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  1. Beans did great this year, we ate loads, froze some and they just kept coming.

    Peas are done, we let some dry for seeds and tore out the plants and supports.

    The last two surviving sweetcorn cobs were the largest and so got plucked and peeled to dry for seeds.

    Also got seeds from the two tobacco plants that popped up randomly after we dug over the former greenhouse for the first time. Nobody here smokes, but I'm kinda curious to experiment with them.

    Cucumbers are done too.

    Even managed to save a few hazelnuts from the mad squirrels this year.

    Just pumpkins, sunflowers and apples left now. And the apples are pretty sour still. Not enough sun. Endless rain.

    #Homestead #Harvest #Garden #Beans #Peas #Sweetcorn #Tobacco #Pumpkin #Cucumber #Hazelnuts #SeedSaving

  2. RE: mastodon.social/@ieeespectrum/

    Stretch, Harvest, Tractor, and Alpha were names to conjure with for more than twenty years.

    A stellar cast led the development of the products behind these names, including Turing Award winners John Cooke, Fred Brooks, and Fran Allen.

    This excellent IEESpectrum history by Peter Capek is based on many sources, including his personal experiences as an IBM computer engineer.

    #computer #history #Stretch #Harvest #IBM #NSA #cryptanalysis

  3. Seven scythes leaned at the wall.
    Beard upon golden beard
    The last barley load
    Swayed through the yard…

    —George Mackay Brown, “Taxman”
    Published in CARVE THE RUNES (Polygon, 2021)

    birlinn.co.uk/product/carve-th

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Orkney #farming #farminghistory #harvest #GeorgeMacKayBrown

  4. Seven scythes leaned at the wall.
    Beard upon golden beard
    The last barley load
    Swayed through the yard…

    —George Mackay Brown, “Taxman”
    Published in CARVE THE RUNES (Polygon, 2021)

    birlinn.co.uk/product/carve-th

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Orkney #farming #farminghistory #harvest #GeorgeMacKayBrown

  5. Seven scythes leaned at the wall.
    Beard upon golden beard
    The last barley load
    Swayed through the yard…

    —George Mackay Brown, “Taxman”
    Published in CARVE THE RUNES (Polygon, 2021)

    birlinn.co.uk/product/carve-th

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Orkney #farming #farminghistory #harvest #GeorgeMacKayBrown

  6. Seven scythes leaned at the wall.
    Beard upon golden beard
    The last barley load
    Swayed through the yard…

    —George Mackay Brown, “Taxman”
    Published in CARVE THE RUNES (Polygon, 2021)

    birlinn.co.uk/product/carve-th

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Orkney #farming #farminghistory #harvest #GeorgeMacKayBrown

  7. A warm celebration of autumn in golden orange, olive green, and soft lavender. This pumpkin painting brings the beauty of the harvest season to fall decorating with a timeless, traditional feel.

    See available prints: deborahleaguefineart.com/featu

    #Pumpkin #AutumnArt #FallArt #Harvest #FallDecor #AutumnDecor #ayearforart #buyintoart #mastodonart #mastoart #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas

  8. Not a lot of harvesting in the garden this year but it's adequate. A bit of cooler weather has helped. Some big cucumbers, orange tomatoes from a volunteer, zucchini and squash, and a bumper crop of marigolds... I've actually cut out a dozen or more of them from that bed but the peppers are recovering from whatever they had going on too late to do anything now. Saving some pole bean seeds too!

    #gardening #harvest #August29 #cucumbers #squash #zucchini #marigolds #garden #SeedSaving

  9. Narrowboat on the Worcester and Birmingham canal, on the outskirts of Worcester, and a hay bale in a field on the opposite bank.
    #Photography #Landscape #Narrowboat #Canal #harvest #Hay #Countryside #Water #Boat #Worcester

  10. Hometown gal makes good | Los Gatan

    BIG SMILE – Katie Abelson at the bottling line. (Tracy Chastain) Los Gatos resident and Assistant Winemaker at Testarossa, Katie Abelson, has called Los Gatos home since she was 8 years old. She’d lived in Switzerland and Belgium prior until her engineer father moved the family to the Bay Area tow…
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #Wine #harvest #KatieAbelson #TestarossaWinery #winemaking
    diningandcooking.com/2728687/h

  11. linkedin.com/in/genevieve-r-19

    'Genevieve R.
    ...
    'Governance | #NZ #Coastal Policy enthusiast | Writer | Public #Health advocate | Sepsis Survivor | ADHD Advocate | Busy unique mind | Proudly #WOKE| All Strong Views my own (proudly)'

    #Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

    'When I first became involved in advocating for eastern #tarakihi in 2019, #Fisheries New Zealand’s own #science estimated the eastern stock had fallen to around 16% of its unfished #biomass—well below the 20% soft limit and nowhere near the #Harvest Strategy Standard target of 40%.

    'Six years later, we’re paying substantially more at the checkout, yet the eastern stock remains well under a rebuilding-plan target.
    'Recent projections suggest it is still hovering around the lower management thresholds, with recovery far from assured under current catch settings.
    'That should concern every New Zealander.
    We’ve somehow normalised the idea that a fish can become increasingly expensive while remaining chronically depleted. Consumers are paying more, commercial operators continue #fishing, and we’re repeatedly told the #fishery is being managed “#sustainably”.

    'If this is what #sustainability looks like, perhaps we need to rethink what the word means.

    'A truly #sustainable fishery shouldn’t require decades of rebuilding while the stock remains well below the level our own management system says it should achieve. It shouldn’t leave us debating whether 10–20% of the original spawning biomass is acceptable, and it most certainly shouldn’t have us celebrating modest improvements while remaining nowhere near the target.'
    .....
    'Perhaps the real question isn’t why the price has risen, it’s whether we’ve convinced ourselves that #depletion has become an acceptable definition of sustainability.
    #fisheries #rma #cma #rcep #fisheriesact #protect #enhance #restore

  12. Optical, Radar, And Hybrid Indices To Detect Farming Practices In Europe
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    doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2026.115 <-- shared paper
    --
    “HIGHLIGHTS:
    • [they] compare[d] Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 time series to detect farming practices.
    • HyBRIS index is introduced, temporally weighting BSI and VH/VV into a daily index.
    • Time-series minima and maxima are used to predict sowing, harvest, and tillage.
    • Validation is performed across several years, crop types, and European locations.
    • Phenology detection is improved compared to HRL-Cropland.
    ABSTRACT: Arable farming practices dictate both crop cycles and soil dynamics, and are central to agriculture's environmental impact and its mitigation. Sowing and harvesting mark the beginning and end of the growing season, while tillage modifies soil structure during the dormant period. Although well-established methods exist for delineating the growing season using phenology and optical data, the detection of farming practices, particularly tillage, remains underexplored. This study investigates the strengths of radar and optical data to retrieve sowing, harvest, and tillage dates at the field level, and proposes a novel Hybrid Bare Soil Radar Index (HyBRIS). Based on Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2, HyBRIS merges optical and radar data into a single index using a temporally weighted mean. Local minima and maxima of the time series are used to detect farming practices across European sites. Validation is carried out against a reference dataset comprising 238 fields in 11 EU countries, including 462 sowing, 374 harvest, and 388 tillage events covering more than 40 crop types over 8 years. Compared to the Copernicus High Resolution Layer Croplands product (HRL-Cropland), the proposed method based on HyBRIS time series improved sowing and harvest dates detection (MAE 26 and 23 days, respectively). Additionally, this method enabled tillage dates estimation during dormant periods (MAE = 28 days), but tended to overestimate the number of tillage events (producer's accuracy = 97%, user's accuracy = 70%). Incorporating soil moisture data is advised for reducing false positives. The results highlight the potential of optical, radar, and hybrid indices for monitoring agricultural management and supporting environmental stewardship…”
    #Sowing #Harvest #tillage #tillagedetection #cropland #CroplandManagement #remotesensing #earthobservation #sentinel #Copernicus #cropland #satellite #optical #radar #sensor #landuse #landcover #landsurface #phenology #agricultural #monitoring #GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #arable #farming #agriculture #soil #substrate #environment #sustainability #environmentalstewardship #growingseason #Europe #region #model #modeling

  13. They Found Ash

    On the Pleasures and Perils of Romanticism | by Zachary Bivins In the fey of her smileRome turned to embers. Augustan travertine,sooty, split, toothless;marbled colonnades bowedlike forgotten patriarchsbeneath their scars Empires denied. The moon looked away,a black prayer forgotten;no howls for mercy,only berries crushedin a bear's fell maw. Her lips smoldered,teasing dawn-gilded, like fire from heavenconsuming all thingsthat reached starward. Wyrd, elusive as a fox a wending glimpse […]

    thetigressawakes.wordpress.com

  14. Caroline Street Blog @carolinestreetblog.wordpress.com@carolinestreetblog.wordpress.com ·

    The River of Life

    I frequently speak words of healing and blessing over my life. Over time, my imagination began to respond to the life-giving Word of God by forming little pictures inspired by His promises. Gradually, these mental images came together until a complete vision emerged, resulting in the painting, 'The River of Life' above. (Oil on canvas. H900mm x 1080mm). The painting is symbolic of that ongoing transformation and reflects the abundant life Christ came to give me—spirit, soul, and body—here […]

    carolinestreetblog.wordpress.c

  15. I harvested some more #GreenOnions from our backyard.

    2025 marks the 30th year since I bought green onions in any store. Been growing it, year round, since 1995.

    #GrowItEatIt #GrowFood #FoodGardeners #Saanich #Harvest #Saanich #VancouverIsland

  16. Here's our #LifecyclesProjectSociety numbers for our 2025 season:

    Total #harvest: 64,691lbs

    Total (A-Grade) donated to 75+ service agencies though the #FoodShare Network: 32,883lbs.

    Total kept by pickers and harvest leads: 14,245lbs.

    Total kept by stewards: 4,460lbs.

    Total used by Lifecycles for fruit processing & pressing: 7,240lbs.

    Total compost (none to the landfill!): 5863lbs.

    lifecyclesproject.ca/

    #WorkLife #Teamwork #LifecyclesProjectSociety #FoodSecurity #FruitProcessing #Esquimalt #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #nonprofit #RescuedFruit #FoodRescue #FoodEquity #FeedingCommunity #FruitTreeProject #nonprofit

  17. Friday, August 22, 2025

    Going in circles: Trump sets new deadline for peace in Ukraine — Ukraine to mass produce long-range Flamingo missile in winter — Video shows aftermath of Ukrainian drone strikes on oil pumping station in Russia’s Bryansk Oblast — Where is Crimea? And other things you (and US presidents) should know … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  18. EN: Just a few more days to ripen, and then they will be harvested.

    DE: Noch wenige Tage weiter reifen, dann werden sie geerntet.

    NL: Nog een paar dagen verder rijpen, dan worden ze geoogst.

    #fruits #harvest #garden #fuit #fruchten #ernten #garten #tuin #oogsten

  19. Dude! No, it's not what you might think, it's sweet annie (Artemisia annua) that grows nearly as weeds in the garden but, as I get high demand for it from friends, I've collected and am now drying for storage roughly 10 kg of it on a 1 x 1 m tarp. I mean, that's a lot of medicinal, herbal tea!! We also won't need any incense in the house for the foreseeable future, I'm sure 😂 (I find its smell pleasant though).

    #Gardening #Harvest #Herbs #MedicinalPlants #Artemisia #SweetAnnie #SweetWormwood

  20. August 28, 2024 - Harvest

    Some eating tomatoes plus a San Marzano that had fallen off the vine, a bunch of Jalapenos, one small curled up Red Marconi, 5 cucumbers, and 1 yellow summer squash.

    #gardening #SummerSquash #cucumbers #JalapeñoPeppers #MarconiPeppers #MuncherCucumber #MarketerCucumber #GrowYourOwn #garden #harvest #MastodonOnly #CCBYNCND