I keep veggie peelings, cuttings, herb clippings and all other veggie compost in a freezer bag in your freezer for up to a month. At the end of every month I dump this bag into my crockpot, add 6-8 cups of water and cook on low for 6 hours. I drain out the veggies and herbs, and viola! You have like 8 cups of veggie broth.
I save things from veggies like: celery, garlic, onion, carrots, kale, squash, parsnips, peppers, etc. Basically any vegetable that would go into a soup, I save.
I also save bits of herbs that don’t make it into other recipes, or veggies about to go bad I have no other intention for. It’s an amazing way to cut back on costs and food waste. This stock can make enough soup to feed a whole family, or you can freeze it if you are only feeding yourself and thaw as needed.
You can customize with herbs and spices now, or when you go to make your soups. I like to at least toss in garlic, onions, a bay leaf, pepper and rosemary to the broth itself.
I havent bought soup broth in years, and I can make sure my broth is salt free or at least low salt!
It’s such a simple thing to do, and its noticable in your food budget.
Fun fact, hammering metal spikes into tree trunks is a federal crime in the US because environmental activists used to do it in the 80s to fuck up chainsaws and logging equipment.
So you should never use this effective strategy for disrupting logging operations because it is illegal.
Okay, but a laborer working a shit job for a shit logging company doesn’t deserve a chainsaw chain snapping in their face. Like most agriculture jobs in the US, logging labor is dominated by undocumented immigrants, paid far too little cash under the table, and who most certainly don’t have benefits like medical or workplace injury coverage for when a 2000 rpm chainsaw blade snaps and whips them in the face.
How about we instead find another way to disrupt logging operations that don’t put incredibly vulnerable laborers at risk? By all means, tear down the system, but don’t hurt the very people you’re supposed to be helping.
^^^ this and driving spikes through trees can severely harm the tree and even kill it. Copper spikes will kill trees, and putting holes in trees can open them up to fungi and other things that feed on the cambium and destroy the tree.
Logging is literally the #1 most dangerous industry in North America, with the highest rate of professional fatalities per year. Laborers themselves are already calculated as rather expendable and replacing parts is… not difficult.
Trees can easily heal from branches being pruned, but breaking the bark on the trunk, even just to carve your initials, can seriously injure a tree even without leaving potentially toxic metal in the wood.
why would you sabotage logging in 2017 anyway
in the 1980′s lumber companies would clear-cut pristine old-growth forest on land they didn’t even own, and laugh at the resulting hellscape
thanks to environmentalists being politically effective and enacting legislation with the support of responsible civil servants – as well as the development of lighter, more all-terrain logging machinery – that changed, and is no longer the case. (despite overexcited assholes spiking trees so working-class joes would get killed by their own chainsaws, thus giving anti-environmentalists plenty of propaganda fuel)
now logging companies selectively cut only the trees they want, from land they specifically maintain as tree farms, and replant if natural reseeding isn’t doing the trick.
logging in the 80′s:
logging in 2016:
note how they harvest the trees that are a useful size, but still much smaller than old style logging operations took; trees this size are easier to transport, and with modern all-terrain equipment, can be carried out over rough ground fairly easily, so they can leave the younger trees to grow.
this practice is also safer for the workers – getting hit with a telephone pole sized tree is still pretty dangerous, but it’s less guaranteed to kill you than a tree the size of a church steeple, and also less likely to break free of the equipment and go bouncing down the hill at you like a trap from indiana jones.
a recently harvested tree farm looks a little sparse, but it’s still got plenty of roots holding the soil against erosion, plenty of plant life to shelter birds and insects, and it’ll be left undisturbed for a decade or so to regrow.
in conclusion: since trying to murder workers is terrible, isn’t it nice there’s no reason to spike trees anyhow?
I was curious about something, because with the light of the Amazon announcements, I realized that as a fandom, we treat Christopher, Tolkien’s 2nd youngest child, like he’s a second JRR Tolkien–and don’t get me wrong, I love his work with the Histories, but I realized a major error in our fandom as well.
For all our talk of “but what about women in Tolkien’s works” I realized that there are no search results for his only daughter and youngest of his children. Not on tumblr at least.She’s not devoid of interaction, either, as she has written articles, given talks, and supported general fanworks (such as the Tolkien Ensemble).
She co-published the Tolkien Family Album, with her older brother, John (now deceased).
Why does it bother me so much that she has no search results, despite also the severe irony of “We only care about his surviving son, and not at all his only daughter, who her parents had long hoped for.”? Because all of his children are extremely crucial to his work, and not just his sons.
Frodo is named after her stuffed bear (Bingo Bolger-Baggins), which is highly delightful to me. He eventually altered the name, obviously, to Frodo.
She attends the Oxonmoots frequently.
She has a BA degree in English and worked as a social worker. (Hence why she isn’t so “famous” as her older brother.)
She is a member of the Tolkien Society (last I checked, honorary VP).
As Tolkien’s only daughter, Priscilla has noted her father’s “complete belief in higher education for girls; never in my early life or since did I feel that any difference was made between me and my brothers, so far as our educational needs and opportunities were concerned.” [x]
She typed out some of the early chapters of Lord of the Rings for her father (around the age of 14).
She is one of the founding members of the Tolkien Trust, along with her three brothers.
My point isn’t to devalue Christopher at all, but rather to highlight that while the brothers are important to Tolkien’s works, so was his daughter and for some reason, at least among the American fandom, I almost always see Christopher the only mentioned surviving Tolkien when Priscilla is still alive and active. I get why we don’t have search results for John Francis Reuel Tolkien (his name is so similar to JRR’s, obviously), but you do have results for Michael Tolkien (one tagged post, it seems, but still far more than Priscilla has; she doesn’t even have general Tolkien posts pop up for her as her brothers do).
I’d also like to point out that while Christopher is no longer a board officer of the Tolkien Estate, his younger sister is. Just because she didn’t write the Histories doesn’t mean that she doesn’t care about her father’s work.
No snippet today because today’s words are all chat words, and today has been a day of crochet. The pattern is starting to take shape on the current project, and it should go pretty quickly since it’s not very complex. Then the rest after is just going around in circles. 🙂
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