jesssowards
Jess Sowards

Homesteader. Gardener. Lover of good food and pretty words. South Carolina is home.

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2026-02-07 12:21:57 UTC

Hairy coos
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2025-11-16 16:48:03 UTC

Good morning, darlings.
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2025-09-09 06:26:18 UTC

Spent the last week or so in Bonnie Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 It’s been lovely getting to know her.
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2025-09-01 07:10:30 UTC

Gm, Nostr. #coffeechain

2025-08-27 14:18:38 UTC

Good morning, Nostr. I hope your coffee is as good as mine this morning. #coffeechain #goodmorning #coffeeroaster
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2025-08-27 11:49:24 UTC

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Yes I still have her. This was from when we moved the flock into the garden at the end of the season to do clean up duty. She’s an old girl now, probably about 4?

2025-08-26 23:01:31 UTC

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Always feel free to hijack my notes with images of floppy eared bunnies. 👌👏👏👏

2025-08-26 23:00:37 UTC

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Canon 70-200 2.8L. I admittedly refer to it as “the precious”

2025-08-26 16:51:01 UTC

This is, to date, one of my favorite photos I’ve ever taken. #photography
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2025-08-25 20:47:13 UTC

I actually love paying people to do jobs I can’t do. Being able to support others to be able to use the skills they have feels good. BUT….i also have a toxic dose of DIY running through my veins. Frequently I have to talk myself off the ledge, reminding myself that supporting someone else to do a job 10 times more efficiently and with more skill than me is better, freeing my time up to do the things I am good at.
Occasionally though, the DIY makes sense. Occasionally I do have the tools, if not the skill, and though I may have to bumble through, it’s a bumbling worth doing.
I’m currently adding “food photographer” to my list of jobs. I don’t particularly care for this work. I much prefer telling stories through my photos. However, I’m saving a lot of money photographing my cookbook myself and I do like the fact that it makes it more personal.
Anyway, here’s to learning new skills, and for knowing when not to.
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2025-08-25 13:56:32 UTC

This is what seasonal eating looks like in South Carolina summer. I look forward to this charred okra and pea salad all year.
Ingredients
For the dressing
½ cup olive oil
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
Juice of 2 lemons
2 teaspoons lemon zest
2 tablespoons chopped fresh herbs (parsley, thyme, oregano or a mix)
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon black pepper
For the salad
4 cups fresh or frozen field peas (or cowpeas/black-eyed peas)
1 pound okra, halved lengthwise
1 pint cherry tomatoes, halved
2 tablespoons oil (for charring)
Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
Whisk together dressing ingredients in a bowl: olive oil, mustard, lemon juice and zest, herbs, salt, and pepper. Set aside.
In a saucepan, bring water to a boil. Add 2 tablespoons salt and the peas. Reduce heat and simmer for about 8 minutes, until tender-crisp. Drain and cool.
Heat a cast iron or heavy skillet over medium-high heat. Add coconut oil until it just smokes.
Place okra cut-side down in the pan in batches. Let it char undisturbed for about 2 minutes, flip, and cook another minute. Remove and repeat with remaining okra.
In the same pan, add tomatoes cut-side down and cook 2 minutes, flip for 1 more minute. Remove.
In a large bowl, toss the peas with the dressing. Gently fold in the okra and tomatoes. Taste and add more salt if needed.
Salt and pepper to taste. Garnish with extra fresh herbs and serve.
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2025-08-24 19:49:22 UTC

Grocery shopping in the yard. You can just grow food. #grownostr #growfood
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2025-08-23 16:27:13 UTC

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Your caption is better than mine. 😂

2025-08-23 15:26:52 UTC

Saturday morning in the August garden. #grownostr #growfood
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2025-08-22 16:47:16 UTC

Artists, these chickens. They’re artists! #colorfuleggs #farmtotablebreakfast #growfood
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2025-08-22 04:06:17 UTC

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Just a block of feta in a cast iron pan, drizzle of olive oil, finely minced garlic, red pepper flakes. Put it in a hot oven or on a hot grill. Maybe 15-20 minutes until it’s browning. Take it out and dump a bunch of finely chopped fresh herbs on top (soft ones like basil and parsley). The eat on bread, or potatoes or chicken or stand over the pan burning your mouth just eating it with a spoon.

2025-08-22 01:12:34 UTC

Pepper rich. #grownostr
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2025-08-20 13:02:07 UTC

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True. Generational conformity can get you an in as well.

2025-08-20 12:59:23 UTC

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I think people are just picked for their willingness to conform. Consider the sororities and fraternities so many of them come from as one single example of a system that demands sameness to succeed.

2025-08-20 12:57:50 UTC

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Had someone tell me recently that Bitcoin was the mark of the beast 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️
The deceived don’t know they’re deceived, and fiat is a great deception.

2025-08-20 12:53:24 UTC

Gm, Nostr. #coffeechain #coffeestr
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2025-08-20 12:50:42 UTC

Quick snap from the Provst dungeon under the Old Exchange in Charleston. This space was primarily a cellar but during the period of the revolutionary war, while the British held Charleston, an estimated 6k people were held (not all at once) in medieval conditions in this space. Men, women, and children, shackled and kept on stale bread and sickly water. With rats in the straw which was their only bed and riddled by mosquitos that came in through the small barred windows. Countless people died here, but few records were kept. They were imprisoned for their treason to the crown.
Additionally, as there isn’t much natural stone in coastal Charleston, the majority of the city is built with bricks which were, of course, hand packed by enslaved people of the surrounding plantations. If you look closely in places like the dungeon, which have been protected from the erosion of rain, you can find thumbprints in a lot of the bricks.
All of this took place 200-300 years ago. All of this is recent history.
I’m currently homeschooling my sons (ages 13,12, & 10) and in teaching them history, I’m also teaching them to keep their eyes open to current events that will still be studied and talked about 300 years from now. Can you imagine what will be written and told about the time we’ve lived in, and the insanity people just accept as normal? I expect it will be just as hard to wrap our heads around as these things, which many people accepted as normal back then.
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2025-08-20 12:37:54 UTC

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👏👏👏
#nevent1q…6yhy

2025-08-20 12:36:52 UTC

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Congratulations!!!

2025-08-20 12:32:53 UTC

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You can freeze the hide and cure it later but it isn’t terribly difficult.

2025-08-19 02:00:39 UTC

Church and Union in Charleston, SC.
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2025-08-18 01:25:38 UTC

Brought my boys down to Charleston for a little homeschool history trip. I could wander the historic district all day just taking in the gardens. 😍
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2025-08-16 15:50:48 UTC

She’s wild and I love her for it. #gardenstr #grownostr
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2025-08-15 16:58:26 UTC

I raise my coffee cup to the Jersey cow. #growfood #rawmilk
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2025-08-12 14:23:35 UTC

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Happy birthday Lois ♥️♥️♥️

2025-08-12 12:22:41 UTC

Good morning darlings. The garden is dwindling and I’m realizing how much I love August. For years, I lamented the end of summer but these recent years, it’s come like blessed relief. Tearing out the tomato plants and turning under the patch where the potatoes grew feels like permission to rest.
I love the season of the garden where the roots grow, where the evenings are chilly and there is so war to be waged on pests. I do miss the dahlias though, so now I’ll just appreciate every offering they make as if it might be their last. #grownostr #gardenstr
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2025-08-10 00:09:52 UTC

Grilled marinated chicken thighs, herby new potatoes, roasted feta with fresh herbs. Green salad not pictured.
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2025-08-10 00:08:19 UTC

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They’ll probably be pretty seedy but you could use them. Maybe roast for dip and try to remove the seeds.

2025-08-09 23:35:44 UTC

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Gorgeous

2025-08-09 23:16:13 UTC

We built this herb garden by the house this year and every time I run out to grab a handful of herbs while food cooks on the stove, I’m thankful for the proximity.
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2025-08-08 19:14:06 UTC

This years doelings are some of the sweetest and best looking girls I’ve had in over 10 years of goat keeping. Two are going to a friend and the other two are staying with me.
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2025-08-06 01:21:11 UTC

Recording a podcast after taking a little break.
This summer was a season to let the low end drag. Multiple injuries and illnesses in our household meant we met our limit at a lower capacity than usual. Prioritizing became necessary, and I had to choose what from my to-do list would be left undone.
Before I began picking things back up, I took the opportunity to assess everything in my life that I give my energy to. There’s nothing like a forced slowdown to show you just how fast you were moving in the first place.
The pace of this culture is inhuman. It is not cohesive with healthy humanity. That is why people keep laying their most basic needs on the altar of it.
They give up sleep, neglect the care of their bodies, set aside the needs of their relationships, and trade them for what?
This culture hands them money, earned in a rigged system that steadily robs the value from our days and hours.
I am making space for margin. Time to drink coffee slowly. Time to go for a walk after dinner and leave the laptop closed. Time to stop seeing every empty block on the calendar as a space where I should be working harder.
I am choosing margin. I am quitting the things that do not matter, so I can carry the things that do.
This podcast is one of them.
New episodes coming soon.
https://fountain.fm/show/M1s4EKnaRZne2MBRtq6A
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2025-08-04 14:17:38 UTC

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Yes please 👏👏👏

2025-08-04 14:00:13 UTC

Came to the orchard to pick pears and found a bonus shirt full of the biggest, fattest figs I’ve ever had. #gonnabeagooddaytater #growfood
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2025-08-01 16:49:38 UTC

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And thank you!!! ♥️

2025-08-01 16:49:25 UTC

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It’s currently slated for the end of summer 2026!

2025-08-01 16:45:39 UTC

Sadly, we are coming to the end of the tomato onslaught. I consider any tomatoes I get in August and beyond a bonus, as the plants have blight and struggle with our summer heat. It’s always sweet while it lasts though.
Took these photos for my coming cookbook. Chowed down afterwards. #growfood #eatgoodfood #grownostr
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2025-07-31 23:59:11 UTC

Cooking for five sons aka why I grow food.
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2025-07-30 00:18:18 UTC

An interesting evening sky tonight over South Carolina.
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2025-07-29 11:59:25 UTC

Enjoyed gardening under the sunset last night. I also enjoyed that it was *only* 86 degrees at 9pm after days of a murderous heat wave.
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2025-07-28 10:19:25 UTC

Front porch. Summertime. Preferably eaten barefoot after finishing garden chores.
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2025-07-25 19:45:30 UTC

Dr. Wyche’s Yellow tomato is one of my top recs for anyone wanting to grow heirlooms. Fruits are all over 1lb each, super meaty and delicious, and the plants are healthy and prolific. This harvest was from 3 plants. I’ve already pulled at least this many, some of which topped 2 lbs, and there are many more left to ripen. #grownostr #gardenstr #gardening #growfood
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2025-07-25 16:25:01 UTC

I recently got into smoking meat. I still have a lot to learn but I did a pork belly the other day and my boys approved. Anyone have any favorites that I should try next? I do have a home raised turkey in the freezer I’m thinking of pulling out and trying. #foodstr
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2025-07-24 10:33:20 UTC

This is summertime. #grownostr #growfood
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2025-07-22 19:48:12 UTC

Roasting the garden goods for salsa. How’s your summer going?
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2024-10-21 12:11:10 UTC

Good morning, fine folks. #coffeestr #fiberart #farmhousemorning
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2024-10-18 12:05:06 UTC

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So beautiful!

2024-10-14 12:27:47 UTC

Any fiber crafters here?
I get so joyfully excited about a freshly wound ball of yarn.
#crochet
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2024-09-29 19:10:19 UTC

Post hurricane cooking continues….
Omelet with cheese, dried chanterelles, leftover chicken and dried shallots & canned peaches on the side.
#thrivenotsurvive
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2024-09-29 14:38:37 UTC

Sourdough discard pancakes on the blackstone during the power outage post Helene.
2 C. Flour
1 C discard
2 tsp baking power
1 tsp baking soda
3 T sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp salt
1 1/2- 1 3/4 C milk
Mix together and let sit for 5-10 minute before cookings. Will be a little lumpy.
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2024-09-28 12:29:21 UTC

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One if the mixes I’ve worked on for a handful of generations. Originating parents were Black copper marans and crested cream leg bars with welsummers mixed in along the way.

2024-09-26 21:25:29 UTC

A little homestead harvest from earlier this week. The edge Helene has been dumping on us since the morning with no end in sight. I probably won’t see eggs this clean for at least a few days. #grownostr
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2024-09-26 21:23:23 UTC

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A mix, but mostly the brown turkeys are coming in right now. Several varieties are barely setting fruit here in middle SC

2024-09-24 23:00:10 UTC

My favorite food in the wide world. #grownostr
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2024-09-22 12:49:14 UTC

Scuppernong and Muscadine season. (Wild Grapes)
A friend gifted these, and I’m going to pick more today. I ate so many my lips went a bit numb, so now I’ll make wine with the rest. #grownostr #foodstr
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2024-08-15 23:21:43 UTC

I lost two lambs today. These two guys were in rough shape when I found them. Thankfully, with some intervention, I think they will pull through. I suspect selenium deficiency, and am moving my sheep over to the highly recommended Duraferm mineral and supplementing all the lambs born in the last week.
My heart is heavy today. Farm life is beautiful but not for the faint of heart.
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2024-08-15 15:14:42 UTC

Attention, please. #sheep #grownostr #homesteading https://video.nostr.build/03105e4e9fc3fc1d066cf1d7a97af63343ca195ee507adbec1b6e42f2e63d2c3.mp4

2024-08-12 00:39:56 UTC

Garlic confit has no business being so good with how easy it is. Spread on crusty bread, mashed into potatoes, topping a bowl of hash or eaten clove by clove, I love this stuff.
Whole peeled garlic cloves
Covered in olive oil
Added some fresh parsley, salt and pepper flakes.
325 degrees for 45 or so.
The cloves get all soft and mellow, and the oil becomes sweetish garlic-infused magic. #tastynostr #grownostr
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2024-08-11 13:28:22 UTC

Born during a brief break in the rain on Thursday as the tropical storm sat over South Carolina. Jersey/Devon cross. Possibly a future family dairy cow. Nostr, meet our newest calf, Little Debby. #grownostr
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2024-08-11 00:28:57 UTC

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Fried chicken, eggs, pizza, cream cheese

2024-08-11 00:28:29 UTC

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No ACV though, just honey so much thicker and used more like a condiment

2024-08-11 00:27:12 UTC

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Mesmerizing

2024-08-10 23:19:28 UTC

Fermented hot pepper/garlic honey underway. Would it be weird to set a two week countdown on my phone and wait eagerly by?
Cup of sliced garlic cloves
6-8 sliced chili peppers
One diced onion
A handful of thyme
Covered by a quart of honey
Cover with something breathable and leave it on the counter for two weeks. Don’t seal, it’s going to be gassy and need to breathe.
You could make less, but why would you? #grownostr #tastynostr
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2024-08-06 23:00:46 UTC

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What a great analagy

2024-07-24 23:45:15 UTC

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Sausage? Rillettes? Something tasty for sure!

2024-07-24 21:42:56 UTC

Foraged Chanterelles with @npub132h…e2yu and loaded the freeze dryer while the local peaches side-eyed me because they’ve been waiting to be processed for 3 days.
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2024-07-16 18:41:05 UTC

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You could also make a tea and soak the foot in the tea! Hope it feels better soon.

2024-07-11 13:49:15 UTC

The first big tomato harvest of the year. About 15 lbs on the way to become salsa.
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2024-06-20 13:46:37 UTC

If you’re gardening in a hot climate, I cannot recommend this cucumber enough. Silver Slicer can be picked young for pickling or allowed to grow large as a salad slicer. White skin, prolific and doesn’t get even a tad tough or bitter with our 90+ daily highs in SC.
4 plants will give me enough to can a years worth of pickles and relish. 👏👏
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2024-06-18 22:43:19 UTC

Lovely views and sumptuous feasts, the garden gives generously, again and again. #grownostr
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2024-06-18 22:22:06 UTC

Lovely views and sumptuous feasts, the garden gives generously, again and again. #grownostr

2024-06-04 14:34:02 UTC

If you’ve never sunk your fingers into the earth and come up with golden plunder,
Dusted dirt away and washed tender skins gently,
Cooked a new potato gently with cream or butter or duck fat,
Sprinkled it with chunky salt and maybe some torn herbs just plucked from the garden,
I am afraid, dear friend, you may not know what a potato was meant to taste like.
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2024-06-03 21:48:39 UTC

The rogue flowerbed volunteer pumpkin is going wild and it’s my favorite plant on the whole farm.
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2024-05-20 17:32:24 UTC

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They’re pretty much finished in SC but it was a loud few weeks

2024-05-14 22:46:10 UTC

What are the guidelines of posting video in Nostr? What works best?
Im working on some short format stuff and I’d love to share.

2024-05-13 20:49:48 UTC

A storm is blowing in to soak the blooming garden and water in all the things planted today. It’s funny how impatiently I await spring but somehow I always find myself taken aback by it. Either way, it’s fully here now. Next stop, canning season.
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2024-05-11 16:08:04 UTC

Enjoying things like pickled beets makes me feel like a real adult.
Finding them beautiful makes me feel like a real artist.
Growing it myself makes me feel like a real gardener.
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2024-05-11 13:21:24 UTC

The aurora borealis shone brilliantly over South Carolina last night. Though I was wondering how northern lights could have gotten so terribly misplaced, I did enjoy that they came south for a visit.
(This photo was taken by a friend a few miles from my home. My view was hindered by our pines.)
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2024-05-10 18:36:40 UTC

Lavender strawberry jam. 😘
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2024-05-10 11:45:27 UTC

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The typos in my response are silly given the context. 😂 Don’t worry, the books had editors.

2024-05-08 17:20:06 UTC

This morning: a goat milking story. #raisefood #feedyourself #grownostr
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2024-05-08 17:16:51 UTC

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So tasty!

2024-05-08 11:57:08 UTC

This time of year, the garden holds many demands but at least it also holds snacks. #grownostr
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2024-05-05 00:08:27 UTC

Trusty dog.
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2024-05-04 11:42:03 UTC

Spring is in full swing on our South Carolina homestead.
Goats and cows in milk
Eggs are coming in strong
Three ewe lambs born this week
So. Many. Strawberries.
Chamomile harvesting
Artichokes setting
The last of the beets and rutabagas pulled
Onions are bulbing.
Hog processed, filling the freezer after winter.
Seeds are popping up, plants transplanted.
What food are you growing? What is your favorite season of harvest?
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2024-04-27 21:01:35 UTC

Sometimes I’m overwhelmed by the corruption and control I see in the world we live in. It’s overwhelming to be aware of but I’d rather have awareness than the blissful ignorance I observe so many enjoying.
I’d rather know and prepare, to build alternate sources of sustenance, to build something that isn’t so easily destroyed.
It gets a little hopeless when I observe through the phone in my hand.
But when I go outside and feel the spring clover tickling my feet, hear the cicadas loudly droning, smell the roses, welcome the newest life, I realize there’s a great steadiness. And then I keep building, planting and growing, and I think that it can make all the difference.
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2024-04-25 19:04:28 UTC

One of the things I love most about the garden is though she may fiercely humble you in one moment, she gives you a mind blowing win the next. #gardeners #grownostr
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2024-04-24 12:18:12 UTC

GM, Nostr! #coffee #coffeechain

2024-04-24 11:41:27 UTC

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😳🔥🔥🔥👏👏👏

2024-04-21 15:47:42 UTC

It’s strawberry season in SC. Anyone have any ways they love to use strawberries? In the next two weeks I’m planning on freeze drying a lot, and making strawberry jam and strawberry jalapeño jam. Of course, we will also eat lots fresh and make a good deal of ice cream. What else?
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2024-04-21 00:25:59 UTC

Big ole shell cracker. We’ve worked to balance our farm pond’s population and fish like this show me it’s working.
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2024-04-18 23:27:46 UTC

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So cool! I wish we could grow them!

2024-04-18 23:27:16 UTC

I have countless childhood memories with a Zebco in hand, and now my boys do too. Any fishermen (or women) here? #fishing #grownostr

2024-04-18 13:53:45 UTC

The Iris blooms are magic this week. #grownostr
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2024-04-16 23:15:29 UTC

I love this time of year. The farm is so alive and so peaceful. #grownostr
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