Been really into making fermented hot sauces lately! With a mixture of home grown and store bought ingredients. Playing with adding things post-fermentation as well such as roasting second rounds of peppers, pomegranates & plums, kaffir lime leaves & curry leaf, soy & tomatoes, etc. in diff batches!

This hip harness by RiverQueer has seen me through a LOT of body changes over the last ~5 years, and I still love it dearly.

"Pack leader" this, "alpha male" that, that's all crap, but if you wanted me to put you in your place, all you had to do was ask!

Acorn is such a happy rooster when feasting on the fallen apples! He's such a good boy too, calling the hens over to check out all the good fruit he finds!

The chickens are getting braver and venturing farther from the coop when free ranging, and have discovered the apple and cherry trees! They have loved pecking at the fallen fruit and weeds!

Quick little sunset photo dump of the garden. Cosmos, wild fireweed, and nasturtium!

Some very sexy late summer early autumn jam I started at 9am this morning - kyoho grapes, late summer plums and apriums, might throw some foraged blackberries in, dark purple blooms and blood crimson juices. it smells great in here.

My chickens are really loving this super simple enrichment of some random tree prunings jammed into a pot!

Sweet woodruff ice cream!

I'm still very much in the early stages of recovery from my hip surgery, but I've been able to work on a few projects here and there! Here is St John's Wort two ways, with the help of my partner! Alcohol tincture, and topical salve, using local raw beeswax.

For me, solidarity looks like enduring brambles, mosquitos, full body rashes, asthma attacks, & MCAS attacks to everything around me, even right before surgery, even through med changes, so I can learn to make medicine for community and comrades. We have to get comfortable with being uncomfortable.