Riona Abhainn

Praying for you both as requested.  Such a challenging time and there aren't any words that ccan fix it.  But sending strength and kindness.  I remember your post last year in winter telling us she was on the mend and I'd hoped you'd have more time together.

Welcome to permies Ali.  Hopefully you'll find a right person soon for this oppertunity.

I finished up with my last Christmas singing on the 5th on facebook live.  Back to my usual repetoir.  I sure love singing the Christmas songs though.

My yard stand will be open on Mon. Jan. 12th, from 1pm until dark, or until everything sells, or until I get too cold haha.
Expect broccoli microgreens that I grow, mini-"boo pumpkin" seeds from my pumpkins, and calendula seeds from my calendulas.  Also a handmade blanket chest from MN, and other interesting vintage and/or cool items.
11714 SE Fuller Rd. Portland OR 97222.

The one in Paraguay was the first one I'd seen a video of, maybe 12 years ago now.  Glad to see more "Landfill Harmonic, etc.)!

Feel encouraged to check out posts on here, several Christian communities in the forming process.

I'm glad you have a local homesteading club to be connected with.

While some of the herbs you teach about are lesser known, I think this is one which would be pretty readily available for people to buy bottled in oil form if they can't grow or forage it.

The first batch of mead:
So my husband made his first batch of mead, from a Midieval recipe which is for low-proof mead, like what the family and kids would drink on the daily because water wasn't always safe to drink at that time but a twitch of alcohol would sterilize for improved safety.  Anyways its very different than the feasting mead we're used to buying and drinking.  We're thinking about buying one of those containers with the spigget to pour out of that we could ferment in, since that way the yeast doesn't get disturbed when we pour a cup.

Well our shallow freeze didn't do much, calendulas still alive, though no more blooms.  I think I'm going to bag the last of the leaves to give to friends tomorrow as salad greens, because I seem to have developed a mild allergy to them, I noticed it back in summertime, my throat gets weirdly dry and a tad constricted when I eat them in salad.  I kept eating them for a while since we have them, but I'm going to sell all of the seeds and not grow anymore if my body is going to keep saying it wants me to stop eating them.

I planted a garlic clove and its started growing, I'm hoping it can self-regulate and not get ahead of itself.
I'm going to do some transplanting while my trees are leafless, moving the ornamental plum saplings into their own pots for year 2, moving my maple sapling into a bigger pot for year 2, I'm hoping my Italian plum tree which I transplanted last winter can stay in the same sized big pot for year 5, and hoping this year it will flower _and fruit instead of just flowering like it did last year.  And I want to transplant my blueberry bush into the barkdust-which-has-basically-turned-into-soil next to my front door, I think it would be happy there.  Its one of the few spots in my yard where I can easily plant directly into the ground.

The Christmas tree is down now and waiting for my husband to take it to drop in the bushes behind his work.

For when I'm singing, when I have the yard stand open and any other events I host check out my post in the Cascadia forum.

I'm hoping this could help folks in Eastern OR who have this problem, its bad in certain areas over there, lots of tainted wells.  

We like to eat as much of the plant as possible and get creative.
But if we have extra we give it to family/friends, add it to compost, chop and drop sometimes, and we're starting to sell at my occasional yard stand on days that are nice and we're home.