You could also make a tea and soak the foot in the tea! Hope it feels better soon.
The first big tomato harvest of the year. About 15 lbs on the way to become salsa.
If you’re gardening in a hot climate, I cannot recommend this cucumber enough. Silver Slicer can be picked young for pickling or allowed to grow large as a salad slicer. White skin, prolific and doesn’t get even a tad tough or bitter with our 90+ daily highs in SC.
4 plants will give me enough to can a years worth of pickles and relish. 👏👏
Lovely views and sumptuous feasts, the garden gives generously, again and again. #grownostr
Lovely views and sumptuous feasts, the garden gives generously, again and again. #grownostr
The rogue flowerbed volunteer pumpkin is going wild and it’s my favorite plant on the whole farm.
They’re pretty much finished in SC but it was a loud few weeks
What are the guidelines of posting video in Nostr? What works best?
Im working on some short format stuff and I’d love to share.
A storm is blowing in to soak the blooming garden and water in all the things planted today. It’s funny how impatiently I await spring but somehow I always find myself taken aback by it. Either way, it’s fully here now. Next stop, canning season.
Enjoying things like pickled beets makes me feel like a real adult.
Finding them beautiful makes me feel like a real artist.
Growing it myself makes me feel like a real gardener.
The aurora borealis shone brilliantly over South Carolina last night. Though I was wondering how northern lights could have gotten so terribly misplaced, I did enjoy that they came south for a visit.
(This photo was taken by a friend a few miles from my home. My view was hindered by our pines.)
Lavender strawberry jam. 😘
This morning: a goat milking story. #raisefood #feedyourself #grownostr
This time of year, the garden holds many demands but at least it also holds snacks. #grownostr
Spring is in full swing on our South Carolina homestead.
Goats and cows in milk
Eggs are coming in strong
Three ewe lambs born this week
So. Many. Strawberries.
Chamomile harvesting
Artichokes setting
The last of the beets and rutabagas pulled
Onions are bulbing.
Hog processed, filling the freezer after winter.
Seeds are popping up, plants transplanted.
What food are you growing? What is your favorite season of harvest?
Sometimes I’m overwhelmed by the corruption and control I see in the world we live in. It’s overwhelming to be aware of but I’d rather have awareness than the blissful ignorance I observe so many enjoying.
I’d rather know and prepare, to build alternate sources of sustenance, to build something that isn’t so easily destroyed.
It gets a little hopeless when I observe through the phone in my hand.
But when I go outside and feel the spring clover tickling my feet, hear the cicadas loudly droning, smell the roses, welcome the newest life, I realize there’s a great steadiness. And then I keep building, planting and growing, and I think that it can make all the difference.
One of the things I love most about the garden is though she may fiercely humble you in one moment, she gives you a mind blowing win the next. #gardeners #grownostr
GM, Nostr! #coffee #coffeechain
