It's been quite the journey from breeding nuts for their seed oils (yes, I thought this was a genius plan 3 years ago 🤦‍♂️) to stacking eNuts on my phone 🥜

No such thing as a free lunch but there are some beneficial hacks to try. I dont always ferment but i do soak grain. It expands and so the birds gorge themselves less. Free range s much as possible will benefit more than anything but then you deal with predationand typical damage that chickens do. eg. Getting into gardens and scratching...

Am I allowed to be stupid excited my trees from rareplantstore.com have arrived? 💃

Ferment your feed. But also, lots of scraps. You'd be amazed how little they can't have.

Jarusalem artichokes, the grow with no tending and my chickens love them. I do have to crush them for the chickens.

Winter squash, they store well.

They have 'trash' leaves for bedding that city folk were kind enough to bag up for me. They are mostly fed restaurant trash and sprouted sunflower seeds. They don't really touch the feeder of grains. Trash into compost and eggs! I will not eat ze bugs.

When sunflower seeds were on sale for $9 for a 40# bag, I bought 10 of them. Sprouted 3 quarts at a time every other day.

one of the most life promoting foods imo. $9 per 40lbs? Unheard of in my area. More like $38 for 50lbs (canada)

Sup nostriches

Very busy work week it seems. I’ve missed hanging out here the past few days.

It’s cloudy outside, so instead here’s a photo of the sky I took recently that I’m pretty proud of 🤙

#grownostr

#nature

#photography

#artstr

I got 7 #ButtNuggets today from 8 hens that started laying this winter. A new record. 🐔🐓

#chickens #grownostr

Morels are popping up in my neck of the woods. If you’re in the southeast US, now may be a great time to go look around your hardwood forests. They grow in association with various trees including elm, ash, poplar, cherry, privet, and many more. They’re delicious and they’re also very challenging to see on the forest floor, which makes hunting them fun. If you don’t find any, there are still many cool and beautiful things to appreciate in the early spring woods..

#mushrooms #forage #nature

1, 2: morels

3: mayapple with bud

4: trillium

5: violet

6: buckeye

7: wild geranium??

#meme #memestr #nostrmemes #memes 835,514 🤙💜

An easy way to explain the failure of government.

For decades the government tried stop "drinking and driving". This included billions of tax payer funded stupid ads no one listened to. Along with destroying the lives of many who were NOT IMPAIRED at all at their time of arrest. Arrests were based on a subjective number not actual impairment. A number that varied state to state like how long a blade a knife you could carry there could be.

And after all this drinking and driving along with accidents caused by drunk drivers were never really reduced. Any reduction happened in the 80s when the laws were first put in place from that point on, it was pretty much the same for 30+ years.

Then in 2009 Uber was founded soon followed by Lyft. It was so effective that some police departments (mostly unions) said it was causing a lack of "revenue" because they wrote so few DWI tickets. Governments from federal to local fought it all the way. The average DWI will cost a person 10-20K minimum even if found not guilty. Most of this is grift that goes to the state one way or another.

California's government attempted to put all ride share drivers out of business with laws against independent contractors. This led drivers to form corporations and LLCs just to stay in business.

Las Vegas literally pulled some of the first Uber drivers over at gun point and were pushed to do so by the cab lobby and the mafia that runs the Vegas cab business. The city of Austin tried to outlaw Uber/Lyft as well, again spurred on by Austin PD and police unions.

These are just a few examples.

Despite all this ride services survived and thrived and have done more to reduce DWIs and accidents caused due to them than 4 decades of state endorsed violence and warfare on our own citizens. They did more than billions of dollars in PR campaigns paid for with stolen money.

The solution is Always in the free market. The impediment to these solutions is ALWAYS government. People were never unwilling to take a cap home from the bar. It was the cost, the difficulty of getting one in many places, how long you had to wait, etc.

Why was getting a cap a problem? Government and their regulation of the Taxi industry in a protectionist racket.

#grownostr

Do we like memes here?

Don't know who needs to hear this, but...

#cybersecgirl

It’s important to remember when we think about this, that it doesn’t mean that nothing we do matters. To the contrary, who you teach your kids to be, and thus who your dependents are, will have thousands of times the impact you had and possibly for a near eternity moving forward. They won’t remember you, but the values and understanding you gave the next generation will remain and lead to a positive feedback loop that is quite possibly, limitless.

So accept that you will be forgotten. It is a necessary part of the continuation and flourishing of life. And honestly who gives a shit if someone 100 years from now is still spreading rumors about us? They don’t and can’t ever know who we were anyway. But our descendants will still be here. They will still be told stories and lessons that you taught your kids. Whether they have any idea of it or not.

Your kids are the means by which you will live forever. They carry just enough that matters, and leave all the arbitrary specifics behind.

• Don’t live the life someone else wants you to live, live the one you want.

• What we do matters, leave behind a value and love of life and the meaning of your existence may never have a conclusion. You have no idea how great the butterfly effect of your actions and what you teach your kids could really be. nostr:note146yqp5trlae5wtaqy8zu73hku02xatue49ejrns05tlxm8f8jc6qlclhz4