ForestGardenHomestead

Mimicking forest patterns to create an ecosystem we want to inhabit: growing food, medicine, soil, & a good life. #ForestGarden #Permaculture #Homestead

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@ricis_angel Let’s make gumbo soon, you tease!

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@ricis_angel Yum!

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I just got out of a bath with dried comfrey tea harvested this summer.

My skin is so plump with hydration! Truly, gardening is #SelfCare #HerbalBathTea

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When fall comes, I grind up last years garlic with a bit of olive oil and freeze it in little globs before stowing it all away in the freezer.

It’s nice to have access to minced garlic blobs at a moment’s notice.

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Sunday is for checking on your ferments.

Retweet if you needed the reminder the top up your jars with brine. ✨

I use 3/4 tsp salt to one cup water. What’s your favored percentage?

#HotSauce #WholeFood #MatchBoxChili #Microbiome #CottageCore

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@Sydneyleski Yay!! My stint on Twitter is worthwhile with this tweet alone!

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Harvest season is made for social media bragging.

Or wait, is human pleasure older than Facebook?

#BigLeekDontCare #HarvestSeason #ForestGardening

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The best meals come from the garden and forest: chard from my garden, freshly harvested fingerling potato salad, tomato salad, roasted hedgehog mushrooms, free range roast chicken, and a hawthorn berry gravy.

✨Divine

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The trees across the parking lot called to me and when do we ever regret trusting our intuition? These Shaggy Mane mushrooms were delicious dry sautéed with some King Stropharia atop my lunch sandwich.

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This is the German hardneck garlic we’ve been growing & selecting on the land for 5 years. Each year the cloves get larger as we select for the plants that have done best on
✨our specific site✨

The original cloves we bought were a 1/4 that size.

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It feels good to have the rain coming down outside when you know your garlic is putting out roots.

It’s not elephant garlic, we just save our own seed!

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I just need to find a way to stop stepping on them before they emerge from the leaf litter...
#MushroomMonday #Inoculation #KingStropheria #WineCap #Homesteading #Mushroom

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We inoculated our wood chip pile with Wine Cap mushrooms this spring and they are already popping.

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The idea is to have the mycelium spread through the pile so that all the chips we move out into the garden will be mycelial inoculations. We will effectively be planting mushrooms in our garden with each ‘barrow of chips.

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Sunday is for checking on your ferments.

Retweet if you needed the reminder the burp your jars. ✨

#RadishKraut #WholeFood #Microbiome #CottageCore

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At the Bonesteel Creek Forest Garden, we believe it is both possible and necessary to reharmonize the needs and desires of human beings with those of the wider natural world.

#Homestead #ForestGarden #UpstateNY