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FiddleHodlHomestead
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Violinist and teacher, building a homestead on raw land in between lessons and concerts. Fascinated by how we can develop resilience in our lives, in our families, in our communities. I'm excited about freedom tech and circular economies, and am deeply grateful for the devs and advocates who are helping build tools for a better future.

Looks amazing! We're leaning heavily on mulberries for berries (chickens, ducks) and fodder for the ruminants.

whoa!! really?

Ours are too young to be fruiting yet but in any case they're barely budding. Zone 7

Looking forward to someday posting that they're full of fruit!

So great to see this! You're headed into fall, right? Will be nice to have a cozy spot soon.

I guess what I was thinking is that it might be wonderful to have a protocol-based client that's essentially a collective Obsidian.

But, yes, in any case I agree it would be great to be able to publish directly from our own Obsidian files directly to Nostr.

I love seeing your updates! I'm running around a ton these days - so much to do on the homestead in the spring - but your posts remind me that I want to make strength and mobility work more regular in my routine.

In the meantime I'm cheering you on 🤩

congratulations! They look lovely. Jerseys?

We got a heifer last year, and the dairy that sold her to us (our raw milk dairy) lent us a young bull. The agreement was that we would raise him until he was old enough to get her pregnant. He's just finally figuring out what to do when she's in heat! For a while he bolted right out of the paddock every month 😂

I imagine it depends on so many different factors.

I tried longer fasts (for health rather than weight loss), and I loved how I felt during the fasts themselves but then afterwards my hunger signals were often messed up for over a week. I'll try again once I'm more settled with carnivore.

Do you use intermittent fasting? I don't hear the same dramatic health results but I think they probably accumulate, and a lot of people use it for weight loss.

It might be a relay issue. If you happen to have your own server, you can actually run your own relay (which is really cool! makes you sovereign as far as your nostr data is concerned). But otherwise you can add to your relay list. I know that some are paid, which is probably a good way to go, but I haven't dug into this much yet myself.

Not sure if this is your first time planting sweet potatoes but in case your soil and temps are anything like ours (heavy clay, zone 7): they LOVE the clay, and we can't plant them until May because they dislike the cold (not just freezing temps - I think they actually don't like anything below 50 or so).

Sweet potatoes are awesome for covering bare soil here. So good that last year I thought I'd use them for ground cover as I got a few perennial flowers started, and the poor flowers never had a chance - it was sweet potato greens everywhere, almost immediately. They grow fast and vigorously. I believe they're edible if you're into greens, and in any case both goats and rabbits love them.

Your slips look wonderfu!

SO COOL

And can you imagine if we could all share an Obsidian-like file? A file on biochar could have a ton of notes that we all add to with different uses, growing tips in different zones, propagation, different varieties, etc.

Like Pablo's Wikifreedia but as an Obsidian-like mindmap. That would be amazing - a way to gather our collective experiences and knowledge. I'm sure the editing/adding protocol would be tricky - maybe the notes that got the most upvotes would be most visible or something? (or have some small fee involved? so that the FDA/USDA/WHO or whatever couldn't troll all the topics with bs 😬)