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If you've attended an RFF festival/parade/hangout/event, you know the vibes are classic fedi. Weird, accepting, supportive community fun! Presented in our own spaces inviting you to #joinIn for as safe and comfy as poss listen/watch/chat.

I appreciate fedi has lost a lot of organic goodness and IRL is exhausting, so let's assemble and party like it's not 2025.

Venue and fest schedule:
party.radiofreefedi.net

You still here? Have your heard of #RFFF25? Attending?

The Importance Of Creating Core Memories For Children

So this is (was) Shauna. She was brought into the practice a couple of decades or so ago, having been dumped on the local coast path with her ear tags removed (these would have identified the farm) and a badly broken hind leg. We pinned the leg and I brought her home to recuperate.

She lived in the house with us, sleeping in a pen, and roamed the garden by day in this extremely natty red jumper. She ate her own bodyweight in poisonous plants and decorated the wall behind her pen with the aftermath*, and every evening my daughter - who was already at school at the time - and her friends excitedly 'herded' her inside and put her to bed.

Once she'd recovered to the point we knew she was going to be ok (this took a few weeks), we gave her to a friendly smallholder and she lived out her days.

My daughter remembers none of this. None. Even the photos (which I've just found on an old hard drive) do nothing to trigger the memory. We have a saying in the family, for when someone has forgotten a major event: "Her name was Shauna. She was a sheep. She had a red jumper", delivered as a flat-toned mantra.

Kids.

(*: no amount of scrubbing would completely remove it. When we moved, eight coats of stain-stop and three coats of emulsion seemed to do the trick.)

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I do this to meet neighbors & support the amazing #Boston scene.

I hope you’ll share it with friends, especially those who aren’t tuned into ActivityPub/Fediverse/Mastodon social media.
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#BostonWeekend 5/x
I do this to meet neighbors & support the amazing Boston scene. I hope you’ll share widely with friends, especially those who aren’t tuned into ActivityPub/Fediverse/Mastodon social media.

Non-commercial projects invest in for your community. Say 'hi!'
#JoinIn

This week's contraption.

I do a LOT of soil sieving - in my work, large garden projects have soil removed/added by the lorry load, but with smaller ones, I'll bag it up and bring it home to be sieved, mixed with organic matter and then re-used elsewhere.

I'm also opening up the large 'compost' bins, which in reality are just aged cold piles of sticks, grass cuttings and chicken poo.

So it was a long overdue project to make a wheelbarrow frame for (much) quicker processing: the frame itself has a fixed one-inch mesh for initial sorting, and there's a removable half-inch mesh for finer grading afterwards.

Put about half a dumpy bag of waste soil through it yesterday, and will do about a cubic metre of compost today, mainly for throwing into the beds.

Should have done this AGES ago.

#Gardening
#Compost
#Chickens
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Reply to this post with details and images of whatever game or toy you’re having the most fun playing this week.

I don’t have time to play them myself, but I enjoy living vicariously through you all.

It’s the weekend, so more odd contraptions.

A rack for seedling pots that I made for my wife. It’s designed to be propped vertically in the greenhouse, to make the most of space - but cobbled together so that whatever angle it’s at, the pots stay upright. Bit like the seats on a Ferris wheel.

The whole thing is on a pair of wheels, so that at hardening-off time (we’re still supposed to do that, right?), it can be trundled out and propped against a sunny wall, without everything falling out.

The workshop I built for my wife after the first lockdown, mainly to stop her from taking over mine(!)

I’d always been intrigued by the idea of stitching a shed and greenhouse together, so knocked this up. The idea is that the greenhouse captures solar heat in the winter to help heat the workshop - it seems to work, and the shed is very heavily insulated with polystyrene collected off the local beach over a summer and put through a garden shredder.

With a small radiator, the temperature gets up to about 22C very quickly, even with outside temperatures around zero. When they’re about 8-10C and upwards, no heating required.

Built mainly out of free stuff (greenhouse, roof tiles, much of the frame, insulation, copper ridge, windows, door).

Please ignore the oil tank. We inherited it and can’t afford to change systems.