jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 21/12/2025I've kept hens for about 15 years now - generally have between 70-100 birds in my laying flock. So I've seen tens of thousands of eggs. There's kind of a normal size, and a distribution with some bigger (esp from old hens) and some smaller. Today I saw the biggest outlier ever 140
Reposted by jrhCurious Jon @jmbroad.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Important and tragically timely article about Danish resistance to the goals of their Nazi occupiers: www.thenation.com/article/acti... Via @mskellymhayes.bsky.social’s excellent newsletterthenation.comThe Danes Resisted Fascism, and So Can WeDanish resistance didn’t arrive all at once during World War II. But taken as a whole, the Danes’ actions are a testament to what’s possible when we work together to fight fascism. 021
jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Anybody know what this fuzzy ball wrapped around a young white oak branch might be? 110
jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 10/05/2025bonus playground for the lambs as the flock graze through my unfinished firewood work 030
jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 05/05/2025It is written: whosoever uses the pressure washer to clean out the chicken trailer has dibs on the first shower 140
jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Our very modest little “pond” is mostly minimally realized potential, but it’s at least enough for this turtle family to have decided to call it home 050
jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 04/05/2025I’m easing the flock from hay to grass gradually so their rumens have time to adjust, and feeding hay on bare patches that I seeded first, so the sheep do the work of pressing the seed into the soil and the hay remnants they won’t eat serve as mulch. Happy early spring in zone 5b 050
Reposted by jrhSam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you. 103105043370
jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 30/03/20252025 lambing season has begun - we expect 9 ewes to be expecting, so ballpark ~18 lambs en route. The white & black one here we've dubbed Lexi - a candidate to be kept for future breeding 070
jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 23/02/2025c'mon, @theguardian.com - compared to the alternatives you're a less-objectionable major news source but chainsaws don't have "blades" and missing that is a bad look 110
jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 20/01/2025🤌 (it's not both-sidesing to note the scale of a thing in comparison the scale of other things) 020
jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 04/01/2025how many kittens does it take to replace the pressure switch on an air compressor? 180
jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 18/12/2024From "Hospicing Modernity". This is a good and ambitious (if challenging) book. 171
Reposted by jrhmidnightembers @tomschloegel.bsky.social · 04/12/2024I’m now posting on behalf of the Deep Adaptation Forum (so I may quote post thoughts from there occasionally). DAF is a global community of individuals exploring the Four Rs of DA, practicing inner and outer adaptation to the predicaments we face. Times call us to face our fears, not hide from them. 061
Reposted by jrhBoo London @cmdrsue.bsky.social · 21/11/2024media.tenor.coma man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair and pointing at somethingAlt: DiCaprio in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair and pointing 092
jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Departure from the status quo is unsettling - @alexsteffen.bsky.social's frame of "discontinuity" has really stuck with me as it implies a departure on the Nth order. The depth and unpredictability of resultant change is humbling and daunting. 0152
jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 17/11/2024my personal motto along these lines has been "praxis or GTFO", but Sim's "Less Abstraction More Action" (LAMA? :) ) is pithier 171
jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 16/11/2024We have cleared brush and opened forest canopy on 5-7 acres of our land in the last decade using a succession of animal rotation (goat, pig, sheep, chicken) and mechanical removal (chainsaws, brush hog). 2241
jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Thanks to @sim.bsky.social for this handy starter pack of folks involved in regenerative ag and future-oriented thoughtful land use. (On the bird app "doomer optimism" became a somewhat confused term, mixed w/ an unnecessary dose of culture war. That's thankfully missing here.) go.bsky.app/VrpsBhrgo.bsky.appRegen and doomer optimist peopleJoin the conversation 1152
Reposted by jrhBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/11/2024I expected to wake up exhausted, despondent. but I looked up and for the first time in my life I thought, "there's no one left to look to. it's just us." so I am shocked at how I feel: furious, clear-eyed, galvanized. we who saw this from the beginning, for better or worse, it's our time to lead. 20388671120
jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 02/11/2024Always grateful for a weekend day after the leaves have all fallen that is neither rainy, windy, nor cold. Mid 50s F today, and nice views of one of the sheep breeding groups and the turkeys while I clean the gutters. 260
jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 26/10/2024So we’ve got these new kittens destined to be mousers and two of them are being homed to my workshop bc it adjoins the area we keep livestock & feed and so I decided it’d be fun to train one to ride on my shoulder when I’m in the workshop and, well, it’s working 130
jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 24/10/2024We don’t normally think about poultry as grazers, but they definitely eat grass. Note the difference between the turkeys’ old area and the one they’re moving into 160
jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 21/09/2024After 7 weeks without rain, our grazing season here is nearly done (over a month earlier than usual). But the sheep don’t know that, and today’s fresh grass is still exciting and appealing. 100
jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 15/09/2024We haven't had rain in weeks, but earlier in the season we had a lot of storms -- many trees and big branches down. Cleaning them up is always a chore, but the real challenge is what to do with the smaller branches or logs from bad-for-firewood species like willow... 100
jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 10/09/2024Anybody have recommendations (or anti-recommendations) for an ATV mounted spreader that can handle both seed and salt? 000
jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 08/09/2024Incredible conversation podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-g…podcasts.apple.comBioregional Futures: Reconnecting to Place for Planetary ...Podcast Episode · The Great Simplification with Nate Hage... 021
jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 03/09/2024The turkeys first foray onto grass is a fallow garden bed cleanup mission 100
jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 17/08/2024How quickly should one rotate pastured laying hens? For me, this question reduces to finding a balance between time/work required and impact on the foraging area. A 🧵 100
jrh @jrheling.bsky.social · 15/08/2024The shiitake logs are finally starting to fruit after a long quiet time - these are mostly from logs inoculated in 2022, a few from 2023 000