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A nice flush of outdoor oyster mushrooms, a good memory from this summer as the w ather gets a lil nasty right now. Love the snow, hate the soggy. Love the warmth, hate the climate change implications.

Looking forward to figuring out basement mushrooms for year round production. Provided the basement isn't constantly filled with at least an inch of water.

KX

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The video shown here is an overview of the Harm Reduction Heroes Train the Trainer Program for practitioners.

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"Buck Moon" blood red supermoon...

Night view from the Cedar Chest (camper/trailer). 05 July 2023. Waxing gibbous at this state?

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ooowee! the garden is coming along!

the millet is strong, the stalks are turning purple. and while the quinoa looks a little sun soaked, they seem to be thriving.

the flower/herb bed seems happy, with calendula leading the bunch. drip lines are working.

Titan's been moving earth early every morning to finish beds for our remaining seedlings and we've been planting in the evening to give the plants time to recover before high sun.

Learning as we go,

Khonsu X

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potatoes and pullet eggs!

straight up diner style farmhouse breakfast right out the backyard.

farm life,

Khonsu X

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The real solution to the environ-mental crisis is the decolonization of the black race. Blacks in the United States number more than 25,000,000 people, comprising a kidnapped and captive nation surpassed in size by only twenty other nations in the entire world. It is necessary for blacks to achieve self-determination acquiring a full black government and a multi-billion dollar budget so that blacks can better solve the more serious environmental crises of blacks. To do so blacks must challenge and confront the very foundations of American society. In so doing we shall correct that majority which appears to believe that the solution lies in decorating the earth's landscape and in shooting at the moon.

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"Black Ecology" by Nathan Hare

(The Black Scholar, April 1970)

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sound is the soft peeping of 10 week old faverolles and Dominique pullets and cockerels. seriously, try it on repeat. so soothing.

There's been some rearranging of the roosts since first placement didn't work out. If the little is roosting (which she is) then the others might follow suit. She seems to drive the formation of piles, cause she has protectors that want to keep her warm.

They're big and happy though!

A well integrated flock,

Khonsu X

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Oyster mushroom harvest!!

I feel like an anime character with my shiny 530am eyeballs.

absolutely delicious and I've got another flush hopefully starting in the basement now.

learning as I go,

Khonsu X

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I'm obsessed with the sky here. we're in the northeast mountains but get clouds, sunrises and sunsets like the open air out west.

respite.

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Okra opening up all hairy. Is that cilia? will research.

we've got millet and quinoa still hardening off and some white potatoes that we let go off by accident getting their flowers outside.

the poblano starts are strong! we're just waiting til June for them to go into the ground.

not too shabby for a makeshift greenhouse.

Khonsu X

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can you find the doms?

they thought Titan was a chicken.

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The gardens are starting to come together. We have peas climbing their trellises!

Bed making will go faster now that I've figured out the hoe. Titan started lining the lower flower bed with rocks dug out of upper beds.

The drip lines from fedco have been working well, with minimal leaking.

But yay peas!

Khonsu X

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went to put the chickens to bed and some of the doms had other plans.

the doms have always been more perch happy and less skittish about being held.

like to think my grandfather, who raised chickens and hogs got to experience this too. never knew him. feel his presence.

fucking incredible.

Khonsu X

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after my sisters in early may we had a couple of faeries come and visit.

we hit the state forest, a few of the parks inside and the beach.

We got to see a wonderful spoken word and musical performance outdoors! Gay Black male in his 60s, living magically in rural Vermont with all the micro and macro aggressions that carries. Resonated so much.

And Pops turned 81!

It's been a full few months, starting to build and solidify community.

Khonsu X

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Hello hello followers and curious folx,

Khonsu here with what will probably become a monthly update because there's so much happening here on the farm and in our lives.

Then again I may just picture bombard y'all in multiple posts once a month.

We'll see.

Happy Fall Foliage!

Khonsu X

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Fall harvest should be pretty alright for small homestead scale.

Now that we're starting to understand what grows well here, we can plan for overwintering and focusing next year's planting schedule.

Khonsu X