Project Video Update: Lavender are in the ground!

#SanJoaquinVictoryGardens powered through the Labor Day weekend to finish bed prep and planting! Now we just keep these plants alive via the driptape until the rains come.

45 sturdy plants in the ground and now I need to make more cuttings! I'm already dreaming about starting a second location in the neighborhood.

The food garden in the backyard will soon get the driptape upgrade to support a bed of lettuce, a bed of asparagus, and keep the blueberries and apple alive. I'll share a video of that work soon.

#gardenstr #urbangardening #gardening #diy #lavender #permaculture

https://blossom.primal.net/a426477eb712b837781ec8fecdb2f6cf6ccc0150a6710f5dd22022b7f09d03bb.mp4

Gosh, 120'? Good luck for the marathon!

Aww man I forgot to post hashtags. #permaculture #urbangardening #gardening #DIY #sanjoaquinvictorygardens #lavender

GD, for now my morning passed. As the heat sets in and builds past 103 through the weekend I am happyto report that irrigation is set!

Irrigation is on and getting tested. Transplanting next!

I need to find a video stitching app for mobile that is FOSS. Any suggestions out there?

I've looked at Open Video Editor and Bunny Media both out of FDroid store, but some features I desire don't work/are missing.

https://blossom.primal.net/de534518367f4d5802a38058443f3ce80d91a43b6b4da256fafc0ecde8c11333.mp4

https://blossom.primal.net/5baab88ceef90f5583c32bbdf4961503981b4f011dfe289721b1a32937d23909.mp4

GE.

I have moved to an internet only phone with that exact set up and I haven't looked back. WiFi is ubiquitous when you go to town. For my esim I use a WiFi hotspot from Calyx foundation. I think it provides independence

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GM Nostr. Here is a sub 2min, first ever Vlog. In the future I will make them polished but as of now I am super excited about this hose extender.

#permaculture #sanjoaquinvictorygardens # lavender #DIY #urbangardening #gardening

https://blossom.primal.net/0cf3e3558c0280557638c00e913019508b5b3d05226d31bfaa6d3f79f298239e.mp4

I am using driptape by a company called dripwirks

NEW PROJECT ALERT: Farming in the city limits.

Victory Gardens can happen in any place where there is sunlight and water access. This year, San Joaquin Victory Gardens will start about 50 lavender plants in the front yard of a family who isn't using that space.

We will manage the plants for flower production, and plantoo plant soon.

Each orange flag will be a plant. Irrigation with drip tape. The single bush in the third picture is the mother plant that I made clones from back in March. The variety is 'Phenomenal' lavender, which can stand up to the heat and blooms all summer.

#growster #sanjoaquinvictorygardens #horticulture #permaculture #urbanfarming@

The picture about shows many hundreds of bulblets of the walking onion/tree onion harvested from the #homestead #garden this year. Every year I have this problem of abundance, lol, and my wife shakes her head when I try to plant more of these onions for the next gardening season.

My solution this year is to give out many bulblets to my biology/environmental science students and make this year's teaching theme more about the intricacies of food security. Though the onion tops are now dead from lack of water, the bulbs stay alive in the ground until the next season....because onions.

I love this plant. They grow fast, and are largely pest free (...damn gophers). They can substitute 1:1 for any other onion, but their taste is a bit spicy. The best way that I have found to eat a mass of these onions is by grilling them or laying them in a oven pan to bake with olive oil and salt.

The picture below shows the difference in size between the 2nd and 3rd bulblet set that a plant can throw off. Even though the bulblets are small, they quickly grow into full size plants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_onion

Every time I successfully make a barm I feel like Young Frankenstein (Gene Wilder/Mel Brooks) shouting "I have created life!!"

One room of my house is saturated with the smell of wild yeasts breaking their dormancies. Much bucket stirring has happened, and it is interesting to watch the change in the consistency of the bubbles. Now the stirring bubbles get thicker and more frothy, and when resting, there is a bubble film at the top of the liquid surface from the yeasts down below. Tomorrow I will give the barm (the fluid of honey+yeasts) a final stirring and then put it in the 5 gal glass carboy. It will rest in the carboy for half a year before bottling.

I'll likely have a little bit of barm leftover and so I can use that to start new batches. Time to experiment. Once the barm gets started, its easiest to turn out 3-4 different batches. In order to indulge my experimenting nature I've taken to making 1 gallon batches of mead most often. Last year I had good success with blueberry vanilla mead, I think I'll do another one of those.

When I harvested this honey in spring I knew that I had to make a batch of #mead with it. I wanted to keep the flavors of this honey at the top of the mead, so it is a basic show mead recipe (water and honey) with small variations of open air fermentation (wild, random yeast) and some black tea to add nice tannins to the finish.

The basic ratio is 1 quart of #honey + 1 gallon of water. I always ferment completely, so I avoid broken, sticky glassware in my storage area. I end up with alcohol content in the range of strong wine.

I'm still stirring a lot to wake up the yeasts. I'll later post a follow up picture when the primary fermentation foam head on this bucket is thick and fluffy.

I think that many people are unaware of how easy it is to make mead. The hard part is waiting at least a year (preferably three years) for the sugars to properly oxidize and the real flavor come out.

#homesteading

#homebrew

#brewstr

#bees

congrats, put a backing on it and hang it/give it away

do it. I am one week down that path and loving it

Hello!

for the record, I will go back to using primal. at this stage of the journey I need some ease of on boarding.

oops.

I'll just keep posting here and then that problem should take care of itself

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RFK is my pick of the 3

Badlands NP is amazing. I ditched the main camp during an evening and took a little hike out. and up a gully. a bull saw me and chased me into a thicket of bushes. it trotted at me from a far distance away but didn't stop coming, so I had to get out of the way!

I eventually got back to the camp area. I woke up earlier than most others the next day and a bull and a heifer walked right through camp. literally right next to nylon tents. everything was peaceful that morning but some humans got spooked

really great experience. I loved seeing wild bison

it's astounding that only a few plants can produce enough bulblets to replace this entire crop year after year. this really is an amazing plant.

if I did that I wouldn't have anyone else to shift blame onto