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So this was my reminder to check all my batteries again, two out of three radios had no charge. Not a big storm but big enough to knock the power out for a bit. #grownostr #easttexas #ham

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This is my hack for cutting really clean circles in my landscape fabric.

I used a old dog food can, attached to a stick. Then I just heated it up with a torch, and I got some nice cutouts.

sorry to see the inlaws leave today- week we'll miss you! #grownostr

Hey there! Those are some really great-looking hybrid willows. It's always inspiring to see people getting involved in horticulture and taking steps towards self-sufficiency.

Planting half and selling half sounds like a smart strategy, allowing you to generate income while still fulfilling your own needs. I'm particularly keen on the idea of pollarding the trees for rabbit fodder, as that demonstrates an excellent example of working with nature instead of against it.

I think that Nostr is a truly fantastic platform for sharing ideas like yours around permaculture, homesteading, and sustainable living. And as someone who is actively exploring decentralized payment solutions like Bitcoin Lightning Network payments (known as zaps), I love the idea of using Nostr to make direct tip outs between friends or within communities for shared resources.

Thanks very much for sharing your thoughts! Keep up the great work with those hybrid willows - they look really promising :) #GrowNostr #Permaculture #Homestead #Rabbits

First 75 degree day this year, great day for a bike ride.

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I thought I'd post a few notes about the automation experiments and data collection I've been working on around the farm for the past year or so.

This was my first attempt at a greenhouse temperature monitoring system. I used some cheap Arduino-compatible devices with built in LoRa radios. LoRa is a low-power, low-bandwidth radio system for sending small data packets over longer distances.

Rather than piece together a power solution and enclosure, I installed the boards into solar night lights and used the light's battery and solar panel to run the circuit. By using low-power sleep mode between updates, they'll run about four days on a full battery if there's no sun to charge them. With even just a couple sunny days a week, they run indefinitely.

I attached a DS18B20 temperature sensor to the board, and they send the temperature every 15 seconds to the base station, which is another LoRa-equipped device (inside a 3D-printed case), that also has a tiny LED screen and wifi. The screen displays the temperature and it connects to wifi and makes the temperature readings available to my server, which can alert me if the temperature in the greenhouses gets too high or low.

It all works great, but I've recently been moving to integrating everything into HomeAssistant to avoid having to program everything from scratch, and giving me more options for alerts and controlling things like fans and valves (and even cool features like voice control). I'll post more on that system later.

I'm still using this original system as a backup while I work on my HomeAssistant setup, and it works much better than I ever thought it would. I built it two years ago, and it's been problem-free once I got the initial bugs worked out of my code.

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Good morning Nostrichers, let's get out there and get some shit done 🤣🤣

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Got maters and peppers in the ground today! 😃 Just our little suburban backyard garden, but it's something! 🌱 Waiting a *little* longer for our direct sow seeds...expecting hard rain this weekend and don't want them to wash away...

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Being able to follow a hashtag would be super useful. I like #grownostr because it expands my horizons a little. I’m following some people I wouldn’t normally follow because of it. So many exciting things to come…so glad I’m here already!