Take what you need
Four beds, one catalogue. Every entry is a gift from someone who grew it, built it, wrote it or learned it the hard way. Add what you can.
Growing Guides02
Permaculture plans, soil recipes, seed-saving calendars for every bioregion.
Tools & Tech05
Open-source hardware, low-carbon software, off-grid energy designs.
Stories & Lore02
Solarpunk fiction, manifestos, case studies of communities in transition.
Mutual Aid02
Tool libraries, skill-sharing networks, neighborhood resilience playbooks.
The whole catalogue
Websites that go to sleep when the sun does
Two projects run websites on solar power and accept going offline as part of the deal. They're the model for this site's solar mirror.
What a long season makes possible in Zone 8a
Right around the line between 8a and 8b, the garden year has two springs and a long, hot middle. Planning around that.
A weekly livestream kit for a small congregation
Network cameras as NDI sources in OBS, a line-in from the sound board, and saved settings so any volunteer can run it the same way every week.
Planning a LoRa mesh with Meshtastic
Cheap long-range radios that pass text messages with no cell service and no internet. Notes on picking boards for a solar neighborhood mesh.
Checking used solar panels before you pay
Used panels are the cheapest watts there are, if they work. A multimeter and ten minutes in full sun tell you most of what you need to know.
Living alongside Joro spiders
Trichonephila clavata
The big yellow-and-black spiders strung across Upstate yards every fall look alarming and aren't. How I handle the webs without poison.
How this site is built, and why it isn't WordPress
Plain files built by Astro and served by Cloudflare. No database, no plugins to patch, no server to babysit.
Naming machines after garden jobs
Every device on the network gets a name from garden ecology, after the work it does. No command, no master. Pollinator, forager, decomposer.
65 plate-reading cameras around Greenwood
Flock Safety license plate readers log every car that passes. How many watch Greenwood, who runs them, and the questions worth asking.
Three projects from one pile of hardware
An inventory of reused computers and microcontrollers, and three solarpunk projects it could become without buying much new.
A solar server's power budget, device by device
Before buying a battery, I added up every watt the bench draws in a day. One reused desktop uses about ten times more than everything else combined.
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