#farming and gardening Is work

[twinkubus]

i keep seeing this post and no offense to any of my mutuals who have reblogged this but like...what? i'm not full on anti-civ by any means but subsistence farming is one of the MORE achievable leftist commune goals...there's people all over the world who are doing it as we speak. and even if you don't go 100% self-grown you don't need a huge plot to meaningfully supplement your diet!

(the fast food part gets me too like. maybe it's bc i didn't really eat fast food until i was in my twenties? due to allergies. but i wouldn't consider it a staple.)

[grumpyghostdoodles]

The Almighty Sheriff!

Save a horse, ride a cowboy~

[qui-gg]

Silly payjay things… and why is ep kissing pickle calm down you two

[ahedderick]

Asparagus ongoing

Holy moly, I have NOT been overdoing it this week, why do I feel so sore? Yesterday I planted half the asparagus roots in my garden, but that's quick and easy compared to digging OUT the heavy clay to prepare the bed. Then, yesterday evening, I dug out a bed of ornamental vines (vinca minor) down at home farm. The soil in that was light and loamy (ok, I'll admit, the vines put up a pretty good fight about leaving). I want to plant the rest of the asparagus in there. However, this morning I am hurting all over.

I guess I'll take some Aleve and wait a while before I start. Rain's coming, though, and I want to be done before then.

[coolmaycroft]

[swaglet]

Ypu plan on living the rest of your life on a farm ?

not this fucking guy again. are you done. next time you send a cringe ass nae nae ass city slicker ass ask like this i'm gonna start shooting in the direction of your ip address with guns or something

[kochlandhomestead]

Fourth generation old English radishes grown from seeds saved from Joey's senior year horticulture project. I'm letting 4 other plants go to seed to continue the landrace.

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: March 22

"Too Sweet" by Hozier

[somerunner]

Scathing and accurate rebukes my beloved

[charlataninred]

I’ve come to the realization that, theoretically, my mutual circle could act as a semi functional village

[leoandbeholdclark]

"(...) I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you."

/Everything Everywhere All At Once

Credits to all cc creators!

[muppetsnoopy]

sims girlies be doing Experiments

[always-a-slut-4-ghouls]

I have this tea cup I made in highschool (it’s really cute and was designed more like those Japanese ones without a handle than it was those fancy English style with even more elements to them) but I never actually asked if the glaze we used was food safe (we all used the same glaze on those cups specifically because the teacher glazed those ones in particular and I don’t remember checking. I glazed and painted every other project but only one of them was something you would use for food and that thing broke a few years ago and was honestly more decorative) and this has haunted me ever since. It’s a super cute cup and I adore it, but I have no idea if I can use it for its intended purpose and while I could buy a lead testing kit I’m not sure how I would check for anything else that might have been in that glaze. I know the color used but not the brand, so that’s not really a help either. The teacher I had left the district after that year because our school district paid art teachers a shit wage and we rotated through them like elementary school kids needing new shoes every year. I’m not entirely sure how I would contact her, but even if I did track her down (something not entirely impossible from what I know about her life outside of teaching us for a year, I would feel slightly weird about it though, even though she was my favorite art teacher) but I highly doubt she would remember something like the glaze she used on one project her students made at a school she taught at for one year. I’m not sure what other testing kits I would need besides lead to confidently say it’s safe enough for my personal use, and it’s annoyed me for several years now.

[ahedderick]

Roots and Rocks

   My asparagus bed has been petering out slowly, a deficit I should have addressed a couple of years ago (but I didn’t). So this year I’m re-digging some hole and looking for asparagus roots to buy locally or send away for. It’s harder than it seems.

Tractor Supply had some nursery items, either in pots or bare-root. The three bins of asparagus they had ALL looked too dry to still be alive. Out of an overabundance of optimism, I bought one package of Mary Washington and tried pre-soaking them before planting this morning. I have my doubts. In looking online to buy them, I have not yet found a supplier that doesn’t have *terrible* reviews. It seems like even companies with previously good reputations have just given up and started selling dead/dying/poor quality plants.

   Also, there is a rock.

It was sticking up through the grass a little bit, and I thought it might be best to remove it before frost-heave pushed it up high enough to damage the lawmower. It was, however, and iceberg. There was a LOT more below the surface. We’ll see if my son and I can shift it this evening. Stay tuned for a triumphant victory or an injury report. Possibly both.

[kidskulls]

despite being a few months younger than him, she still needs to remind him she's his aunt

[aho-dapa]

I’m listening to the ACOTAR audiobook, and it said that it took THREE YEARS for the Archeron family’s money to run out?? AFTER THE CREDITORS ATTACKED PAPA ARCHERON?? Apparently they left them with nothing except a few gold coins that they used to buy the cabin?? And Papa Archeron actually inherited his debt?? So his ultimate sin aside from being disabled and neglectful is that he made a risk to get out of debt???

I’m speechless