth it to run your own?

I have a good solid background in Linux, Kubernetes and tech things, so if it is difficult, it wouldn't bother me. just wondering if it is worth exploring. BTW, I didn't use the right tags the first time, still learning where everyone hangs out :-)

Oh wow, you can see the end! wide open spaces work great for that!

hey #grownostr friends, I have a question about lightning nodes. I have an extra Odroid H2-x86 and a Rasberry Pi 4 laying around not doing anything at the moment.

would those be able to run a #lightning node? is it worth it to run your own?

I have a good solid background in Linux, Kubernetes and tech things, so if it is difficult, it wouldn't bother me. just wondering if it is worth exploring.

we love butter in our coffee. usually put some coconut oil in there too. extra fat!

#grownostr #freedom

Does anyone have any advice for a good email list provider? I started using AWeber with the free service (still getting my feet under me) and they managed to quietly suspend my account. I only found out after I couldn't get any test emails to work, even to myself. My website is over at https://backporchfarmstead.com - I do have a BUYER BEWARE notice, maybe that is too much freedom :-)

I am freedom minded and am using a custom domain with Protonmail. I don't know if this is what got me banned, but maybe it played a part. I asked AWeber to share with me how I got blocked, don't know if they will get back with me or not.

Ideally, I'd like to use an email service starting on a free plan and build my audience up. I'd like to integrate with Wordpress if possible too, but could make that optional. Any good alternatives?

We had a double rainbow last night - both ends! It was absolutely beautiful.

#grownostr #nature

#grownostr #homesteading #spring

#zap us if you like #bees or honey!

bees, wonderful bees. this was a few weeks ago, but I'd thought I would share some advice about beekeeping. the bees don't read the books! it was early March here in Georgia, mornings were still cool, the box the swarm found was not good, but they went there anyway! If only they read the books, the bees would have known to wait until it warmed up and I put out a bait hive for them :-)

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I thought I'd post a few notes about the automation experiments and data collection I've been working on around the farm for the past year or so.

This was my first attempt at a greenhouse temperature monitoring system. I used some cheap Arduino-compatible devices with built in LoRa radios. LoRa is a low-power, low-bandwidth radio system for sending small data packets over longer distances.

Rather than piece together a power solution and enclosure, I installed the boards into solar night lights and used the light's battery and solar panel to run the circuit. By using low-power sleep mode between updates, they'll run about four days on a full battery if there's no sun to charge them. With even just a couple sunny days a week, they run indefinitely.

I attached a DS18B20 temperature sensor to the board, and they send the temperature every 15 seconds to the base station, which is another LoRa-equipped device (inside a 3D-printed case), that also has a tiny LED screen and wifi. The screen displays the temperature and it connects to wifi and makes the temperature readings available to my server, which can alert me if the temperature in the greenhouses gets too high or low.

It all works great, but I've recently been moving to integrating everything into HomeAssistant to avoid having to program everything from scratch, and giving me more options for alerts and controlling things like fans and valves (and even cool features like voice control). I'll post more on that system later.

I'm still using this original system as a backup while I work on my HomeAssistant setup, and it works much better than I ever thought it would. I built it two years ago, and it's been problem-free once I got the initial bugs worked out of my code.

#grownostr #automation #homesteading

This looks like an awesome project! I've been interested in monitoring systems for freezers. We need to find a way to watch over food supplies.

happy to share. thanks for checking us out!

Anyone looking for tips on growing effortless sweet potatoes? We have you covered! Checkout our short video on how to grow and regrow your own sweet potatoes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swBbg-hTWd0

#grownostr #sweetpotatoes #permaculture #gardening

hey Daniel, we have done a few of them and really enjoy the quality of meat we get. generally speaking, here is how things turn out, with a picture of some of the chops.

We feed an average of 3-4 lbs per pig per day of regular grain. The grass stays pretty fresh with a move every 7-10 days. Add to that a couple of extra chicken eggs every now and again. The pigs usually finish out around 200-225 lbs live weight in about 10-12 months. Our feed costs around $1 per pig per day (late 2022 numbers).

Those are the rough numbers. Does that help?

We were able to get 15 eggs in our half gallon jar. 14 now, we had to try one after it sat for a bit to make sure we knew what we were doing before scaling up to buckets.