Our very shy but ubiquitous farm Inhabitant. Has lived here for many years but is still very wary of us. A majestic and beautiful creature.

Some new ones I made recently.

So does “singer songwriter” mean praise music for bars?

Chicago area peeps. We will be at Frankfort Fall Fest this weekend in the gourmet food section. Come say hello. #frankfortfallfest

This Saturday at Art in the Garden. Mandala Gardens Marion Il.

A few picks from around the farm this morning. Elder, yarrow, anise, lilac and hydrangea. 🌱🌿#permaculture

Slinging our wares at the market. One of my favorite days of the week.

New shirt graphic for my show in June.

Just going to say being a new addition to Tornado Alley is not great. This shit is getting old fast.

It’s almost time. Looking like a good year for gooseberries here. 🌱🌿#permaculture

We propagate elderberry everywhere. We have an abundance so in spring we just wander around sticking cuttings into the ground. Here’s one that’s thriving that is interesting. Under the west side of a fairly large tree right at the base. Curious if it’s flowering will be as vigorous. 🌱🌿 #permaculture

Aronia, black currant and gooseberries are in bloom. The aronia and gooseberries are really taking off after a couple tough years. The currants struggle in the peak of summer but holding on. 🌿🌱#permaculture

The ramps transplanted three years ago are back again. Super excited they are resilient but sad that they are sooooo sloooow to spread. I don’t see any spread at all. I’ll take the small win however of a small bit of ramp leaf butter. Baby steps. 🌿🌱#permaculture

It’s the stupid, economy.

Two days of prep for a dinner two weeks from today. A lot to do between. Lemon confit two ways and both lacto fermented plums and asparagus. Two amaro liqueur infusions. An elderflower liqueur and a citrus artichoke with barks, spices and herbs digestife. 🍽🌿🌱

The scarlet quince is establishing nicely. I did not expect the flowers to be so beautiful. Quite a stunning plant. 🌱 🌿#permaculture

Elderberry propagation has begun. Propping along fencing to create edible hedgerow windbreaks. Magnolias are in bloom. As beautiful as they are we harvest in the morning. In the background you can see wild pear w Yellow Huffcapp grafts. The wild has blooms the Huff’s do not. #permaculture 🌿🌱

25 mph wind with 40-50mph gusts all night. No rain just 10 hours of straight line winds. Absolutely insane.

Glaciers End is very happy to add Hellmark cards to our showroom. Just the thing to let your buddies know we are all having a great time.

A beautiful morning to walk in the orchard looking at the blossoms and seeing which berries we planted survived the ice storm. Lots of smells for Yeti.

Grilling at sunset at 7:30pm as god intended.

Our amazing speakers for our 3rd annual Southern Illinois Soil Health Symposium. Amy Bartucci from Il Food Scrap & Composting on intro to composting and MJ from Savanna Institute will be speaking on Agroforestry. #permaculture 🌱🌿

Next week at the store.

Here's the video of the protoclone set to dark, post-apocalyptic, ambient music.

Eggs are finally getting to the price they should be for the work and time it takes to do them right.

Which universities have the most retracted articles - and the highest retraction rates? For @nature.com, here's a first-of-its-kind analysis of retractions by institutions. Full details in the story. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This. Look for cottage food makers at your markets that source from local farmers. If you want more interesting food systems these cottage food businesses if supported will become larger commercial businesses and can help populate rural food deserts, abandoned downtowns and revive rural economies.

It’s really surreal to be reading a book making the point that diversity is disappearing and it is needed for the survival of humanity and at the same time the word itself has been banned from all government documents and if you include it in a grant proposal it will be discarded without hesitation.

New syrup yesterday. Lavender and sumac. As I mentioned recently I hope to have bigger and bigger harvests over the next few years from the new colonies I have planted. We harvest around 50 gal currently. With more berries we can start making spices which I am very excited about. 🌱🌿#permaculture

Winter grow room fun. Arguably the hottest pepper in the world. The chocolate primotalii. Insane. These seeds will be going into trays soon. Our elderberry Honeybee cuttings are budding out nicely. It’s the first to flower and produces berries until kill frost. Radical indeterminacy 🌱🌿#permaculture

Two sumac trees grown on an eroded portion of the orchard where other fruit trees failed. Two years ago I scattered seed in this and 2 other places. I counted 50 or more yesterday. Two nice new colonies that we might be able to start harvesting as soon as next year. 🌱🌿 #peraculture

This should be the future of farming. More small farms means less supply chain issues more jobs and more stability in our food system. Many rural areas that formerly had extraction economies that packed up and left can find new economic drivers and find a regional agricultural identity.

When life gives you invasive Bradford Pear use it for root stock. This is flourishing Huffcapp Perry pear from England grafted on a wild tree 2 yr ago. This harnesses the (grown from seed) in situ root structure (tap root) and the immune system of a very agressive and hardy plant. 🌱 🌿#permaculture

The future home of our forest garden. The soil is very good. We have already successfully relocated ramps here and will be moving some of our currents and gooseberries and spicebush here soon. Any other suggestions for berries or fruit that do well in shade? Herbs or spices? 🌿🌱#permaculture (zone 7)

Started a new #ambient techno track. :) in all seriousness I will be sampling the hell out of the end grooves of these old 78 rpm records. #synthsky

A page from my last Mesozoic sketchbook (from late 2017), showcasing the invertebrate and aquatic fauna of the Jehol Biota, a highly productive fossil lagerstätte from the Early Cretaceous of Liaoning, China #paleoart #FossilFriday

"Wow, pickling my own onions sure was simple and affordable" *starts browsing $10,000 commercial onion pickling equipment*

If you are in or around southern Illinois we will be having our 3rd annual symposium the first week of March during #illinoissoilhealthweek. More to come on this and more in the near future. 🌿🌱#permaculture

New music. More to come soon. #synthsky

Some techno vocals I did back in the Chicago days with @brandoninvergo.bsky.social. Good times.

Erin is a good follow for green thumbs. Love me some spice bush berries. A nice flavor. Almost a peppery, cedar like flavor. Maybe a touch of allspice. I’ve paired it with both sumac and cranberry and it was fantastic.

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