Oh. It says "YOU'RE ALL GONNA DIE".
Devon, UK-dwelling biophiliac. Food systems (Food Studies Masters student at University of Exeter), farming and agroecology, trees, nature connection, cack-handed gardening. Living in the liminal.
5,060 followers 1,417 following 5,049 posts
view profile on Bluesky
Oh. It says "YOU'RE ALL GONNA DIE".
Pardon?
Custom gifs now on Bluesky. Yay. (this gif: @kiszkiloszki.bsky.social)
Riverford and Sustain are calling on you again to help support British farmers from unfair dealing by supermarkets. 30 MPs are already in support of supply chain regulation, tell your MP to join the call >> www.sustainweb.org/news/strengt...
Apropos of nothing, The Larder at Yelverton has Alp Blossom (Blรผtenkรคse) cheese back in stock. It's pure crack. #Dartmoor
Well if you make it from paper it won't taste very nice will it
The University of Exeter Botanic Garden Team and @crpr-exeter.bsky.social are developing a practical #horticulture short course! Give your feedback on their course proposal at this survey (closes 26 Sept): forms.office.com/e/NvYj39t48c @exeter.ac.uk @uniofexeternews.bsky.social ๐๐ฑ๐ฟ
This photo of a pair of utter twunts was taken by someone's dad on their Nokia 3210.
'The Vegetable Garden' by Richard Adams, chalk pastel.
One of the optional modules of my #FoodStudies Masters (www.exeter.ac.uk/study/postgr...) at @exeter.ac.uk last year was Global #SystemsThinking. Valuable podcast discussion here on the framework, knowledge and skills needed to make food systems change happen.
If only it were only 7 seconds. And it's why I block all social notifications.
And there's the lovely crunching underfoot.
Bosh. 10 jars plus a scrape in a ramekin to eat later.
Chutney making begins. Used up the last of some funky local apple cider vinegar, keeping the mother for more vinegar with the scraps.
Thanks! Will do. Possible other source as well.
Totally.
It's absolutely chucking it down and all I want is enough containers to keep all the water
Accumulating a mighty haul of apples this year, with many more still to pick. The pup meanwhile has had enough of picking in the rain and would like to go in now please.
Maybe it's just a possibility that we're capable of eating significantly less meat when so many don't even know or care where their meat comes from, and even self-professed experts like this numpty are fooled by a meat substitute? Barriers to adoption for many are probably entirely in their heads.
The more gardening I do the less I feel like a gardener! We've got various thugs. The sumac isn't anything compared to the creeping buttercup and the three cornered leeks...
One of many thugs we're getting accustomed to and realising that more aggressive management is needed...
Pang of guilt that the apple tree tucked away on its own in a corner of the garden, swamped by sumac and cornus, has still given so generously this year. Note to self to be kinder to it in the future.
Fortunately, if you leave Phacelia long enough to drop seed, soon enough you will be growing nothing else
Think I might just grow Phacelia, nothing else. The bees love it.
Red crosses all over the road markings in Okehampton. I know it's supposed to be an expression of nationalistic pride or something but it mainly reminds me of kids drawing hopscotch on the pavement with chalk.
Night night
The Forestry Commission has published a tree nurseries directory for #agroforestry projects, but it's a bit thin - if you grow trees and want to be added see contact info on the directory page www.gov.uk/government/p...
I've got various with holes and bruises, some are plympton pippin which is a bit ๐ฌ and I'll chuck in some green toms as well...
Brilliant, thank you!
Fascinated to read that 1) vegans are a side, team or cohesive body and 2) that they've definitively lost as 2025 is apparently full time and nothing that comes after counts, no penalty shootout or anything
I'm going to get some chutney made this week, are you working to any particular recipe? My last lot was good but needed to be a wee bit more tangy...
AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH
That's sarcasm, isn't it
I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn, he whispered.
Any budding young naturalists/readers out there who would like 3 @gill-lewis.bsky.social books? Iโd love to gift these to someone who would enjoy them. Iโll cover postage :)
Don't worry, spiders, I keep house casually. Kobayashi Issa, 1763 - 1828
Let me know what bin you put it in and I'll fish it back out. I love it.
It's that time of year when the press kicks off with this rubbish. Spiders just want a nice warm place to mate. UK species are overwhelmingly completely harmless, plus they eat flies and other insects, and they mostly want corners and places we don't use. Welcome our spidery friends.
We're all a long way past Stephen Fry getting stuck in a lift
Monitoring a tarte tatin like a hawk.
Just seen a bat flying around outside in the sun.
Love Nick. Infectious enthusiasm.
Spectacular
Nothing on behaviour change, reduction in meat and dairy consumption where it is at unsustainable levels, reducing waste, agroecology or the role of local food systems in resilience. Because that's complicated, systemic, demanding plurality - so we leave it all to tech and The Market. #FoodStudies
Ooh, mint and apple jelly. Our mint has a good second flush of growth on the go. And yes definitely chutney and I'm keen to try cider. Think we have some demijohns in the garage.
Fingers crossed for next year.
We're definitely doing that with a community pressing day happening next month...
I did do some dried apple rings last year, like you said labour intensive but they were good!
She does like a bit of carrot, so far not a fan of apple but her tastes may change and we are trying her out on new stuff often!
There's a Community Apple Pressing Day at Tamar Grow Local, Kelly Bray on Sat 13 Sep (mailchi.mp/08ba76dc2b5a...) meanwhile I'm making tarte tatin for Mrs N's birthday, apple butter, and stewed apple for porridge and crumble... other ideas welcome as it's an abundant year ๐๐๐๐ #Devon #Cornwall
Apple harvest fully in swing. Star performer so far is the Plympton Pippin. We named the dog after that variety, even though she was born in Yelverton.
Now I'm 50, booked in for an MOT at the doctors to have my blood tested (my blood type: ragu alla Bolognese). Had prostate checked this morning. It was definitely there. โ๏ธ
Lie back and think of England
Yes, I like that!
If you're into #gardening, #botany or the intricate relationships between plants and #invertebrates, do give @haggewoods.bsky.social a follow. I've learned more from her in the ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธyears since we met on Twitter than I have from books. ๐ฟ๐๐ฑ๐
Tetley. It's quite a trick to make tea that looks like tea but tastes like milky water. I thought only Lipton had managed that.
Disembodied hind leg of a small mammal found by the front gate this morning. The buzzard has been snacking.
Been watching King and Conqueror this evening. I might understand the creators taking such liberties with historical accuracy for dramatic effect, but it's all so dull and silly.
Had the last of this year's harvest of figs this morning. So ripe we just spread it straight onto some toast.
Hello @bsky.app. we are Norfolk Ponds Project - a science-led partnership NGO focused on pond restoration & #ghostpond ressurection. We aim to educate, lobby & inspire others on ponds. We used to Tweet & had 5000+ followers. ***Please follow & help us achieve the same here***!!!
A lifetime's worth of learning: heat the water and run the appliances during the night when the power's cheaper. Not being on a variable tariff and having solar but no battery storage (yet): THE SUN'S SHINING, TURN ALL THE THINGS ON NOW
Dappled #Dartmoor
Off to the village fair at Peter Tavy in a little while. Plants, tea, cake, duck race, books, raffle, and an excellently well coordinated team of hi-vis clad parking marshalls. #Dartmoor
Six months past their best before date venison beer sticks. The dog would love a bit. Oh no, I say, bit spicy for you, forgetting that she's voluntarily eaten cat poop and rotten things that couldn't be identified without CSI involvement.
Cack-handed gardening done for the day. Some awful comfrey tea decanted into containers, weedy greenhouse watered and fed, I should basically start farming petty spurge. Got excited about a seedling I didn't think was going to take before realising it was a nettle. Gardening reduces stress they say.
I saw this and had to check for myself. Amazing.
Overdue catching up - usually watch it Sundays ๐ x
It's very freeing, not engaging when it's usually pointless. Not just things you disagree with, but sweeping generalisations, unhelpful things, negativity. Unfollow, mute, go about your day. By all means learn, clarify, build, but these places are just the worst for debate.
Be nice if the video quality on Bluesky wasn't absolutely dreadful
Just admiring my phacelia patch when in buzzes a hummingbird hawkmoth
Sat 13 September, Okehampton - Seed Saving Workshop www.tickettailor.com/events/harve... #agroecology #seedSaving
Major bed fur
Shared by a friend I've been working with on a project on his land on Dartmoor. Westcountry Rivers Trust put an attenuation pond in one of his fields, partially lined to provide a resource for wildlife. The wildlife is using it. Build it, and they will come.
Save us from commentators making sweeping generalisations about farming and food, particularly when criticism is so often linked to lazy farmer-bashing.
He's completely brilliant in it, and it is completely brilliant.
Gary Oldman is a treasure www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
A fully funded year-long land-based training opportunity with work experience in agroecological food and farming and a Permaculture Design Certificate - applications close 29 September #Devon #Agroecology www.apricotcentre.co.uk/level-3-rege...
The river is gorgeous.
The availability, price, shape, size and taste of the foods we take for granted is changing and will continue to change thanks to climate change and water shortages that are only going to get more severe www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
My goodness there are a lot of misery guts in Suffolk.
Our apples are coming in now
It is that
Or are the damsons bullaces or just plums ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ Anyway, they're lush.
Plump, sweet damsons and fat, waxy sloes in the hedgerows. Blackberries all around. It's just past mid August.
Please note this guidance on use of unicode text and accessibility - it looks flashy but it's not readable by everyone: business.scope.org.uk/accessibilit...
One of the best things I've ever done.
Gearing up for the second year of my Master's degree in #FoodStudies at @exeter.ac.uk. I've got a fantastic placement lined up, very excited to start, and dissertation ideas are swimming around my head that need to be firmed up. One more taught module to do as well.
๐ Weโre hiring! Join the team at Forest Research and help shape the future of science and the environment ๐ฟ Weโre looking for: ๐ Mammal Ecologist ๐ธ UAV (Drone) Pilot ๐ง Facilities Engineer โ๏ธ Finance Administrator โ Purchase Ledger and Expenses Apply online: forestresearch.gov.uk/about-us/car...
Give me all the pulses www.theguardian.com/food/2025/au...
Sheep on the common near us recently in hot weather, almost all sheltering under trees where the temperature is several degrees cooler. Tried (and so far not got far) to introduce low-density tree planting to a different common working with the landowner, to provide just this benefit to livestock.
You'd need to delete hundreds of billions of emails just to save as much water as fixing your toilet, or almost 6 billion emails to save as much water as shortening your shower by one minute andymasley.substack.com/p/contra-the...
Hearing the British Firework Championships from Plymouth 16 miles away. Certainly hope that's what that booming noise is anyway.
3 October - a bioregional banquet for South Devon www.bioregion.org.uk/event/bioreg... #Devon #Agroecology #FoodStudies
The crowbarring of AI into everything will continue until morale improves. Want to launch Excel? You'll need to log into your account and buy AI credits to ask Copilot to do that for you. www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...
There's nominative determinism in action
I love a good field name. One field at my old place of work, TSB, which was over 30 hectares in size, was made up of the names of the three fields that created it when the hedgerows dividing them were grubbed out - Thieves Hole, Sparrow Gong and Brick Kiln Piece. www.fwi.co.uk/farm-life/wh...
I mean, pop that thing
Did you though
