Yeka Sorokina

I can spend hours sitting and looking at trees, grass, and sky and listening to their sounds. I enjoy working with farm animals and spending time with them. I dream of a quiet life together on a remote homestead. I seek a close and intimate bond with just one person. I am attracted to people, I am open about their mix of sex and gender. In terms of my gender, I am currently on a quest to find my own understanding of masculine and feminine. I am not in a hurry and I seek to find something new, something I have not heard before. I am sourcing this from the pure energies where they have not yet manifested in the material. At this point on my journey, I think of myself as a genderless person and I prefer they/them pronouns.

It is vital for my significant other to regard emotions as guides to our internal states, a person who passionately seeks to understand what the emotions are communicating. In all my relationships, I choose to share about emotional experiences as truthfully as possible. In a romantic relationship, that is an absolute must; moreover, my significant other would desire to invite such conversations and share about their inner world as much as I do. I seek to sweep nothing under the rug because I value discussing any and all unpleasant feelings.

I work very closely with my subconscious and require that my significant other does as well. This would need to be at a very significant depth of perceiving and understanding hidden motivations and intentions. Essentially, I seek someone who experiences themselves as having hidden aspects that they want to understand and embrace. And who desires to caretake all their aspects because deeming any of them as unwanted and leaving them out is heartbreaking.

If this moves you to reach out, please email me at otkravennost@proton.me with recent photos, what you resonate with, and what was challenging to be with. I am looking for a thoughtful reply as depth and ability to hold nuance are essential for a connection.

Hello everyone

I am seeking a significant other in the 30-60y/o range who has a homestead somewhere in the contiguous U.S. I am queer, so I am open in terms of sex or gender. I also prefer they/them pronouns. I seek a person who is very serious about developing self-awareness. Someone who has a regular practice to look within and see their truth. Someone who is dedicated to intense processing together when disagreements or conflicts arise. Someone who has experience moving toward one another through conflict and being creative to find solutions that work for both people. Someone who greatly cares about their physical, emotional, and spiritual health.

I do not believe in objectivity, I believe that we all hold valid views and perspectives, and that it is most important to seek to understand the perspective of another. I believe that it is deeply human to have an identity, to have an ego, and to move through the world mostly perceiving in assumptions. I do not think these things can be done away with no matter how much self-work a person does. I believe that developing awareness around these things is possible and allows one to be able to accept the truth of who they are and what is driving them.

I seek a quiet, peaceful life working on the homestead together, with chickens and cows and lots of lush green all around.

Please reach out via email: otkravennost@proton.me

Please include recent photos and tell me why you were called to reply to my post, as well as aspects of myself that you may find challenging. I get that it feels unpleasant not to receive a reply, but if I do not get the sense that care and attention was put into the message, I will not reply.

Fascinating conversation =) I love that people are using scythes instead of modern technology!

James MacKenzie wrote:
a bit of an experiment - cheers!

Cool! I like experiments

James MacKenzie wrote:cuke, nasturtium and tomato cutting into a 7 gal  pot

Why cucumber and tomato in the same pot?

Hi Lillian

So interesting what you shared about the thin shells! I did assume that the only cause was low calcium, but it absolutely makes sense that there are other causes.

After reading that articular gout is the accumulation of uric acid crystals in the joints, I don't think that is what Muffy has. Her masses are not in the joints, they are in the soft tissues of the feet and are movable and not attached to joints.

I do have to say that if it was up to me, I would not give layer pellets. They are processed food and I don't think that's healthy for anyone. I like what you say about diversity and more of a range of plants. Muffy and her flock do have fenced land on which they forage, but what they have access to may not be that nutritionally dense for them. I would love to grow a garden for them so they could forage there. I also find that many chickens I took care of did not eat greens that were picked for them, they only ate the greens that they picked themselves. Not sure what that's about. I assumed that it's the way they eat greens, that the earth holds the plant while they rip little pieces off with their beaks, so when they can't eat the plants like is natural for them, they don't eat.

I do believe that when the chickens' natural tendency to forage is encouraged and the food they are provided is real food that is diverse, they will eat what they need and their food will nourish them and not contribute to issues.

It's possible that Muffy gets too much soldier fly larvae because she is a favorite so she gets extra treats

I am so curious about the relationship between weeds and intended crop. I was watching a garden a couple of months ago that had a bunch of weeds, while I was spending an hour or more each day pulling weeds in a nearby garden. Though we were growing different things, I did wonder if I needed to be doing all that weeding when I would look at how good their crop looked without any weeding. And after a couple of months passed and their garden was overgrown with weeds, their crop still looked good.

I was also reading a post on here, where someone said they let the weeds grow and native plants came in, and after that the predatory insects got established who ate the pest insects. That really got my attention too.

Lillian, thank you so much for your thorough message.

I have a few questions because I do not fully follow you. How come you believe that Muffy has gout rather than kernel remnants from old bumblefoot? I do not mean that she has an active infection now, I mean that the infection is gone and only the hard tissue from old pus remains. What are you seeing that makes you think this is not the case?

Two questions about calcium. My perspective on vitamins and minerals is that when they are lab-made, there may be issues with the body regulating them and that may actually cause more problems. So I see how layer pellets can cause health issues. My 1st question is about natural sources of calcium. Like soldier fly larvae. I make an assumption that with natural calcium sources, the body will know what to do and absorb or excrete as it needs. So if the hens eat soldier fly larvae, they won't have issues with excessive calcium even if they eat more than meet their daily requirement. Would you agree? My 2nd question is about the thin shells on half of the eggs of the birds in the flock. I assume that when the shells are thin, the bird is not getting enough calcium. What are your thoughts on thin shells and calcium?

Save those raspberries! I will hear back when you return from battle

Michael, yes, I too believe that the sore Muffy developed on her lower chest area was from the bar she roosted on. She currently sits on a flat surface when she sleeps