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I've heard of huckleberries but never had any. Now that I see they grow in the Pacific Northwest, it madness sense. I'm too far South/East.

We have wild black currants, some native blueberries, elderberry and black raspberries, but no huckleberries or saskatoons.

The picture were juniper berries

No, but thank you for teaching me about a North American fruit that I'd never heard of before. Looks like they're only native further North and West of me, otherwise I'd consider lobbying to plant some in our yard somewhere.

Got a recipe you like?

Got a recipe that you like?

Not really sure yet. These are from an "Eastern Red Cedar" (which isn't a cedar, it's a juniper) whereas the "Common Juniper" is the one that typically goes into gin.

Beyond that, there's also the facts that

1. I don't know what else goes into gin and

2. I don't actually like gin

If someone here has a recipe they like, I might try making an extremely small recipe (like, 8 fl oz) for adventerous friends who are willing to try experimental gin.

You got it! Came off oyr trees in the back yard and the raised garden beds were just COVERED in them at the end of the bed by our junipers.

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Nope, these came right out if our yard, no processing involved. But if I had a freeze drier, I'd totally freeze dry some blueberries

How many should go into the vinegar for cleaning? Is it like a tablespoon of berries per pint of vinegar, or are we talking a "fill the pint jar with berries and then fill in the gaps with vinegar" type of situation?

Nope. I have some wild blueberries out front and if we can defend them from the animals, we might get some small blueberries this year, but what's in the picture rates VERY different than blueberries. 😁

I haven't quite fighter that part out yet. We just saw them in ouf garden bed and so I decided to scoop them up and see what we can do with them.

Any suggestions?

We have a winner! Homegrown juniper berries

Good guess, but not this bowl.

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#homestead #homesteading #permiculture #gardening

Trump: I couldn't manage to build a wall, but I'm going to make America great again this time around, I swear!

China: we built a wall you can see from space over thousand of years ago. You might want to level up your game. Just sayin'

Built a row cover frame and a trellis. Both should last 10+ years with little to no maintenance. Feels good. Really good

https://50forfoss.org/ has inspired me. I'm a day late, but I'm here and trying to make up for my lack or previous donations.

First up: Debian. Turns out they are the ultimate form of #OpenSource. They want you to contribute effort, not money.

https://www.debian.org/devel/join/

Next up: Qubes. They get 14% more money when donations come in via bitcoin. No need to make Visa/Mastercard/PayPal rich! Glad to donate using decentralized money that is pushing green energy forward.

https://www.qubes-os.org/donate/

Libreoffice accepts PayPal and credit cards. https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/

I'm happy to report that they accept donations over Tor!

Thunderbird takes the same plus Google and Apple pay, and maybe a bank transfer? Couldn't donate over a mobile browser, but it worked from my desktop (and yes, over Tor)

https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/donate/

Situation is similar with KiCAD and FreeCAD: looks like the best option is to use a credit card using Stripe.

https://wiki.freecad.org/Donate

https://www.kicad.org/donate/

It worked okay for KiCAD but said the card was declined for FreeCAD. I guess I don't have permission from Stripe or Visa or my financial institution to donate "my" money to FreeCAD. 🤷‍♂️

I guess I'll try again next month.

Anyway, that's the report for this month.

If you don't publish the design files (KiCAD, FreeCAD, etc.) for your hardware, then it's not open source. #OSHWA makes that clear, which is why I respect their certification.

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