#preserving harvests

[thirtyeighthparallel]

The Restorative Advantages of Gardening: Growing Health One Plant at once

""

In today's hectic world, several people are transforming to horticulture as a way to decrease, reconnect with nature, and enhance their overall health. Whether you have a roomy yard or a little balcony, gardening supplies a wide variety of advantages for both physical and psychological health. Digging in the dirt, planting seeds, and nurturing plants can be a type of treatment, minimizing stress and anxiousness levels while advertising mindfulness and leisure. The act of tending to a yard supplies a feeling of achievement and satisfaction as you witness the fruits of your labor flower and thrive.Furthermore, horticulture is not just a leisure activity yet a lasting technique that adds to ecological conservation and advertises a healthier lifestyle. Growing your own fruits, veggies, and natural herbs permits you to have accessibility to fresh, natural produce while lowering your carbon impact. By producing a garden haven full of vivid blossoms and beneficial pollinators, you are also supporting biodiversity and creating an inviting environment for wildlife. Welcoming gardening as a lifestyle choice can bring about a deeper connection with the natural world and a greater appreciation for the charm and abundance that surrounds us.

Read more here https://sites.google.com/view/homegrownfam/home

[castielzine]

The Healing Advantages of Gardening: Cultivating Wellness One Plant each time

""

In today's busy world, many individuals are turning to horticulture as a way to reduce, reconnect with nature, and boost their overall well-being. Whether you have a sizable backyard or a tiny balcony, gardening supplies a wide variety of advantages for both physical and mental wellness. Digging in the soil, planting seeds, and nurturing plants can be a form of therapy, reducing anxiety and stress and anxiety levels while promoting mindfulness and relaxation. The act of tending to a yard offers a feeling of accomplishment and fulfillment as you witness the fruits of your labor blossom and thrive.Furthermore, gardening is not just a leisure activity but a sustainable technique that adds to environmental conservation and promotes a healthier lifestyle. Expanding your very own fruits, vegetables, and natural herbs enables you to have access to fresh, natural fruit and vegetables while lowering your carbon impact. By creating a garden haven full of vivid flowers and helpful pollinators, you are also sustaining biodiversity and creating a welcoming habitat for wildlife. Accepting gardening as a way of life selection can bring about a deeper connection with the environment and a higher gratitude for the charm and abundance that borders us.

Read more here https://x.com/homegrownfam

[julianplum]

Perceive them.... my many children, soon to be sauced. They long for this I think

Somehow this is 16 quarts of sauce tomatoes!! Happy almost fall equinox and harvest season!!!

[ahedderick]

Crabapples are kind of an extreme fruit. Sour and sometimes a bit bitter, they take a lot of sugar to be edible. Wild rosehips are nicer; you can eat them as-is if you like intense sweet-tart flavor. This fall I decided to make a small batch of crabapple-rosehip jelly.

The thing with crabapple jelly is that you don't need to add pectin (such as Surejel or Pomona's). I simmered the crabapples and rosehips in a 50/50 mix of apple cider and water, strained it twice, then cooked the resulting juice with an equal measure of sugar. I can't quite describe the very old-fashioned 'jelly test' I used, except to say that my mother taught it to me and it involves pouring a few drops of the mixture off the side of a large spoon until it drips "correctly."

Crabapples produce a jelly with a very different consistency. It's honestly more like pine tar. My uncle, who loved foraged foods and unusual jellies, called it "the La Brea jelly." I'd have been mad about that, but . . he wasn't wrong.

I ended up with a small quantity of extremely sticky, rosy-amber jelly with tons of sweet-tart flavor.

[ID: A small dish of jelly held up to the light to show its color. Also the same dish of jelly sitting beside a plate with a piece of bread and jelly.]

[puppyeared]

Next time we invent life changing technology we cant let capitalists get their hands on it

[ryanscabinlife]

Drying some marigold, lavender (mostly leaves), and oregano to mix in with the goldenrod I harvested last week for tea. Also, how is it September already? The fuck!?

1-Sep-2023

[bokujou-monogatari]

Hey there, it's been a while.

Recently, I just acquired a game disc from December 16th, 1999.

Initially, I thought the disc was a dvd before I looked into the file structure. It's actually a PS2 demo disc.

On said disc is a demo of a number of games to be released that year, including Bokujou Monogatari Harvest Moon (Localized as Back to Nature). There are videos for the games, developer interviews, and more importantly - playable demos for the games featured. My problem is that I haven't been able to get it to work. The seller confirmed operation on a Japanese PS2. If there's anyone out there experienced with making this type of thing operational long enough to get the media preserved, please message me. :)

[bokumonocosplay]

Is there anyone who knows more about Flash than me who can have a look at the old Sunshine Islands site? The homepage works with an emulator but none of the buttons do :( I'm guessing that means it's broken but if anyone knows if there's a chance the rest of the site is still accessible somehow please let me know!

[askwhatsforlunch]

Pears in Whisky Syrup

When you come home from a holiday, even a short one, to find a glut of beautiful Williams pears scattering the Kitchen Garden where they have fallen, there is no time to waste to make a delicious recipe with them! These Pears in Whisky Syrup are a delicious way to preserve the bounty, which you will brighten a cold Winter day with a taste of sunshine and the delightful smokiness of peated Whisky! Happy Monday!

Ingredients (makes 2 jars; 1 large, 1 medium):

1 3/4 cup caster sugar

 3/4 cup demerara sugar

3 plump vanilla beans, split lengthwise

1 1/2 litre/6 cups water

about 30 just ripe Williams Pears

1/2 cup 10 Years Peated Bowmore Single Malt Whisky

In a large pot of boiling water, boil a 1/-litre/1-quart jar and a 1 1/2-litre/1-½-quart jar, 10 minutes, to sterelise them.

Pour caster sugar and demerara sugar in a large pot. Scrape seeds off the vanilla beans, and add both seeds and pods to the pot. Stir in water, and heat over medium-high heat, stirring often until sugar is completely dissolved. Once it is, increase heat to high, and boil rapidly, about 5 minutes, stirring often.

Meanwhile, halve, peel and core Williams pears. Reduce heat to medium-low and gently add pear halves into the syrup. Cover with the lid, and cook, for about 15 to 20 minutes, until just tender.

Stir in Whisky, and remove from the heat.

Remove jars from the boiling water carefully, and dry.

Carefully spoon pears and their Whisky syrup into sterelised jars, discarding vanilla pods, avoiding any drizzling on the side or rim. Once filled, close tightly and return to the boiling water bath, 20 minutes. Carefully remove from heat and let cool completely.

Once opened, you can keep  Pears in Whisky Syrup 3 weeks to a month in the refrigerator. Serve them warm or cold with yogurt, Vanilla Bean Ice Cream or Whisky Ice Cream…

[home--farm]

Ten pounds of apples from a few roadside trees on my break this afternoon. They're small and imperfect and some of them have scab, but they're beautiful, fragrant, and crunch perfectly. We're having a bumper year, and for me that means making slow-cooker after slow-cooker of apple sauce for the freezer. We'll have plenty to see us through the winter!

[blujayonthewing]

thinkin about how if gnomes are partially insectivorous and also live underground in the woods then Cicada Emergence is 1000% a huge cultural event, probably with religious significance, and cicadas would hold tremendous cultural importance both literally and symbolically

[lostryu]

conservatives wanna bitch about socialism when it comes to shit like 12 brands of toilet paper instead of 36, when it’s more like capitalism that makes stores stop carrying fresh cranberries because after December 25th it’s no longer profitable. Like they are still in season, they’re still being harvested, I know and I have checked! I am just being told by 6 separate grocery stores that they only carry them for Christmas because they’re bought mostly for decoration.

[heart-songs]

I Know You Want to Lie by The Roadside but The Wolves Are Coming, Sweetheart. by Leslie J. Anderson

I’m here with you. Out feet are bare at the beginning of a long walk.

I know the field looks empty now. It’s not. The seeds are still growing.

Do not learn the lessons of heartbreak. The wisdom of sorrow is a lie.

It will tell you wolves are a mercy, that a bare field is acceptable.

If you need to rest, let’s do it now. Drink water, sleep, hold yourself. Save your voice for when it’s time to scream.

I won’t lie to you, though. The wolves are coming.

In your heart is a knife but also a harvest.

When it’s time, use one to protect the other.

[sewlastcentury]

In response to a particularly persistent non-follower who continued to question my experiences with antique garments on this post , I had a chance to take a short video with an 1890s bodice in my collection that is boned with baleen. While all antique clothing should be treated with care, baleen does usually remain pretty flexible (the humidity of the environment is a large factor in this - in dry storage environments, it is likely to be more brittle). Accusing the Smithsonian of mishandling a garment by turning it inside-out on a mannequin, however, is kind of ridiculous, and I am sure they considered the potential handling damage carefully before staging that photoshoot.

Transcript:

hey so this is a pretty standard, very late-nineteenth-century bodice. it's a wounded bird so I don't feel bad doing this. (pardon me [for the visuals], i'm only working with two hands here.) this is a bone casing; there IS a bone inside; it is stiff, and if I bend it, it does *not* break. it is still very flexible.

there's a bone in that [other casing] too. now you can see up there that one of them already broke [at the top] (a long time ago, this is before it came into my collection), but there is baleen in there. actually - there's a piece further inside that you can see and pull out but I'm not doing that.

[this video is] just to show that if you bend the baleen, even in the way it's not traditionally supposed to bend, it's totally fine. (oh, there's [baleen visible through a hole] right there.) it is still very flexible more than 100 years after it was installed in this bodice, and it is totally flat when it is not being pressed against something [at a curve].

that is the case for basically every antique garment I have seen; in some cases they are still molded but- I mean, this is just a bodice, it's not a corset; it was not subjected to consistent strain. This is just...how it works.

Hope this clears some things up for casual followers :)

[ahedderick]

Salsa

An hour and a half of vigorous chopping and pureeing peppers, onions, and tomatoes (and one beet. for color). 8 or 9 quarts of red proto-salsa in the biggest stock pot. Vinegar, cayenne hot sauce, and a large quantity of Mrs. Wages salsa seasoning mix. Now just have to simmer - and simmer and simmer. Then canning jars. I think I just want to go back up in the woods. Nap on the ground and listen to the leaves rustle.

[goodfoodcollective]