This is our backyard setup as of last month, in sketch form, before the leaves came out :)

So many interesting things going on, hope you share your progress as things move along

whoa, thanks a bunch, I think this might be the way forward…plus one can’t underestimate the cool factor of having slrpnk.net/c/whatever I figure out to call it as a web address that a bunch of oldies are scanning/clicking on :D (semi /s implied - I might be able to breadpill a few)

Really appreciate your input ✊

Edit: behold, the initial beginnings: https://slrpnk.net/c/plot18 (I’m not overly creative when it comes to naming stuff)

Hello there, fellow knight. I shared a list in a comment above, cheers

Back from the asparagus patch!

(drops into Atlantic Canadian accent)

“Turn yer head for a minute and those fuckin’ asparagus will be three foot tall and not worth a fiddler’s fuck!”

Anyway, I digress…

Some of my go-to podcasts | relevant episodes, are below:

Poor Prole’s Almanac | Skillshare episode on Arduino

It Could Happen Here | Meshtastic/LoRa episode | recent episode on off-shelf solar solutions

That LoRa episode led me to the guest’s website for more information on his pretty cool shit: Hydroponic Trash/AnarchoSolarPunk

He was also featured on Live Like The World Is Dying, which I had been listening to for a while anyway | S1E49 – Andre on Solar Power, DIY Internet, Mesh Networks, and Solar Punk

Less radical podcasts I listen to are some of the maker-type folks like Simple Electronics and the (now discontinued?) Make: Magazine podcast.

That just about covers it, other than some of the solarpunk podcasts I listen to, but I kinda feel they - while informative and entertaining - aren’t as…hands on (?)… as some of the links I shared above.

Cheers gang

SK0

This is one of those situations where I wish you were local so I could give you produce and pickles & jams in exchange to pick your brain on this :)

On first glance: So I could hypothetically make a community here, eg. ‘the community herb plot,’ and direct people to posts on French Tarragon et. al. via links/QR codes in that community (instance? Is that the right term?)…? If people wanted to post a question they’d have to sign up, though, I imagine…?

I don’t think I need to have a long form blog on this; there’s probably 74 different herb societies that would have a page for French Tarragon that I could possibly link to, but it’d be nice for folks to be able to ask questions, share additional information, etc in the post containing that link.

Feel free to poke holes in this…or tell me to bugger off…or say “yes, but…” or whatever 🙂

Just heading out to check the asparagus patch, I’ll make a list with links later today!

That’s interesting, thanks for sharing that platform. I’m in the process of setting up a plot of herbs for folks at the local community garden and I’d like to have a simple website for people to go to get information on each of the herbs for harvest/storage/recipes/etc, and am hitting a wall on what platform to use for this.

I started messing about with Linux/Raspberry Pi, Arduino, LoRa/Meshtastic in the past couple of months due to being (further) breadpilled with podcasts about open source, greenhouse automation, autonomous text-based communication and such.

I’m not a tech person so I’m literally doing kid-level electronics tutorials on the Arduino (“Congratulations! You’ve made your first circuit!”) and still get a kick out of running sudo apt-get update/upgrade and seeing the lines of text scrolling by.

But I really like the concept of appropriate tech in conjunction with open source “stuff” and, since I’m in a position of being able to listen to ~6.5 hours of podcasts during my workday, I might as well learn something. I hope to get comfortable with electronics for DIY solar eventually, too

ah, same format as reddit then, thanks

Here’s the link I mentioned above from HydroponicTrash

I have three boards on order just to play with, see if I can get coverage in our town for family and friends. It’s an interesting rabbit hole that I’ve been reading up on for a few months, and I’m the least techy person you’ve ever met (literally called my family into the room to watch a LED blink slower & faster with my Arduino beginner kit last week - and I’m in my late 40s).

First heard of it on It Could Happen Here podcast with a guest named Andre aka hydroponic trash, and he has a decent comprehensive write-up about it (I dunno how to put links in here, sorry) and been watching youtube, etc about it since. It’s the reason I have the above-mentioned Arduino beginner’s kit, tbh :)

Funny side-note: it’s apparently popular in the UK, where youtubers have shared lots of tips plus stories about meeting like-minded folks, having informal meetups at local pubs with people on the mesh, etc. Contrast that with US-based youtubers posting about it: “When the guv’ment shuts down the networks & civil war starts yer gonna need this to stay off the grid and communicate with yer team!” Like, c’mon…