mk30

mk30@regenerate.social

wastewater specialist in training (back in school), art doodler, plant person, aspiring forest hag, living off-grid on hawai'i island. aloha 'aina!this is my plant/gardening account. for other stuff, this is my 'general' account: <a href="https://tilde.zone/@mk30" class="u-url mention">@mk30</a>

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Post #4253236
If your solar punk story doesn't have "solar panel cleaning", well you're missing out (in a tropical climate, the stuff on it is jungle gunk. In a dry climate, it would be dust. In a place that gets cold, you might be cleaning snow off it). Pro-tip: do not use harsh chemicals or sharp brushes on solar panels. To clean the ones pictured below, I used water, simple green, and a sponge. If you can't get close to your panels, you can use a sponge on the end of an extender. You...
Post #2258890
Getting some feline help with clearing two impressive black ant nests from a small inverter and a charger for DeWalt power tools. Ants sure do love to make nests in electronics! Especially electronics that haven&#39;t been used in a while. #caturday #offgrid #hawaii #cats
Post #2258889
Cabin update: still waiting on the cost estimate and materials price list from the builder, so there&#39;s no progress on the cabin. The weeds were starting to come back in the excavated area that&#39;s not covered in rock, so I laid down loads of weed mat: https://youtube.com/shorts/7CXxj_mpAeE Once the building is all done, and if I have any $ left, I&#39;ll bring in soil and mulch and put trees in. In the meantime, there&#39;s plenty of other garden work to do...infinite we...
Post #2258888
My mom asks me sometimes &quot;don&#39;t you get lonely living in the forest?&quot;, meanwhile living things spend all day everyday growing into my home space. I couldn&#39;t be alone even if I wanted to be! 😅 #plants #offgrid #hawaii
Post #2258887
friends, don&#39;t let anyone tell you that animals are dumb. this ginormous cane toad found its way into my room and into the cats&#39; water dish - apparently the only little pool of water it could find during a recent dry period. it started coming back night after night. at one point, i put on my garden gloves, put it in a bucket, and dumped it in my azolla pond outside. the next day, it was back. i put the cats&#39; water dish up on a table next to my bed (these toads don&am...
Post #2213194
Lovely bract and flowers of a blue turmeric (sometimes also called black turmeric). In pic 2, you can see the inside of the rhizome and see the &quot;bluish&quot; part. #plants #flowers #bloomscrolling #hawaii
Post #1993391
Another lesson from the plants: you can be a little scrawny, a little damaged, have big chunks taken out of you, but you can still hold a giant droplet of life-giving water, and you&#39;re still living and growing 💚 #plants #gardening #hawaii #taro #kalo #CPTSD #recovery
Post #1935428
My Jade vine is flowering for the 2nd time this year 🥰 Every time I pass it, I can&#39;t help but smile. #hawaii #flowers #bloomscrolling
Post #1667310
so the other day, my bf pulled out his dehydrator after over a month of not using it, and he found a single vanilla bean that had gotten left there after i ran my vanilla beans through the dehydrator. this vanilla bean had just been sitting on a shelf in the dehydrator, in a corner of the garage, for maybe 2 months? but! the most interesting part is that i&#39;m pretty sure during that time period, it had developed vanillin on the outside! (see pic 1) i&#39;m pretty sure that that crus...
Post #968200
My jade vine is blooming 🥰 I&#39;m happy I planted it next to my house so that I get to see it all the time. #plants #flowers #bloomscrolling #hawaii #gardening
Post #204683
RE: https://regenerate.social/@mk30/115988083341238520 there really is no substitute for being in relation with the land...with a specific land that you know and feel embedded in...whose rhythms and cycles you understand...