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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.

Wow. He's always been an apologist for those same folks but not sure that he fully realized it. In any case, good for him.

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As promised: Mulberry #propagation via Semi-Hardwood Cuttings under mist in your #nursery.

Here is the final result: 61 mulberry cuttings from 5 branches collected a couple days ago. Intermittent mist 10 seconds every 10 minutes.

First we start off with our branch. Choose this year's wood. It will still be somewhat green at least in our area. You also want it to be over 6 weeks old should you do this earlier in the summer.

I chose this particular cutting because I loved the leaf shape. I chose some others because of the leaf size and health. Some leaves where I were had a fungus growing on them as well, only choose healthy ones since they will be growing so close in the nursery.

Mulberry is a "2-node" plant. Each leaf node will either be a leaf or roots so we make a cut leaving 2 leaf nodes on each cutting:

Now to clean it up a bit. We need to leave a leaf on the part of the branch that was furthest from the roots. We remove some of the leaf to reduce the moisture loss, and on the side we'll root, we remove the leaf by tearing it off (to create some damage) and also scrape the bark. This will help rooting.

Dip in some rooting hormone. I'm using Dip-n-Grow liquid at Semi-hardwood strength this time of year. I get it off of Amazon: https://amzn.to/3YMXv9n (I'm an affiliate and this was an affiliate link. You can click here to support me and help a pleb buy more rooting hormone! 😉 ) $16 worth of the stuff has lasted me about 1600-2000 cuttings.

Now stick in the sand bed under mist and you're done! They should be rooted in 6-8 weeks.

I also snagged a juniper branch on our walk and stuck 15 of those cuttings as well:

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments!

#grownostr #plantstr #propagation #nursery #garden #permaculture

I'm rooting mulberry as well but am crossing my fingers that misting once/day will do the trick. We're mostly offgrid and I don't know how I'd set up a misting system (I'm sure it's doable!).

And you can start to grow your own! Even on fairly small acreage, you can have Siberian Pea Shrub, a goumi or two, a soldier fly bin, etc. (And/or scraps from local restaurant which uses good ingredients.)

What's the difference between a potato and a candy bar?

About 10 minutes.

(This is obviously an oversimplification. I think there are probably lots of folks who can handle the carbs and oxylates in potatoes just fine, and heaven knows we would be in a dramatically different situation in the US if every candy bar were replaced with a potato.

But for people who are insulin resistant, it's a useful joke!]

Whoa! really?! I'm surprised but that's very cool.

Next step: X million Americans chicken owners are weaning themselves from store-bought chicken feed.

Based on his other content, and the way he slipped "lobbyists" in there, I assume it's satire. Depressing that we can't tell :(

Ha! the problem is that most folks who believe the lobbyist-funded papers would think this is all totally reasonable.

What's that phrase for when reality is so absurd that you can't actually tell if something's a parody?

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Trying out Primal for the first time, thanks to the annoying insistence of nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx ... Looking forward to posting on #NOSTR more regularly (and weening off of X) via a solid desktop app! 🍻

We may well look back and realize that nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx's annoying insistence turned out to be one of the most powerful forces of this era.

Welcome to Nostr!