I do #homesteading with #livestock like #sheep, #horses, and #chickens. I value community sufficiency over self-sufficiency. My other job is data architecture and ten other hats on a large #foss project.
This account is for homesteading / gardening / agritainment activities, occasionally tech and #queer stuff as well.
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We took off for one (1) day so naturally everything happened. First lamb of the season, 35 gallons of maple sap on top of the 30 we already had.
But, lamb and mama are happy and healthy and we have a little cold snap to hopefully get caught up on sap.
Today has been a good day. I'm way beyond even my stretch goals for the day. All my parks are now secure from one another and from commons, all my gates open and close easily, all but one of them with working latches.
And I have an unexpected new arrival.
I'm tired, but I'm pleased.
New calf isn't tagged, and I'm not going to do that tonight even though it will be much harder to catch her tomorrow; but sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Great leaders take personal risks to be on the right side of history.
This is a powerful and inspiring open letter to students re: AI, from the current Executive Director of the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown. She's speaking out at great personal risk, IMO. https://medium.com/center-on-privacy-technology/an-open-letter-to-georgetown-students-in-response-to-recent-announcements-about-generative-ai-8869dcd523ef
I have been teaching (remote) a workshop on sensor networks to architecture students at Carleton University, in Canada, and just now was introduced to a project worked on by a team there.
Behold the beauty of Silanga, an Inuit-led weather station network spanning the vast Nunavut Territory in Northern Canada
🇫🇷 Aujourd'hui, non pas une mais bien quatre photos pour le #MähMittwoch ! Et comme à chaque printemps, il y a des petits. 🙂 C'était la surprise lundi en rentrant de Liège. Les moutons ont leurs quartiers près de la gare (et pas d'inquiétudes, il n'y a pas de risques qu'ils se retrouvent sur les voies).
🇬🇧 For this #MähMittwoch not one but four photos! And spring is there, and the lambs too. 🙂 It was the surprise on my way back from Liège last Monday. The sheep are hold near the railway station (and no worries, there's no risk they get to the tracks).
Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.
While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a cow it came up that she has never sat on a horse. Like, not even once during childhood.
Another colleague admitted they also have never sat on a horse.
My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on a horse.
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Have you sat on a horse?
Please boost for scientific accuracy.
I have such a long post to make about the quantity of plastic used in farming and home gardening. It's so much, and breaking down in the worst possible places. From poly tunnels, tarping to kill cover crops, and large round bales of hay to little starter pots, baling twine, and electronet it's so hard to avoid.
Our hay guy tried sisal twine for baling last year but it broke too often for him to use long term. We're replacing the reused plastic baling twine that ties our metal chicken stops together with the leftover sisal. We use biodegradable pots for starters until we can get a good soil blocker.
Looking at setting up a greenhouse the costs of using anything but poly sheeting or poly siding are astronomical. We have a lot of random glass around from various renovation projects, but not nearly enough to do a sizable greenhouse. I don't think it's going to far to say that the "start a home garden, it will save money" movement is predicated on using cheap plastics right now.
I'm curious how other folks are thinking / feeling about this and novel solutions to reducing plastics in gardening.
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