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As someone just getting into sewing I want to remember this for the future!

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"Rhoēs" villa, Serifos island, Greece,

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Hortus Hermitage, Hortus Haren, Groningen, The Netherlands,

Developed by Sjaak Langenberg and Rosé de Beer, in collaboration with Refunc.

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Here's how climate change is redrawing Europe’s wine map !

'Ten years ago, you would never see a Danish wine on the list,' says Paul Robineau, executive head sommelier for the Taillevent group. 'But, with the climate changing, Denmark is on its way to make great wines.'⁠

Courtesy: Financial Times

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Hey!! It’s EXHAUSTING to run a small business — but YOU can help!! Yes, YOU!! YOU have the power to make a difference in other people’s lives. In your own community.

Literally the biggest thing to help us small businesses continue to exist is by giving us money. Shop with us.

BUT THAT’S NOT THE ONLY WAY!!

If you can’t afford to do so, tell your friends to shop there. Help us advertise because advertising is a huge amount of labor and requires tons of money. It’s hundreds of dollars, sometimes thousands, just to appear on the radio for a few minutes. We do what we can with the free advertising and promotion through our social media pages, but often that’s not enough. you can still help.

Also, make it a point to STOP shopping through places like Amazon, Walmart, TJ Maxx, the Dollar Store, Etc. I promise, it’s not as hard as it might sound. If you know the name of a business that feels like it exists everywhere (Starbucks, McDonalds, Barnes & Noble, The Home Depot to name a few) that means the money you give to that business is being sent directly away from the community you live in. Sure, some of it is used to pay the employees in the store, but the location exists because it *profits*. Those profits are not being kept in your community, and unless billionaires regularly visit your neighborhood and spend their money, it’s NOT coming back.

By shopping at these businesses, You are mailing money to people who already have more than they could ever need, and in turn, devastating your local economy and breaking the hearts of your friends, family, and neighbors that work tirelessly to offer you their businesses.

One of the smallest things you can do to help is just to VISIT the businesses in your community. My shop has existed for more than two years, on a Main Street, and still there are people that live less than two miles away discovering we exist for the first time. It makes me smile every time. Stop in and say hi!!

When you shop small, you’re building a stronger community and giving more value to your neighborhood. When you shop at the small local business, you’re paying your neighbors— this will allow them to fix that broken down car in their driveway, replace their roof after 12 years, reseal their windows, buy a new weed whacker, replace that refrigerator they’ve had for 28 years to reduce their energy bills, and give their children better lives. We’re not asking for much. We’re not trying to hire people to build rockets for us so we can go to space. We’re asking for food and shelter. We’re asking to replace the heat lamp in the chicken coop and to have just a little more time to sit by the fire in the wood stove and knit a blanket for our loved ones so there can be some sort of long lasting sign that we existed in this world and we actually made something.

I’m in a small town so this might sound a little rural, but the same goes for cities. The destruction of the small town is also true for the small city neighborhood and contributes to urban sprawl. If the city doesn’t have it, the suburbs do, and people commute to find their “big box stores” as we say, which contributes to the traffic that EVERYONE hates. Shop at the places in your neighborhood — the places that are run by your neighbors.

If you want sources: There are books, articles, studies, that you can read on how this impacts local economies. There are documentaries, podcasts, and lectures on how small businesses create our community cultures and how large corporations are the primary cause of wealth inequality across the world. The information is out there. Please go seek it.

I see and hear so often people describing how they feel a lack of community, they feel alone, they feel like they’re losing their culture and sense of self. This is how culture, tradition, community, art, sustainability, TOGETHERNESS, is built. Shop local. Shop small. Make a difference.

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A ribbon decorated with colorful flowers to add an aesthetic touch of roses to your sewing project

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🥥🥥What’s your favorite organic fertilizer recipe?

🥥 My Favorite Organic Fertilizer Recipe Secret:

One of my favorite organic fertilizer recipes is Banana Peel and Coffee Grounds Fertilizer. It’s easy to make, full of essential nutrients, and great for vegetables, houseplants, and flowers.

🥄 Ingredients:

🍌 2-3 banana peels (potassium and phosphorus)

☕ 1 cup used coffee grounds (nitrogen)

🧂 1 tablespoon Epsom salt (magnesium)

💧 Water (enough to fill a 1-liter container) 🛠 Instructions: 1️⃣ Cut the banana peels into small pieces. 2️⃣ Combine the peels, coffee grounds, and Epsom salt in a blender. 3️⃣ Add water and blend until smooth. 4️⃣ Use immediately or store the mixture for up to a week in a sealed container. 5️⃣ Apply it to your plants by pouring the mixture around the base once every 2-3 weeks.

This recipe feeds your plants organically while improving soil health. It’s ideal for those seeking eco-friendly and chemical-free gardening solutions.

🌱 Boost your garden naturally with this easy-to-make organic fertilizer recipe using banana peels, coffee grounds, and Epsom salt. Perfect for healthy vegetables, houseplants, and flowers!

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How to Start Your Journey as an Eco-Warrior: A Beginner’s Guide

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Butcher and Process

The main work of the day was running some errands with my son's roommate (we both needed some things at Tractor Supply) and then processing the meat that we deboned yesterday. I had a terrible time with my meat grinder last time I used it, but then realized there was a knob on the side that didn't get tightened down as much as it needed.

With him chopping the goat meat and beef suet and me running the grinder and sprinkling seasonings, we made short work of about 8 pounds of loose sausage. He then helped me clean up the mess, bless his heart, and took the meat home freeze some of it and also to start making dinner!

I roasted a small section, with bacon draped over it. It was ok in taste, but not tender as I'd want. A learning experience. Since we also had baked potatoes and green beans from the garden, and apple sauce from the orchard, it was a full meal from the farm.

The dogs all got wonderful, delightful bones earlier in the day. They were all happy, but Rosalie was particularly in heaven. I left her tied under the beech tree, surrounded by cozy leaves and gnawing blissfully on the bone. I'm reasonably sure she had never had one in her life until she came here.

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Build systems that support healthy, sustainable, long-term lifestyles.

The focus in crafting a better future is on sustainability, maintenance, well-thought-out and well-established practices, good sense and practicality.

It's not about perfection, but an unyielding direction for life.

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Four horsemen!

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Why I'm Doing This in the First Place

In the recent years, I’ve learned a lot about how to make a bunch of stuff from scratch. Basically, I want to put this information in one place for people to use. I make it a point to try to get at least a second use out of everything in our kitchen if I can (reusing produce bags from the grocery store, using scraps to make new things, etc.).

I know most of the information I have is probably already on this site, but the places I have found related information are on incredibly religious (and in many cases very right-wing) homesteading blogs (both on and off this platform). I feel uncomfortable interacting with that kind of content, especially because it takes so long deprogramming my feed after the fact. Especially on other social media sites, it feels like I save someone’s sourdough baking video and the next second I’m getting their content about how raw milk is good for you and how they left the city for a farm to get away from all the gay people. I know there are others out there who feel similarly.

My goal with this blog is to introduce information from the perspective of someone living in an apartment (with zero gardening space) and provide recipes/breakdown instructions to get the most out of the food that enters your house. My plan is to update as I break things down in my personal life (like making breadcrumbs because my freezer is full and I need to clean it out). Although I love food and cooking, I also do cleaning products and herbal remedies (These are not a substitute for going to the doctor! Get vaccinated and stay healthy ffs).

I hope the information here is useful for you! Any citations I do will be informal (I do enough formal citations for my degree, I’m tired dude. Plus, what format would you even choose for a post on Tumblr?) and likely include external site links if it takes a hassle and a half to get to the recipe in the first place (e.g.: link in bio to link-tree, to main page of blog with no search bar, scroll for a year to find the recipe, then scroll past the backstory to get to the actual instructions). Otherwise, I’ll include someone’s social media handles. If you feel I’m missing a citation, please reach out to me!

Have fun and happy cooking!

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