#polycrisis #metacrisis #gardening #selfsuffiency #funny #gallowshumor

@khusky and I have been collecting olives today. We collect by hand rather than hit the branches with sticks or use machinery. It takes much longer and is not as efficient but in a funny sort of way is quite meditative and rewarding. 60kg collected so far and maybe another 150kg+ to go.

#selfsuffiency #olives #Spain

Every time I try to grow carrots I just end up with these pathetic stunted things. Any ideas why they just don't grow for me? Have tried in raised beds and most recently in potato bags using a light sandy compost mix but same results every time.
#gardening #growyourown #carrots #selfsuffiency #homesteading #horticulture

All ready for tomorrow's bottling session.
#selfsuffiency #gardening #tomatoes

Today's pick from the garden. Think some hot and spicy sriracha sauce might be coming up

#growyourown #garden #selfsuffiency

Bit of advice needed please good folk of Mastodon

First time home growing potatoes, these are Maris Peers I just harvested. About 90% of them have these scabs on them. They feel firm so I think they are surface blemishes. But can they be eaten with some selective peeling or is the crop a total loss?
Any tips on preventing this from happening?

#gardening #vegetables #potatoes #homegrown #homegrowing #homesteading #selfsuffiency

It has rained 36mm in 2 days. We have collected 7200L, be 120 days of self-sufficiency, be 4 months. Nature is nice.

Yes, the house consumes ≈60L/day/4persons, be 15L/day/person, which is not a lot!

Want to learn more about our self-sufficient house? https://lamaisonvivante.blog/

#SelfSuffiency #house #ecology #water

Friday is watering day for us here in the campo. Great to see the olive and lemon trees being nourished in the morning sun. Our young avocados and apples need it every couple of days. Rewarding.

#selfsuffiency #growyourown #spain #andalucia

Our trusty sun/solar oven at work early this morning. A dhal curry is gently going to cook for hours during the day.

We bought this oven some 15+ years ago and its given excellent service. Anybody with some DIY skills could make this (I have none!). Its relatively simple, a black box with a parabolic aluminium shield. A very efficient, free energy resource.

#selfsuffiency #freeenergy #sun #solar #cooking

Been a busy couple of days working on the land. My neighbour, Antonio, has been helping us install a piped irrigation system. Will save us much manual effort this spring and summer as well as being much more efficient at distributing the available water.

#farming #selfsuffiency #gyo #growyourown #spain #olives

The darling buds of Spring! Don't think I've ever seen our mandarin, orange and lemon trees with so many early season buds. The mulberry tree looking good too. Just been out sorting out our watering systems

#gyo #growyourown #selfsuffiency #lemons #oranges #citrus #Spain

My granddaughter started kindergarten this fall. The first week they had an info session and drill on what to do if a *bear* gets into the school. How to hide, how to be quiet, how to look after each other, how to stay safe. Obviously this was coded for a shooter so that 4 and 5 year olds could understand it and not be terrified by an unknown danger. I am in Canada. You can't even imagine how much this pisses me off.
In rural Canada, most households have guns for hunting and livestock protection, at least almost everyone that I know. We have gun ranges and gun clubs, gun camps and classes. When my youngest was 14, she attended a week long firearms camp for teens 13 to 19. I was there the whole time because I helped a filmmaker film the whole week. I participated in shooting skeet, black powder, 300's, and 22's. We also learned basics of archery, survival shelter and fire building. Each day consisted of classroom in the morning, field work in the afternoon. The kids really learned a ton of safety and survival skills from a variety of older people with hunting, farming, and survival skills. One instructor was an author and pilot that had survived a small plane crash in the wilderness in winter for weeks and his skills in doing so. The kids that passed the written test and demonstrated they understood safety and function with firearms got their acquisition and possession license. The division was aprox. 50/50 girls to boys. This is an important and significant point.
The marked difference between our 2 countries with regard to firearms is the culture. The kids were never ever taught that you need a gun to protect yourself from "a bad guy". There was no swaggering around with pistols. There were no photo-ops posing with guns. There was no toxic masculinity. There was no "othering" of people into good and bad. There was no teaching the kids that "someone is going to come for you so you better be ready". The kids were taught self reliance, hard core skills, and how knowledge is what will keep you safe. They were taught that the guns were another tool in the toolbox to be used properly and respected.
There are many more nuances to this whole topic, it would take novel length posts to cover them. But the discourse I see all over the interwebs right now just never seems to get to this point.

#SelfReliance #SelfSuffiency #Homesteading #Firearms #GunCulture

@afg I’m on my cell, so picture isn’t very large, but what, exactly is wrong with the cut? #selfsuffiency

The Indian summer we're having at the moment in Lancashire is causing our stored water to run low. I may have to move some garden water to the toilet flush tank before the weekend.

To clarify, we are of course on mains water but we like the challenge of reducing waste and making more of free resources. To this end we have a 500L tank of rainwater to flush the downstairs toilet and 10 water buts for the garden.

#UseLess #WasteLess #ClimateChange #selfsuffiency

My 2 jars of homemade salted plums.
A Chinese tea cup is beside them - for scale.

#AsianMastodon #Chinese #Teochew #Fermented #PreservedFood #SaltedPlums #CulturalFoods #AsianFoods #ChineseFoods #POCfoods #FoodPreservation #TraditionalFood #AncientFoodPreservation #homemade #dehydrated #FoodSecurity #Wsanec #Saanich #VictoriaBC #yyj #vanisle #VancouverIsland #PNW #PacificNorthwest #SelfSuffiency #gaginang

Jules Sherred, a disability advocate, food photographer, and recipe developer, has just published Crip Up the Kitchen: Tools,Tips, and Recipes for the Disabled Cook.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6864383

#IndependentLiving #DisabledCommunity #lifeskills #DisabledCook #SelfSuffiency #empowerment #DifferentlyAbled #cookbook

Looking forward to this tonight. A home grown tomato and basil salad with locally sourced garlic and drizzled with a friends olive oil. The simple things in life are the best

#gyo #growyourown #selfsuffiency #allotment

Startled a Pacific Tree Frog while watering a honey locust seedling. I use 3.5 x 5 gallon buckets with holes drilled in the bottoms for most of my seedlings and graftlings because nursery pots are either small or expensive.

I’d like to think this is one of the tadpoles I saved when the pond dried up. But I’ve seen a dozen or so of those little frogs and they’re still brown and half this size. #permaculture. #nature. #selfsuffiency

Weeding carrots must be among the most back breaking jobs, especially when they are still so small and the weeds so fast growing.
And there are some tiny self set kale plants I want to transplant, which need careful removing.
And dill has self set in the bed. And dill is combative for carrots (inhibits growth) and looks like tiny carrot plants. But I want to move them elsewhere, so can't just pull them out.
#gardening #vegetableGardening #growYourOwnFood #SelfSuffiency #weeding
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