🍃 Nick 🍁 @nick@bath.social

Maybe https://sovereigntechfund.de is good for you @ninabreznik and @serapath ?

I didn't read beyond the first paragraph...

I put my little Carlin pea friends out into modules now ... 2 per hole, let's see how they do! 🌱

... And the excess sprouted seeds into my salad sprouting seeds for eating

Growing some Carlin peas. They've nicely germinated now.

Carlin peas have a long history in the UK, particularly in The North, but are rarely eaten here now. You likely won't find them in the supermarket.

You grow them and let them dry, so they're kind of like dried beans. That's the kind of thing I love, something that stores well for ages, and tasty and nutritious!

I'm new to this so not expecting a big crop.... but keen to get up close with the whole lifecycle of growing.

#Growers

The author cites being "born into a generation that was still processing the collective experience and traumas of fascism" (in Germany) as a foundational experience for understanding the need for something like sociocracy.

My mind went to a paper I read ages ago that described the origins of neoliberalism as an antidote to fascism (looking questionable now).

So my understanding of fascism is like a humanity-level collective vice we are prone to, and constantly need to be organizing against.

I had success processing the wild garlic.

I made a load of pesto, with hazelnuts I foraged last year (took 1.5 hours to crack 200g of nut), some Parmesan-esque cheese, olive oil, salt and pepper.

I'm freezing it in ice cube trays for easy use for the next months.

And then wild garlic butter. All the ingredients in the name. Rolled into a tube, once its hardened up again I'll probably slice it up, and freeze and bag it.

Yum yum!

#Foraging

A successful gathering walk... That's is having a walk and gathering stuff. 🚶

I want to start using hazel coppice as a material, for furniture, shelves, etc, so collected a "sample pack" of different sizes from some local woods (its super abundant here). 🌳

Wild garlic season also recently started! Joy! 🌱 #Foraging

And I found a house plant someone had thrown out, in need of a bit of ❤️🌿

So much abundance.

Got a new book today from @SociocracyForAll 📖

👍 not too thick

👎 a little expensive (£15).

I'm hoping is a nice handrail for introducing principles of self organization into spaces that don't have that kind of culture already.

#Sociocracy #Book

3rd post-trip #RejuvenationRide #BikeTour ponderings, about horses in the countryside 🏇

Are they a transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich?

👇

https://blog.nicksellen.co.uk/rejuvenation-ride/2023/03/17/horses/

I started a new eating rhythm (not a "diet", although I guess it is too) after returning from my #RejuvenationRide, so far I'm quite pleased with it.

Its:
- don't eat when I'm not hungry
- stop eating when I've had enough
- eat during meals, not between
- avoid putting cheese on everything :)

Something like that.

I guess also generally eating lots of beans, seeds, and leaves.