Fundamentals!

Say a prayer for rural vegans near military bases

Lmao what are you going on about?

Nevermind, I misread I think.

I feel your pain

Facts

Oh hell yeah!

I really want to get some nut trees going. I have two giant maple trees so I am a little protective of my sun exposure.

Do you happen to know of any nut trees that don’t get massive? We planted some apple trees in the front that don’t get too big. I suppose pruning is the other way to achieve this.

• Peanut butter
• Gochujang
• Soy sauce
• Rice vinegar

Tomato sauce!

Thank you It’s a random ramen bowl from a restaurant supply shop

This is so hard. My partner is vegan and I’m grateful for online vegan spaces like this. I went to a local-ish vegan speed friending event more than a year ago and many people were vegetarian 🤮 and/or a cop of some type.

I’m picking up 40 lbs of tomatoes today to turn into tomato sauce over the weekend. I am excite!

10/10 would gobble.

As a fellow noodatarian, I look forward to your continued contributions to this community.

I make them. I don’t ‘sundry’ them, as I live in a swamp. I use a dehydrator, and before that, an oven.

I dry almost all of my homegrown tomatoes and typically rely on local field tomatoes for canning. I’ll dehydrate them as they come in and toss the dehydrated tomatoes in the freezer for use later, or to make tomato paste for canning. To make tomato paste, I just blend the sun-dried tomatoes and add the required acidity before canning.

The tomatoes in this photo were long lost tomatoes from the depths of my freezer. I blended them and added them to the top of the rice.

Al is the collective name for the groundhogs that visit us. There are at least seven.

This plant is at least three years old! I have noticed it spreading around the garden and am eagerly awaiting where it will pop up next…

It’s such an impressive flower.

Wow, cool find!

I also love your frog statue.

So that’s what they are doing in there…

The purple beans are called purple peacock and they are just pretty. They don’t taste great really, but they are good enough and are PROLIFIC with basically no pests or disease pressures that I have noticed so far. They taste a little like bleach tbh if you don’t cook them fully, and you have to cook them separate from the rest of your food or they will take it all taste weird. They also turn green when cooked. They do not do well canned, or frozen.

I know I am selling them very well right now but I have grown them for three years and I intend to continue!

Burgers and corn, in paradise!

10/10 would gobble

Along those lines, but more short term and less intense, lol.

I don’t really see us moving - we have good groundwater supply and aren’t on a flood plain. Our area has been mapped to a 1-in-350 year event and while I know climate change is unpredictable, I’m not super worried.

Because the first two years here were so bad we spend a considerable amount of money on things like putting a bit of flooring down in the basement so it would be nicer to hide out there in storms (versus the rough and cold concrete floor) as well as generators and battery backups. I’m sure we will be happy when we need them, but we went a little nuts.

Hopefully with the weather station we can be more objective about what we are seeing and as we gather data over time, begin to understand our climate and how it is changing.