Happy puppers. Pfifferling meow

@scoutandt.bsky.social well this is problematic for me

Both Little and the horse were feeling extra spicy today so they had some obstacles to work out. His first tiny jumps!

Farm tour was a success!Two 70yo women got to try scything,forage and have a tea tasting of herbs we picked.They learned about our pasture management,bottle fed Dobby/handfed alfalfa to the others and learned how we use only inputs from our farm to build our gardens

This beautiful ewe posing for the tour

@saraheminnisphd.bsky.social inspired me to make this more whimsical so have added flowers. If you are coming to the Olympic Peninsula, stop by on your way to Neah Bay

@saraheminnisphd.bsky.social inspired me to make this more whimsical so have added flowers. If you are coming to the Olympic Peninsula, stop by on your way to Neah Bay

In the meadow, a tea tasting

If I were the tourist who happened upon my little hole in the forest, artisan farm stand, I would be delighted

Don’t tell @carl-gustav.bsky.social but I’m making my sourdough pizza crust for his return

Farm tour is today! We’re having a scything demo, foraging, tea tasting, willow fence demo and. Bottle feeding Doby!

Screw came off the garden latch so Sheep marauded the garden (everything is row covered so minimal damage) Chickens pushed into turkey enclosure Turkeys got out How we ever are able to grow enough food, I don’t know

here's a great chance to tell OPM how funny it's going to be when they try pulling out an NDA like this in front of a Federal Judge

My org gives SNAP customers invoices to take to producers who let them take their approved food and on the honor system, come to pay using their EBT card. You know who is not committing fraud? SNAP customers. They always pay. They could walk away. They always pay.

My org matches SNAP $ for $ but due to federal cuts, our state reduced the funding from 17k to 13k this year which includes 10% admin costs.Our org pays the remainder of costs for the program after funding is cut off in AUGUST. The state is doing the best it can but federal cuts necessitated cuts

According to the FRB-NY rates of food insecurity currently exceeded pandemic peak. 10% of Americans report missing meals while 16% rely on donations to eat. What are we doing building temples of compute for Ai while the masses struggle to meet basic human needs?

Grant update: got a call from the technical reviewer and the proposal passed her review! Onto the next step!

You know what’s not working? The weed whacker. You know what will work, the scythe because machines break and metal always cuts.

Working hard

Best boy has a pvc yoke now to keep him from going through, over and under fences.

Final chapters of “Our War After the War” have been published! I did it! The full manuscript will be available on 6/1. Although my readership is very small, I think there are at least a few people in this world for whom our story has been moving.

I texted my friend to see if she had a local hay person. But autocorrect really failed. What was sent was “do you have a local gay person?” I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time. Tragically embarrassing

It is the upside down. I thought it was a burl,but it’s not. It appears this is a western red cedar that got uprooted, its branches rerooting and then another tree began to grow on the uprooted tree root ball and they both live!! @carl-gustav.bsky.social and I marveled at this for a long time.

My discomfort from being thanked for my service on memorial is less to do with myself than the disappointment in others who seem to have forgotten the intention of the day. Though appreciate the attempt, let’s make space for empty seats at our common table, especially the innocents.

In the old growth.

I am taking a moment to remember not just the lives lost but lives ruined, the plans upended and the worlds changed. the widows, the lost children, the missing limbs, the scars both physical and emotional that uncountable souls across the world will carry to their graves.

Sheep in muscle shirts. Going to try Velcro to keep them from riding up

House sheep gets fed alfalfa pellets w/o the others

Parenting books do not prepare you for the kid who does not fear. One must learn to teach calculated risk, and remember to keep breathing.

Inventions

Why, I ask, and how, are the rooster and hens in with the turkey poults. Poultry misbehaving

Grant proposal submitted! I made a strong case to support our food access programs,but I know whoever receives it, is doing good work (I hope it’s us).

"If we get to the point where we don't help each other anymore, that's when we stop being human." -Matt Dinniman

The perfect,a really nice farm stand,has gotten in the way of the good enough, so I just put my art, salves and jams back out on the road for the holiday weekend. Better than nothing.

Sometimes I get messages from my love when he’s gone asking if I’ve gone full Annie Oakley? Maybe I have.

Had a little visit with Romeo, Crumpet , and Danny Rojas today

In their changes to SNAP and WIC FMnp programs, republicans have created a literal hunger games in which states, non-profits, and counties have to compete for dwindling funds while mothers of young children have to enter raffles to get summers WIC fmnp benefits. What are we doing?!

Water refill means you get birdsong and sheep grazing zen.

I preferred when corruption was still shameful and the perpetrators at least tried hide their crimes. Now it’s all out in the open like a dare to do something about it.

Texture I notice texture in the PNW landscapes more than anywhere I’ve ever been. Mosses,lichens and fungi dot the forest on swirls of bark in every color of grey, green, blue and brown. Seaweeds,grasses,shellfish of all shapes and sizes fit like puzzle pieces .

@theresjustnopo1.bsky.social thinking of you

A goose nesting on a sea stack wants to know, is it silly enough?

My tiny badger baby in the forest

The shake

Water play #cats

I feel a womb-like embrace of safety under Grandmother maple’s boughs. She is life giving

If you were here with me you could sit with the sheep in a field.

Deep splinter first aide report: baking soda poultice really does pull them out. This one was deep under a callous and after 12 hours under baking soda poultice, it slipped right out

Left pinky: puncture wound from sheep bite Right wrist: deep scratch from turkey & nettle stings Right eye orbital: bruise from playing horse to show CG how Little can post when Juniper banged me. They say farms are dangerous.