Greetings Hive!

We've been following the news and are very excited about the new community buzzing over here. In our opinions, it is a much needed break from a chain around the neck that was Steemit Inc (and then J Sun!?!?) and the ninja mined stake. Now there is a real feeling in the air and boots on the ground of a truly community led network one with the freedom to actualize great heights!

That said, I look forward to seeing how this place grows.

Ini on recently cut mushroom logs.

Homestead Update:

A quick homestead update. Spring is here! We are busy planting tree seeds, finishing projects, gardening, preparing mushroom logs for spawn, relaxing, taking care of our immune systems in the face of Covid-19 (and yes we have been social distancing), selling permaculture plants, among other things.

Skirret mama with a lot of baby plants

Chinese hybrid chestnuts ready to be planted!

We've made some air pruning beds (post on that soon) and have planted out Chinese and European hybrid chestnuts, persimmons, select pawpaw seeds and we also have Trifoliate Orange (a citrus easily hardy to our area!) and Jujube. We've sold dozens of starts this year including skirret, blackberries, boysenberries, Chinese mountain yam, sunchokes and more. It feels good to spread the awesome plants.

Perennial abundance; Skirret, sunchokes, comfrey, wild yam and more

Wild and cultivated salad greens are on the menu each day. That, per usual, brings a lot of bright health to our diet and helps move any winter stagnation.

Wild and cultivated greens salad

Questions for the community:

How is everyone?!

It's been a while since I've checked in and the drama has of course changed the tempo of interaction here for a while it seems. I'm excited to see people get back into "posting grooves".

Secondly, what would people like to see from us?

We want to stick to quality blog posts instead of quantity -- focusing on topics pertaining to permaculture, homesteading, food forestry, natural building, etc that people find interesting.

Maybe you’re interested in tanning hides?

What do you find interesting pertaining to our lifestyle?

We also plan to get back into action posting YouTube videos. However, though much has been changing in our world, our slow rural internet has not changed (perhaps it's gotten worse) so we still have a challenging time with the uploads.

Let it be known that throughout my hiatus from posting in the community, I have been playing Splinterlands many times a week! The Gelatinous Cube is one of my favorites of late.

And this concludes my first post on new fork, Hive blockchain. Happy to be here!