That's probably a typo. From the site:
Currently, the usable performance envelope is approximately 150 bits per second to 40 megabits per second
My first cucumbers are almost ready to pick, and I've been pollenating squash flowers like every other day.
Another angle on my garden featuring the prolific pumpkin vine and the sunflower patch -
My AC is struggling a bit to keep up with the heatwave in New England as well, but the garden and I are surviving!
Low-Tech Magazine shows up on here occasionally, I've enjoyed their articles.
I'd also recommend Kris Harbour Natural Building on YouTube.
The pair of apple trees I ordered from Fedco arrived last Saturday, so I planted those out - the weather has been pretty mild and wet this week so hopefully they're settling in well. Just starting to break dormancy.
I'm also starting to plant out some of my seedlings in the new garden beds, it's super exciting to see some foliage in them!
One area of my yard that was overrun with invasive garlic mustard is now overrun with native violets, so I'm happy with that! I picked a bunch of flowers today to try making a tea out of them.
Two 4x8 raised beds from reclaimed wood turned into two raised beds + 4 ground beds when we had some leftover compost... the extra beds will probably be purely experimental / chaos gardens, gonna throw some nitrogen fixers like chickpeas in and see what happens.
Most of my summer vegetable starts have germinated, which is exciting, though I think I'll need to replant the brassicas because they got leggy and the old soil I put them in wasn't great... the pumpkin seedlings look great though!
Next step is to finish the anti-rabbit fence and finally plant out my onions.
It's been kinda depressing to learn how many of the plants in my lawn are Eurasian invasives, but at least I'll get to make lots of garlic mustard pesto!
I'm building a new garden for the house I moved into last fall!
Hoping to get some raised beds built later this week using some wood from a deck that I'm tearing down (tested the wood, it's free of arsenic!). Onion seedlings seem to be doing well, they'll go in as soon as the bed is ready and I'll be starting a bunch of other seeds indoors this weekend. Next step is to find a local source of bulk compost and topsoil to fill the beds.
I ordered a couple of apple trees, Honey Crisp and Baldwin varieties, which will arrive in late April or May - later than I'd like but better late this year than waiting for next year!
Here's a critique of another anti-degrowth Jacobin article, and the stance Jacobin seems to take on degrowth in general - https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-03-04/a-response-to-daniel-driscoll-another-slice-of-degrowth-bashing/
The crux of the argument is
Now that the roads aren't icy anymore I'm trying to bike to work more often. Did the trip in the rain for the first time today, and it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be!
Starting a new garden after moving from an apartment to a house last fall. Planning to do two 8'x4' raised beds with some scrap wood and put a squash tunnel between them. I've started 32 onion seedlings indoors and will be starting the brassicas this weekend!
Also thinking about getting apple trees - any suggestions for good varieties to grow in zone 6b (New England)? It's tempting to get a honey crisp but I hear they're pretty hard to grow.
Small scale, but I just got a compost bin! My muicipality was selling them for pretty cheap, I'd recommend everyone check if your town has any similar programs
First time here as well! Currently away on a trip and hoping that when I get back the sunflowers will be ready and the birds will have left some for me.
I was just visiting New Mexico, and I enjoyed seeing all the wild sunflowers growing everywhere in the desert.