#Farm To Table

[octavio-world]

lettin it swang at the farmers market

lettin my nuts hang at the local honey purveyor

jigglin dem thangs at the fish monger

slangin dat u already kno at the lavender stall

bumper crop when i air the gurls out

sustainable compostin wit dat meat out

got ​dat ruffage peekin out the canvas tote

[doyouevenknowwhatshappening]

Did you know?

That you can be an animal rights activist without being vegan or vegetarian?

That you can believe that the cruelty towards animals in the meat industry is unjust without believing everyone in the world should be vegan/vegetarian?

That you can believe that there are far better, more humane and merciful ways to slaughter livestock than what we currently do without being vegan?

That you can believe that the conditions and environments of animals, farm or pets or wild, should be a priority amongst people without being vegan or vegetarian?

That you can have strong opinions on animal cruelty without being vegan or vegetarian?

That you can be vegan without trying to force everyone else to also be vegan?

(Kudos to thoes who do. Love u)

That you can believe all life, from insects to trees, from land and sea, should be treated with respect- while still also acknowledging that no one is ever going to stop eating meat?

That people are vegans for alot of reasons, and not always, if not rarely, for protest or performative reasons?

[buoyantsaturn]

yet i need to talk to you (1/1)

summary: “Being away from you just makes me think about how I never want to be without you, and--”  Nico snorted. “Are you asking me to marry you? Haven’t we done this already?”  word count: 4,116

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With all of the twists and turns Nico had gone through in his life, he knew he could always rely on Will as his constant - more specifically, Will being around to dote on him after a return from the Underworld. 

They’d established early on in their relationship that Nico often didn’t need healing whenever he came back from running an errand for his father. Yes, his vitals were abnormal, and sometimes his fading would return, and on occasion he would come back to the surface with a few minor cuts and scrapes. But after more than a few small disagreements, Will conceded that doctors - or heads of infirmaries, or med school students - didn’t always know best, and admitted that the best person to handle Nico’s care was, in fact, Nico.

Imagine that.

read the rest here

buy me a coffee to celebrate 300 fics | more auctober stuff

[roadtripnewengland]

Walker’s Roaside Farm Stand- Little Compton, Rhode Island

[wildrungarden]

10/24/23 ~ Harvest meal 🥘

Eggplant, Sweet Potato & Radish I picked at school 😋 Anyone interested in harvest meals? I love to cook and that’s one reason I got into sustainable agriculture. I may start incorporating food I make with my harvest in 2024 on here? 😅

Like or respond if interested plz 🥹🥲🩵

[reasonsforhope]

“Most people have heard of open source software, maybe also of open source beer (Free beer for all!) or open source pharmaceutical research. The principle is the same: Someone developed the seeds — for cowpeas, corn, rye and more — and now offers the resource for everybody to share.

Just like software development has been co-opted by a few global companies like Microsoft and Apple, the international seed development and trade, too, is controlled by a few big giants like Bayer (Monsanto), Corteva (DuPont) and ChemChina (Syngenta). A 2012 Oxfam study found that four companies dominate more than 60 percent of the global trade with grains.

When we buy cereal or bread, few pay attention to the fact that most grains are protected or even patented. Most farmers don’t own the seeds they sow on their fields. “They are renting them,” Kloppenburg, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-founder of OSSI says with disgust. The problem with that? “A few global companies have the monopolies on global seed trade, and they breed cash crops like corn and soy, purely for money. They don’t care about biodiversity, world hunger or about the small farmer.” What sounds like a business problem impacts everybody, Kloppenburg insists. “These few gene giants on top of the food chain decide what ends up on our plates.”

In 2012, Kloppenburg and half a dozen like-minded agriculture experts founded OSSI as an alternative to the monopolies. OSSI’s aim is the “free flow and exchange of genetic resources, of plant breeding and variety development,” Kloppenburg says. With global warming, disease and changing climatic patterns, “we need novel plant varieties that are capable of responding to the changes. Farm to table is popular, but we really need to talk about seed to table.”

The movement faces an uphill battle, particularly in the US where most farmers plant seeds that are patented by the big corporations. Still, about 50 seed breeders have already signed on with OSSI in the US to offer nearly 500 seed varieties. And other open source seed organizations are making their own way in Europe, Argentina, India and more...

Of course, salad is no software, and the work of plant breeders has to be protected. Otherwise they might fare like plant breeder Jim Baggett in Oregon, who in 1966 started breeding broccoli with an extra-long stem so it could be harvested more easily. He shared his novel broccoli with researchers and other breeders — until Monsanto-offspring Seminis patented a broccoli with exactly that trait in 2011. Baggett could trace more than a third of the plant material to his work...

Seed breeders who commit to the OSSI pledge allow buyers to use what they have developed however they like. The pledge reads: “In return, you pledge not to restrict others’ use of these seeds or their derivatives by patents or other means, and to include this Pledge with any transfer of these seeds or their derivatives.

Examples of OSSI varieties include dwarf tomatoes, bred for people with little space by small farmers in North Carolina and Australia who worked together and exchanged information across continents. A new rye, called Baldachin, has been developed with the help of crowdfunding in Germany specifically for the sandy soil in East Germany and is for the first time available in bakeries this fall. Also potatoes, corn, wheat and nearly everything else you need to cook dinner...

Just like software, “we want to go viral,” Kotschi says. In North America, he notes, cannabis breeders are interested in the OSSI strategy. “Cannabis is going to be a multibillion dollar market,” he says. “The small breeders fear for their seeds. They are interested in using the open source license to protect themselves while making the seeds available to others.”” -via Reasons to Be Cheerful, 10/14/22

[thestudentfarmer]

Hello hello, just wanted to share what I've been up to~

I harvested a cabbage yesterday!

This one, I tried to twist the head off in an attempt to grow a second crop of head(s), but it twisted the whole thing right out of the ground. Alas, that didn't work this time, but next time maybe.

I didn't end up weighing this cabbage, but I wanted to take a pic to share how big it grew alone. The rows I grow in currently are roughly 2 feet across.

I took this head and peeled it apart a bit. While all the leaves are edible, or could eb used for cooking or plating meals, i wanted to give our chickens a lil extra greens. So to them they went :)

This is what it looked like inside.

I sliced 1/2 the head up to enjoy with bbq chicken sandwiches last night. (And we used quite a bit!) But still had enough for an omlette this morning and a bit extra. The other 1/2 I'll probably slice for similar meals.

That's it for now :) thanks for coming by 🌱

🌱🥬Happy homesteading and garden success🥬🌱

2 1 2024

[kaicor3]

“Come eat!”

Colored Pencils

February 2024

[nice-bright-colors]

Applying the Local Anesthetic, in extra dry format.

[thepictorialist]

Country Elegance—Bartlesville, OK 2011

[helena-bottom-farter]

[buoyantsaturn]

imagine me at my worst- and i am just past that (1/1)

summary: Their head dropped to their knees, their voice muffled as they replied, “Today sucked." word count: 1,320

read on ao3 | read farm to table

Will didn’t do anything halfway. After discovering their nonbinary identity, they were quick to share the news with all of their friends, proudly announcing that they would be using they/them pronouns from then on. They’d made announcements in each of their classes at NRU to inform classmates and professors alike of their new pronouns, they’d called their mom and their dad, and they’d nearly started telling strangers on the street until Nico pointed out that that might not be totally necessary. 

Everyone had been supportive, at least as far as Nico could tell. The group chat - at least, everyone who could text from within the safety of Camp Jupiter’s borders - had been sending all sorts of yellow and purple hearts for days, which Nico was later informed were some of the pride colors for nonbinary people. (He had kind of thought that the rainbow was supposed to be all-encompassing in a way - he certainly preferred it over the toothpaste colors designated to gay men. But that was just a personal preference.) 

read the rest here

[icleanedthisplate]

Farmer’s Hash, Strawberries & Cream Pancake. Farmer’s Table Café. Fayetteville, Arkansas. 4.25.2024.

NOTE TO SELF: The strawberries were good, but it wasn't worth not getting the sweet potato pancake. The eggs were overcooked, and the potato ratio was way off today.

Currently ranked 10th of 22 April meals.

[wildrungarden]

4/25/24 ~ finally transplanted one of my grafted tomatoes I did at school! This one is Brandywine 🍅