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The land doesn't hold its shape that way. Two breaths, then: in through the nose, a second short sip stacked on top, out long and ragged. Three times.
That second sip is the part that actually reaches the nerve.

Cùm do chasan air an talamh — keep your feet on the ground.

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The land doesn't hold its shape that way. Two breaths, then: in through the nose, a second short sip stacked on top, out long and ragged. Three times.
That second sip is the part that actually reaches the nerve.

Cùm do chasan air an talamh — keep your feet on the ground.

What am I still asking permission to call mine? Ask me...
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon → https://thistleandmoss.com/subscribe
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The land doesn't hold its shape that way. Two breaths, then: in through the nose, a second short sip stacked on top, out long and ragged. Three times.
That second sip is the part that actually reaches the nerve.

Cùm do chasan air an talamh — keep your feet on the ground.

What am I still asking permission to call mine? Ask me...
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon → https://thistleandmoss.com/subscribe
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The land doesn't hold its shape that way. Two breaths, then: in through the nose, a second short sip stacked on top, out long and ragged. Three times.
That second sip is the part that actually reaches the nerve.

Cùm do chasan air an talamh — keep your feet on the ground.

What am I still asking permission to call mine? Ask me...
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon → https://thistleandmoss.com/subscribe
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The land doesn't hold its shape that way. Two breaths, then: in through the nose, a second short sip stacked on top, out long and ragged. Three times.
That second sip is the part that actually reaches the nerve.

Cùm do chasan air an talamh — keep your feet on the ground.

What am I still asking permission to call mine? Ask me...
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon → https://thistleandmoss.com/subscribe
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Your body has been braced since somebody said the small mean word at a fairground. Bracing isn't weakness — it's a nervous system doing the job it evolved for. The trouble is nobody ever tells the body when the thing is over, so it holds that shape into September, into a jaw that clicks and a shoulder that will not come down.
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon
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Your body has been braced since somebody said the small mean word at a fairground. Bracing isn't weakness — it's a nervous system doing the job it evolved for. The trouble is nobody ever tells the body when the thing is over, so it holds that shape into September, into a jaw that clicks and a shoulder that will not come down.
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon
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Your body has been braced since somebody said the small mean word at a fairground. Bracing isn't weakness — it's a nervous system doing the job it evolved for. The trouble is nobody ever tells the body when the thing is over, so it holds that shape into September, into a jaw that clicks and a shoulder that will not come down.
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon
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Your body has been braced since somebody said the small mean word at a fairground. Bracing isn't weakness — it's a nervous system doing the job it evolved for. The trouble is nobody ever tells the body when the thing is over, so it holds that shape into September, into a jaw that clicks and a shoulder that will not come down.
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon
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Your body has been braced since somebody said the small mean word at a fairground. Bracing isn't weakness — it's a nervous system doing the job it evolved for. The trouble is nobody ever tells the body when the thing is over, so it holds that shape into September, into a jaw that clicks and a shoulder that will not come down.
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon
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No ad network, no AI, no sponsor deciding what tone I take. Written by a human, funded by readers, weekly if that suits you better than monthly → https://liberapay.com/wendythedruid/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
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No ad network, no AI, no sponsor deciding what tone I take. Written by a human, funded by readers, weekly if that suits you better than monthly → https://liberapay.com/wendythedruid/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
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No ad network, no AI, no sponsor deciding what tone I take. Written by a human, funded by readers, weekly if that suits you better than monthly → https://liberapay.com/wendythedruid/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
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No ad network, no AI, no sponsor deciding what tone I take. Written by a human, funded by readers, weekly if that suits you better than monthly → https://liberapay.com/wendythedruid/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
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No ad network, no AI, no sponsor deciding what tone I take. Written by a human, funded by readers, weekly if that suits you better than monthly → https://liberapay.com/wendythedruid/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
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Here's the part worth knowing: the milk wants to do this. You aren't manufacturing anything. You're letting an acid finish a job that was already half done.

And the light in a kitchen where somebody just made cheese out of heat and a lemon is a particular light. It doesn't require anyone's permission or anyone's brand.

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
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Here's the part worth knowing: the milk wants to do this. You aren't manufacturing anything. You're letting an acid finish a job that was already half done.

And the light in a kitchen where somebody just made cheese out of heat and a lemon is a particular light. It doesn't require anyone's permission or anyone's brand.

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
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Here's the part worth knowing: the milk wants to do this. You aren't manufacturing anything. You're letting an acid finish a job that was already half done.

And the light in a kitchen where somebody just made cheese out of heat and a lemon is a particular light. It doesn't require anyone's permission or anyone's brand.

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
3/4

Here's the part worth knowing: the milk wants to do this. You aren't manufacturing anything. You're letting an acid finish a job that was already half done.

And the light in a kitchen where somebody just made cheese out of heat and a lemon is a particular light. It doesn't require anyone's permission or anyone's brand.

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
3/4

Here's the part worth knowing: the milk wants to do this. You aren't manufacturing anything. You're letting an acid finish a job that was already half done.

And the light in a kitchen where somebody just made cheese out of heat and a lemon is a particular light. It doesn't require anyone's permission or anyone's brand.

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
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Off the heat, half a cup of lemon juice or plain white vinegar, stir once, then leave it completely alone for ten minutes while it breaks into white curd and thin green whey. Through a cheesecloth-lined colander, salt it, press it under a plate and a heavy can for twenty.

The whey goes into tomorrow's rice or the cornbread, not the drain.

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
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Off the heat, half a cup of lemon juice or plain white vinegar, stir once, then leave it completely alone for ten minutes while it breaks into white curd and thin green whey. Through a cheesecloth-lined colander, salt it, press it under a plate and a heavy can for twenty.

The whey goes into tomorrow's rice or the cornbread, not the drain.

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
2/4

Off the heat, half a cup of lemon juice or plain white vinegar, stir once, then leave it completely alone for ten minutes while it breaks into white curd and thin green whey. Through a cheesecloth-lined colander, salt it, press it under a plate and a heavy can for twenty.

The whey goes into tomorrow's rice or the cornbread, not the drain.

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
2/4

Off the heat, half a cup of lemon juice or plain white vinegar, stir once, then leave it completely alone for ten minutes while it breaks into white curd and thin green whey. Through a cheesecloth-lined colander, salt it, press it under a plate and a heavy can for twenty.

The whey goes into tomorrow's rice or the cornbread, not the drain.

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
2/4

Off the heat, half a cup of lemon juice or plain white vinegar, stir once, then leave it completely alone for ten minutes while it breaks into white curd and thin green whey. Through a cheesecloth-lined colander, salt it, press it under a plate and a heavy can for twenty.

The whey goes into tomorrow's rice or the cornbread, not the drain.

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
2/4

Four dollars. About a pound of fresh cheese. Half an hour, most of it waiting.

One gallon of whole milk warmed slow to just under a simmer — 190°, or until it foams at the rim and stops sitting still.

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
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Four dollars. About a pound of fresh cheese. Half an hour, most of it waiting.

One gallon of whole milk warmed slow to just under a simmer — 190°, or until it foams at the rim and stops sitting still.

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
1/4

Four dollars. About a pound of fresh cheese. Half an hour, most of it waiting.

One gallon of whole milk warmed slow to just under a simmer — 190°, or until it foams at the rim and stops sitting still.

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
1/4

Four dollars. About a pound of fresh cheese. Half an hour, most of it waiting.

One gallon of whole milk warmed slow to just under a simmer — 190°, or until it foams at the rim and stops sitting still.

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
1/4

Four dollars. About a pound of fresh cheese. Half an hour, most of it waiting.

One gallon of whole milk warmed slow to just under a simmer — 190°, or until it foams at the rim and stops sitting still.

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
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New growth from my Artemisias announces spring.

Photo 1: Southernwood, Artemisia abrotanum
Photo 2: Mugwort, A. vulgaris, from German seeds
Photo 3: Mugwort, A. vulgaris (or maybe A. verlotiorum) adopted from a wild patch near my house
Photo 4: Wormwood, A. absynthium

#mugwort #southernwood #wormwood #artemisia #gardening #herbalism #spring #macrophotography #macro #plants #photography #wortcunning

New growth from my Artemisias announces spring.

Photo 1: Southernwood, Artemisia abrotanum
Photo 2: Mugwort, A. vulgaris, from German seeds
Photo 3: Mugwort, A. vulgaris (or maybe A. verlotiorum) adopted from a wild patch near my house
Photo 4: Wormwood, A. absynthium

#mugwort #southernwood #wormwood #artemisia #gardening #herbalism #spring #macrophotography #macro #plants #photography #wortcunning

New growth from my Artemisias announces spring.

Photo 1: Southernwood, Artemisia abrotanum
Photo 2: Mugwort, A. vulgaris, from German seeds
Photo 3: Mugwort, A. vulgaris (or maybe A. verlotiorum) adopted from a wild patch near my house
Photo 4: Wormwood, A. absynthium

#mugwort #southernwood #wormwood #artemisia #gardening #herbalism #spring #macrophotography #macro #plants #photography #wortcunning