Philadelphia Urban Gardening

I moved to Philadelphia for the second time in the Winter of 2024. I was impressed to find that my little West Kensington apartment came with a relatively large back yard. Little did I know, the haven was a den of sin to poor mama Isis and an yet to loved babydady. I was also entirely unaware that when the the blankets of snow and ice cleared, the area would transform into a veritable jungle paradise.

I adopted a kitten from one of two litters, Huma Appeachalonis Abedin, in the span of a few months and did my best to take care of all the cats and kittens. Most kittens died in odd, mass waves of plague but the memories remain.

Introduction

I was introduced to the concept of Permaculture by a friend who took me to one of Sigi's Natural Building workshops on the Pennsylvania/Maryland border. This was my first opportunity to try out gardening of any kind but I do my best to adhere to the principals of sustainability, zero waste (turn outputs into inputs), and symbiosis (companion gardening).

Highlights

Nushell Commands to Help with batch, filetype conversions

Convert HEIC to png and delete original files.

for file in (fd -e HEIC . |  lines) { sips -s format png $file --out $"($file).png" }
for file in (fd -e HEIC . |  lines) { rm $file }

Convert JPG to png and delete original files.

for file in (fd -e JPG . |  lines) { sips -s format png $file --out $"($file).png" }
for file in (fd -e JPG . |  lines) { rm $file }

Convert MOV to mp4 and delete original files.

for file in (fd -e MOV . |  lines) { ffmpeg -i $file $"($file).mp4" }
for file in (fd -e MOV . |  lines) { rm $file }

Rename converted files to remove old filetype from filename.

let file_list = ls; 
for file in $file_list {
    let parts = $"($file.name)" | split row '.';
    let extension = $parts | slice (-1)..;
    let new_filename = [$parts.0 $parts.2] | str join '.'   
    mv $file.name $new_filename
}