Busy few days. Saturday @MarkusRoemer & I hosted a tour of our ecology-centred regenerative food garden; Sunday we slaughtered 5 roosters; today Markus helped my father & brother with bigger projects; I made and canned 7 litres of bone broth from yesterday's birds, plus some great chicken sandwiches if I do say so myself! Now we're pooped. SO happy to be able to grow our own food. Eating fresh red currants with wild probiotic yogurt for dessert!

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New blog post!
https://emilyvanartist.noblogs.org/post/2026/06/29/the-mindset-shift-we-need-for-sustainable-agriculture-to-be-successful/

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Plants are weird.

The butternut pumpkin seeds I planted in individual pots, in speciallised seed starting mix, and placed in the perfect position for optimal light and warmth, and watered (but not overwateted) diligently to ensure the absolute best opportunity for them to germinate: Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zero germination.

The extra butternut pumpkin seeds that I had, that I figured I'd just experiment with, and unceremoniously chucked in shallow dry dirt-holes along the weed-filled fenceline of our garden, and then just left to their own devices: Fucking up on time and thriving.

Like, what the heck? I dunno why we bother with all this seedling molly-coddling sometimes, when those little buggers are just gonna do what they do without our input anyway.

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Something fresh is growing… 🌱🍅

Garden beds waking up, tomatoes on the climb.

We’re opening the garden gates on April 7.

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I inherited my father in law's excellent dissecting microscope and am enjoying it with abandon!! Voici a view of the surface of one of my seedling pots, complete with a springtail busily going about his important work, eating up (processing) the rotten bits to turn into plant nutrients! Thank you Sir Springtail!!
A happy reminder of the diversity that makes our lives possible.

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