Chris Clinton

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since Oct 14, 2024
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Georgia native. semi feral neo-peasant animist skill collector. Founder with my wife, Isia, of Crack in the Sidewalk Farmlet located on the edge of Atlanta in 2008. Been growing an expansive diversity of produce and more recently flowers for local farmer's markets as well as offering many foraged edible plants and mushrooms continually full time since. Turned on by traditional and primitive skills, natural building, bioregioning, community, the outdoors, old tools and machines, books, etc etc blah blah blah
Looking for a larger landbase to serve as custodian of in lower Appalachia, generally near where Ga, TN, and NC meet. Would like to build and support community. Teamwork makes the dream work.
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Here's my submission for drying lemon balm. We always have more of this around than we can keep up with but it's nice to keep a jar full on hand for tea blends and such. This harvest made some tea when fresh and the dried remainder topped up the gallon jar.
I gathered cottonwood buds with the intention to make a salve, but first comes the oil! Got a jar full and topped with olive oil, then left the jar on or around the wood stove to infuse. Strained into a new jar when I got around to it. Then into the cupboard for another rainy day to make salve.
I taught a beginners class on spoon carving at the first installment of the spoon carving club I've started. I made and hand printed a flyer that I posted at the farmers market and shared online. I had at least 10 attendees but didn't get all of them in every shot, I was teaching so wasn't behind the camera. I demonstrated roughing out a spoon from a section of split log for around an hour and then gave guidance individually as people started chopping at their own piece. It all went on till dark but I have some photos with another phone to document about a two hour passage of time (not the best, will have to figure out something better for future bb's with this requirement). I think some attendees might have never used a hatchet before so there wasn't a lot of spoons brought near completion on this day but everyone seemed to have a great time and we've had another meet up since. I'll be submitting that for the start a club bb once we've had enough meetings.
2 weeks ago
I made soup to use up some leftover broth from making a beef roast. I harvested some nice lambsquarters which I needed to weed out of one of my air prune beds in my nursery, in this case planted to Bigleaf Magnolia. Yielded much more than a cup and I also used some fresh nettles amongst other ingredients. Cooked and pureed and served with cornbread. yum yum
2 weeks ago
I harvested some lemon balm that was crowding some other plants and made a pot of tea with it fresh and dried the rest.
2 weeks ago
Might be slash pine too, not that easy to tell from photos. There's lots of pines in Ga, range maps here:  https://resources.ipmcenters.org/resource.cfm?rid=15836
3 weeks ago
I removed a fence that was put up a number of years ago by a coinhabitant here to keep dogs out of a garden plot. It was cobbled together from various types of welded wire fencing attached to mostly t-posts. The dogs are no longer here and the fence has just been a hindrance for a while and was well on its way to becoming a weedy hedge of unwanted saplings, briars and vines. Time for it to go! It measured out at 120 feet. I went through and removed the baling wire and zip ties that held the fencing to the posts and snipped the vines near ground level to free the mesh. I removed all the fence posts with a puller and stored them against the side of the red barn and the rolled up fencing on the inside for the time being. I removed the saplings and mowed it all down some time later, much better now.
4 weeks ago
We're having a droughty Spring around here so I set up a bee watering spot using the bottom of a broken chimenea. I added broken terracotta, rocks and sticks and then some shells and flowers to make it a little easier on the eyes. A quick and simple way to support our insect cousins.
4 weeks ago
Here's my submission making potato-leek-nettle soup. Aside from those ingredients it also included a carrot or two, a stick of celery, garlic, butter, tallow, and ground sausage.

I melt butter and tallow and add chopped carrots, leeks, and celery. Cook a bit and then add the sausage. Chop potatoes and nettles and add. Add water to cover and cook until potatoes are done. Add garlic and puree with immersion blender. Salt and season to taste.

Simple and satisfying.