It's been a slow week. I don't reckon I'll have much to post about besides planting out tomatoes and doing garden updates. I think the chickens are eating a lot of our bean and okra sprouts as they come up, so I'm going to have to stake off a lot more area, and probably end up going to war with the very nature of chickenness.
Hungry piggo eats boots
We got a goodly amount of spring rain today. High temps in the low 80s, it was 72° when I got home, and there was nearly two inches of rain in my rain bucket. No runoff from the property yet, that'll likely happen today. I hope to stay up long enough and wake up early enough to observe some of it because I want to see how my new earthworks are working.
Making cheese in the fermentation crock
I've been working slowly on making the food forest drain more directly to the front yard, rather than going across the back patio and risking running under the house. We haven't had a good rain to test the system since last summer before I started the house rebuild. That isn't to say we don't have good soil moisture though! This soul has retained moisture to excellent effect since installing the swales and mulching the beds.
Comfrey regrowing from last weekend
As always, I'm surprised how fast the comfrey is growing back. The giant one we harvested last weekend has already sent up new shoots. The chickens are enjoying the fresh growth. I'm about ready to harvest some more, especially the monsters growing under the granny smith apple tree. I wonder why certain ones are doing so much better than others... I'd like to try my hand this year at making some compost tea. I think a bit of comfrey, leaf ash, rabbit poo, and leaf compost will make an excellent addition to the tomato operation.
More monster comfrey
Jerusalem artichokes coming up
On the digital side of things, I've been helping my friends buy ARRR, an anonymous private crypto token on the Pirate Blockchain. ARRR is one facet of an organization called the BPSAA, Blockchain Privacy, Security, and Adoption Alliance. They have a lot of projects on their team that are empowering people with easy to use options to be more secure and private in their daily lives. I don't know much yet, but I'm getting more involved with their projects for obvious reasons. Anonymity can facilitate liberty, and you can't have real liberty without having privacy when you want it. I'm excited to be using parts of this project to benefit the enabling of liberty in my own life, and I'm trying to get more friends involved as well.
Speaking of which, @blocktrades and @ionomy, how long til you guys start supporting ARRR and the security and anonymity of your clients? It's a booming market, poised for a boom in the coming weeks, there's plenty of money to be made for exchanges that empower their customers. I know I'd give you some money in the process...
As a result of my own bullishness on ARRR, I've started a power down on my blog. The goal of course is to move to a more secure currency that I can use amongst my friends and community members. I've been doing this with BCH and XMR, and now I have an opportunity to get people into ARRR as well.
More people in crypto is a good thing for liberty.
Chickens in the rain, hiding under a dry spot with some food
Talking with new friends at work, there may be a new food coop forming in the greater North Texas liberty community. One guy here (who I'm also explaining crypto currency to) used to run a meat and egg co-op after he graduated from ag school. A lady at work is looking to buy land locally to start running a few dairy cows. Of course, my friend Sam is still sorting out his new homestead where he'd like to run a sustainable small scale pig operation. We may be bringing a big network deep into the fold of agorism, healthy eating, and free market food. Truly exciting times.
That's it for my little update for now. Like I said, postable life has been slow so I haven't posted yet this week. All is well here though, I've not yet been eaten by my pigs. If that does happen though, someone make sure and take care of the pigs for me, okay?
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Nate 💚
I'd discourage strongly all chewing on you now. Not gonna be fun at 150 lbs....
Comfrey doing well!
How do I best discourage the chewing? So far the recommendation has been a right hook.
Yeah, noses are particularly sensitive. I'd be firm but not try for hurting too much. Watch out for eyes, pigs move fast...
They do move fast! Such awesome animals. They're more than just tasty, but most of all they're tasty.
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Looks like the Comfrey is doing good and I'm glad to see that the Jerusalem artichokes are coming up! Blessings!
Which exchange do you use to trade ARRR? I would like to get involved. As you say there is no liberty without privacy.
I prefer Polarity, but I've used TradeOgre also. TO is a centralized exchange, so it's a bit slower. Polarity is faster with lower fees and your wallet is non-custodial. If you're cool with large transactions, Changelly is very easy to use.
You'll need a pirate wallet as well so you can store your funds out of anyone else's hands. Not your keys, not your coins, remember.
Hey! You're here @hhayweaver. HalleluYah. Slowly touching base with everyone after my two year silence. And in the process losing my keys for @buckaroo so starting over. Hope you are well
Cheese in a fermentation crock? What have I MISSED? Is that like a cream cheese @nateonsteemit? We had a brief shower. Our chickens went into a state of shock, the young ones don't know what that is and the older ones probably thought it was the end of the world
Hahahaha yes, chickens are not made for rain 🤣 especially South African chickens!
IDK if it's a thing to make cheese in a fermentation crock, I'm just trying it. It worked for wine, and cheese is fermented milk, so I'm doing science. Worse case scenario, it goes in the garden as fertilizer lol
Sounds like another science lab experiment. My husband often does an about turn when he finds me experimenting