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Bitters, Sprouting & Sensors

2023-03-01

I use a store bought variety of Aztec bitters in my coffee every morning. Always having an interest in drinks made with botanicals, I decided to try my hand at making my own chocolate bitters. I had already made a number of tinctures at the end of 2019 which were to be the building blocks for making my own vermouth (and are still in excellent condition!). So I had some of the herbs on hand and already had chocolate nibs as well, to attempt a bitters recipe. After acquiring some more vanilla bean, green cardamom pods and wild cherry bark I whipped up a batch to extract over the next couple of weeks.
Quite a few of the elderberry cuttings obtained earlier are sprouting out nicely. Hopefully they have roots forming as well. The onion seeds started in one of the repurposed tissue culture trays look almost ready to transfer to a larger container. A number of the kale plants in the aqua house have bolted, providing me with a tender and tasty bunch of flowers / florets for dinner!
I had been playing with some Arduino boards with embedded LoRa radios to use as sensors around the farm. The LoRa technology has only been getting popular over the last few years, but is ideal for low power, long range, small data applications such as sensors for presence, temperature, water level, etc. I found a commercial PIR road sensor that used LoRa, but it had so many problems and inconsistencies that I couldn't get it to work for even that simple task. I had traveled past the extents of my property with one of my Arduino LoRa boards and it connected easily with the unit at the house. Recently I found some inexpensive "radar" boards that send out a tiny microwave frequency and watch the return for any movement of the objects off which it reflects. So I'm in the process of bread boarding one of these for a trial on the property.

The two blue rectangles at the top of the pic are poly lithium batteries, the board at the bottom is the Feather LoRa microcontroller, and the board at the right is the RCWL-0516 microwave motion detection sensor.

Bitters, Sprouting & Sensors

2023-03-01

I use a store bought variety of Aztec bitters in my coffee every morning. Always having an interest in drinks made with botanicals, I decided to try my hand at making my own chocolate bitters. I had already made a number of tinctures at the end of 2019 which were to be the building blocks for making my own vermouth (and are still in excellent condition!). So I had some of the herbs on hand and already had chocolate nibs as well, to attempt a bitters recipe. After acquiring some more vanilla bean, green cardamom pods and wild cherry bark I whipped up a batch to extract over the next couple of weeks.







Quite a few of the elderberry cuttings obtained earlier are sprouting out nicely. Hopefully they have roots forming as well. The onion seeds started in one of the repurposed tissue culture trays look almost ready to transfer to a larger container. A number of the kale plants in the aqua house have bolted, providing me with a tender and tasty bunch of flowers / florets for dinner!







I had been playing with some Arduino boards with embedded LoRa radios to use as sensors around the farm. The LoRa technology has only been getting popular over the last few years, but is ideal for low power, long range, small data applications such as sensors for presence, temperature, water level, etc. I found a commercial PIR road sensor that used LoRa, but it had so many problems and inconsistencies that I couldn't get it to work for even that simple task. I had traveled past the extents of my property with one of my Arduino LoRa boards and it connected easily with the unit at the house. Recently I found some inexpensive "radar" boards that send out a tiny microwave frequency and watch the return for any movement of the objects off which it reflects. So I'm in the process of bread boarding one of these for a trial on the property.

The two blue rectangles at the top of the pic are poly lithium batteries, the board at the bottom is the Feather LoRa microcontroller, and the board at the right is the RCWL-0516 microwave motion detection sensor.






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Merchants of Poison Report final 12/05/2022

(with 579 cited references)


Find out about: America's (now the World's) Favorite Poison By Far!


“In order to save glyphosate, the Monsanto corporation has undertaken an effort to destroy the United Nations’ cancer agency by any means possible.”[10]

... " just four companies — Bayer, Corteva (formerly DowDuPont), BASF and Syngenta/ChemChina — controlled 75 percent of plant breeding research, 60 percent of the commercial seed market, and 76 percent of global agrichemical sales in 2019."[78]



Just gotta' LOVE glyphosate, right?????

Yes, the second link is old news, but not forgotten and more importantly, as the first link shows, not remedied:

Monsanto / Bayer's Roundup Triggers Over 40 Plant Diseases and Endangers Human and Animal Health. Protect yourself and those you care about!

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/argentinasRoundupHumanTragedy.php    

http://www.NaturalNews.com/031138_Monsanto_Roundup.html

[10] Foucart, S. & Horel, S. (2019, April 7). Monsanto Papers. European Press Prize. https://www.europeanpressprize.com/article/monsanto-papers/

[78] ETC Group. (2019, April 06). New report: Putting the cartel before the horse…and farm, seeds, soil, peasants. https://www.etcgroup.org/content/new-report-putting-cartel-horse%E2%80%A6and-farm-seeds-soil-peasants

Just Say No To GMO by Michael Adams - Video
https://www.naturalnews.com/NoGMO.html

Just Say No To GMO by Michael Adams - Music
https://oregonTruffleTryst.com/_MEDIA/JustSayNoToGMO-192.mp3 Song Lyrics

Song by Mike Adams, with spoken lines from Jeffrey Smith

I’m lookin at the food that’s in the grocery store
They say it’s safe, everybody eat more.
On second thought, I don’t really know if it’s made with those GMOs

So I’m lookin for the non-GMO label ‘fore I bring it home and put it on my table
I wanna know it’s verified so I don’t
Harm myself with genetically modified

Uh-Oh
They don’t want you to know
All the poison they grow
The corporate profits they show from those GMO OH

Those Frankenseeds that they sow
They’re gonna hurt us we know
It’s time we told ‘em to go, say GMO NO!

I don’t want eat poison, I don’t want gene mutations at my dinner reservations
it’s a food abomination what they doin’ to this fast food nation
They take artificial gene combinations
inject them in seed variations
so they can grow their Frankenfood imitations
while the side effects cause medical patients

Keep their profits alive while they
spraying all the food with name brand herbicides
and all the while they’re spreadin’ their lies
Monsanto (Bayer now!) destroyin’ farmers lives
and the FDA keeps it all going
saying it’s safe even though they all know it’s just
poison stealing away your life, and that’s what you eat with genetically modified.

GMO safety huh that’s a corporate myth
if you don’t believe me listen to Jeffery Smith
He’s the man with plan gonna do what he can
To help us all get those GMOs banned
But we need you to lend a hand
take a stand against this food scam
It’s a mission for the health condition worldwide
We don’t wanna live genetically modified

Don’t eat food unless you know what’s in it
Don’t believe the propaganda cuz the press will spin it
Affects everybody, we all up in it
Stand up to Monsanto (Bayer now!), tell ‘em oh no you didn’t

Reject Frankenfoods in the store
demand honest labels so we can be informed
We have a natural right to know
What we buyin’ Just say no to GMO

Before our farms start dyin’
Just say no to GMO

Those corporate crooks are lyin’
Just say no to GMO

This time we’re not complyin’
Just say no to GMO

We’re just not buyin’ it
Just say no to GMO

Song and Lyrics © 2010 by Michael Adams, All Rights Reserved

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