I add the healthy young leaves from pigweed to my other greens to cook. Most wild greens I cook like spinach with some olive oil. They are easier to digest ang get oil soluble vitamins that way.
I like them cooked in olive oil too, it just reduces a bowl-ful to a spoon-ful of greens. Fewer bites, same nutrients. I wonder what trade-offs, the heat releasing some nutrients and denaturing others.
I don’t like this modern format. The comment icon doesn’t catch attention, so lots of oldsters won’t figure out how to comment. To see previous posts isn’t easy pr obvious. Too high tech!
Not sure what you mean by "modern format." I have not made any changes in SubStack. The final link is something new-- via an aggregator called BubLup and not intended for commenting there. Tweaking the fine points: I am not likely to sweat the details, the subscriber number is so very low and the percentage of opened "newsletters" of those few is dismal. My relevance and reach are more anemic as time goes on. I just can't quite resist the impulse every once in a while to "publish" into the void. I appreciate you being on the other end of the string between tin cans. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I was just bitching again about substack. I liked the previous format. Sorry your readership has gone away. I think your beautiful photos and lyrical writing was the big draw in earlier times!
Okay. By earlier format I guess you mean the blog, Fragments from Floyd. It was quite seriously invaded by trolls, thousands of intrusions--that persist--with a firewall protecting it now. My server host is a good friend in decline, having promised to make it useable again with a new front end, but I'm not sure he remembers or is equal to the task. And if he did get it up and running, SubStack is so low friction low maintenance compared to a WordPress blog.
And yet I have 20 years of archives at Fragments (not entirely, some early years were lost in the first hacking prior to 2007.) I can still mine that resource for what I said about X some Y or Z years ago.
An engaged and curious readership encouraged me to take the effort and time to study, craft and post every day for a decade. As that readership moved en masse to FB, the blog languished. And I have not found it easy or rewarding to write in an empty room.
Low friction wins the vote, given the low dividends in interest and conversation or influence. I once saw these tools as a form of teaching. All the students have left the building or have their faces and their brains buried in their "smart" phones. Meh! \{ ; > ))
What a bummer, that the blog had so many problems. Substack works; I just thought there might be more old folks leaving comments if the format was the same.
I add the healthy young leaves from pigweed to my other greens to cook. Most wild greens I cook like spinach with some olive oil. They are easier to digest ang get oil soluble vitamins that way.
I like them cooked in olive oil too, it just reduces a bowl-ful to a spoon-ful of greens. Fewer bites, same nutrients. I wonder what trade-offs, the heat releasing some nutrients and denaturing others.
I don’t like this modern format. The comment icon doesn’t catch attention, so lots of oldsters won’t figure out how to comment. To see previous posts isn’t easy pr obvious. Too high tech!
Not sure what you mean by "modern format." I have not made any changes in SubStack. The final link is something new-- via an aggregator called BubLup and not intended for commenting there. Tweaking the fine points: I am not likely to sweat the details, the subscriber number is so very low and the percentage of opened "newsletters" of those few is dismal. My relevance and reach are more anemic as time goes on. I just can't quite resist the impulse every once in a while to "publish" into the void. I appreciate you being on the other end of the string between tin cans. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I was just bitching again about substack. I liked the previous format. Sorry your readership has gone away. I think your beautiful photos and lyrical writing was the big draw in earlier times!
Okay. By earlier format I guess you mean the blog, Fragments from Floyd. It was quite seriously invaded by trolls, thousands of intrusions--that persist--with a firewall protecting it now. My server host is a good friend in decline, having promised to make it useable again with a new front end, but I'm not sure he remembers or is equal to the task. And if he did get it up and running, SubStack is so low friction low maintenance compared to a WordPress blog.
And yet I have 20 years of archives at Fragments (not entirely, some early years were lost in the first hacking prior to 2007.) I can still mine that resource for what I said about X some Y or Z years ago.
An engaged and curious readership encouraged me to take the effort and time to study, craft and post every day for a decade. As that readership moved en masse to FB, the blog languished. And I have not found it easy or rewarding to write in an empty room.
Low friction wins the vote, given the low dividends in interest and conversation or influence. I once saw these tools as a form of teaching. All the students have left the building or have their faces and their brains buried in their "smart" phones. Meh! \{ ; > ))
What a bummer, that the blog had so many problems. Substack works; I just thought there might be more old folks leaving comments if the format was the same.
Wow. Six feet! No wonder big ag is afraid.