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Erin Greenstorm
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I grow things. Always have, always will. Currently growing and breeding mainly tomatoes, corn and apples way up north with a bunch of cats, dogs and geese. Also pottery & poetry often fall out of me. Neither my brain nor body obey cultural norms. 🇨🇦
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Sometimes we all need a snuggle.

#Maremma #Akbash #LGD #ProtectorOfFieldAndHeart
A huge white dog with her head on her owner's hand, stretched out longer than the pair of sweatpants-clad legs next to her.
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Garden season definitely over, pottery season begins again. Reskilling by throwing a bunch of agateware for a studio fundraiser. This new handle shape is excellent.

#PlainsmanM390 #PlainsmanM340 #Agateware #Pottery #WinterHobbies #DrivenIntoTheDirt
A snowy semi-wooded scene with some very healthy deer hanging out not far away A stripey buff-and-red striped mug with a black-and-copper glaze on the rim and an ear-shaped handle A pile of a dozen buff-and-red striped mugs at the bisque stage, not yet glazed. Manta have ear or curl-shaped handles Grey-and-brown striped freshly-thrown mug bodies, still wet and not yet handled
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Got some bell beaker and double bump mugs coming along. Coming back after a summer of gardening, slowly.

#PlainsmanCoffeeClay #Mugs #ThrowingOffTheHump #Pottery
A group of roughly 9 unfinished mugs in a ceramics studio, waiting for handles. Some are roughly bell beaker shape while two have a double-bump, waisted form.
August 25, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Hard to photograph the rainbow mugs,I guess they want a video and spinning.

Clay is M370. Shape is 14th century inspired.

#CeramicGlaze #SpectrumFloatingGlaze #Pottery #PlainsmanClay
A tall mug with vertical stripes of glaze forming a rainbow around its outside A tall mug with vertical stripes of glaze forming a rainbow around the outside A tall mug with vertical stripes of glaze forming a rainbow around the outside
August 25, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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A mug with woodgrain carving, the word resist carved into a knothole.
August 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Too unwell to get out of bed today except for the bathroom. My cats were helping me rest but they went outside for a break. The air coming in the windows smells like it's going to rain.
An orange cat sprawled comfortably on a blue blanket An orange cat and a black cat cuddled together next to a blanketed human
August 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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The first 18 jars/7 roosters. Stewed then pressure canned

Every moment today is a prayer: let everyone have this abundance. Let all regimes complicit in starving people crumble. Let everyone live and heal

Ahmed and Leo gofund.me/7dc704d7
Rafif chuffed.org/project/1330...
Maryam gofund.me/1032b5b6
A giant pot outside on a propane ring full of onions, carrots, celery, water, and seven rooster carcasses. A big 18-jar canner outdoors on a propane ring, gathering pressure
August 4, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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I've been ultra overcapacity, and will continue to be next week. Last week was drs appts, this week was loading the roostermobile for butcher, next week is animals to the vet. I'm very lucky Siri is there to keep me in bed otherwise. It would be lonely and awful otherwise.

#DisabledHomesteading
A long box pickup truck with all eight feet of box fully loaded with tarped poultry crates, the crates mostly full of donated roosters for a year's supply of meat. An orange cat pancakes contentedly on a pair of blanket-clad legs resting on a bed. An orange cat nestles on a contented-looking human's chest, perhaps asleep.
August 2, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Been having serious trouble cognitively so no alt text, so no pictures. Sigh.
A field full of white daisy-looking flowers, actually scentless chamomile, with the sun setting in a wash of warm light over it and dark conifers silhouetted against the bright sky
July 31, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Scouring cotton shirts (white cotton really is as gross as they say), picking scentless chamomile flowers, and simmering them. Then tannin and alum, then dyeing.

I like working with linen way better but this was an experiment.

#NaturalDyeing #UseYourWeeds #DyeExperiments
A big cauldron of streaming water full of white cloth. The water is yellowish. A big cauldron full of sudsy water. The water is distinctly yellow. A large pot full of white flowers with yellow centers -- scentless chamomile. A pot full of wilted white flowers with yellow centers simmered in water and wilty
July 10, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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I'm always very grateful to my past self for making crates exciting snack sources for several weeks a year kinda randomly. It makes getting the cats to the vet so much easier, they line up to go in. Except Demon, who's a problem.

🐈🐱😸 #GoodAnimalCare #ThinkingAhead #Cats
An orange cat in a cat carrier, the door open, while a black cat waits outside the carrier for his chance to get in
July 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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I have a second slime mold!

It's neat when new creatures come to live here. Especially when they're an indicator of some middle stages of biomass breakdown.

#FungusID please?

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A yellow-orange mass of tiny textured bubbles rises out of a pile of wood chips and begins to coalesce into a smooth surface. It's probably the dog's vomit slime mold.
July 1, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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I'm going to call this row of winter wheat a success and plant some more.

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#NorthernGardening #WheatExperiments
A tall row of wheat just about finished pushing out its green ears, five feet tall. A dog is mostly screened by the wheat
July 1, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Trellises slowly going up. It's very hard on my body but hopefully they stay there once they're in. 7 for tomatoes, 2 for actinidia kolomikta. Concrete reinforcing wire or cattle panels plus t-posts.

I may have dislocated my pinkie slightly.

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#NorthernGardening #DisabledGardener #MyHappyPlace
Rows of young tomato plants. One row has a trellis, one row has a wobbly trellis partly in place, the last row has no trellis yet A weedy garden with a row of young tomatoes under a trellis, some tomatoes mulched with straw, and some garden boxes with broccoli and kale growing in them Two parallel rows of wood chips marked out with pink flags down the center of a garden, with barely visible baby kiwis planted in the wood chips A contraption of dairy crates and boards protecting tried of tomatoes. The frost cloth has just come off the boards in preparation for trellises going in, and the chenopodium weeds are luxurious and almost hide the tomatoes
July 1, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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When I moved here, the first summer the yard was full of clover and the scent of its flowers filled the air. My geese pick the flowers off and mow it short, so one gardening goal was to return areas of clover to the property

Success
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#PollinatorGardening #WildGardening #NorthernGardening
A tall, lush growth of white and and balansa clover in a field with trees in the background. A tall, lush growth of white and and balansa clover in a field with a fence in the background and a narrow path barely visible through it
July 1, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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More garden pictures: the wild columbine is starting, the aspen borers progress, somehow the birds didn't eat all my sweet ciciley and it's about to flower-- but as you see they loved the borage right beside it. Apparently the ducks are the only animal that can kill borage.
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#NorthernGardening
A bee visiting a wild columbine flower The distinctive microchip-looking silver paths of the aspen leaf borer taking up roughly half of the surface of several aspen leaves Ferny tall foliage of the sweet ciciley plant, topped with unripe seeds A wire frame placed over a comfrey plant, which has been nibbled nearly flush to the ground and only stopped by the wire
June 20, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Puppies playing, my pineappleweed lawn, and the river of chives (geese don't eat chives).

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Two large white dogs in a very active play pose with each other A dense, short green plant with ferny looking leaves that covers the ground, just high enough and dense enough to hide a garden hose A close-up of pineappleweed, a ferny looking plant with little yellow button like flowers A wide trail of purple chive flowers growing across a pasture
June 20, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Everyone likes my winter wheat.
A tall green clump of wheat in the garden, just starting to push the actual ears of grain A big white dog chomping on green, growing wheat plants A pale orange cat chewing on a small wheat plant
June 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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After yesterday's rain I can feel plants drinking deep. Spring moves on, from crabapple and saskatoons to lilacs and roses

Moisture brought rust, it'll be on saskatoons as well as roses. Not sure where the juniper alt host is. Or can hedging cedar host?

Time to have greens in oyster sauce

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A crabapple tree with a thick carpet of petals underneath it, knocked off by age and rain Lilacs peeking over a deck railing A row of brassica greens just opening flower Tiny specks of bright orange rust on a rosebush
June 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Planted corn yesterday into dry dust, set up irrigation, and we got a blessed, soaking rain

This is my first year with sweet corn, pre-sprouted to quicken the season, covered in anti-crow cloth (they pull up all the seedlings). Siri helped chase bugs

Super mix of 🌽 to start

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#AdaptationGardening
A diverse mix of many colours of sweet corn seeds, pre-sprouted until the first hint of root, divided into three portions on a plate Frost cloth covers a large garden bed. An orange cat sniffs at the cloth suspiciously
June 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Wildfire smoke is blowing our way today. I should not have been outside as much as I was, and yet it's beautiful out there. First rose!

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#FireSeason #NorthernBC
A young aspen tree, each leaf has a silver line down the midvein and one or two shorter silver lines coming off that A lilac bush in flower, the petals are purple with white outlines A single pink rose blossom opening
June 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Peppers going in: sweet peppers yesterday, hopefully hot peppers today. Cats are always helping. Especially Little Bear with the catnip 😂

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#NorthernBC #ShortSeasonGardening #VarietyTrials
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A garden with several rows of pepper plants freshly planted and a couple more laid out for planting Several short rows of hot pepper plants laid out really to plant while three cats lounge interestedly. A black cat rolling and clawing at a dairy crate during in the garden
June 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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How to confuse cats
A day-old gosling sits in a human's lap on a sofa A day old gosling hangs out on the chest of a human who's lying on a bed A day old gosling sleeps in a human's hand.
June 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Solly lying in the freshly tilled field before and after I started planting around her. She did not move. You'd hardly think she could chase off bears

I got a couple rows of tomatoes in. Almost done tomatoes, then peppers 🌱🐶

#VarietyTrial #TomatoTrial #LGD #Akbash #Maremma #NotDeadJustResting
A freshly tilled garden with a very flat, large white dog sleeping on her side in the rain in the middle of it A freshly-tilled, partially planted garden with a very flat, large white dog sleeping on her side in the rain in the middle of it A huge white dog on her side, sleeping, with small seedlings freshly planted around her Six rows of tomato plants in a garden. The plants are very young, and only half the rows are planted, the rest are still in pots awaiting planting
June 6, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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I feel bad killing plants to eat them, but lambs quarters spanakopita is delightful and greens and an egg do amazing things to a ramen brick

Then an evening watching mixed herds of dinosaurs graze while other dinosaurs swoop singing through the air 🌱 🦕 🍜 🪿

#NorthernGardening #Solsticewards #Geese
A vibrant young stand of lambs quarters A garden box full of mixed brassica greens: leafy cabbages, mustard greens, and pak chois in many colours of green, chartreuse, and red A clump of oregano growing up through the grass A young orchard with geese grazing in the evening light
June 5, 2025 at 7:02 AM