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Noctarch Studios is my collective name for all my efforts and crafts. Building self-sufficiency brick by brick to build community self-sufficiency. Chainmail Society. Feed a man, teach a man, give him means.
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First time making soup from real produce and I saved the seeds. Realized after this was kind of practice for the kind of processing I want to do to save seeds and distribute them. Seed cup seeds aren't even all germinating and I'm struggling to keep up and not damp off precious sprouts.
A baker's cooling rack covered with a paper towel and covered with all the seeds saved from a pumpkin, nice and clean and dry. The pumpkin the seeds were saved from, cut open and sitting on a bamboo cutting board. The skin is a sort of tan color and the flesh is BRIGHT orange. Countertop ice maker and kitchen odds and ends in the background. Six upright little asparagus sprouts in a seed cup, a small tray is sat in the sunlight to help the seedlings not become too leggy in search of light
December 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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I made my first meal in a crockpot, intended as chili and morphed into like, a beef and potato stew typa deal. All by myself. And it's good. I'm kind of emotional over breakfast. Checkpoint save, achievement get. In a trough doing peak shit 💪 (even forgot the beans a whole day after rinsing them)
A small black soup bowl held in... palm? Laptop in background. Bowl contains stew made in a crockpot, consisting of broth, ground beef, potatoes, carrot, celery, garlic, and onion (with seasonings)
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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I started a jar of vanilla extract. It's so pretty... I'll make the beans into paste once they're finished "extracting" and we'll see how many times I have to do it again before my vines get big enough to flower. Even vacuum sealed, they smelled heavenly. Did a fire cider, too.
November 17, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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The first eggs are ready to go. I had the afterthought to include a recipe for 3 ingredient peanut butter cookies on the backs of the notes. A whole 4-dozen to kick off. First freeze hitting the 20's tonight but my seed cups look AMAZING.
November 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Trying to find the energy reserves to be active again. Over 80 seeds set in soil to germinate. Putting eggs in free pantries tomorrow and will continue indefinitely. Harvesting cassava and sugar cane tomorrow ahead of our first temp dip- right into the friggin 20's.
Portion cups sitting on a white widow sill, two visibly labeled "yuzu" and "peanut butter fruit", and each of those sporting a green sprout. (FYI the yuzu has three more this morning) Two portion cups sitting on a black plastic folding table in a garage, the foremost cup bursting over with sprouting lentils that are lifting all of the dirt cap over the top of them.
November 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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My first bug got moldy. My first sourdough is... having troubles. Lol I made a fresh bug (Shuckle), a new sourdough starter (Leeloo), and fed the original starter after 1am. I'm also on Day 4 of my very first "Amish Friendship Bread" starter. Little by little, "life" is finding it's way back in.
Leeloo's place on the black bookcase- between some laminated calendars and my ceramic pumpkin jar of candy. My little Noctarch Studios logo is propped in front of the candy pumpkin and a Princess Mononoke postcard featuring Ashitaka and Yakul peeks out from the back. Leeloo's 24hr mark is technically in the wee hours and there's already some big bubbles starting to form. The fresh ginger bug thusly dubbed Shuckle, also showing the beginnings of life less than 24hrs into life. There's a tiny rim of tiny bubbles all around the edge of the jar where the slightly murky sugar water meets the glass, and the bits of chopped ginger from the initial feeding are in various stages of floating or sinking.
July 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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I feel like that one fluorescent light bulb that won't come on until 30min after you flip the switch. Happy to finally see some "movement", even if it is painfully slow.
Peanut butter cookies with fork tine criss-crosses and a pinch of extra sugar, sitting on a square red plate, made on impulse at 11:30 at night. Snall brown seed starting cups of soil on a weathered outdoor white table, some of which have started sprouting and growing. Corn and squash and melons so far, with kale in the bottom left corner. My sugar cane from the Agrirama, regrown from the undisturbed culm, and sporting at least 7 new canes to harvest this year. Some of them are getting really thick.
July 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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!!! I started both a ginger bug and a sourdough starter less than 36hrs ago and they're both aliiivveeee omg
A white countertop with a black microwave in the background providing a nice backdrop to a small point glass jar holding the ginger bug (just water, sugar, and ginger bits) and a quart jar holding an airy, doubled-in-size fresh baby sourdough starter. A more aerial view of the very bubbly top of the risen sourdough starter, before it gets it's first discard and feed.
July 16, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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A lot has changed. New orb weavers have popped up in the yard, some stuff is surviving, some stuff is dead. My beans look like kudzu, this is insane. I live somewhere else entirely now, the Studio will unfold wildly differently, but toward the same ends. I'm still acclimating.
Three very large, very purple muscadine grapes with tiny tan speckles, held in my palm next to the widow. A bald mess of bare roots from sprouting chestnuts as they were separated and planted, next to the long, narrow garden trowel that was used to break up soil. The happy green leaves of a cassava plant against a backdrop of grass, much too much grass. A new garden spider on the porch eaves, just like ol' Jimothy, with a white head, tan legs with black bands, and a black and yellow abdomen, sitting on her zigzag. She's a new baby and hadn't seen me before so she even shook her web for me so I'd see her and not mess anything up.
July 13, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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7+ orange tree seedlings growing in some dirt in a little sandwich bag. They're polyembryonic, which means more than one seedling will come from one single seed. Two pink lemon seedlings growing in a plastic portion cup of dirt A messy shot of the surviving vanilla orchids, plus old dried mugwort from last year and a dried luffa gourd
May 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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I'm taking the transition out of the Studio incredibly poorly. I had a meltdown. I always thought I'd break my hand for my first broken bone, wouldn't'cha know, it's my toe. 🫠 I don't know yet how Noctarch Studios plans will pan out. My only rudder intact is Survive Fascism. Grow food. Survive.
Poster's left foot, first three toes pictured, with focus on the swollen Big Toe that's mostly covered in a bright purple bruise. Backdrop of an old blue office chair with uneven black cross hatched stitching.
April 30, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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I may have to vacate the studio as Spring gets settled, cooling is proving vastly more difficult than heating. I'm grieving.
My chayote are sprouting, though. I can probably plant them now. I hope out of everything I kill, something bulk survives, like these or my Crazy Beans. All zucchini>all candy
A green chayote or choko squash, with a little pip of the seed poking through and slowly starting a root. A green chayote or choko squash that has split open as it sprouts, with a bit of the seed from inside poking out and starting a root, and the first vine emerging. The fruits get more blemished and wrinkly as the seed uses up the energy stored in the fruit to produce these first structures.
April 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Starting some orange seeds from a tree that came down in my cousin's yard, got a little fresh juice and brought in a dozen eggs for someone to fight over. Lol Trying to be motivated and do something before the darkness sets in in an hour. Mosquitos are already out.
On a thin yellow cutting mat sits two groups of orange seeds, the spent oranges sitting on the left side, the silver knife used to cut them sitting in the middle, and in the background is about a cup or so or fresh orange juice in a jar. A light blue Styrofoam egg carton sitting on a black induction stovetop, showcasing a dozen unwashed eggs of varying shades of cream.
April 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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By the very next morning, what was a small dig only deep enough to bleed a little was swollen, red, sore, and warm to the touch. I rinsed the scratch and medicated it, but even still. Never think something small can't have a large impact. Even just a chicken. Lol Antibiotics are setting it right.
A left hand held over a cluttered chair, with a bandaid across the right side of the heel of the palm and a bat tattoo on the wrist.
April 10, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Flax the chickens planted, in full bloom. Can't wait to harvest all this, I'll actually get to practice processing linen this year. 🥰 Dorian got me in the hand today, turd. Thoroughly exhausted and not feeling great. Still trying to find time to get videos started and energy to put words on medias.
Little pale blue flax flowers on wispy stalks growing up the front of the chicken run, with Dorian and three hens in the background checking out their day's greens and some sliced squash. A dusting of pale blue flax flowers with even more little green seed heads from previous day's flowers between them, growing in front of the chicken run with weeds and a random sunflower- also from the chickens' feed. A flower pot has been turned on its side to plug a hole near the back of the run, where digging holes to dust bathe in ended in the chickens nearly tunneling out of the run like a bunch of dogs.
April 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Turns out what I thought was milo was actually a TON of oats!
Seed heads forming on wild oat plants, formerly thought to be milo
March 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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One of the people receiving the excess eggs made me some really beautiful dishes in thanks. Apparently my hens are getting high praise. Lol I don't even know what to do with these yet. I kinda want to make a money bowl from the more decorative one. I love those layers of meaning and significance.
March 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Put teaberry/wintergreen in to chill with American beautyberry. Ordered taro, pepper, and chestnut replacements, fresh pawpaw, and new cork oak. This really pretty eucalyptus variety (moon lagoon), jicama, and some flowers for the Pretty. Trying to get things ironed out for an update video
Four cream colored and one off-white egg in a shallow ground nest the chickens have dug for themselves and all share. A luxurious fuzzy white moth holding tightly to a small carob seedling, with two green leaves up large in the foreground Small drooping green grain heads emerging from a stalk among an ocean of green corn-looking leaves of milo (a kind of sorghum) that the chickens unintentionally planted.
March 19, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Woke up to this gorgeous thing inside somehow. Need that one to go outside before the jumpers get to it. I feel like I was visited by royalty.
A pretty white moth on a pollen-dirty window, with an ac and ladder blurrily visible on the other side. The moth has little black dots on its wingtips, a little black eye, thin black antennae, and little black legs with yellow, with a big fluffy upper body that looks like a fur coat. A pretty white moth on a pollen-dirty window, with a ladder and part of an enclosed porch blurrily visible on the other side. The moth has little black dots on its wingtips, thin black antennae, and little black legs with yellow, with a big fluffy upper body that looks like a fur coat. The angle of the morning sun backlights its body through its wings like a delicate dress.
March 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Gonna be wheat.
A rectangle cut into a grass lawn with a garden hoe, where Spring Wheat will be seeded a little late.
March 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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I have a broken filling 😭
I'm excited to be off work tomorrow, there's a whole bunch starting to germinate, and the grapes are waking up. I'm hovering over the Concord, it survived in-store neglect so I'm praying if overwintered ok. It's so small, tho.
Dorian is in Roo-berty. No spurs yet THANK GOD
A Rhubard shoot with a crumpley leaf on a little red stem coming out of the ground. Pale green grape buds with red tinges wearing dewdrops from the morning, growing out of a scraggly trunk.
March 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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I've put more than 100 different things in soil so far. I was gifted Ylang Ylang, Dragon Tree, and Black Pearls, and I have never been so blindly excited for seedlings to show. I'll have to house the Ylang Ylang with my Vanilla. Today I'm hoping for an order with Roselles and Hickory Cane corn.
Two round black seeds with such a fine, soft fuzz on the surface they almost seem to glow, sitting on some soil in a planting cup. A screenshot of search results about the Mgambo, the Black Pearls, scientific name Majidea zanguebarica. A screenshot of search results about the Dragon Tree, this type being Dracaena cinnabari. It produces what we know as Dragon's Blood resin. A screenshot of search results about the Ylang Ylang Vine, scientific name Artabotrys hexapetalus. It is one of the "types" of Ylang Ylang used in perfumery.
March 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Yesterday I baked my very first bread ever and this morning, made breakfast with it and fresh eggs. Should have proofed longer. The chaos gardening has begun. A LOT more than I thought survived overwintering, and I've put easily more than 50 things in soil or to cold stratify. Trying something new.
Two bread loaf pans side-by-side on a crowded kitchen counter, holding a fresh "log" of bread dough in each, ready to proof. Two fresh bread loaves, golden brown but cracked on one side each, resting on a spatula to lift them off the black stovetop while they cool. A cut view of a bread loaf, showing a dense texture inside. Looks like sandwich bread, but a little short. The toasty underside of the cut loaf of bread, being held next to the kitchen sink for good light. It's almost a little too brown, and you can see the seams where the dough was rolled up.
March 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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I'm finally beginning to not only have the energy to even think about doing things, but also feel almost stir-crazy from inaction. I actually actively *want* to do yardwork and have a hint of overwhelm from all things the I really want to do, basically concurrently. Cold is coming but, the garden..
A view of a squinty sleepy white cat and a yawning black cat behind him, on a bed in front of an open window, through which some yard and black chickens can be seen. A view of a sleepy white cat and a black cat behind him looking out, on a bed in front of an open window, through which some yard and black chickens can be seen.
February 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Lol This lichen could have grown this way or been blown on by Helene, but it looks fun either way
An electric street light against a grey overcast sky with lichens hanging around the top
February 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM