One of two large planters that I scattered mixed food plant seeds into. I didn't expect many to sprout because they were all really old & weren't stored properly. To my surprise, thousands of the seeds sprouted. I will be starting to thin out seedlings, tomorrow morning, if it's not raining.

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From yesterday. Applied the hydrated alfalfa pellets, cold mulching natural fertilizer, to several transplanted starters & seedlings. I have only used 1/4 of bucket -> it fed 30 transplanted starters & 60 seedlings.

Today, I'm feeding our fruit trees/shrubs/more food/flower plants & putting some where I had recently broadcast sowed more alternative cover crop seeds.

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Recap 2025
June 2025 part 1

In June we still had no electricity no hot water and no kitchen in the house, cooked on our camping stove, like during the last couple of years. When we got the wood fire cooking stove, the kitchen-witch, we first had to wait for the chimney sweaper to clean th chimneys and to explain the chimney system to us. He told us where we can try to make a new hole for the stove smoke-tube. What sounded very easy and quickly done took us in the end loooots of time and even more nerves. But (in today's post we are not there yet...)
Befor all of this we removed the old cracked and moldy looking plaster from the chimney. The idea was to remove the old and put up new plaster, but when we saw the nice red brickwall underneath, we changed plan to fully remove the plaster and reveil the bricks. This was a hell lot of insane dusty work. But it was worth the hours stuck in the white suits, under the fat masks and behind the plastic 'dustwall'.
The month of June was also full with garden work. We prepared the weedgrass covered patches in front of the house to grow some veggies. Also we built a little greenhouse with old windows we found in the barn and a neighbour came with the tractor to plow the big batch for our potatoes, karrots and onions.
Picture 6 shows our power suply by then 🤩 a small solar panel to charge all the tools.

By then we went to our neighbours home or to the public washing saloon in town to make laundry.
To have a propper shower sometimes we went to the public sauna in the swimming hall in town, until (by mid june) we had the sauna fixed and ready to use. We used the so called 'summer sauna', a woodfire heated sauna in the barn-building. Next to the sauna stove we have a ~80liter metal pot over another fire place to heat water. and thats how we showered (sauna with bucketshower).


11 pictures in this post 🤩

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So my vegetable patch in the back garden now has; potatoes, onions, broccoli, carrots, chickpeas, butter beans, edamame, iceberg lettuce, savoy cabbage, baby sweetcorn, spinach, a strawberry plant, and kale. It will soon have parsnips but they haven’t arrived yet.

The challenge now is seeing if anything grows. #gardening #growingfood #vegetables

Went out to Lauriston Farm for the launch of the North Edinburgh Community Tattie, Beans and Peas Project. Wonderful day to plant some urban potatoes 🥔 😃 Can’t wait to see them grow!

Learn more about the project and how to get involved here: https://www.lauristonfarm.scot/news/invitation-to-get-involved-with-the-community-tattie-beans-peas-project/

Please also check out Sowing Our Horizons: https://www.sowingourhorizons.org/

And Fresh Start: https://www.freshstartweb.org.uk/

#food #growingfood #urbanfarming #edinburgh #cooperative

Invitation to Get Involved With the Community Tattie, Beans & Peas Project | Lauriston Farm

Garlic going strongggg 💪

I planted it last year in November and it has over-wintered really well 💚

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Ice Cream Bean Harvest at Peaceful Village

https://videos.trom.tf/w/f7QoecV7odvPr1KtcLSjPY

Ice Cream Bean Harvest at Peaceful Village

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One of The Earth Breaking Moments for Me, When This Famous California Cook Destroyed Big Vegan Farming-Cooking for Me. Warning Vegans that Do Not Grow & Consume Vegan Foods At Home Or From Someone Else’s At Home & Small Garden.

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One of The Earth Breaking Moments for Me, When This Famous California Cook Destroyed Big Vegan Farming-Cooking for Me. Warning Vegans that Do Not Grow & Consume Vegan Foods At Home Or From Someone Else’s At Home & Small Garden.

Many years ago I was watching Rising Up with Sonali, as I always do, when she brought on a famous Cali. Chef that converted to Veganism cooking at …