Gwenfar's Garden @GwenfarsGarden@kith.kitchen

Progress! I have formatted the open letter, and it looks pretty much ready to send around. Here it is in PDF:

https://www.sunclipse.org/wp-content/downloads/2020/01/open-letter.pdf

And here is a copy in basic HTML:

https://www.sunclipse.org/wp-content/downloads/2020/01/open-letter.html

Signatories to date:
@noelle
@socrates
@milia
@host
@l4p1n
@koyu
@tyr
@er1n
@Sylvhem
@rey
@david
@liaizon

First garlic shoots.

This is 'Persian Star'. What a star!

#Gardening #Garlic

Seeing as a few people asked, this is the method I use. It works pretty well for me so far, but feel free to adapt things however you see fit. Everyone has to find what works for them, after all!

Sprouts are tasty and nutritious and they’re super easy to grow. You just need to take a little care, because the ideal conditions for growing sprouts are also ideal conditions for growing bacteria and mold. But if you know what to look out for, you shouldn’t have any trouble with either of those.

How to start a community kitchen
https://freedomnews.org.uk/dont-despair-organise-how-to-start-a-community-kitchen/

Art can be a great way to express something complex, like the experience of having a chronic illness, into something accessible that enables anyone to understand.

This work by Christine Baltais https://twitter.com/CBaltais expresses what it is like living with #MECFS better than anything that I have ever written about.

Dreams and Plans.
Living with ME.
1/6

#Art #MECFS #ChronicIllness #Health #MillionsMissing #NotEnough4ME #pwME #MyalgicE

This will soon go in the oven. It's a #vegan dish called "briam" (pronounced bree-am) but it will not stay vegan for long because I will eat it with cheese :-D

I know it's not Friday but everyone follow @qwazix for their food posts.

(I don't think they CW them, fair heads up)

How, in theory, can I make an Easter egg that looks like a Guillemot egg?

Question for people who do colouring in...

Yes, I know it's daggy, but I find colouring in very relaxing and it doesn't need too many spoons!

I would like to get some better quality colouring pencils that are smoother (the cheap ones I have feel scratchy, if that makes sense?). Can anyone recommend a particular type/brand?

#ColouringIn #AdultColouring

Would you prefer it I CW'd tech posts?

Anyway, I now have a huge number of baobab seeds. At least a few of these are bound to germinate!

Baobab fruit are eaten in various parts of Africa, like Angola and Zimbabwe. The fruit flesh is naturally dry and powdery. It has a similar texture to freeze dried ice cream, and a tangy flavour similar to tamarind.

My local grocery store sells quite a lot of African foods. One of the things they sometimes sell is baobab fruit. So I bought some!

@GwenfarsGarden @dthompson here’s my ultimate garlic butter recipe. Figure out your own proportions but apart from the capers which make it a bit sour if you overdo it, you can’t go wrong:

- garlic
- sage
- parsley
- thyme
- more garlic
- ground pepper
- capers

Optional
- salt (I don’t)
- a teaspoon of Dijon mustard per pound of butter
- moar garlic yaaaaaaassss

Chop the above very finely. Mix into microwave softened butter, split into usable portions in glass jars in the fridge. Or freeze …

When someone says 'dinner', do you assume they mean

(Please boost for wider sample, thanks)

A review of the first season of the mini forest garden border: results and changes

http://www.gwenfarsgarden.info/2019/12/forest-garden-border-first-season.html

#ForestGarden #Gardening #Plants #UrbanGarden #Solarpunk

Kith.kitchen says trans rights

Hey cooking pals, do you have cooking goals this year?

I would like to learn to make a good chicken korma.

I'd like to use more foraged and home-grown ingredients.

I'd like to organise the freezer, and figure out how to keep an inventory so I don't keep buying more things that I actually already have but they're buried under frozen peas or whatever.

And I want to start hosting spaghetti nights again.

After such an amazing sunset last night, we took a drive out into the #PeakDistrict to see how it looked on a clear blue sky day.

These are my favourite pics, that show the winter colours off the best. It was breathtakingly beautiful.

#Photography #Derbyshire

Stunning sunset this evening in #Sheffield

#Photography