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Reblog if you’re a cottagecore blog that:

-is anti fascist and anti racist

-is into this to support locally sourced food, better farming practices, etc.

-is NOT into this for some “manifest destiny” bullshit

-is NOT an ecofascist

-supports indigenous land rights and supports paying reparations to bipoc

-supports labor unions

-supports better conditions, pay, and protections for all agricultural workers including undocumented workers

-is LGBTQ friendly

Because cottagecore is a sweet and lovely aesthetic but we cannot be silent about the racism and facism that this community promotes with its “traditional values” crap. I like fresh picked flowers on my table, I like honey lemon tea, I like pictures of baby goats. But if you disagree with the above list then your “cottagecore” blog is trash.

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This photo was taken by the owner of the hive. The beekeeper forgot to put the frames in which the bees collect honey, and the bees built their own architecture from the honeycomb, which takes into account natural ventilation, so that the air can flow freely and maintain a stable temperature. This is the heart!💛

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I’m started to get real mad at ads my dudes.

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I’ve realized videos are better than pictures for insect identification, because seeing the little guy move can tell you a lot about it.

I’ve also realized I can narrate whatever I want.

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16, 30, 32!

oh hi ty!

16. if you had to get a tattoo right now, what would you get and where

I’m mulling over getting a tiny parasitic wasp, specifically Aphidius colemani, on a finger or maybe the back of the neck. Slightly larger than life size, so you could actually see it. 

30. if you had to dye your hair an unnatural color right now, what would you choose?

A very pastel and faded out lavender. I don’t like primary colors. 

32. how old do you get mistaken for?

I am baby. not actually, just cursed with the babiest face. I’ve been given a children's menu at restaurants way further on into my adult years than is at all acceptable. Biddies be asking me what I’m going to do when I graduate high school. I’ve had my B.A. for years!

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Amazing veggie stash from our local organic grower.

#oooh #that is a haul

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POV you’re a little romaine guy under remay and the soil is finally warming up.

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unusual(ish) asks <3

who’s your celebrity crush?

are you single or taken?

rant. just do it

do you think its ok to separate the artist from the art?

how many accounts do you have?

how many pairs of shoes do you have?

opinion on… (specify to the person you’re asking to)

how many accounts do you follow?

favorite brand of clothing?

name a dog

what unusual talent do you have?

what’s the most interesting schools gossip you’ve ever heard?

ever prank called a store?

what’s your coffee order?

what’s a question do you constantly get asked?

if you had to get a tattoo right now, what would you get and where?

google the top song from the year you were born

rant about your favorite musician 

what’s your favorite teacher you’ve ever had?

describe your blog in 3-5 words

what’s a conspiracy you believe in?

if you could see any concert tonight what would you choose?

if you could break one of your bad habits which would you choose?

can you dance? sing?

what’s something you can’t stop buying?

crowds or small groups?

how long before a trip do you pack?

what celebrity would you rate a PERFECT 10?

what quote or inspirational setting do you think is bs?

if you had to dye your hair an unnatural color right now, what would you choose?

you can change one thing about your life right now. what are you changing?

how old do you get mistaken for?

what do you think about a lot

do you like your hogwarts house or do you wish you were a different one?

what does home mean to you?

what do you think you’d be arrested for?

have you ever been called down to the principals office?

post a picture of the outfit you would choose if you could have any outfit you wanted

describe your aesthetic

answer with one of your ‘school memes’ (inside jokes you have with your class/grade) with no explanation 

feel free to reblog or send me some if you’d like! this took forever so reblog please!

#first ask meme #and there may actually be enough of you for this #ask meme #unusual asks #ask me anything

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Lettuce going in!

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an expert analysis of my five day old chicks

#art #chickens #chicks

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Hey hey hey hey. What the FUCK is up with maize. Im terrified for my life. As a British person the closest I’ve ever got to that was belly crawling thru a mustard field which was weird lmao but only about 4 foot high. I crawled because it was really tangled. Crazy. Anyways the way you tag and talk about stuff sounds very British

a very good quote: 

“Modern corn is so highly domesticated that it has in a sense become a biological monstrosity. Although it is superbly adapted for producing grain, it could not survive under natural conditions because it has no satisfactory mechanism for dispersing its seed. If an ear of corn is left on it’s own under conditions favorable for germination, it will give rise to a group of seedlings so densely clustered that they will compete among themselves for water and soil nutrients, with the result that all may fail to reach reproductive age. Without human intervention modern corn would become extinct in a few generations. Corn can survive only if man removes the kernels from the cob and plants them.” 

-Dr. George Beadle, the dude who initially proposed the hypothesis that modern maize was domesticated from the native mexican grass teosinte and then fought with other corn scientists in various heated (sometimes public) debates about it for decades until it became the accepted predominating theory in the niche field of corn science, talking about maize, the very thing he fought other scientists about for decades, while calling it a biological monstrosity and stressing that although it is an objectively good crop it is such a weak little baby bastard of a species that leaving it to its own devices in the wild would hypothetically end with it killing itself in its intense confusion about how to be a real plant. which is true, because it’s been domesticated for 9,000 years, but still. the experts have spoken

#fear the corn

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It’s natural, harmless, and even beneficial to the world as a whole for there to be non-grass flowers and plants in your lawn, caterpillars and beetles chewing on your shrubs and yes, even insects and arachnids living inside of your house. The vast majority have absolutely zero means of harming or even inconveniencing you and the sooner people get over the compulsion to keep a sterile, lifeless property the better it will be for the ecosystem.

#cough cough #if youre lawn doesnt at least have some clover in it gtfo of my face #scrub

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Please listen to how excited harpy gets about Eg Time

#chickens looooooove eggs dude #if i find a cracked one #like a freshly laid cracked egg from that day #i just chuck it into the field #and the flock descends on it like a crazed swarm

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All the onion talk made me want to share some pictures of our pretty, pretty storage onion crop from last year <3

#isnt that just the prettiest looking onion??

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I am greatly enjoying my sister being home because she does majority of the cooking (and enjoys it) and I’ll like chop the veggies at that’s it but I just chopped the JUCIEST onion I’ve ever encountered in my life and I’m pretty sure I’ll wake up tomorrow still crying

#i work for a pepper bro #thankfully not am onion dude #i dont think i could handle it

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There was a kildere “dying” (not really) in the stairwell, and I was so bothered by the inconvenience of a “dying” (not really) kildere in the stairwell that I didn’t get pics so no one will believe that it happened!

Edit: I guess it’s actually spelled killdeer?

#its 3 am