We use one or two strands of electric wire (solar powered) for the cows.

I actually love sheep milk cheeses, so I could be persuaded! Also our land is extremely hilly. I do'nt know the angle, but our pasture is quite steep. The cows are navigating it pretty well, but it's probably somewhat more suited to sheep.

In any case, right now we have a heifer and are borrowing a bull to get things started for her, so we're committed to cows for the time being.

The goats: it's only 3 (well, four because we had a little one born this week 💕) so they each get their own stake and tether. It seems like a lot of work to me but it's in my husband's daily rhythm and he enjoys it.

Thanks, Auggie! this is very helpful.

We have a few goats and 2 cows, and we're starting to think about the next steps. Adding sheep to graze with the cows probably makes the most sense, and if it weren't for the anticipation of milk from the cow (she's not pregnant yet) we might consider only sheep.

Pugging from cows is indeed an issue for us, and those few days that they're cranky and get out of the fencing, their size makes things much more challenging.

For our goats - they're amazing at clearing brush and we have given up on fencing them. Each gets its own stake and tether, and that works pretty well. We haven't butchered on yet but I'm assuming that wethers probably have less of the gamey taste that people associate with goat.

The theory is that when you go carnivore (or any other way of eating that's pretty much zero oxalate), your body starts dumping oxalic acid. Can range from uncomfortable (I had some weird kidney aches) to serious (kidney stones, eye issues, rashes). One way to mitigate is to keep a small amount of oxalate in your diet, presumably so that your body works out the old stuff but not all at once? Black tea has 40mg or so of oxalates.

I have very mixed feelings about Milei and no desire to put faith in any politician, but whatever's happening now in Argentina (or anywhere, for that matter) is decades in the making. If the peso were stable and the people thriving, there would have been no appetite for Milei or his promises, and there would be no reason for draconian measures now.

Yay! is there a way to find out how much disk space it uses?

I had no idea there were so many in TN and GA.

GM, Nostr friends! ☀️

Notes one month into my carnivore experiment, for anyone who’s curious. Synopsis: so far so good, and I’m excited about pursuing this way of eating for both health and sovereignty.

January notes -

First few weeks weren’t great - likely some keto flu and possibly some oxalate issues. By week three I was feeling a shift, and now I’m waking up energetic and am in a noticeably better mood pretty much all the time. It’s like my brain is just happier.

What I’m eating

Beef, eggs, some cheese, occasional lamb chops and a ton of butter. To mitigate the oxalate issues I’m having a cup of tea every morning. Will taper that soon and see how it goes.

My motivations

- I’ve always been interested in fasting as a health and spiritual practice, but whenever I do it more than a day or two I have a miserable time going back to eating. My hunger cues just get really screwed up and stay that way for a long time. However, from the stories I hear from longtime carnivores, it seems like going a few days without food is just not that much of a physiological shock when we're truly well-nourished.

- we’re in a position on the homestead where we might actually be able to raise all of our own meat very soon. It’s generally the first area of food production in which people are self-sufficient. I have a friend whose family started with cows immediately when they got their land 3 years ago and she has two freezers full of their own Jersey steers.

- even without our own meat, getting a 1/4 or 1/2 cow from a nearby regenerative farm is a very cost-effective way to get excellent nutrition, support small-scale local ranchers who are doing it right, and to get about as close as I can imagine to removing ourselves from the screwed up fiat food system;

- we love fruit and nut trees and will continue planting them, but in general skipping the vegetable garden sounds great to me. Growing lots of veggies can be a ton of work! This year I’ll use sweet potato plants and squash as ground cover in some bare areas (also they're great chicken food) and we might have some tomato plants (my husband loves them) but otherwise I’m not doing a garden.

- some of the anecdotes from long-time carnivores are very inspiring: excellent strength gains and body composition; good energy; overall excellent health.

Next steps:

I’ve committed to the next two months for sure, after which I’ll evaluate. I’ll probably drop pasteurized, store-bought cheese at some point (it’s not a problem as far as I can tell but it would be one of the first things to change if I want to experiment). We’re working on our infrastucture so that we can store more meat at once.

#carnivore #homestead #resilience #sovereignty #health #fasting

Welcome, Az! It's a great place.

We had a lovely afternoon meeting our new baby goat

IMF never lets a crisis go to waste

I'm sorry, ck ☹️. This must be hard to watch. I hope that we'll see new paths for bitcoin adoption and innovation in general.

It's tempting to use some recent govt techniques, e.g. comply fully but don't actually give any info.

Submit all paperwork and redact most of the information. Then the agency has to argue that they have the right to the details, which is probably much more difficult.

Or pull the old "yes, of course you can have it! but it's sensitive data, so we'll release it in 75 years."

Another is something used by some folks selling (unpasturized) milk: they offer beautiful glass bottles that happen to have milk in them. The sale is bottles, not milk. So miners classified as heaters; or large-scale miners as waste-energy managers or grid-stabilizers.

Thanks to nostr:npub17nvfw7g53nxjghyd2zg552z06cke0jc0k69hj7ns7f9pw26j9kusap4u85 for getting a bunch of us to commit to daily 60 minutes of exercise! #31days

I dropped the ball on posting daily but met the daily commitment for all but 2 days and it gave me exactly what I was hoping (get me back to excited about strength and mobility).

🙏

I think about this a lot.

It used to be that media - or really anything outside of our immediate physical reality - was filtered and manipulated, but now I wonder whether any of the videos we see (WEF, politicians, protests) are actually happening. How would we know? (And how far back should I apply this question?)

I hope you're right! I don't see it yet. A lot of my professional contact is with classical musicians and my students - GenZ - and they are all in very deep (though the ones who are not are increasingly exasperated).

Whenever I'm happy to see one power hungry, morally bankrupt idiot leave his position, I have to remember that his replacement is bound to be even worse.

Thank you! Will look it up.

Local taxes definitely make more sense than federal ones, but property tax is coerced rather than voluntary, and if the govt can put a lien on your place if you don't pay the tax, it essentially means that you never full own property.

There are legal activists who challenge property taxes, but it takes a fair amount of study. Alphonse Faggiolo is one of them. I think some of his stuff might even be on YouTube.

I've never quite understood this argument. Civilians don't need a particular capability ... but government does?

Because it's something so horrifying that only the state should be allowed to use it?

oh!! congratulations