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Laura Houle 🇨🇦

@lauraearthfarmer.bsky.social

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regenerative earthfarmer in Cascadia on the west coast of British Columbia (zone 9a); writing my first novel, a murder mystery; in a long-term relationship. earthfarm.ca #earthfarm

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Laura Houle 🇨🇦 @lauraearthfarmer.bsky.social · Mar 11

I'm a newskie and I'm okay.
I sleep all night and I skeet all day.
mackuba.eu/2024/02/21/b...
#newskies

A complete guide to Bluesky 🦋

I've decided to write down some of the tips & tricks that I often give to friends when I send them an invite code, or the advice and answers that I sometimes give to people that I find in some feed as...

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Laura Houle 🇨🇦 @lauraearthfarmer.bsky.social · 10h

Golden Pholiota fungi.
Pretty colours but not recommended to eat ☠️🍄🤢
on the Sunshine Coast, BC.
#fungi #pacificnorthwest #PNW #mushrooms #foodforagers #foodforaging

Looking up at Golden Pholiota fungi growing on tree.

Laura Houle 🇨🇦 @lauraearthfarmer.bsky.social · 12d

thank you for writing this. Wow!

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Laura Houle 🇨🇦 @lauraearthfarmer.bsky.social · 14d

Canis scruffilaris... a.k.a., the farm dog

#jackrussellterrier #dogsonbluesky #workingdogs #farmdogs #JRT #DogLovers #TerrierLife #Dogs #PuppyLove #DogTraining #PetAdventures #CanineCompanion #DogMoments #FurryFriends

Head shot of a rough-coated Jack Russell terrier

Laura Houle 🇨🇦 @lauraearthfarmer.bsky.social · 16d

meant to say, Dr Joan and Dr John Smith

Laura Houle 🇨🇦 @lauraearthfarmer.bsky.social · 16d

but why isn't her first name included, too. Dr and Dr John Smith should be Dr Joan and John Smith. Sometimes the "correct" way is the old, outdated way...

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Laura Houle 🇨🇦 @lauraearthfarmer.bsky.social · 18d

I liked the chapter which talks about how juries, lawyers, judges evaluate victim/survivors' credibility and the factors they use to decide how believable a survivor's story is, like whether the victim/survivor knew the prep or not. It speaks to the systemic nature of rape culture.

Laura Houle 🇨🇦 @lauraearthfarmer.bsky.social · 18d

the first chapter was thick, hard to decipher the language. Yes, too academic, and I almost quit. But the following chapters have been more engaging. As they review all these high profile cases, like Cosby and Weinstein and show how the media portrays them. It's insightful...

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Laura Houle 🇨🇦 @lauraearthfarmer.bsky.social · 20d

What r u reading now?
I've been reading fiction all summer but now that autumn's here I'm turning back to non-fiction.
#whatrureadingnow #amreading #currentlyreading
#Booklovers #bookrecs #booksky

Photo of two book covers: 1. Defining Sexual Misconduct: Power, Media and #METOO, by Stacey Hannem and Christopher J. Schneider; 2. The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving-Kindness, by Pema Chodron

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Laura Houle 🇨🇦 @lauraearthfarmer.bsky.social · 21d

"our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are right now, and that's what we can make friends with and celebrate." --Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving-Kindness
#meditation #lovingkindness #suffering #compassion #Buddhism #findyourtruenature

Laura Houle 🇨🇦 @lauraearthfarmer.bsky.social · 29d

the Autumn colours are stunning this year!
at earthfarm.ca

#SmallFarmLife #earthfarm #HomeFarm #regenerativefarming #permaculture #growyourownsupper #vegetablegardening #sustainablefarming #Gardening #PNWgardening #foodpreservation

30 lb. box filled with large orange and red tomatoes

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Laura Houle 🇨🇦 @lauraearthfarmer.bsky.social · Sep 19

companies don't have spines. They have shareholders.

Laura Houle 🇨🇦 @lauraearthfarmer.bsky.social · Sep 18

by shutting down protest, they shut down free speech.

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Laura Houle 🇨🇦 @lauraearthfarmer.bsky.social · Sep 18

It's a dumb bill and won't do anything to stop hate crimes. Criminalizing the use of certain symbols like the swastika is a gift to law enforcement to harass and shut down anyone they disagree with. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Government to table bill Friday criminalizing use of certain symbols to promote hate | CBC News

The Liberal government is introducing new legislation on Friday to make it a crime to intentionally promote hatred against identifiable groups in public using certain hate- or terrorism-related symbol...

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Laura Houle 🇨🇦 @lauraearthfarmer.bsky.social · Sep 17

I made a delicious meal by stuffing sweet horn peppers with ground lamb, rice, herbs, garlic, onion. Delish!
#SmallFarmLife #earthfarm #HomeFarm #regenerativefarming #permaculture #growyourownsupper #vegetablegardening #sustainablefarming #Gardening #PNWgardening #foodpreservation

Sweet Basil, Oregano, Thyme and Bull's Horn sweet peppers

Pre-cooking the peppers by steaming them on the stovetop

A pan of stuffed peppers with tomato sauce and basil leaves; ready for the oven.

A pan of stuffed peppers after baking. Sprinkle some parmesan on top near the end of the bake.

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Laura Houle 🇨🇦 @lauraearthfarmer.bsky.social · Sep 13

mussel of love 💙

#lovesetsyoufree #SunshineCoastBC
#PNW #photography

Laura Houle 🇨🇦 @lauraearthfarmer.bsky.social · Sep 4

The devil made me do it! 👹🌶️

#SmallFarmLife #earthfarm #HomeFarm #regenerativefarming #permaculture #growyourownsupper #vegetablegardening #sustainablefarming #Gardening #PNWgardening #foodpreservation

a slice of red pepper in the shape of a heart

A photo of me holding two horn shaped red peppers on each side of my head.

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Laura Houle 🇨🇦 @lauraearthfarmer.bsky.social · Sep 4

but will he eat green eggs and ham?

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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · Sep 3

"If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books, you're afraid of thinking."
~Andrea Junker

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Laura Houle 🇨🇦 @lauraearthfarmer.bsky.social · Sep 3

it wasn't me. Was it you, Jack? No, no, wasn't me either. I think it might have been the cat.

Laura Houle 🇨🇦 @lauraearthfarmer.bsky.social · Sep 3

with thanks to Rob Breakenridge: calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

Breakenridge: Blame for disastrous school book ban lies squarely with who issued the order

If the result of marching orders given to school boards is pointless and absurd book bans, the blame lies with those who drafted them.

calgaryherald.com

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Laura Houle 🇨🇦 @lauraearthfarmer.bsky.social · Sep 3

Breaking News: Alberta rewrites order banning school library books containing explicit sexual content to protect the Classics: Danielle Smith
#CdnPoli #politicalsatire #politicalhumor #Alberta #Canada

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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · Sep 2

Words are magic

My seven-year-old asked for a dictionary this week. We went to the bookshop today to buy one. She walked home hugging it, pausing every so often to look up a word, grinning as though she had been given a book of spells, the key to wonders.
(Credit: Ann Morg)

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Laura Houle 🇨🇦 @lauraearthfarmer.bsky.social · Sep 2

Drive your karma slowly when you meet dog on the road.

Hand-painted sign 10 km/hr. Dog on Property. Drive Mindfully.

Laura Houle 🇨🇦 @lauraearthfarmer.bsky.social · Aug 27

Set in an unspecified future, some centuries from now, the book opens on a man and a girl driving across a landscape blackened by ashes. The hellscape is worthy of the Mad Max franchise, with slave colonies springing up from the parched earth like termite mounds. www.theguardian.com/books/2024/o...

Juice by Tim Winton review – life after the apocalypse

Set centuries from now, this gripping tale of retribution against the corporations who fuelled climate breakdown has echoes of Cormac McCarthy