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Daniel Bachman
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Guitar, etc./Folklore & History of Virginia/Gardener
Manahoac Territory
Born at 353.15 ppm.
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This g Sichuan peppercorn oil is taking the fried soy curls to another level. 😮‍💨
A small jar of green got an numbing oil.
January 18, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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These are the last of our French fry sizes potatoes. We grew around 150 lbs this year and just now running out!
A basket of Yukon gold potatoes cooked golden brown and seasoned with old bay.
January 17, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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I would also like to plug the tireless efforts of @climatehuman.bsky.social and @scientistrebellion.bsky.social
January 16, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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Excited to share this event honoring the first Virginia folk performer to get an Encyclopedia Virginia entry, Texas Gladden. We will share lots of music from the archive & have ballad singer Elizabeth LaPrelle speak to her influence in her work.

Texas Gladden & the Art of Appalachian Ballads
A red flyer for the event shows a picture of Texas gladden holding her babies walking through a apple orchard in some hollow outside of salem Virginia. EntryPoint: Texas Gladden & the Art of Appalachian Ballads FEBRUARY 4. 2026
January 16, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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Winter garden check in. Things growing slowly, but really happy with how everyone is doing. I really love the winter garden. Ira Wallace calls it the outdoor refrigerator and it really feels like that.
Rows of cabbage and other brassicas, onions, collards, kales, and all kinds of winter veg uncovered. A row of winter lettuce grows slowly under plastic row cover. A small row of mini cabbages almost ready for harvest. A basket of turnips handful of broccoli shoots, and a cabbage that had gone rotten on the outer layers.
January 14, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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Getting some good ones this week.
A brilliant sunset behind the closest ridge along the Robinson river madison co.
January 13, 2026 at 10:27 PM
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Bevis looking cute today.
Our cat Bevis sitting in her little cardboard bed looking cute and fluffy.
January 10, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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Still getting nice sized turnips from the garden. We lost most of our daikon grow this winter to that one arctic blast, but these ones and the white Japanese variety did well under cover.
A handful of purple too Turnips
January 8, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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Definitely the most unique chip item
I’ve ever had. It’s like if you stacked bugles and rolled them up, then covered in a dust made of sweet creamed corn, and then added some sugar.
A bag of turtle chips, it shows a comic book turtle gasping at how good they taste.
January 7, 2026 at 1:52 AM
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Another year growing my favorite green & prob the most prolific one in the garden year after year, the Old Fashioned Ragged Edge Mustard. 🥬
A basket of greens above an opened garden bed. Greens grow under the white row cover.
January 5, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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Starting to get these mini cabbages in the garden.
A medium sized tiara cabbage, it’s fan leaves surround a small dense cabbage head.
January 3, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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Sharing thoughts/process with these historic trees Im working with at patreon. This is a baldcypress that is upwards of 1000 years old along the Nottoway River. Also included a clip of an interview I did with big tree hunter Byron Carmean, who calls this cypress a “turnip tree” because of its shape.
January 3, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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For real this movie is the kind of portrayal of contemporary resistance that we need to see a lot more of in popular culture. It’s amazing.
The lead role in the film wears a Nelson Mandela mask after shooting a surveillance drone out of the sky with a bow and arrow and killing it with rock.
January 1, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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Start your 2026 off right with this melon grab off of the former JEB Stuart monument on Monument Ave in Richmond with local legend Brandon Bonner. ❤️‍🔥
January 1, 2026 at 6:21 AM
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Hope everyone is having a good night out there. We got this thing going and the Alpha Boys School radio station playing from Kingston Jamaica. Happy New Year!

radio.garden/listen/alpha...
Aldona standing Behind a barrel full of fire, the truck is in the background with more wood to burn.
January 1, 2026 at 4:39 AM
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Ready for New Years 😜
A small basket of young collar leaves ready for cooking with, their leaves are green with spots of purple or blue A old barrel full of sticks and paper ready for tonight. More wood sits in the back of a truck behind it.
December 31, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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December 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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View from Shiloh Baptist in Woodville VA today.
A brown white and blue colored landscape with a road winding towards the moody clouded mountains in the distance.
December 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Christmas time for Bevis.
Our cat Bevis sitting in front of my guitar on her favorite pink chair and in front of the Christmas lights
December 25, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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It’s a hot Christmas here in the Shenandoah Blue Ridge. 66F/19C.
A view of the Robinson River valley and mountains above it. Blakey Ridge to the left and Double Top to the right.
December 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Kenmore Cleaners probzbly sometime in the 80s, partially covered with Ivy. I remember that little sign up too with the slogan, in by 10 dirty clean by 430 and the little guy
December 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Whole lot of new music coming out in 2026 & regular posts with it on my patreon. I can’t thank everyone who contributed in 2025 enough, it literally keeps me going rn! ❤️‍🔥

www.patreon.com/DanielBachman Daniel Bachman | music, mixed media art, indy folklore/history research | Patreon
December 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Happy winter solstice
A big fire burning in an old barrel in our yard
December 22, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Rainbow emanating from the base of Double Top this morning.
A rainbow curving through the double peaks of double top mountain. The ground looks moist and the air looks cool.
December 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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…if beaches are lost to sea level rise, the few plants that are well adapted to the harsh beach environment will be lost. Habitat for…sand diggers, sand fleas, & beach tiger beetles will be lost. Shorebirds that rely on beaches for forage and nesting will face more limited resources.
A section of an article on sea level rise in Virginias Northern Neck. “Presumably, if beaches are lost to sea level rise, the few plants that are well adapted to the harsh beach environment will be lost. Habitat for insects and other invertebrates such as sand diggers, sand fleas, and beach tiger beetles will be lost. Shorebirds that rely on beaches for forage and nesting (e.g., turnstones, sanderlings, and 578 plovers) will face more limited resources.”
December 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM