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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]


  • 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.





  • The man spent his life advocating for political violence. It’s not a secret, it’s not a mystery, and no amount of convoluted gymnastics changes how Charlie Kirk lived his life.

    I’m sorry for his children, that they were ever born to such a reprehensible, utterly devoid wad of human filth. But like children borne to abusers, this man’s psychopathic hate that he turned into a fanatasism and a career that has poisoned the will of public discourse: his kids are better off with him dead than to live in the world which he was working, night and day, to create.

    What would you say to the children of Adolf Hitler, Or Goebells, or Polpot? That their father’s political ambitions are worthy simply because he happened to spill his seed any where but his own palm?

    No. Spare me the crocodile tears. The man was a vehement and abhorrent racist. It’s a better world for all and also for his children without him in it. Like a child should not have to grow up in a household of abuse, this man was an abuser of the very social fabric that marks all. Charlie Kirk had not one redeemable quality, and it’s a better world without him in it.