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Found this method helps a lot in controlling anxiety and handling stressful situations
Wim Hof Method Step-by-Step
My latest biohacking exploration. I’m not really into the cold resistance part (yet), but the breathing exercises are wonderful. If you’re at all familiar with pranayama this won’t be new to you.
Wim Hof Guided Breathing (3 rounds with onscreen timer)
The silliest part of our modern culture is the belief that one person deserves any more than the other.
Medieval Irish Nettle Soup
Today, I’ll be taking a look at a staple of Irish medieval cuisine: the humble nettle soup. Late spring and early Summer is the ideal time to make this dish, as the nettle leaves used here won’t have matured fully, and retain a soft, lighter texture than older woodier leaves. Plus they won’t sting your hands as badly as mature nettles. Plenty of Irish families have their own takes on this recipe, and this is influenced by my family’s take on the tradition!
In any case, let’s now take a look at The World That Was! Follow along with my YouTube video, above!
Ingredients 2-3 cups nettle leaves 1 onion, minced 2-3 cloves garlic (or two bulbs of wild garlic, minced) chives (for decoration) butter ½ cup milk/double cream 500ml water or stock salt pepper
Method
1 - Chop and cook the Garlic and Onion
To begin with, we need to peel and chop a whole onion, before tossing this into a pot with some melted butter. You can of course use oil, but dairy products was (and still is) a major part of Irish culinary traditions - so try and use Irish butter here if you can.
In any case, let your onion sauté away for a couple of minutes until it turns translucent and fragrant. When it hits this point, toss in a couple of cloves of crushed garlic - or some wild garlic if you have any!
2 - Deal with the Nettles Next, ball up some nettles and chop it roughly with a knife. Be careful, as the leaves and stems of this plant has stinging fibres (which will get denatured and broken down when it’s cooking).
Nettles act like spinach when you’re cooking them, so have about 2-3 times more than what you think you’ll need on hand. Add your chopped nettles into the pot, and let them cook down before adding the rest!
3 - Cook Soup When all of your nettle leaves have cooked down, pour in 500ml of soup stock (or water) into the pot. Then, toss in about a half a cup of whole milk, or double cream if you have it. Mix this together gently, before putting this onto a high heat. Bring it to a rolling boil, before turning it down to low until it simmers. Let the whole thing simmer away for about an hour.
Serve up hot in a small bowl, garnish with some chives or seasonal herbs, and dig in!
The finished soup is very light and flavourful, but quite filling for what it is! It’s another variation on a medieval pottage, with ingredients that could have been easily foraged in the spring and summer. As it can be made with only a few ingredients, it could have formed the basis of more complex dishes - such as the addition of more vegetables, or meat products.
Given how little the dish has changed from antiquity to modernity, it’s likely that the basics of this soup go back to pre-historic Irish culinary traditions.
Not only a weed killer, but Nettle is healthy & protects cows from parasites 🐮 500g per day keeps the vet away?
Another happy weed killer.
Having everything provided to us has made us greedy and weak. Self sustainability will allow us to live naturally and successfully.
Just imagine if we could even get 50% of people to do something like this. Get outside, plant something, reconnect to Earth. Plus you will feel the satisfaction of providing for yourself!
Most important piece of info here: The CDC’s claims that no vaccines have been “known” to cause fertility problems are interesting given that the HPV vaccine has been linked to irregular periods and Premature Ovarian Insufficiency (POI). POI is when the ovaries of women under 40 stop working.
Terrifying!!!
“Report shows that pregnant women were excluded from the trials before they concluded it was safe and effective. They concluded it was safe and effective based on mice and the autopsies of mice fetuses. And horrifically, the Department of Defense data shows that female soldiers’ pregnancies are experiencing an absolutely catastrophic rate of abnormalities and fetal problems…”
— Dr. Naomi Wolf
If you’re feeling tired or disoriented this could be why. On the positive side I’ve heard these powerful solar flares are helping awaken humanity…Bring it on!👍
https://www.cnet.com/science/space/the-sun-just-unleashed-the-strongest-solar-flare-in-nearly-five-years/
Beautiful photos. Looks like true happiness springing from your work and effort.
What Christianity cannot take from us is our belief and that which connects us and grounds us.
Let nature guide you. The Christian Bible is a man made tool of manipulation.
Is it actually demonic or is it a symbol or diety that white Christianity made into something evil so that they could convert the people of the "pagan" religion into Christianity
The war effects groceries. A large portion of the world’s wheat and corn is being held up in Ukraine and Russia because of the war and therefore food prices are rising… eventually the prices will get too high on the global market, there will be nothing. This applies to all product and soon you will be left with whatever it is that is available at the time.
You will not be able to buy what you want. Become the solution and work towards self sustainability by growing and raising your own food. Keep 1 year worth of food on hand at least.
It is something we have seen before, as during world crises many have sustained themselves because of gardens and chickens.
Why aren’t we being warned about this and given steps globally to prepare? It seems purposeful and to keep the public dependent… Resist planned starvation.
Cracked corn and watermelon buffet for my feathered family members 🌽 🍉 🐓 ♥️
Curious how this will play out..
If a solar storm strong enough hits our atmosphere, there's a chance it could cause an electromagnetic wave that'd destroy most of the world's electricity.
Stay safe and prepared everyone.
Sun erupts with multiple flares from single sunspot
Sun erupts with multiple flares from single sunspot
Multiple solar eruptions all from a single sunspot have blasted into space recently, according to Space.com According to the site, the sun eruptions originated from an overactive sunspot called AR2975, which apparently has been firing off flares since March 28. This stellar event could potentially cause auroras in the sky over North America and Europe. “Strong G3-class geomagnetic storms are…
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Sun spots in “white” light and prominences and “surface” in red H-alpha wavelength light.
For the suspots (group AR3007), the telescope was a 80 mm f6 refractor with a Herschel wedge, ND 3 and 540 nm continuum filter (8 nm bandwidth). Video camera uses Sony IMX290 monochrome sensor. Telescope mount was Takahashi EM200. For the two H-alpha photographs, a 40 mm Coronado etalon was used and the Herschel wedge was replaced with a BF10 diagonal. These images are the result of processing the best frames from three 1000 frame 8-bit video sequences using Autostakkert!3 and Registax 6 software. Some further processing in Gimp.
Beautiful post.
I love the natural feeling and the sense of accomplishment felt when we as humans spread/plant life and give back to nature as was intended.
probably the thing I’ve done that’s closest to guerrilla gardening is planting a bunch of shit in my backyard and refusing to consult my landlord
I’m making it better. When I moved in it was nothing but a patch of hot dirt (rocky clay, to be precise) with three sad 4′x4′x6″ raised beds. After almost two years of gardening and “letting the weeds grow” the difference is astonishing.
At first my “weeds” really were weeds: nonnative and invasive plants. But it is the nature of these plants to grow on disturbed ground, so I let them, and as time passed, my “weeds” became unfamiliar to me. These had to be the native plants, I thought. I have yet to get confirmation on that but increased biodiversity is always a good thing. Plants want to grow and the fact that I let them, that I have allowed this, brings me endless joy.
I planted a tree and didn’t tell my landlord. The local electric company subsidizes trees because it’s in their interest to shade the city. (They don’t nearly have as many native trees as I would like but it’s something at least.) Presently my tree is but 5 ft tall. I will not benefit from its shade, but I planted it for the future. It will save electricity in the future, after I have likely moved away. When it is larger, birds will flit among its branches. Hummingbirds and bugs will sip at its flowers, they already do. Give me flowers now, and my tree has done so.
There are so many more birds in my back yard, and bugs too. Foliage increases the humidity, it is not as hot and dry as it once was. Of course, there is always so much further to go in my vision of a lush desert garden but I can sit at the bench I built and watch birds visit my feeder or the flowers and know I have made something that provides for myself and the world around me.
So inspiring! I hope to one day see so much nature in my home too.
I wonder if the wagon is diy?
Hen wagon by Maja Larsson
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Earlier this year [~April 2021], the Parker Solar Probe passed through the Sun's corona, roughly 6.47 million miles from the Sun's surface, flying through structures called streamers, which are essentially waves of solar plasma. Until now, the streamers have only been seen from afar, mostly during Solar Eclipses.
Additionally the video depicts flybys of the following (in order): Mercury, Venus, The Milky Way, Saturn, Earth and Jupiter, with the latter overtaking earth toward the end of this sequence.
The next solar flyby will be happening in January 2022, bringing the probe roughly 3.83 million miles from the surface of the Sun. Earth, by comparison, orbits the Sun 93 million miles away. (HQ Footage)
Urban density is harmful for our Earth.. go back to natural living..
For the Love of Peat: Our Best Defence Against a Changing Climate
Canada holds between a quarter and a third of the world’s peatlands. It’s time we took better care of them
Canada holds between a quarter and a third of the world’s peatlands, including acidic bogs and more alkaline fens as well as swamps and marshes. They can be found across the country, from British Columbia to the Northwest Territories to Nova Scotia, growing many metres deep into the ground. Due to their density of decomposed or decomposing plant material, one square metre of peatland in northern Canada holds approximately five times the amount of carbon as one square metre of tropical rainforest in the Amazon. But the country’s peatlands have been so degraded by the construction of mines and hydroelectric dams, by oil-and-gas developments, and by urban expansion that we are losing an ecosystem crucial to the prevention of natural disasters such as forest fires—as well as destroying a key mitigator of climate change.
Read more at thewalrus.ca.
Illustration by Kyle Scott (kjscott.com).
Really excited to get chickens of my own one day!
I wish yours a good year.
Being a mother is hard work, but breastfeeding keeps babies the healthiest!
It's work, but if it matters to you, you can do it!
Also the morality of keeping animals in cages/mass producing them like product.
““If you don’t have any control over your food system, it essentially puts you at the whim of a racist, capitalist food system in terms of your basic survival needs.”
— Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farms
soil is a finite resource and it is being destroyed by years of agriculture. Even if you take drought out of the equation, eroded soil struggles to hold water properly.
I recommend planting and growing your own food if you are capable.
Tracking the Sun’s Cycles
Scientists just announced that our Sun is in a new cycle.
Solar activity has been relatively low over the past few years, and now that scientists have confirmed solar minimum was in December 2019, a new solar cycle is underway — meaning that we expect to see solar activity start to ramp up over the next several years.
The Sun goes through natural cycles, in which the star swings from relatively calm to stormy. At its most active — called solar maximum — the Sun is freckled with sunspots, and its magnetic poles reverse. At solar maximum, the Sun’s magnetic field, which drives solar activity, is taut and tangled. During solar minimum, sunspots are few and far between, and the Sun’s magnetic field is ordered and relaxed.
Understanding the Sun’s behavior is an important part of life in our solar system. The Sun’s violent outbursts can disturb the satellites and communications signals traveling around Earth, or one day, Artemis astronauts exploring distant worlds. Scientists study the solar cycle so we can better predict solar activity.
Measuring the solar cycle
Surveying sunspots is the most basic of ways we study how solar activity rises and falls over time, and it’s the basis of many efforts to track the solar cycle. Around the world, observers conduct daily sunspot censuses. They draw the Sun at the same time each day, using the same tools for consistency. Together, their observations make up the international sunspot number, a complex task run by the World Data Center for the Sunspot Index and Long-term Solar Observations, at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Brussels, which tracks sunspots and pinpoints the highs and lows of the solar cycle. Some 80 stations around the world contribute their data.
Credit: USET data/image, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels
Other indicators besides sunspots can signal when the Sun is reaching its low. In previous cycles, scientists have noticed the strength of the Sun’s magnetic field near the poles at solar minimum hints at the intensity of the next maximum. When the poles are weak, the next peak is weak, and vice versa.
Another signal comes from outside the solar system. Cosmic rays are high-energy particle fragments, the rubble from exploded stars in distant galaxies that shoot into our solar system with astounding energy. During solar maximum, the Sun’s strong magnetic field envelops our solar system in a magnetic cocoon that is difficult for cosmic rays to infiltrate. In off-peak years, the number of cosmic rays in the solar system climbs as more and more make it past the quiet Sun. By tracking cosmic rays both in space and on the ground, scientists have yet another measure of the Sun’s cycle.
Since 1989, an international panel of experts—sponsored by NASA and NOAA—meets each decade to make their prediction for the next solar cycle. The prediction includes the sunspot number, a measure of how strong a cycle will be, and the cycle’s expected start and peak. This new solar cycle is forecast to be about the same strength as the solar cycle that just ended — both fairly weak. The new solar cycle is expected to peak in July 2025.
Learn more about the Sun’s cycle and how it affects our solar system at nasa.gov/sunearth.
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