Warner Hocker
@warnerhocker.bsky.social
Escaped Texas for the Upper Peninsula. Interested in permaculture, and designing climate-resilient gardens.
In this case it was quick and easy. We had an open jar on hand in the fridge. If I’d had a thumb-sized piece of fresh ginger freshly grated, I’d have happily used it.
I so often do this with jars of minced garlic, too. Could crush/mince my own, but it’s just too easy/convenient sometimes.
I so often do this with jars of minced garlic, too. Could crush/mince my own, but it’s just too easy/convenient sometimes.
December 3, 2023 at 3:09 AM
In this case it was quick and easy. We had an open jar on hand in the fridge. If I’d had a thumb-sized piece of fresh ginger freshly grated, I’d have happily used it.
I so often do this with jars of minced garlic, too. Could crush/mince my own, but it’s just too easy/convenient sometimes.
I so often do this with jars of minced garlic, too. Could crush/mince my own, but it’s just too easy/convenient sometimes.
We have quite a cookbook collection. Enjoy just reading them sometimes. Can inspire something even days or weeks later. Might run across a fresh ingredient and run with an idea I otherwise wouldn’t have had thanks to browsing.
December 3, 2023 at 2:58 AM
We have quite a cookbook collection. Enjoy just reading them sometimes. Can inspire something even days or weeks later. Might run across a fresh ingredient and run with an idea I otherwise wouldn’t have had thanks to browsing.
Very cool. Thanks!
December 3, 2023 at 2:54 AM
Very cool. Thanks!
Great ideas. Have used one of those thermometers before, but don’t have one of my own. Really helpful for unfamiliar offset smokers, where I don’t know how it propagates and retains heat. Have been meaning to order one. Will have to give it a try on a weekend when I’ve got extra time.
December 2, 2023 at 11:30 PM
Great ideas. Have used one of those thermometers before, but don’t have one of my own. Really helpful for unfamiliar offset smokers, where I don’t know how it propagates and retains heat. Have been meaning to order one. Will have to give it a try on a weekend when I’ve got extra time.
Sometimes it acts like a lake, sometimes it acts like a sea, and sometimes it acts like an angry sea that’s been possessed. I’m convinced that Superior has moods instead of weather.
December 2, 2023 at 2:21 PM
Sometimes it acts like a lake, sometimes it acts like a sea, and sometimes it acts like an angry sea that’s been possessed. I’m convinced that Superior has moods instead of weather.
We are just getting started with this mushroom 🍄 stuff, but inoculated a shiitake log at the beginning of Fall. Slowly getting drawn in. There’s a guy up here with a Jeep Cherokee on tracks for Winter Chaga hunting. Sells his stuff locally. Goes great in coffee.
December 2, 2023 at 2:18 PM
We are just getting started with this mushroom 🍄 stuff, but inoculated a shiitake log at the beginning of Fall. Slowly getting drawn in. There’s a guy up here with a Jeep Cherokee on tracks for Winter Chaga hunting. Sells his stuff locally. Goes great in coffee.
Some of us are even connected to Wisconsin. Although the media struggles with this. With snow on the ground, it’s now a long wait until May for (hopefully) morels.
December 2, 2023 at 1:31 PM
Some of us are even connected to Wisconsin. Although the media struggles with this. With snow on the ground, it’s now a long wait until May for (hopefully) morels.
20F (-7C) and windchill of 7F (-14C) this morning. A few flakes of lake effect ❄️ drifting in from a nearby band. NW wind snowbelts get it today, so we are mostly passive spectators (need N or NE winds here). I actually enjoy this point in late Fall. The transition between colors and ❄️ can be bleak.
November 27, 2023 at 1:35 PM
20F (-7C) and windchill of 7F (-14C) this morning. A few flakes of lake effect ❄️ drifting in from a nearby band. NW wind snowbelts get it today, so we are mostly passive spectators (need N or NE winds here). I actually enjoy this point in late Fall. The transition between colors and ❄️ can be bleak.
Thank! Got tired of the snowplow guy driving through my potato patch, and decided to formalize it as a small garden. Big box store happened to have a pallet of western red cedar fence posts on clearance this Spring. Has some L and flat brackets for stability, with metal stakes through the postholes.
November 19, 2023 at 11:22 PM
Thank! Got tired of the snowplow guy driving through my potato patch, and decided to formalize it as a small garden. Big box store happened to have a pallet of western red cedar fence posts on clearance this Spring. Has some L and flat brackets for stability, with metal stakes through the postholes.
Beautiful kohlrabi!
November 1, 2023 at 1:33 AM
Beautiful kohlrabi!
Good to know! Am going to try again with onions/leeks next year. Have had limited success so far (potatoes, beans, peas, peppers and tomatoes have been my most successful outdoor grows so far).
Planning a new raised bed in the Spring. Hopefully they will thrive there.
Planning a new raised bed in the Spring. Hopefully they will thrive there.
October 31, 2023 at 2:46 PM
Good to know! Am going to try again with onions/leeks next year. Have had limited success so far (potatoes, beans, peas, peppers and tomatoes have been my most successful outdoor grows so far).
Planning a new raised bed in the Spring. Hopefully they will thrive there.
Planning a new raised bed in the Spring. Hopefully they will thrive there.