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- 1Gardeners swap notes on pepper plants stressed by Nor'easter●# solarpunksunday # gardening # garden # jardin # garten # peppers So it’s this week peppers are showing stress from the
A gardener reports that pepper plants are showing stress more than a week after a Nor'easter storm, with significant leaf and fruit drop, while also joking that 'Royal Burgundy' beans are turning out more black than burgundy. The update comes as part of a weekly gardening exchange, and the same grower has ordered 16 new pepper varieties to try next season.
- 2Nixtamalization and Nutrition Draw Renewed Attention●From Meso-America Cereals, Deficiencies and Absorption https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamal ization # permaculture #
Discussion is circulating about nixtamalization, the Meso-American process of treating maize with alkaline solution that unlocks nutrients and prevents deficiencies like pellagra. Commenters are linking the ancient technique to themes of permaculture, vegan diets and solarpunk thinking, framing it as an example of traditional food knowledge offering real nutritional and agricultural lessons today.
- 3ECOin proposes a SolarPunk alternative currency●# Leyendo # ECOin - Una # Economía # SolarPunk Toda # moneda es una historia que un grupo de gente decide creerse. El eu
A new proposal called ECOin is being circulated as a SolarPunk economy project, arguing that every currency is a story people agree to believe in, like the euro backed by a central bank. ECOin is presented as a third story: a currency that rewards neither the biggest energy consumers nor the biggest accumulators of wealth. Discussion so far centres on how such values-based money would actually work.
- 4Solarpunk Podcast Explores Appropriate Technology and Appropedia●9.3 Solarpunk Presents: Appropedia & Appropriate Technology with Felipe Schenone Have you ever heard of appropriate tech
The Solarpunk Presents podcast has released an episode featuring Felipe Schenone discussing Appropedia and the concept of appropriate technology. The conversation covers technology designed to be accessible to most people regardless of expertise, from creation through use and repair. Listeners interested in sustainable, community-scale solutions and open-source knowledge are sharing and discussing the episode.
- 5Homegrown windowsill tomatoes turned into homemade bruschetta●Once again I have consumed the produce of the windowsill garden in the Lounge, this time it was tomatoes and basil as pa
A gardener reports eating the latest harvest from a windowsill garden: tomatoes and basil used by his wife to make bruschetta. It is a small, everyday update about growing food at home, shared under tags for solarpunk, gardening and food. Posts like this fit into ongoing interest in small-scale indoor growing and self-sufficiency.