Dehydrated purple dead nettle for antihistamine tea
This batch of purple dead nettle took about 12hrs to dehydrate with the bitcoin mining dehydrator.
Promptly made a cup of tea to try it out. On its own it has a flavor reminiscent of spinach. The local honey did a lot of work making it palatable but I'm drinking this tea as medicine. Hard to say after only one cup how strong the antihistamine effect is but I will continue to drink the tea and observe my allergy symptoms.
After gorging on the stems from the nettle, the rabbits hardly touched the grain mix we feed them. I'm sure the luscious greens were a welcome change since they haven't got anything different since I pruned the fruit trees a couple months ago.
Feel free to message if you want some dehydrated purple dead nettle. Value for value plus shipping cost.
#permaculture #permies #homesteading #grownostr #valueforvalue #v4v #naturalremedy #foraging #wildedible #edibleweeds #purpledeadnettle
I got some store bought ones that are starting to sprout. Figured I should plant them too but haven't been able to fit it in the schedule yet. I think my potatoes got too wet last season so I'm going to try to avoid that this time. Did a little better than double what I started with, but I feel like yeild should be better than that.
I suppose one way to think about it is, which is easier to determine: if one is extracting from a system or if one is producing surplus? I find surplus hard to define for my situation but I more often know when I'm trying to squeeze more out of a system than I should through feedback. Glad my choice to try rewording the 3rd ethic sparked some discussion!
Non-Extraction is the most succinct way I could come up with to describe it. Failing to redistribute surplus could be interpreted as extractive behavior so I thought Non-Extraction would be short way to say it.
Permaculture
Three Ethics
Earth Care
People Care
Non-Extraction
Twelve Principles
Observe and interact
Apply self-regulation and accept feedback
Creatively use and respond to change
Use small and slow solutions
Design from patterns to details
Integrate rather than segregate
Obtain a yeild
Catch and store energy
Produce no waste
Value and use renewable resources
Value the marginal
Value diversity
Permanent culture requires permanent money; Bitcoin.
#permaculture #permies #homesteading #grownostr #bitcoin
I have been trying out this tooth brushing powder. One of the ingredients is ground bone so eggshells might offer something similar. I've been thinking about adding this powder to my homemade toothpaste recipe which is equal parts coconut oil and baking soda plus some olive oil (to create a more paste-like consistency) and some peppermint oil. I currently find it annoying to apply the powder to the brush seems to spill everywhere. I'm probably just doing it wrong though...
https://store.orawellness.com/products/shine-remineralizing-tooth-whitening-powder
Proof of work right there! In a few years you will have some wonderful soil in that spot.
You can make a huge one with that much wattage! Thanks for the love! It keeps me stoked on making these notes.
Permaculture weaves homestead activities into multi-yeilding workflows
Purple dead nettle was taking over the garlic bed so I weeded it.
Instead of throwing the nettles in the compost pile I harvested the flowers to dehydrate into antihistamine tea to help with my springrime allergies. (Using an S9 Bitcoin miner as the heat and airflow for the dehydrator box)
I tossed all the nettle stems and other weeds into the rabbit colony as a snack for the bunnies.
The yields from this workflow: weeded garlic for improved future yeild, dehydrated nettle for tea, mined Bitcoin, fed rabbits.
#plebminer #homemining #bitcoinmining #bitcoin #mining #homesteading #permaculture #permies #grownostr #doublespendebenergy #naturalremedy #foraging #nettle #purpledeadnettle #gardening #garlic #stackingfunctions #dehydrator
Wild apple tree flowering
Found this wild apple tree on the homestead when cleaning up the edges of a pasture. It was getting choked out by sassafras, autumn olive and wild grape. It grows medium/small apples with a heavy russet skin, white crispy flesh, mild sweet flavor. Every year something happens and I'm not able to get more than a couple ripe apples from it. If I can get a few buckets full this year I'll make a batch of cider. I've grafted it and have several in the nursery, so if it dies for one reason or another it will live on somewhere else on the homestead. #foraging #homesteading #permies #permacture #grownostr #apple #appletree #wildapple #flower #blossom
Ordinals is a protocol using Bitcoin transactions as provenance. Those who want to participate in the protocol need to make Bitcoin transactions to do so. It's hard to really say what Bitcoin is if beyond money people are willing to pay for a source of truth.
Shows zero zaps for me on amethyst. Not sure what's up.
I dig the craftsmanship.
https://i.imgur.com/P7IoZ6B.mp4
This is the fastest way to secure the mobile sheep shelter to the tractor when moving it to the next paddock. Pull the loop of the rope though draw bar on the tractor then drop a chain through the loop behind it. I can hook it up and unhook with one hand! #permaculture #permies #homesteading #grownostr #regenag #regenerativeagriculture #rotationalgrazing #pasturemanagement #localfood #sheep #lamb
Last paddock in this pasture for katahdin hair sheep
The sheep will likely be here a couple days then move on to thier lambing pasture. We decided it's best to get them there sooner and have to wait a few days than to be caught off guard with lambs needing attention in the back pastures.
I broke some autumn olive braches for easy browsing for the sheep. They love it. As a nitrogen fixing shrub the stress should help the grass grow around it too.
https://i.imgur.com/8RTMtjT.mp4
#permaculture #permies #homesteading #grownostr #regenag #regenerativeagriculture #rotationalgrazing #pasturemanagement #localfood #sheep #lamb
Do you think with the sort term volatility in fees/price Bitcoin is better or worse than their current monetary system overall? If Bitcoin is still better then they should use it; if it is worse then they should continue to use what they already have.
Double spending energy mining Bitcoin and heating this cold frame growing cannabis and vegetable starts.
Now that I've been using the S9 to heat the cold frame for a couple weeks I'm confident that it can keep consistent temps and not dry things out too much. I moved all the starts I had growing in a window inside out to the cold frame where they can get more light.
The starts from indoors are very leggy and the seedlings started in the cold frame are at various stages of growth due to a mouse that kept eating the seeds I replaced after a rogue chicken plucked up the majority of the initial sprouts. All in all, doing better than last year thanks to the extra warmth from the Bitcoin miner.
#plebminer #homemining #bitcoinmining #bitcoin #mining #homesteading #permaculture #permies #grownostr #cannabis #seedlings #gardening
Something like 93% on the inverter. I don't think it's worth it to get the converter with my setup. It will take a long time to mine the sats back. Maybe worth considering when designing a system from scratch though. Probably best just to keep everything 12v in that situation though I suppose.
How hot is that fence?? How much are you energizing at once?
Yeah, I have an inverter, 3.5kw outback. I don't really know much about how to work with DC off the batteries directly, I wonder how much power I'm losing. Maybe I can go directly off the load from my charge controller, that can handle 60a. The step down would need to handle the 1200w load. Don't those cost a couple hundred dollars? Something like this:
Cllena DC 24V Step Down to 13.8V 100A 1380W Converter Voltage Regulator, Waterproof DC/DC Voltage Reducer Buck Transformer Power Supply for Golf Cart https://a.co/d/iOVhds6
Would I need a step down converter to 12v? How much efficiency could I gain do you think?