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

Nothing like the part of summer where you go pick a watermelon from a volunteer plant. It's the best! eating outside, spitting the seeds and waiting for next year to see what grows. We have only been here at our new property for a year... making great memories.

#grownostr #summer #watermelon

Good morning #grownostr ! tromboncino squash are amazing. We got to eat our first one the other day with some backyard pork, very impressed with how these taste and grow. The #bees love them too.

#gardening #permaculture

I just went through this building my first bitcoin node on Umbrel. ended up switching from a 7200rpm spinner over to an SSD, made a world of difference! I had't thought of turning off the TOR, sounds like something I should think about. Does having TOR on make much of a difference nostr:npub1xn9fxlmwj92svvllfkpcrvugkrx2ytfp9luw0w2n7r693jckay2sahvhwl ?

If you run into trouble migrating data nostr:npub16up8472yajrceaxq72yz4an7lggw0s6esgg7rm74k8fh3khsesjs6vnevp let me know. I just did it a couple of times after doing the initial block sync, worked like a charm. they don't have docs for it on Umbrel, but it wasn't too bad if you're good on the command line.

#grownostr #pigs #hogstr #farmstead

Baby birds, mama bird and 4 pigs walk into a paddock... nothing really happens, but it could! Chicken nuggets would be a tasty treat if the stand still too long out here.

https://youtu.be/cj4J8edLiuE

Ok, so the #coffee pot attempted to peel itself away from the handle this morning. Good news is nothing comes between me and my #hollerroast coffee! Nothing a little gorilla tape can’t fix.

I haven't heard an answer quite yet on this. I think I am going to give it a try. just got Starlink internet and have some actual bandwidth to play with on this extra gear.

Thank you for sharing! I'll have to connect up with them. we may be looking to get into sheep before too long.

Hey #grownostr friends! We have been away for a bit enjoying a relaxing vacation, so all has been quiet here. We came back and found our tomatoes with lots of little suckers! If you are looking for a way to have more fruit on your vines or are curious how you can propagate your tomato plants, come check out this short little video! Let us know if you have any questions, we loving sharing about gardening and #homesteading.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmagKckPEnk

#gardening #permaculture #tomatoes

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Uvpfa9Cdj2w

Need an electric fencing tip for your step in posts? This one is brought to you by our boar "Groot". He is a bigo piggo. Not much to say this time, but I'm sure he will come around for the camera for us again soon.

#grownostr #hogstr #pigs #farmsteading #homesteading

Is it possible to send note or messages to yourself? I am wondering if there would be a way to report on the measured voltage of an electric fence and plot it on a timescale alongside temperature, humidity, etc? not sure what is possible, but thinking outloud.

starting with just voltage would probably be an easier win if that is something a board could or sensor could report.

Good morning! Anyone up for some cute pigs from the South!?! These little guys should do the trick for you. They are a couple of weeks old now and loving the access to grass between meals with mama. This was from a couple of days ago right after a move to some fresh pasture.

#grownostr #hogstr #homesteading #permaculture #georgia

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Here are some photos of the guts of my remote outdoor temperature sensor for my #HomeAssistant setup. I will eventually probably expand into a full weather station to measure wind, rain, humidity, etc, but what I really needed this winter was a thermometer to warn me when temps were getting close to freezing so I could check the greenhouses, cover sensitive outdoor plants, etc. The location of our farm is in a natural depression, so on cold, clear nights it can be almost 10 degrees colder than what the local forecasts predict in nearby Austin (and they're wrong about that about half the time, anyway) so I needed to start collecting my own data.

This is an off the shelf cheapo solar light from Amazon. The light function still works, but I usually leave it off and not in "motion detect" mode to preserve battery life. Inside I added a clone of the Wemos D1 mini microcontroller board, wired to the battery through an MCP1700 LDO voltage regulator and a couple of capacitors, with a DS18B20 temperature sensor dangling outside the case through a hole I drilled on the bottom side of the light housing. I sized the hole to be a tight fit for the cable, which sort of causes it to self-seal. No issues with water infiltration yet.

I used the ESPHome plugin for HomeAssistant to program it, set up on a cycle to sleep for 10 minutes and wake for 40 seconds. That gives it just enough time to wake up, connect to wifi (tip: using a static IP address instead of DHCP lets you reduce the wake cycle by a few seconds), and transmit the temperature reading. I tried five minutes between readings, and would run out of battery power overnight, so on this battery, ten minutes is about the minimum.

Not shown in the photo is a strip of thin plastic I cut to fit over the original circuit board that runs the light to keep the D1 board from possibly touching it and causing electrons to go somewhere they're not supposed to go.

Total cost of this setup when I built it six months ago was around $12. Half of that was the solar light, so if you already have some lights, you can add this kind of functionality for about six bucks.

#grownostr #homestead #automation

This is great, thank you for sharing! I'm starting to think about where to run my #homeassistant platform. I've got an extra Odroid-H2 (x86) needing a task and a Ras Pi4 not doing anything right now. This looks like the way to go. I've been looking at weather stations, but they are in the hundreds for a decent one off the shelf.

#grownostr #bees #homesteading

Time to take a break for a few minutes and enjoy this wonderful walk through the life of a bee. enjoy!

https://youtu.be/yOdWc8Oc4LI

your activity should match, unless there are nostr Relays either offline or not used across the different clients. about halfway down this page explains how they work - https://usenostr.org/