#apples — Public Fediverse posts
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Yesterday's Promise
6-link #Rengay
(C) Nara Moore @NaraMoore
& Paul David Mena @extraspecialbitter
& Mark Brigham @MarkBrigham#Poetry #詩 #NMPoetry #Haiga #俳画 #Photography #マストドン写真部 #写真 #UrbanPhotography #都市写真 #StreetPhotography #ストリートスナ #Trees #Fruit #Summer #Apples #Plums #Harvest
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Heirloom Apples for the South – Garden & Gun https://www.allforgardening.com/?p=1933335 #apples #backyard #california #fall #farm #heirloom #south #SouthBackyardGarden #SouthBackyardGardening
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••⋅☾ #片歌 ☽⋅••
Ripening Year
Yesterday's promise
Lush on the trees ☽⋅••••⋅☾ #katauta ☽⋅••
#RengayThis
#Poetry #詩 #NMPoetry #Haiga #俳画 #Photography #マストドン写真部 #写真 #UrbanPhotography #都市写真 #StreetPhotography #ストリートスナ #Trees #Fruit #Summer #Apples #Plums -
1. The #applejuice (actually a medley -- there are some #pears, #plums, maybe a little bit of banana pepper in it) has not gone off and there is still time to can it for later use, will get more jars tomorrow. 2 gallons. We did not have that many #apples but the neighborhood provides by dropping fruit at my feet as I ramble along the sidewalks with my two sticks. The juicer died so I blended everything and let the pomace drain through a screen basket. It's nice stuff. I pre-wash the sticky utensils with the hose over a bin and the #pomace and the wash water go to garden beds and trees.
Along with many #horticultural, #orcharding and #farming terms, Mastodon's speller does not seem to know "pomace." But it knows more of them than most of the competition. It is forgiven.
2. The last #potatoes are lifted. We were to hit 94F today, so I hurried a little. There may be orphans. These were a batch that sprouted after a family member bought them -- Pontiacs. I was out of garden beds and planted them close along the paver pathway down the middle of the caged (deer proof) garden. Deer don't bother them but there being no space elsewhere, in they went rather late. Did not do badly at all.
3. While walking, I passed a young girl who had just fished a book out of a free pile beneath a catalpa tree and was reading it already as she went by. I stopped at the same pile and came away with a pretty mug whose handle fits my fingers just right, and does not burn my lips with hot tea, just I hoped.
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🍩🔄 #Fusion scientists study #plasma, the fourth state of matter, to design power plants, and the machine’s shape shapes how well plasma is held. Spherical #tokamaks, shaped like cored #apples, confine plasma efficiently with modest magnetic fields.
Less building material, stronger magnetic pressure, and faster-spinning plasma all follow, and #NSTXU, the largest #US device, will test those advantages at scale.
👉 https://phys.org/news/2026-08-power-stars-geometry.html
#physics #pppl #energy #cleanenergy #tech #technology #science #magneticfield #geometry #future
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To my VoAg teacher, Mr. Smith, who told us, “You can’t grow an apple from seed; it won’t grow true”, I present to you my beautiful harvest from a 15 year old tree that I started from seed….
#Apples #HomeOrchard #GrowYourOwn #Food #Summer #Experimental #Harvest -
A very good friend from up the road has just been visiting.
She likes our garden figs, so I was sent outside to get her some - and came back with two tubs full. Enough for her and for us to stew in blackcurrant juice.
I don't think I was out long enough for them to finish talking about me because I was sent back out to collect windfall apples!
It's extremely hot out there. Not nice at all.
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10 Easy Ways to Preserve Your Garden #Harvest (#Freezing, #Pickling, and More)
Written By: Catherine Boeckmann, last updated August 7, 2026
"What do you do with the bounty from your garden? Freeze it, pickle it, dry it, store it! If you’re new to preserving food, here are 10 quick and easy ideas—from freezing mint in ice cubes to making a small-batch pesto recipe using just a handful of basil leaves!"
Includes recipes for:
#RefrigeratorPickles #QuickPickles #Recipes #FoodPreservation #Pesto #FreezingHerbs #DryingHerbs #FreezeBerries #ZucchiniBread #OvenDryTomatoes #RefrigeratorJam #FreezingCorn #HerbalVinegarsExcerpt: "Store Long-Lasting Crops
Little or no special equipment is required to put these goods away until you want them:
#Apples: Apples keep well for about 6 months at temperatures above freezing but below 45°F. If you don’t have a root cellar, a double cardboard box in a cool basement can approximate the conditions.
#Carrots: After harvesting, remove the green tops and brush off any excess dirt. Put the carrots into a cardboard box and pack dry sand around them. Store the box in a cool basement.
#Onions and #Garlic: Hang mature, dry-skin onion bulbs in a mesh bag in a cool, dry, airy location. Braided onions and garlic can also be hung.
#RootVegetables: If covered with a thick layer of mulch (hay, dried leaves, straw), carrots, garlic, horseradish, leeks, parsley, parsnips, radishes, and turnips can be left in the ground well into the winter and harvested into the spring."
Learn more:
https://www.almanac.com/10-quick-and-easy-preserving-ideas#SolarPunkSunday #FoodSecurity #PreservingTheHarvest #FoodPreservation
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@ml Ooooh... Tagging for #SolarPunkSunday!
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Spiced Pancakes with Cinnamon Apples & Vanilla Cream
(serves 7)PANCAKES
3 cups flour
4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
3 Tbsp brown sugar
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp allspice
1/4 tsp cloves
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3 cups buttermilk
3 eggs
6 Tbsp melted butter
1 Tbsp vanillaWhisk dry, whisk wet, combine until just shaggy. Lumps are structure, not failure. Rest 5 min while the griddle heats to 375F. 1/4 cup per cake. Flip when the edges dull and the bubbles stop closing.
APPLES
6 apples, sliced
3 Tbsp butter
1/3 cup brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
pinch salt
splash of ciderCook covered 8 min, then lid off to reduce until the syrup coats a spoon.
VANILLA WHIPPED CREAM
2 cups heavy cream, cold
1/4 cup powdered sugar
2 tsp vanilla
pinch saltChill the bowl and beaters. Whip to soft peaks — stop when the ribbon holds for a second and then relaxes. Past that it's butter.
Stack, spoon apples over, cream on top. Maple syrup optional.
#Foodstodon #Food #Breakfast #Recipe #Pancakes #Cooking #ComfortFood #CastIron #Apples #WeekendBreakfast
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Under the Dome
No, not the Stephen King book, or the three seasons of the series based on the book that James and I hate watched every single episode of and then laughed ourselves silly at the snarky commentary at Reactor Magazine (then Tor). No, this was a week-long heat dome.
The heat dome moved away Friday night, but it is still blazing hot. We are on day nine of 90F/32C or above temperatures and it hasn’t rained in a week. We’ve had to water the garden from the rain barrels which went dry Friday and forced used to use water from the tap. There is a cold front moving in sometime tomorrow, Monday, that has a good chance of bringing some rain. Please think cool and liquid thoughts for us!
Along with the heat the wildfire smoke arrived Wednesday afternoon and by Thursday the air quality was hazardous and breaking records. The wind changed briefly Friday and we were able to breathe outdoors without masks into the early hours of this morning. But the wind changed again and within an hour I watched my AQ app go from low yellow (moderate) to orange (unhealthy for sensitive groups) to red (unhealthy for everyone). I’m not technically a sensitive group, but anything orange or above I wear an N95 mask while outdoors because I value my health and my lungs. So many people don’t, and I was astonished how few wore masks Thursday when the air was visibly thick with smoke.
Other than keeping the garden watered, it has not been a week for being amongst the plants.
We have a baby rabbit we keep evicting and who keeps finding their way back in. They have demolished the green beans. Friday we evicted them once and for all, but nope, I saw them this morning when I was briefly out masked and tying up tomatoes to their stakes.
We also have a couple of raccoons that have taken to visiting our roof at 3 in the morning. They especially enjoy pulling apples from the tree and—thump, thump, thump, thump down it rolls. The apples are not ripe, so we aren’t sure if they just enjoy watching them roll down the roof, or maybe they are having apple fights and throwing them at each other like a couple of teen boys. Either way, sleep is impossible. James has gone out and banged on a metal bowl to scare them off more than once. I’m sure the neighbors love that.
In chicken news, one of the witches laid an egg! It is a tiny “starter egg.”
A surprise because they are only 3 1/2 months old and I wouldn’t expect an egg until maybe the end of September or October. We think the precocious one is Baba because of her size, but looking up breed information and their egg color, the egg is pale enough it could be Nanny. All that to say who laid it is unknown, the chickens aren’t saying, and we can merely speculate.
My latest sourdough adventure is a mixed flour bread—semolina, rye, whole wheat, and bread flour—and instead of plain water I used a strong brew of Earl Grey. The smell is divine.
We sliced it up and tried it out as part of a grilled tofu sandwich that included homemade zucchini relish (zucchini from the farmers market because I prefer to grow winter squash and since I save seeds, I don’t want the zucchini to cross-pollinate with the winter squash. Yes the winter squash might cross-pollinate, but that’s a different story.), a slice of grilled eggplant from the garden, arugula from the garden, and a little dijon mustard.
Does it taste as good as it looks? Oh yes, yes it does. The Earl Grey adds a subtle flavor note that compliments the flour combination. Will definitely make this one again sometime.
If it is hot where you are, take care in the heat. And if you too are blanketed with wildfire smoke, please take care of your lungs.
#airQuality #apples #babyRabbit #greenBeans #heatDome #raccoons #sourdough #starterEgg #wildfireSmoke -
My apple mint jelly recipe, based on a bunch of recipes I consulted, turned out great. No pectin needed.
https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2026/07/apple-mint-jelly-no-pectin-needed.html
#FoodInJars #Canning #CanningSeason #FoodPreservation #mint #apples #jelly
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Title: Apple Tree
Material: watercolor on paper
Frame: AI generated
#art #artshare #artist #artists #sunday #apple #apples #appletree #trees #tree #love #watercolor #watercolorart #drawing #spirituality #spiritualartist -
‘Doves and food and fun’: the fight to save a farming pioneer
#Wakelyns needs £1.2m to save its diverse organic crops and ‘micro’ enterprises including a bakery and honeybee hives
"It’s almost a political project about land use – maximising the #sustainable productivity of the land." - David Wolfe
by Patrick Barkham
Tue 30 Jun 2026 06.00 EDT"The aerial view of Wakelyns matches the experience of visiting it at ground level: in a region dominated by prairie fields of industrial agriculture, here lies a vivid green lung of land. Its sounds and sights in summer – the sleepy purr of the turtle dove, the vivid pink flash of a bullfinch – have vanished from most of the British countryside.
"But Wakelyns is not a nature reserve – it is a thriving farm, a 'living laboratory' for #agroforestry and a hub for innovation and business. It is also under threat, and its owners must raise £1.2m to turn it into a charitable community benefit society.
"The 56-acre former pig farm in Suffolk was bought by Martin and Ann Wolfe in 1992. Martin was a government plant pathologist who wanted to do more innovative research than his employers had allowed. Seeking to farm crops with fewer pesticides, herbicides and fertilisers, he created one of the first agroforestry schemes in Europe.
"Turning productive cereal-growing fields into 56 narrow 'alleys' of farmed land between rows of planted trees had been 'widely regarded as mad', said their son, #DavidWolfe, an environmental lawyer who now runs Wakelyns with his wife, Amanda Illing. 'The farmer who sold the land to them said: ‘You’ve ruined a perfectly good wheat field’.'
"Today, Wakelyns is an inspirational example of agroforestry, which has become official government policy. The government’s carbon delivery plan wants to turn 10% of arable land into agroforestry by 2050, with financial incentives to encourage more farmers to transition into something like Wakelyns.
"The lush trees that divide the alleys are all crops. After more than 30 years, some are tall trees for timber, while others provide #apples, #cherries and #plums. The most lucrative tree crop is #hazel, which is coppiced on a seven-year cycle to produce high-quality hazel stakes for traditional hedgelayers. Each stake is sold for £1.40 and Wakelyns cannot grow enough.
The farm’s motto is '#ResilienceThroughDiversity'. It pioneered the first commercial #lentil growing in the UK, and is still the country’s only commercial #BlackLentil grower. 'If Britain is serious about wanting to feed itself, we should stop growing oilseed rape for biodiesel and grow #pulses,' said Wolfe.
"Wakelyns’ diversity encompasses a uniquely genetically diverse population of wheat and multiple varieties of apple tree. When big orchards, which typically grow a narrow range of apple varieties, complain of a terrible harvest, a mixed orchard such as Wakelyns’ is fine, because every year some varieties thrive. #Monocultural farmers, says Wolfe, 'put it all on red or black'.
"Wolfe and Illing took over the farm in 2020 after Wolfe’s parents died. To the innovative farming principles, they added 'enterprise stacking', bringing people back to the land via a series of symbiotic relationships."
#SolarPunkSunday #Trees #UK #MutualAid #HempTextiles #FoodSecurity #FoodForests #CropRotation #CropDiversity #OrganicFarming #SupportUKFarms #SupportLocalFarmers
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We had a single Yellow Transparent Apple tree in our orchard. We picked those for ourself and to sell at the door. They made the absolute best apple sauce!
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Was discussing apples with someone over on gander, a little tip, when your local tree org offers you apple trees, make sure you get at least 2 varieties to cross pollinate. Hearing a few folks that get all the same variety, and then wonder why they never get apples.
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🔎 Apple's ASIF format hides more complexity than expected
A reverse engineering analysis reveals how #Apple's Sparse Image Format manages storage, integrity and snapshots through undocumented internal structures.
🔗 read more: schamper.dev/dissecting-a...
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The core problem is what makes apples tedious. 🍎🍏
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July gardening in Australia: The best flowers, vegetables and fruit trees to plant this month https://www.allforgardening.com/1850310/july-gardening-in-australia-the-best-flowers-vegetables-and-fruit-trees-to-plant-this-month/ #Apples–IdealMonthToSowBareRootTrees #BroadBeansAndPeas–GreatVegetablesToGrowInWinter #Broccoli–AnIdealCoolSeasonVegetableForYourGarden #Cherries–PlantingFruitTreesInWinter #garden #GardeningInAustralia #Jonquils–PlantInWinterToGetFragrantBloomsInSpring #Tulips–PlantNowToEnjoyBeautifulSpringFlowering
