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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • Feel free to. The vines take ~5 years to get to full production and most of my vines are ~3-4 years old. The beans here are from my one patch of vines that is 4+ years old. I expect to have a fairly significant harvest next season (maybe a few hundred), and then a quite substantial (as in, several thousand beans) moving forwards from there. I’ve got around 150 vines coming online that should be entering their more productive phase next year.

    There are some gardening and farming subs I post updates to and I was planning on posting a harvest update today/ tomorrow.

    [note: I can’t send you my “finished” vanilla, because export restrictions on alcohol, although I could probably get away with it. But I can send you beans and instructions]


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    So you don’t really use “fresh” vanilla. It’s actually quite nasty in terms of it’s sap, which results in a very painful rash.

    It takes about 9 months from pollination to maturity. These pods I polimated in January or maybe even December last year. After about 9 months in the vine, they need to cure. So that means blanching the beans, then a several month slow dehydration to their final state. They do smell faintly of vanilla and I do sell vanilla, but these won’t be ready for months. Once curred they’re basically shelf stable for years and years.















  • Blue no matter who. Its a call to action/ solidarity to support any or all Democrats and is typically associated with “centrist” or “moderate” positions within the party. Specifically, it was the rallying point that was used as a cudgel to silence any criticism of Harris or her approach to campaigning in the 2024 campaign, that if you were to highlight the insufficiency of her campaign or make statements like “I don’t think Harris can win if they don’t xyz”, you would be accused of being “against Harris” or “pro Trump”, and this was specifically from the Blue MAGA/ BNMW contingent. Its now a part of lemmy-lore how moderators sided with this crowd, banning anyone critical of this view and silencing voices through out.

    Classic examples of this would be jimsantanko@lemmy.ee and flyingsquid@lemmy.world

    Its also, at least somewhat interesting as an aside, that after the bankrupt-ness of their ideology came upon full display after the failure of the Harris campaign to secure the election, many of the accounts expressing this view disappeared like farts in the wind (while for years they had been accusing the other side of being bots or shills). A good example of an account still active and expressing these views would be satansmaggotycumfart@piefed.world / satansmaggotycumfart@lemmy.world

    Outside of lemmy, good examples of this view point can be found on podcasts like “Pod Save America”, or in clips like this one, where Jon Stewart explains the ideology most clearly:

    And here is worked example, where Whoopi Goldberg says she would vote for Biden even if he was shitting his pants on stage (go to ~25 seconds in for the quote):

    I also think that the kym article is pretty solid: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/blue-maga