Kathryn Rose
@artsyhonker.bsky.social
composer, gardener, hedge-botherer, immigrant, locavore, neurodivergent, chaser after the wind, pastoral assistant, high liturgy, high chaos, has a profile that's just a bunch of descriptors separated by commas, she/they
Please give my best regards to them both!
December 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Please give my best regards to them both!
I tend to use dried legumes now that I grow some of my own but tinned ones are fine too if that's what you have.
Today I also included leftover baked beans and the leftover jacket potatoes from last night.
Today I also included leftover baked beans and the leftover jacket potatoes from last night.
December 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I tend to use dried legumes now that I grow some of my own but tinned ones are fine too if that's what you have.
Today I also included leftover baked beans and the leftover jacket potatoes from last night.
Today I also included leftover baked beans and the leftover jacket potatoes from last night.
It's pretty flexible, and can very easily be vegan, gluten free etc. I start with onions or leeks, carrots, and celery, and sweaty those for a while before adding anything else. I always use a lot of passata or tinned chopped tomatoes. And I almost always add legumes of some description.
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
It's pretty flexible, and can very easily be vegan, gluten free etc. I start with onions or leeks, carrots, and celery, and sweaty those for a while before adding anything else. I always use a lot of passata or tinned chopped tomatoes. And I almost always add legumes of some description.
And in my stomach, more to the point.
December 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
And in my stomach, more to the point.
It's called Big Soup Soup because I read a blog post about minestrone soup that said minestrone *already* implies some kind of big soup and so minestrone soup means "big soup soup". I have no idea if this is actually true. It will always be Big Soup Soup in my heart.
December 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
It's called Big Soup Soup because I read a blog post about minestrone soup that said minestrone *already* implies some kind of big soup and so minestrone soup means "big soup soup". I have no idea if this is actually true. It will always be Big Soup Soup in my heart.
Big Soup Soup, for those who have not been subjected to it, is a sort of tomato-based every vegetable soup. When I was an undergraduate I made it quite often for gatherings because it was easy to make lots and lots of it, and I could use the leftovers as a tomato sauce.
December 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Big Soup Soup, for those who have not been subjected to it, is a sort of tomato-based every vegetable soup. When I was an undergraduate I made it quite often for gatherings because it was easy to make lots and lots of it, and I could use the leftovers as a tomato sauce.
I think the Big Soup Soup was much improved by the use of homegrown garlic, tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, winter squash, and celery (actually celeriac stalks), and foraged herbs and mushrooms. Feeling smug about my life choices again.
December 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I think the Big Soup Soup was much improved by the use of homegrown garlic, tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, winter squash, and celery (actually celeriac stalks), and foraged herbs and mushrooms. Feeling smug about my life choices again.
I highly recommend "A Small Farm Future" from a few years back too, but his latest is excellent. As is his blog, though occasionally I get into the weeds a bit with more obstreperous commenters.
December 5, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I highly recommend "A Small Farm Future" from a few years back too, but his latest is excellent. As is his blog, though occasionally I get into the weeds a bit with more obstreperous commenters.
I was going to point you at @chrissmaje.bsky.social 's work but cloudflare is broken again....
... maybe it's time to make a physical address book and send out seasonal cards to the people I would like to stay in touch with.
... maybe it's time to make a physical address book and send out seasonal cards to the people I would like to stay in touch with.
December 5, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I was going to point you at @chrissmaje.bsky.social 's work but cloudflare is broken again....
... maybe it's time to make a physical address book and send out seasonal cards to the people I would like to stay in touch with.
... maybe it's time to make a physical address book and send out seasonal cards to the people I would like to stay in touch with.
Is the presence or absence of soil measurement tools the reason for land speculation and over-financialisation? No.
Will soil measurement tools in a context of over-financialisation encourage *more* speculation?
Maybe. Not sure. Need to eat breakfast before I do more thinking.
Will soil measurement tools in a context of over-financialisation encourage *more* speculation?
Maybe. Not sure. Need to eat breakfast before I do more thinking.
December 5, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Is the presence or absence of soil measurement tools the reason for land speculation and over-financialisation? No.
Will soil measurement tools in a context of over-financialisation encourage *more* speculation?
Maybe. Not sure. Need to eat breakfast before I do more thinking.
Will soil measurement tools in a context of over-financialisation encourage *more* speculation?
Maybe. Not sure. Need to eat breakfast before I do more thinking.
That makes most (not all) cereal and dry pulse farming extractive rather than regenerative or repairing, and I would expect any soil measurement tool to show this.
Can we financially reward soil improvement rather than extraction? Maybe. It would be a good thing!
Can we financially reward soil improvement rather than extraction? Maybe. It would be a good thing!
December 5, 2025 at 8:22 AM
That makes most (not all) cereal and dry pulse farming extractive rather than regenerative or repairing, and I would expect any soil measurement tool to show this.
Can we financially reward soil improvement rather than extraction? Maybe. It would be a good thing!
Can we financially reward soil improvement rather than extraction? Maybe. It would be a good thing!
Though... I dunno. We do actually know a fair bit about how to repair soil, it's just that it takes time and labour you can't do intensive mechanised industrial monocropping on it. And we live in a system that rewards the latter through over-financialisation.
December 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Though... I dunno. We do actually know a fair bit about how to repair soil, it's just that it takes time and labour you can't do intensive mechanised industrial monocropping on it. And we live in a system that rewards the latter through over-financialisation.
I could be wrong on that count, maybe there has been government funding too? But I'm certainly not seeing any cooperatively owned open source bacterial protein farms popping up.
I hope the soil rover thing is both more technically feasible and less grifty, because it *could* be significant.
I hope the soil rover thing is both more technically feasible and less grifty, because it *could* be significant.
December 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I could be wrong on that count, maybe there has been government funding too? But I'm certainly not seeing any cooperatively owned open source bacterial protein farms popping up.
I hope the soil rover thing is both more technically feasible and less grifty, because it *could* be significant.
I hope the soil rover thing is both more technically feasible and less grifty, because it *could* be significant.
He said *that* could be open source too, but so far I think it has been entirely private equity.
December 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
He said *that* could be open source too, but so far I think it has been entirely private equity.
Also I don't trust Monbiot after his response to being challenged on the accuracy of the numbers he used in Regenesis re: growing bacterial protein in vats (basically monstering the author who challenged him, who has much less clout).
December 5, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Also I don't trust Monbiot after his response to being challenged on the accuracy of the numbers he used in Regenesis re: growing bacterial protein in vats (basically monstering the author who challenged him, who has much less clout).
If it's a loan then I'm not sure I trust how "open source" it will be.
December 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM
If it's a loan then I'm not sure I trust how "open source" it will be.
Start-up money from Bezos... not clear whether that is a grant or a loan.
December 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Start-up money from Bezos... not clear whether that is a grant or a loan.
As a kid I used to rock in the rocking chair even when I was *not* rocking my baby brother because he was being held by someone else.
Wish I had space for one now.
Wish I had space for one now.
December 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
As a kid I used to rock in the rocking chair even when I was *not* rocking my baby brother because he was being held by someone else.
Wish I had space for one now.
Wish I had space for one now.
Jail for ten thousand years!
I hope he forgives you.
I hope he forgives you.
December 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Jail for ten thousand years!
I hope he forgives you.
I hope he forgives you.