Whole Wheat Einkorn black berry spice muffins with maple sugar from self ground einkorn berries.

Today, I was asked when I posted photos of my breakfast muffins if I shipped to the UK. The answer is unfortunately no. I am a homesteader. I cook mainly for myself and my family. I also have allergies to chemical additives often found acting as preservatives in baked goods. Deadly allergies. So there is no way my food would survive all the way to the United Kingdom. It would be moldy and very gross by the time it got there…

But, this blog entry is for the lovely Brit, on Bluesky, my new social media home. as I refuse to support the current American regime and the institutions that enable and fund it.

I am a hardcore supporter of non violent methods of creating change. One of the best methods to do exactly that, is to simply opt out. Refuse to feed the beast. Enabling that which you don’t support because it doesn’t serve you, is quite honestly lazy, an act of cowardice, and a failure of human decency when the stakes include concentration camps for illegal immigrants at Gitmo. You want to know how the Nazis did it? They were enabled by a population to lazy and dependent on the convenient structures that they had always utilized. These structures supported ugliness. Result, soon there were major penalties and even death for speaking out. Just ask the members of The White Rose newspaper in Germany. They would tell you all about it. Except, they can’t. They were shot by nazi firing squad for speaking truth.

We know where these social media institutions are spending the money they make off sales of our information and content. We know what they are enabling. There is only one thing each of us has in this life.  This moment. How do you want to use it? Non violently refusing to participate and enable evil? Or, do you choose convenience, and what is easy? How will you look at yourself later if you choose easy? The choice belongs to each one of us. For me, it was a very simple decision once I knew what I was enabling.

I use Duck Duck Go as a search engine, I am on Good Reads, and I use the Bookclubs app to organize my book club and craft circle. I do not use any Meta products now as a matter of personal policy. Same thing with X.  I also no longer buy anything from Amazon. I am working on escaping google completely. I research everything I buy and the companies that sell and produce it, I check what they support. If they support orangeness or those enabling orangeness, I keep shopping. Call it cancel culture. I call it shopping my values. I earn my money no corporation is entitled to it. Nor are they anymore entitled to exist. Corporations while the law may recognize them as people will never be recognized as such by me. That is what we call freedom. The ability for one thing to be viewed from multiple perspectives. While agreeing on the facts surrounding it.

Bluesky, seems to be the home of the resistance, really nice people who have an education and an understanding of the world that is more inline with my own. People who’s humanity is intact and not compromised away to further hatred and bias. Yes, some I do find a bit extreme. But mostly I think they are pretty well balanced. They certainly have wonderful intentions. Facts still matter there. So does truth. So now that is where you can find me.

I posted some photos of my breakfast muffins as I once might have on facebook, but now I post on Bluesky. As I already said I was asked if I shipped. I do not.

But…. YOU can make these muffins yourself!

Resistance Muffins

2 1/2 store bought whole wheat Einkorn flour, or about 3-3 1/4 cups self milled whole wheat Einkorn flour.
3/4 teaspoon  pink salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
3/4 teaspoon cardamom
2/3rds cup maple sugar or standard sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
half a cup olive oil
1 cup goat’s milk, whole milk, coconut milk
cup of black berries
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
Maple sugar or standard sugar to sprinkle on top

Preheat the oven to 350. In a small bowl add all your dry ingredients. In a big bowl add your wet ingredients. Mix the wets well. Then graddually mix the dry into the wet. Line a muffin tray with muffin papers. On a cutting board chop the blackberries. Be sure to wash them first if you buy them from the store. Add the black berries into the muffin batter in the large bowl and mix again. Then fill each muffin paper about 2/3rds of the way full. Sprinkle maple sugar on top and bake for around 40 minutes.

Remove from oven, when finished baking and you can stab with a fork and have nothing stuck on the fork when you pull it out. Allow muffins to cool for a few minutes, then enjoy fresh. You can even eat these along side some bacon, or bacon and eggs, or even with fruit. They are absolutely delicious, especially when served still warm fresh from the oven.

This post, is dedicated to my new friend Hermscat on Bluesky
Thank you for reading
Amanda Of Wildflower Farm