Goodnight friends

connected alby to this account. if you feel willijg to help please zap me so i can verify all works. thanks! #grownostr

There ya go bud, mission successful!

If you got Strike , it's so easy and it works for zaps real well. Got a referral link if you're interested so we can both purchase $100 worth of sats fee free.

Says you don't have a lightning address set up

These trees could tell a few stories

#olives #spain #permaculture #growstr

Last year I counted 40 "new" trees on the property that had nothing to do with me. Olive, almond carrasca, pine.. I'm looking at what I spent on purchased starts like cherry, it really is a dismal hit rate and learnt in first season not to buy anything from nurseries.

I'd consider year old starts, but my overriding observation is to start from seed, the most practical, least costly. Just need patience, but it looks like from seed, a sapling will soon enough overtake a 3-5 year old nursery bought sapling and be very robust.. What's your experience on that front?

I've got a couple of Queensland bottle trees to take from seed, same requirement as olive, and in third year its looking positive,, but I can't get a pear that cost me €15 to produce for love nor money growing in a groasis box, another option that promised much but same issue, if it isnt started in the right spot a new tree aint working even if water is not an issue.

Keep going, I guess.

I hadn't heard of it, but reading through the instructions a sense of calm descended upon me! What mix of land/crops/animals do you have to juggle?

The rain is absolutely torrential. Thunder cracking directly overhead, hold on to your hats. It is most welcome.

Most of the picture-perfect olive groves that Spain is known for, receive EU grants (€350/ hectare to plough) After this storm passes, they will be inaccessible, flooded, and the top soil a bit more eroded.

Man, not the sun, is the principal driver of localised changes to ecosystems. When the rain hits my land it is stored. When thevsun hits my land, the ground cover absorbs and slowly releases heat. The bare soil next door hits 60c in summer. The hydrological cycle is disrupted.

It is very difficult to do the maths to prove to the genersl population what that means for the climate. But it is easy to see what it means for our ecosystems.

Millions of bad decisions since we discovered agriculture, accelerating over the last hundred years, exponential the last 40-50 years, result in the current big ag complex. Join up the millions of plots of land being farmed in an unnaturall way, multiply out the local broken hydrological cycles, you dont need a person on social media to join the dots for you.

And you really should question why there are still significant voices playing down our direct role in ecosystem collapse. You just don't hear the naked truth that we have been shitting on our own doorstep for too long and the consequences are playing out before our eyes.

"They" can't tell you what to think, but they sure can tell you what to think about.

They talk about climate change, global warming and similar terms - such a trigger, and such a vast concept to get our head round. We either get super freaked out/ depressed, or mostly switch off, overwhelmed. That strategy is playing right into our chimp brain. It's clever.

The day a govt and corp talk and act in terms of dealing with global ecosystem collapse, global because they join the dots of local ecosystem collapse, then they have my vote, but it won't happen because they work on an exploitationall economic model. Is there any other sort? No, but there are ways that's more sustainable than others. (The only thing Man literally creates is art. Every other moment, we just exploit what we inherited from creation )

Anyway, until society wakes up and runs itself along eco-friendly lines, and refuses to support big ag production as is, I'm afraid we are on a one way track to famine at one end, and slow degeneration through malnutrition ( obesity being that signal,) at the other.

Why? Because I am not the only one who can no longer rely on the seasons. I might be able to adapt, to "control" my veg garden, snd I can have groundcover and shade trees and chickens to mitigste agsinst weird rain, wind and sun, but I sure have no way to controlv the vast majority of the land around me.

Consumers could force hands quicker than me ranting or govt policy. Like @bitcoin bull said about changing the financial system peacefully, bankrupt the fuckers. Equally speedy change could be off the back of the masses refusing to buy shit food.

They say you cannot afford good food

I say, if it's nutrient rich, you don't need a lot of food. Really, its a lie that big ag and huge scale farming is the only way to secure a huge food supply for better fed, healthier populations. Production from small market gardens is insane. And now I am rambling. Cheers

#km0 #growstr #local #ecological #Spain #olives #circular-economy

Anything over 30 chickens is considered a farm enterprise which, if you know Spain, gives you an idea of how far away I am from having the correct paperwork! I will get there, mañana

Inland,, Barca sn't too far. The sky in your profile looks very Mediterranean

#Olives bush in nature. That's all.

4 years ago I decided to raise pigeons for meat and I was all in. It seemed it was perfect for me since I couldn’t have any other animals due to government restrictions. I had my plan of action, I figured how to expand my growth and educated my self with plenty of outdated books that proved to be a great resource once in history. Set up housing, got my pigeons and I was ready. Yes, I thought I was ready.

I didn’t account for one of my neighbors gifting me 20 laying hens and a free coop big enough to house all of them. Quickly the pigeons faded away. All my attention was taken away by the chickens, heck even the kids where exited about these little dinosaurs that brought them joy while chasing and fighting over a roach that just happened to cross their path. The kids where all in.

It’s amazing how times flies by, I spend the last 4 years raising, incubating, processing chickens. All of this in a plot of land that it’s not zoned for animals. But what I learned is that if you get free chickens, you take them no matter the circumstance and make it work and boy did I make them work.

What I didn’t count on was that at the same times my pigeon flock was thriving just as well. With minimal input is was growing. It is still growing and what I mostly enjoy that they raise their own babies with out any input from me. All I had to do was feed them and provide them clean water.

Sadly I didn’t manage them correctly, and I still have not processed any of the pigeons for meat. I have plenty of free loaders and a line that just does not work.

This year I will make my pigeons a priority and make them a part of my meat productions. I will have to remove about half or more of my birds and start fresh but hey you live and learn.

#growfood #grownostr #homesteading #squabs #pigeons

Happy #Laborday!!!

What a perfect day to process 13 pigeons that were living the good life for the past 4 years. Laziness in my part for sure.

Looking ahead, I’ve kept 4 pairs of larger pigeons and also kept 2 pairs of homers. I will be paying close attention in the following months to see who my top producers are and anything not working will be removed.

But trust me that nothing will go to waste.

#nostr #bitcoin #homesteading #homestead #growfood #purplepill

You need a lightning address for that. Again with getalby.com you can get a lightning address and use your own lightning channel.

Otherwise there are custodial lightning address providers.. Strike, wallet of satoshi, minibits

You mean the LN address field?

Amethyst doesn't have a built in lightning wallet.

Maybe Alby hub is what you are looking for?