Observation of the day: A very cool parasitic plant called Dodder. Its yellow vines wraps around other plants and suck out nutrients like a vampire.

Hemitrichia Slime Mould 🧡

Our final harvest 2026 💛 Grown together with love. This is what opulence looks like to us.

Misty Sunday autumn swamp 💚🔥💚

Scale is a funny thing. 2 zucchini plants and you have enough for yourself and your extended family. 10 plants and you're suddenly a Zucchini monger trying to find niche recipes and customers to deal with your industrial amount of produce.

Simple pleasures

Every single pod. It feels like I am opening a little gift 🫘

Discovered a new plant today: beechdrops (Epifagus virginiana) It is a parasitic plant that grows under American Beech trees who's roots feed them all of their nutrients. These individuals are actually quite colorful.

A building used to be here

I love books on niche subjects, but its a 70/30 split on whether the writing is dry or not. I'm reading 2 niche history books that would be boring if I wasn't intrigued by their concepts before I opened them.

I call it "research and development" so I can make my stupid ideas sound like careful wisdom foresight. Keep farming.

Once again it's the incredible #SlimeMouldSunday! Arcyria denudata Carnival Candy Slime mould 🍡

Every non-hamburger food suffers from what I call “The Hamburger Problem” - you have to weigh its nutritional and hedonic value against simply eating a hamburger. Almost all foods are hamburger-negative.

Over abundance is the standard. Civilization wouldn't exist if there wasn't a surplus of food. On top of that food preservation sciences continue to grow. The only logical thing to do is to go to the source of Civilization and create your own prosperity.

Observation of the day: The Bursting-Heart is doing so well this year. It's also called strawberry-bush, but since it is mildly poisonous I prefer to not associate it with food. Nevertheless it's bright beauty in the underbrush is a joy.

Ok. This is wayyyy easier than what I’ve been doing for the past 15 years.

America should stop being retarded with adulterated corporate slop food. That we do this is evidence we never really recovered from the national trials of yesteryear.

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The cool thing about having all the tools is that when my wife says hey do we have *thing* I can just make it. The sad thing is after a while the novelty wears off and I just become localized Amazon. Anyway I made these book ends.