Notices by Matt Noyes (matt_noyes@social.coop)

@evan there's more to elections than democracy...

Any recommended pixelfed instances out there? Cooperatively run, if possible.

Today was all about taking the plastic trellising clips off the tomatoes, then tearing up the plants. One of my goals for next season is to devise a viable no-plastic alternative. ( Another goal is to popularize consumption of lambs quarters.)

We harvested a few remaining tomatoes, eggplants, and basil, and had lots of conversation, especially about nutrition, since our newest member is a nutrition student.
#farm_club

@bhaugen haven't asked but I doubt she knows about them. How do you prepare them?

@bhaugen Maybe farmers would do well to include them in a bag of mixed greens? The stems make them look "weedy", I think.

@bhaugen I spoke with my purslane farmer (sic) about lambs quarters and the idea of selling a "native greens mix" including them. He's intrigued. They taste fine, not as good as purslane, but totally fine.

@bhaugen no extended explanation yet, but soon. The diagrams are intended to help us clarify our narrative.

#farm_club

Tuesday was all about harvesting: cherry tomatoes, various types of squash and peppers, green beans.

The poems we shared under the cottonwood tree: Langston Hughes "Morning After", Faiz Ahmed Faiz "Last Night", Ogden Nash "My Dream", Michael Ondaatje "Sweet Like a Crow", Dose One "The Pelt", and Edgar Allen Poe "Dream within a Dream". Theme for next week: shadows.

Does all that poetry make the peppers hotter?

@emi @dphiffer @flancian @sam @hollie @django @ansate Hi all, on Thursday I have to go to a planning meeting for co-op sessions at the upcoming Rocky Mountain Farmers Union Convention. The meeting was moved from 9am to 9:30. So I will come late to the Ops team mtg, if at all. I will send notes tomorrow about Org. Circle stuff. I can help Hollie prepare an agenda. ;-) Sorry to be MIA. m(_ _)m

@flancian @derek @dphiffer @3wordchant Thank you for your work!!

@derek Hey, who did the update? I want to give you thanks and praises! @dphiffer ? @flancian ?

@ntnsndr Looks interesting; we'll be planting garlic that day. Hope it's recorded.

@evan On this question, the conversation with Ezra Klein is very interesting.

When my mother was dying, I sat with her, looking at the distant mountains. For each of her breaths, I focused on a specific tree. So many dying breaths! So many trees! After a hundred or more, I gave up. When the last few breaths came, I was there, but not counting.

Vanessa Machado de Oliveira asks, "What would you like your remaining breaths to move in the planet-metabolism you are part of?" She means these breaths, now. Good meditation for this day.

Listened to this conversation with adrienne maree brown this morning on my drive down to the hot springs near Florence, CO. I really enjoyed it, especially the bits on transformative justice.

https://onbeing.org/programs/adrienne-maree-brown-on-radical-imagination-and-moving-towards-life/

@evan congratulations!

@evan but there is such a thing as bad faith bargaining

@GuerillaOntologist @ntnsndr Ha! I always get them confused... maybe that was the intent?

@ntnsndr I don't know. Did you listen to the DAWI discussion recently posted on GEO?

@ntnsndr A peer-to-peer network of admins, mods, working group members that can help people think through how to build cooperatively run instances.