San Joaquin Victory Gardens

food webs, evolution, classic liberal, hard money. science educator

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2024-07-19 05:09:16

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The picture about shows many hundreds of bulblets of the walking onion/tree onion harvested from the #homestead #garden this year. Every year I have this problem of abundance, lol, and my wife shakes her head when I try to plant more of these onions for the next gardening season.
My solution this year is to give out many bulblets to my biology/environmental science students and make this year's teaching theme more about the intricacies of food security. Though the onion tops are now dead from lack of water, the bulbs stay alive in the ground until the next season....because onions.
I love this plant. They grow fast, and are largely pest free (...damn gophers). They can substitute 1:1 for any other onion, but their taste is a bit spicy. The best way that I have found to eat a mass of these onions is by grilling them or laying them in a oven pan to bake with olive oil and salt.
The picture below shows the difference in size between the 2nd and 3rd bulblet set that a plant can throw off. Even though the bulblets are small, they quickly grow into full size plants.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_onion

2024-07-19 04:57:47

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Every time I successfully make a barm I feel like Young Frankenstein (Gene Wilder/Mel Brooks) shouting "I have created life!!"
One room of my house is saturated with the smell of wild yeasts breaking their dormancies. Much bucket stirring has happened, and it is interesting to watch the change in the consistency of the bubbles. Now the stirring bubbles get thicker and more frothy, and when resting, there is a bubble film at the top of the liquid surface from the yeasts down below. Tomorrow I will give the barm (the fluid of honey+yeasts) a final stirring and then put it in the 5 gal glass carboy. It will rest in the carboy for half a year before bottling.
I'll likely have a little bit of barm leftover and so I can use that to start new batches. Time to experiment. Once the barm gets started, its easiest to turn out 3-4 different batches. In order to indulge my experimenting nature I've taken to making 1 gallon batches of mead most often. Last year I had good success with blueberry vanilla mead, I think I'll do another one of those.https://m.primal.net/JVyU.jpg https://m.primal.net/JVyV.jpg

2024-07-15 22:32:58

When I harvested this honey in spring I knew that I had to make a batch of #mead with it. I wanted to keep the flavors of this honey at the top of the mead, so it is a basic show mead recipe (water and honey) with small variations of open air fermentation (wild, random yeast) and some black tea to add nice tannins to the finish.
The basic ratio is 1 quart of #honey + 1 gallon of water. I always ferment completely, so I avoid broken, sticky glassware in my storage area. I end up with alcohol content in the range of strong wine.
I'm still stirring a lot to wake up the yeasts. I'll later post a follow up picture when the primary fermentation foam head on this bucket is thick and fluffy.
I think that many people are unaware of how easy it is to make mead. The hard part is waiting at least a year (preferably three years) for the sugars to properly oxidize and the real flavor come out.
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#homesteading
#homebrew
#brewstr
#bees

2024-07-14 05:45:46

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congrats, put a backing on it and hang it/give it away

2024-07-13 06:43:38

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do it. I am one week down that path and loving it

2024-07-13 06:38:39

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Hello!

2024-07-13 06:20:15

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for the record, I will go back to using primal. at this stage of the journey I need some ease of on boarding.
oops.
I'll just keep posting here and then that problem should take care of itself

2024-07-11 04:09:16

I realized my misstep in opsec, so I had to create a new nsec. Follow me now at
@nprofile…prtt
I will do my best to reestablish my previous follows. Cheers!

2024-03-27 20:33:52

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RFK is my pick of the 3

2024-03-26 20:19:21

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Badlands NP is amazing. I ditched the main camp during an evening and took a little hike out. and up a gully. a bull saw me and chased me into a thicket of bushes. it trotted at me from a far distance away but didn't stop coming, so I had to get out of the way!
I eventually got back to the camp area. I woke up earlier than most others the next day and a bull and a heifer walked right through camp. literally right next to nylon tents. everything was peaceful that morning but some humans got spooked
really great experience. I loved seeing wild bison

2024-03-26 00:24:55

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it's astounding that only a few plants can produce enough bulblets to replace this entire crop year after year. this really is an amazing plant.
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2024-03-25 02:43:48

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if I did that I wouldn't have anyone else to shift blame onto

2024-03-24 03:56:04

Go outside and continue the conversation that you have with your neighbor. Especially if that conversation is intermittent then good terms with neighbors is preferable because they are part of your #victorygarden . A trade here and a trade there makes all happy.
It's been orange (BTC) season in California and concurrent with lots of citrus harvesting.
A bag of oranges or lemons can be traded with the neighbor who started a flock of Covid chickens. Another bag goes to another neighbor because they'll eat it and be happy. We all win because, honestly, sometimes there are too many lemons and oranges. Circle that economy, yo.
Build relationships to create your own luck beyond serendipity. Harvest the tree before it begins the next fruiting cycle. Be timely.
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#permaculture
#permies
#homestead
#realfood
#strongtowns

2024-03-23 04:59:49

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my walking onions are starting their next season well. I've got them concentrated in beds now, but next year I am going to sprinkle them through the garden more dispersed for overall IPM. right now the thickest ones are thumb thick
I'm Workin on a decent oven roasted onion recipe because I sure have a lot.
these onions taste well with purple tree collards and bell pepper sautes. glad to see you growing them too

2024-03-22 00:11:24

real food is still affordable and cheap. true that prices are going up in fiat terms. but real, unprocessed food is still within everyone's grasp. learning to cook is your superpower.
shout-out to my local grocery outlet store.
$119 for all this
as always, is about knowing where to look and a medium to long time preference
#groceries
#realfood
#foodstr
#foodsovereignty
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2024-03-22 00:04:05

real food is still affordable and cheap. true that prices are going up in fiat terms. but real, unprocessed food is still within everyone's grasp. learning to cook is your superpower.
shout-out to my local grocery outlet store.
$119 for all this
as always, is about knowing where to look and a medium to long time preference
https://m.primal.net/HnHe.jpg
https://m.primal.net/HnHf.jpg

2024-03-20 16:29:20

I am using the primal app but cannot follow anyone back using the simple follow button. anyone have suggestions? I've tried reinstalling the primal app and rebooting my Android. do I need to nip5 in order to follow others? my relays have been set to system defaults
I can't use nostr if I can't follow people. any suggestions #asknostr ?

2024-03-19 21:08:38

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thank you!

2024-03-19 15:00:08

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yes that's a top bar hive. I make them all myself. I've run up to 30 colonies in the past

2024-03-19 05:58:54

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nvm about this. understanding now that they're is no deletion on Nostr? still having priorities successfully following people on Nostr. using primal app. #asknostr

2024-03-19 05:56:56

figuring out nostr hashtags I think
should be useful for #homesteading #permaculture #bees #garden #california
#note1n7g…gnkf

2024-03-19 05:49:48

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I also have this problem using primal app

2024-03-19 05:37:46

https://youtu.be/7YJj1gU7Wgs?si=nAh9d8QRqNlc9A4z
this is my first post on Nostr of my own making. just a pleb joining the #plebchain . I'm looking for follows, so please say hi.
a lot had come with my journey in the biosphere since that video was made in 2016.
if you think I should post more content about bees, permaculture gardening attempts, or science, let me know!

2024-03-19 05:15:13

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I think I got the original wallet loaded. i had to read up on the choices among ln wallets. are you still sending SATs?

2024-03-19 04:51:49

#asknoster
I'm seeking a tutorial on what to do when connecting a mutiny wallet. I think I did it, what happens next?

2024-03-15 04:03:26

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I appreciate you. skip me for now. I don't have lightning yet.

2024-03-15 04:00:36

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I'm learning how to nostr in the last ten minutes