Martin Luther King Day at Steepmeadow

It's Martin Luther King Day at Steepmeadow. Most of the outdoor work right now consists of processing wood for the wood stove. It is consuming a great deal, and we're just holding the house at 65 degrees. It's classic January.

There was a sale at Seed Savers Exchange, so I purchased most of what we will need for the summer's garden. We have pumpkin, bean, and pepper seeds that we saved from last year. So not terribly expensive this year. 

We are in the depths of winter, and plagued by ICE. The federal government has invaded Minnesota with their masked Gestapo kidnapping our neighbors off of the streets. 

To paraphrase Henry Rollins on misogyny (also true and exacerbated at the moment), I hate white supremacy, and I see it everywhere. 

Normally I try to stick to gardening on this platform, but the whole point of self-sufficiency is to be prepared for emergencies. We are in one now. We don't know what tomorrow will bring. The MN National Guard is on standby to be deployed. The federal filth are threatening to deploy two battalions of troops from Alaska and invoke the "insurrection act." Rubbish. The only crisis here is one that the Republican scum manufactured. When masked, unaccountable secret police come to neighborhoods, snatch people, brutalize people, shoot people, I fear the worst. 

Minnesota will not break. 

And so an act of hope. Start planning next year's garden. Plant only things we plan to eat. Plant them in smaller quantities than last year. Let the raised beds breathe. We've also ordered up a pollinator garden kit for our front yard between the two apple trees from Prairie Moon Nursery. 

It should be a lighter summer. Running half marathons. Planting fewer plants. Making it manageable and relaxing (while maintaining quite a bit of production).