Growing food, relationships, and myself on 50 acres stolen from the Onʌyote’a•ka (Oneida) people. Likely writing about a variety of small farming and animal husbandry techniques with many dubious outcomes, and climate resiliency.

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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • We tried to see how close to food self-sufficiency we could get last year. We hovered about 90% from May - Jan 1, that was all just myself and my partner. Mostly what we bought was sugar, flour, coffee, oat milk, and spices.

    This year we’re taking it a little easier, and have had 4 different helpers come through for 1-4 weeks at a time. They’ve been a huge help, and report that what they learn and get from the experience feels just as valuable to them. We also got our maple sap boiling system set up, so next year we can probably get off of sugar as well.

    Self-sufficiency isn’t really the goal, though. We just want the skills so we can help teach folks when community sufficiency becomes necessary. It’s impossible to do everything yourself, but together we can go a long ways.


  • Yep! This year we’re growing sheep, goats, chickens, tomato, potato, corn, beans, chickpea, snap peas, apples, peaches, mushrooms, and probably 20 more things I can’t remember.

    We’re on 50 acres, half wooded, so lots of foraging too… dandelion, lamb’s quarter, thistle, ladies thumb, lots of berries, apples, mushrooms, walnuts, dock.

    Usually some volunteer kale and squash, but not so much this year. We stopped growing greens since there’s so much edible green stuff that just pops up around the yard and beds for free.



  • I’m a little late to this party, but we’re working on homesteading / regenerating / solarpunking ~50 acres of central NY. Lots of foraging, gardening, a few sheep / goats / horses. Currently experimenting with letting volunteer trees grow sparsely in some of the large fields to see how things around them fare in comparison to full sun.

    We generate more power off of solar than we consume, and have enough storage to last indefinitely (if uncomfortably in the winter) off grid.

    We’re slowly learning to make clothes from raw wool to woven cloth, and have a 200yo barn frame loom just waiting for enough spun wool to set it up.

    We teach like to teach and learn, so host folks who want to get their hands dirty. Renovating rooms in the house so we can host more folks!