cleanandsunny

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[–] cleanandsunny 4 points 16 hours ago

Buying seeds is always an exercise in optimism! There’s always next year…

[–] cleanandsunny 45 points 1 week ago

Ha. Anyone who’s farmed knows that ag leases are such a different scenario and very negotiable, especially if you are working with someone who wants to see the land in production or help young farmers etc. I WISH there had been more willing landlords when I was farming, it took me two years to find a place at all. Lemmings can hate once they’ve negotiated their own ag lease 👀 👩🏻‍🌾

[–] cleanandsunny 86 points 1 week ago (3 children)

For now? Lease as much of that land as you can. Cover crop the rest. You do not want bare, tilled soil sitting there for a year+ as you figure out bigger plans.

[–] cleanandsunny 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] cleanandsunny 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Thanks so much for these links. I haven’t had time to look into Dutch sources. I have two good female friends doing their PhDs in other universities in the Netherlands in the sciences, and I’ve never heard anything even remotely close to this! They love their positions.

[–] cleanandsunny 145 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

Name dropping TU Delft is surprising to me! ETA: found more info here, but not about the lawsuit piece.

https://delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/a-no-thank-you-to-the-person-who-assumed-i-was-the-coffee-lady

[–] cleanandsunny 29 points 3 weeks ago

We were recently in Vancouver, and people were happy to have us! You shouldn’t worry. We did some extra shopping in solidarity and they appreciated our support.

[–] cleanandsunny 1 points 1 month ago

Yes!! I love picking up little tidbits in other languages while traveling.

It’s also amazing how ubiquitous English has become in the last 20 years, thanks to the internet. Back in the day, French or Spanish was required for some countries that spoke zero English, and that isn’t really the case anymore.

[–] cleanandsunny 1 points 1 month ago

I had to preempt it because there is always such a circlejerk about how awful Paris is to tourists and to the rest of France etc., but that hasn’t been my experience at all. Parisians went out of their way to be kind to us (Americans) on several occasions. I do speak French relatively well, but that doesn’t account for the times people were genuinely so so nice in Paris, or also having this experience in cities like NYC and Amsterdam. Anywhere you go, the average person is really nice and helpful.

[–] cleanandsunny 18 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Speaking a foreign language badly, not knowing a word for something, or only knowing the most basic greetings. People all over the world are generally delighted that you bothered at all, and are eager to teach you more. This has been true for me in big cities (even Paris) and tiny villages. The more obscure the language, the more delighted they will be. I have botched so many languages and conversations with strangers at this point that I am immune from embarrassment about it.

[–] cleanandsunny 2 points 2 months ago

Cool! You answered my question above, just wasn’t sure what exactly we were looking at in terms of media :) good luck with the patent process!

[–] cleanandsunny 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is super cool! How did you do it? I’ve learned a bit of monoprinting but never on metal!

 

Hi friends. Does anyone have a tried-and-true yeasted gluten-free dough recipe? I know it can be done, because the pizza in Sicily made me cry with joy. It was like pizza I remembered from BC (Before Celiac), and even my spouse thought it was as good as his glutenous ones. I have tried many recipes since that trip, even translating some from Italian, but always end up with sad, hard crusts.

I’m willing to buy special ingredients, use special methods, or learn all the hacks for whatever recipe you use. I just want real pizza again! Thanks for any leads y’all have.

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