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Welcome to the Rumpus.

This is the part where things get messy.

Gardens grow. Recipes fail. Mushrooms do whatever mushrooms feel like doing. Bugs move in. Something gets harvested. Something else gets eaten before we can harvest it.

This is the ongoing story of building Cattywampus – one experiment, mistake and occasional glorious success at a time.

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So what exactly is a Rumpus?

Honestly? This.

The Rumpus is where we document what happens between “I have an idea” and “holy shit, it actually worked.”

Sometimes it’s gardening. Sometimes it’s food. Sometimes it’s mushrooms, dehydrating, soil, bugs, building something we probably could have bought, or discovering an entirely new way to make our lives more complicated.

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Garden Chronicles

What’s growing, what’s dying, what’s eating what, and all the other completely normal things happening in the Cattywampus garden.

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Pantry Experiments

Recipes in development, dehydrator experiments, taste tests, ingredient rabbit holes and the occasionally humbling process of turning “I bet this would work” into something we’d actually sell.

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Experiments & Rabbit Holes

Mushrooms. Soil. Weird ideas. Things we decided to try because apparently having hobbies wasn’t complicated enough.

Some experiments become part of the farm. Some become cautionary tales.

Both are useful.

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Fresh from the Rumpus

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Curious how it all turns out?

So are we.

Follow along as Cattywampus grows from a very small farm with very big ideas into whatever the hell it’s becoming.