#Local Grains

[louizepoggie]

Local Bovines want your Headscritches!

Look @bovineblogger

I love these ladies, their pasture is just near my standard walking route and if theyre out they always wanna say hello.

[dotpyenji]

happy bisexual day to those who celebrate

[yarnrocks]

s/o to that time I referred to the valkyries serving mead to the slain warriors in Valhöll as "the Hooters of the slain"

[carbonateddelusion]

I know I haven't said much about it, but legitimately, "running away" was one of the most pivotal life decisions I've ever made. Probably THE first major life decision I've made, and also the best. If you have an opportunity to go, leave. Get out of there. If you are not safe at home, emotionally, physically, whatever, and you're able to leave, do it. It's going to suck such major ass for a while because you're going to have to deal with the scars they've left on you, but I wholeheartedly, full-throatedly, with-my-chest promise you that it is going to be better. You're going to be better. If you have the privilege of being able to escape, no matter how difficult it feels, then RUN.

[nightshadeowl]

I know you said FNAF is placeless but it's also really funny when you get to consider it's also canonically set in Utah. There's lawsuit forms in Pizza Sim mentioning Washington County, Utah.

I didn't know that; good catch, anon!

It's frankly rather America-centric of me to say that anyway, but North America is pretty big population-wise and it spans a number of distinct groups- which is why it's notable to me that it feels like a story that could take place in Utah or on the East Coast or in the South or even in Canada. This thing is vaguely familiar or even relatable in a lot of small towns; who, from any of these places, hasn't been to a local restaurant that just didn't feel quite right?

[ramvling]

the thing about being someone who likes to go to farmers markets and shopping local vendors is your favorite stuff can and will disappear without a trace because the one person running the show gets tired of slinging cookies or w/e in a crowded hot market every weekend. And one day you'll look up and realize you haven't seen them there in a while, and you go to their instagram, and their last post is from January like 'see you at the market this weekend!', but you won't. You won't ever again.

[wildrungarden]

⭐️Currently reading: The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka ⭐️

‘Just playing or doing nothing at all, children are happy. A discriminating adult, on the other hand, decides what will make him happy, and when these conditions are met he feels satisfied.’

The synopsis calls it ‘Zen and the Art of Farming.’ This book is about his experience over 30 years of using the ‘do-nothing’ farming method. He lets his orchard and rice/barley fields grow wild without any pest controls or fertilizers. That’s the basis of it (kinda?) — but what makes this book amazing is that he goes deep into why it works for him. Explaining why he doesn’t have to use chemicals to treat weeds and pests. Into the full circle of life & how to actually grow ‘natural’ food. We always want bigger and better quality & focus on high yields and money. How disconnected we really are growing from nature in agriculture.

If you aren’t into agriculture or learning about the exact ‘whys’ of his experiences from growing rice, barley & citrus on his personal field —- skip to part 2 of the book. I honestly wouldn’t recommend skipping(it holds a lot of useful information), but after part 2 is where I really got interested.

It’s not only about farming though - it also incorporates our health, diet and how basic our knowledge is as humans. It makes you think.

Even this book being written in 1978 - it still holds up to today. We’ve had all this knowledge since then and we still continue to do industrial agriculture and live/eat the way we do. It’s eye opening, for sure.

I’m not completely finished yet - I have about 40 pages left - but that’s what I think so far ☺️ You should definitely give it a try.

[mosswolf]

i keep seeing people who aren't usamerican reblogging that post about being protected under the migratory birds act and im like lol no tf u arent

[arolesbianism]

Working more on the local group of Synchronized Light and hoo boy. There's smth wrong with these guys.

[durn3h]

I wonder if the old world didn’t have so many different people groups if we would have only had a single grain that we would have turned into something like corn instead of the large variety of lower yield grains that we ended up with

[whats-in-a-sentence]

They had Greece, southern Iraq, and central Asia by 6000, Egypt and central Europe by 5000, and the shores of the Atlantic by 4000 (Figure 2.4). (...) The second theory says none of these things happened, because the first farmers across most of the regions shown in Figure 2.4 were not descendants of immigrants from the Hilly Flanks at all. They were local hunter-gatherers who settled down and became farmers themselves. (...) After sweeping from what is now Poland to the Paris Basin in a couple of hundred years before 5200 BCE, the wave of agricultural advance ground to a halt (Figure 2.4).

"Why the West Rules – For Now: The patterns of history and what they reveal about the future" - Ian Morris

[supercantaloupe]

oh oh and the local grains stand was back today after a hiatus and they had my favorite brown sticky rice again!

[daydreaming-in-daisies]

I'm currently eating the best burrito I've ever put in my mouth and it's truly a shame that this place is nearly two hrs from where I live bc it's so good like please put a location in my city 😭

[rocketonthemoon]

Go-to hangout food when you have friends over: pizza, Chinese food, or sushi? Or a secret fourth thing?

Always pizza - we’ve got an eclectic group of eaters In our friend group so pizza is always the safest option (not to mention cheapest around here)

[good-night-space-kid]

From the perspective of someone with a good understanding of sustainability and how agriculture works, some of the things people claim as “eco friendly” are so insane

[geocyclist]

Made a new table saw insert this week to avoid dealing with my alignment issues.

First step was making a blank the right thickness, then tracing the original insert. Cut out on the band saw, then chase the outline on the bench sander. The set screw locations were prepped with 10-24 threads to use longer hardware while getting ready to cut the hole for the blade.

Ignore the fact that I had the blade on backwards, but here it is cutting through the insert while it is leveled and clamped to the table.

Finished, compared to the stock aluminum insert, set screw holes widened and cut for 1/4”-28 threads to reuse the existing set screws.