The rabbits in the rabbit colony cannabis garden are thriving.
https://v.nostr.build/KaWv.mp4
It seems that everything project on the homestead is providing a huge meal for the rabbits in the cannabis garden lately.
We have been experimenting with waiting longer to harvest. Before we were worried about over population but the cannabis garden is so large it can support more rabbits than we thought. However, with winter coming, it's going to be time to harvest all that are good size soon.
Since we have been feeding them so much, there hasn't been as much fighting amongst the males. Maybe they are fighting less because they have made more burrows which are more well spread out in the colony too. This system has performed very well for us this year so far. I can't wait to tally up the total amount of cannabis and rabbits meat it produced.
#permies #permaculture #homesteading #grownostr #meshtadel #selfsovereignty #rabbitcolony #rabbit #cannabis #weedstr #producenowaste
Hi!
I am amazed by what have you achieved (what I can see for few scrolls on nostr and X)!
I was thinking to start similar project and document most of it with this npub -> nostr:npub1kmv8enh3jmrhf57gpe9n3z4npm8k03rsujrfgp7jc6x3tw8eegls9vegks
I have a small garden. Food forest is just too big at least for now.
But all those relations between permaculture and bitcoin are planting seeds that are sprouting already :)
I would love to have a chat sometimes to get some more of your wisdom with so much time ahead of me :)
Please document and share as much as you can. There is so much knowledge to be gained about nature and many times it is only revealed through the circumstancial meeting of the right individual and the right place. There are many discoveries to be made and now we have a way to document and share them for all to see.
I will be doing nostr nests which will be open discussion format (working on a schedule now) and also I will offer paid private live streamed classes. I'm happy to do one hour v4v consultations but my experience is pretty much limited to my own homestead/climate.
Thanks, it's still shocking to me how much things have transformed. 6 years ago the area where the food forest is planted was a corn/soy field with poor compacted soil. I could barely grow anything in it for two years but I just kept adding organic material and planting more perennials every year. Now, 6 years later it's starting to take off on its own and there is almost 1ft of top soil.
Thanks, I like stringing notes together with the quote feature to share the progression of the systems throughout the season. Or like in this instance, I can use an old note to give context. I like how the strings of notes can take you down a mini rabbit hole directly in the main feed too.
Rabbits eating mulberry prunings
https://i.imgur.com/pA6pEk4.mp4
I've pruned this mulberry tree several times this season to feed the rabbits. I barely made a dent in it this pruning and the rabbits got more than a full meal out of it. I'll keep pruning it until there's nothing left going into the fall. It was a volunteer in the food forest so I'm not concerned if I kill it. Eventually I might want the space for another fruit tree anyway. For now, it's growing into rabbit meat.
#permaculture #permies #homesteading #grownostr #selfsovereignty #meshtadel #rabbit #rabbitcolony #forestgarden #foodforest
Pollarding the "weed" trees in the food forest
Inevitably, unwanted trees grow wild in the food forest but instead of cutting them down entirely to remove them, I pollard them. By pruning the tree back to the main trunk, I get food for the rabbits. If I kill the tree, okay but if it lives then it will grow even more food for the rabbits next season.
I do the same practice with the seedling apple trees that get too large to use as grafting rootstock. I didn't realize how convenient planting them next to the rabbit colony would be. Each year I cut all the branches of each of the trees and toss them into the rabbits. Each year the apple trees have more branches to cut.
#permies #permaculture #homesteading #grownostr #meshtadel #selfsovereignty #forestgarden #foodforest #pollarding #returnsurplus #nonextraction
I'm glad you're getting something out of it. The way we manage the sheep is definitely specific to our situation. The main concept of rotating paddocks will remain but it's likely that you end up doing something totally different than the way we do things here. I think Greg Judy has his sheep contained with one line of poly braid fencing.
Katahdin hair sheep have finished grazing another pasture.
The sheep grazed through the pasture around the pond in 12 days. I decided to skip the paddock in the woods this pass because it wasn't recovered enough so all things considered they are still moving at a great pace for this late in the season. I decided to skip pruning trees to feed them here, which might have been a mistake. The way things are looking, the leaves may have fallen by the time the she return for the final grazing of this pasture for the season.
#permies #permaculture #homesteading #grownostr #meshtadel #selfsovereignty #sheep #rotationalgrazing
White widow is probably my favorite of all time! Hope the plant does well even with a broken branch!
Its harvest time so I just cut all the broken branches and hung them up to dry.
White Widow branches broke in with the rain
White widow crosses have been some of my favorite cannabis strains of all time. Thanks to the local bitcoin meetup, I was able to get my hands on a white widow seed. It grew vigorously and the buds got so heavy that some branches broke when saturated with the rain water. Interestingly, the rabbits only ate the fan leaves, effectively trimming the colas for me. This plant is looking to provide a massive yield of high quality bud. Even though I had to harvest a lot of it earlier that I wanted to, I'm still super excited to try it out and I look forward to what the pineapple pomegranate cross seeds bring.
#permies #permaculture #homesteading #grownostr #meshtadel #selfsovereignty #weedstr #cannabis
It's amazing to me how high quality food can be when you participate in getting it from as close to the source as possible. This meal is impossible for most to make but for us it's just eating what we have access to.
Koho salmon from lake Michigan with sheep milk golden oyster mushroom cream sauce
My brother caught the salmon and we grew the mushrooms and milk. Delectable dinner! Homestead grown with the fish coming from 15 miles away on the lake.
#permaculture #permies #homesteading #grownostr #meshtadel #selfsovereignty #foodstr
Bitcoin Meetup in Colon, MI Saturday October, 21 at 1pm!
Yet another meetup launching in Michigan, which is continuing to form a decentralized web of interconnected bitcoiners all working to improve the value and utility of their Bitcoin by connecting P2P. If you're in Michigan or nearby in Ohio, Indiana, or Illinois; join us! Michigan is shaping up to be a lens to what the future beholds on a Bitcoin standard.
Wild apples are ripe at the Homestead
While these wild apples have a heavy russet skin, they have nice crisp white flesh with a sweet/tart juicy bite, good apple flavor. They are small and most of them drop before they are ripe but I always get to enjoy a few handfuls every year. I think if this tree were growing in a more ideal location, it would hold it's fruit better and the apples might end up larger. I've grafted a dozen or so copies of this tree so I'll get to find out how good the apples can really be in a few years.
#permies #permaculture #homesteading #grownostr #meshtadel #selfsovereignty #foraging #wildforaged #appletree #apple #wildapple
I really don't enjoy having to play those games but this is how we can get closer to the money printer.
It still blows my mind that I can talk to someone in Thailand about Bitcoin and the signal still rings true anywhere in the world. Unify all bitcoiners!!
I wonder if they are American? Might be a treasure trove.
You can make soap with horse chestnut and buckeye.
https://gippslandunwrapped.com/2020/06/03/horse-chestnut-and-buckeye-laundry-soap/
The American chestnut is effectively extinct due to a blight. Finding a blight resistant tree is rare. It's a miracle we have one here.
They can handle as cold as zone 4. I would definitely sell nuts or even seedling trees if I have any success sprouting them. I'll keep you posted as I go gathering.
Chestnut season is here!
The American chestnut tree here on the homestead has plenty of husks but who knows how many nuts I'll be able to find. Last season I only found one and it didn't sprout. A couple years ago I found a few handfuls but they all dried out before I could plant them.
Thankfully, a squirrel has successfully planted an American chestnut for me. I found this tree in the spring with just a couple leaves and have been taking care of it. I'm impressed with it's growth and vigor. A blessing after my struggles trying to grow the nuts I've collected.
The other chestnuts have recovered from an accidental sheep grazing. You can see that this tree is now looking very similar to the tree below which made it through the whole summer without any abuse.
I've been able to meet several of the people in my neighborhood whose properties I've found chestnut trees during bike rides. Some know what they've got and some had no idea. All have agreed to let me collect a few handfuls of nuts to try once again to sprout some seedlings. I'm determined to get as many chestnuts growing as possible!
#permies #permaculture #homesteading #grownostr #meshtadel #selfsovereignty #foraging #chestnut #americanchestnut #socialcapital
Exactly forests grow through a process of succession so there are phases with different plants that create the proper environment for the next phase of plants and development to take place. It all depends on the specifics of the situation of course.
I spent 2 years building soil before I planted the first tree. The soil I was starting with was compacted over farmed soy and corn field.