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2 weeks in to red currant wine 🍷

Never made a currant wine before first time I’ve had enough fruit to attempt it
January 14, 2026 at 3:46 AM
OMG ! You’re in the article! You’re Famous! You’re an Influencer! I’m proud to internet know you sort of!
January 13, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Woah

For home purposes I train everything to an open vase shape

If yours is already that tall you might be in a pickle

How old? Very strong

I have a friend who cut up to 2 inches diameter with no major ill affects.

And people top work 4” or more all the time, often OK, sometimes not
January 12, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Sunrise and mt hood

As the season progresses they get closer to each other , it makes
Henges oriented to the sun and moon make more sense , like in the way that our bodies learn things

Yesterday government attempted to morder a husband and wife not far from where i took this picture on my commute
January 9, 2026 at 3:51 PM
What do we make of the line?

Does it indicate a path that’s no longer open like how the left hand or sometimes center path are broken in occult symbology for the sephiroths?
January 7, 2026 at 6:29 PM
New food guidelines… beans 🫘 are only mentioned twice and both times as sometimes substitutes for meat if you really want to

bonkers wtf

The whole upper left hand bit of this graphic should be beans

And from a ecológical perspective no one should be encouraged to eat beef
January 7, 2026 at 5:48 PM
What a ludicrous time to be alive, what an asinine list of plants , and hopefully I don’t need to say it but “detoxing” is fake

I *hate* this time line
January 5, 2026 at 7:12 PM
I went and did it!

Medlar jam is good! Better than the raw medlars!

Light apple, strawberry, rose cinnamon flavor?
January 5, 2026 at 2:04 AM
I’m trying not to be bitter but it’s wildly unfair that some of my suppliers (who are just normal American companies not even European) are taking off paid from 12/23-1/8.

I have 2 suppliers who are doing this and it not only makes my job difficult but I am very jealous
December 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
This is like that sub plot in the movie Elf .
December 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“But I’ve already bought all my rootstock and scion wood for this coming season”

-said no me ever !
December 21, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Now in VistaVision
December 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Wait what time of year is it?

Don’t tell my Dahlias
December 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Not to be rude maybe it’s your first day of plant school, but by your second day of plant school you should be able to tell these apart

Might as well see a poke salat and say “yum! A blackberry”
December 20, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Me and @spindlypete.bsky.social have a good friend who worked on the plant breeding group at OSU that developed the Columbia series of Blackberries (marionberries) and recently got in a huge fight on Reddit in a fruit group where someone posted the attached picture and asked “what fruit is this?”
December 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Learning about fruit is funny.

In the PacNW newton pippin is mostly known for cider because 2Towns and the old Reverend Nat’s made a big deal about it,

But it’s a medium high acid dessert apple really. With a stronger oak like tannin backbone than say a Granny Smith
December 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
This is basically what I saw

But imagine it’s getting dark and it’s recently heavily rained,

I was listening to On The Nature of Daylight and , somewhat aligned with the music this guy was like a fountain, all liquid , he arched back a little bit so it was going up a little before it came down
December 6, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Box 6 sneak peak
November 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Finally had a good fuji apple 🍎
Surprising “pear drop” flavors , less crunchy than industrial grown but really good flavor

Grown at the training orchard I volunteer at

I industrially buy fuji for my day job and this is a totally different apple
November 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
It’s unbelievable that “Come On! Let’s Boogie to the Elf Dance” is on the same album as “Sister Winter” the same as “Puts the Lights On the Tree” the same as “Star of Wonder”

You almost flew too close to the sun on this one, Sufjan, my sweet man.
November 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I’m gonna tell my kids that this was Leito Atreides 2
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I went back to twitter to find it , from 11/3/21, 4 years ago, wild.

If I made it today I’d reference the last episode of the muppet sitcom Dinosaurs in 1994 as the first data point
November 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The Arkansas Black really is an excellent baking apple 🍎

Oat crust
Apple caramel jam
Almond and chestnut 🌰 frangipane
Arkansas Black Apple 🍎
November 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Sending a bunch of bean orders tomorrow!

If you haven’t ordered yet you’re probably too late for thanksgiving parties but!

Basically everything in the sweet bean box and box 5 are ideal for holiday parties!

Even the miso soup 🥣 will be useful the day after when you’re pickled and can’t think
November 20, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Wow

You know how yew trees are often found in old churches and their graveyards in the UK?

Just learned: THE TREES PREDATE THE CHURCHES! They put the churches and graveyards there BECAUSE the yew tree 🌲 was already there!
November 16, 2025 at 4:12 AM