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Green pot with plant    -   Elena Climent , 2020.

Mexican, b. 1955-

Oil on linen on bord, 8.5 x 11 in.

#cute plants #art #aylen has a problem

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#art #reminds me of nausicäa of the valley of the wind

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Passiflora Incarnata // Gulf Fritillary Butterfly

I’m designing some stickers! I want to do a series of native plants + their pollinators 🦋

#ah this is great I love passionflower #hoping the seeds I have from ours will sprout

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#not mine #those flowers!! #hope my Texas wisteria will make some

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#i am sure trying #grow your own food

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An Anarchist Free Herbal 3rd edition

This is a zine (25,000 words) about learning herbalism for free! It's got a ton of entry-level practical information, like finding resources, sourcing herbs, foraging and shit, making herbal medicines; plus a bunch of other topics like how to decide what herbs to use, skills for engaging with medicine on your own terms, and more!!!

You can download it here!

Want a hard copy? Don't want to print it yourself? (i don't blame you this thing needs to be utility-stapled) If you've got a little cash you can get-a-copy-give-a-copy here OR you can request a pay-what-you-want or free copy by emailing [email protected]

#to read #herbalism #herbalism resources #if i end up really liking this i might print a few for the little free libraries etc

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New art!!!! I’ve been getting back into graphic design recently! 2024 is going to be my draw whatever I want without stressing era (I will probably stress)

#art #solarpunk #I'm fucking trying

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First Harvest🪴 Another painting that was done for the 2023 calendar✨

#art

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Fire cider day.

#fire cider #herbal medicine #i have this same square thing on one of our raised beds how funny #this post reminded me we need to make another batch of fire cider soon

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Happy Earth Day!

“The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.”  ~ Lady Bird Johnson

Texas Hill Country

#not mine #obvs #happy earth day everyone

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Mermay leftover! ♥ Ghostly mermaids at fields that sed to be sea floor ♥

#been a while since i posted any mermaids #mermaids

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Bluebonnets

#not mine #bluebonnets

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At stake is an incomparable 440,000-acre ecosystem, two rivers and a wilderness destination that records as many as 700,000 annual visits.

#signed #another day another bunch of short sighted fools trying to destroy ecosystems

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USA Native Plant Resource Masterlist

Because Google is totally useless and won't help you with ANYTHING

iNaturalist: Take photos of living things you see, post them, and the community will identify them for you. Data from iNaturalist is used in scientific research.

Wildflower.org Plant Database: Enter search criteria and find some plants. Very useful if you're looking for plants with specific qualities or know what you have in mind.

Native Plant Finder: This website is still in beta and is a work in progress, but it will show you plants for your area ranked by the number of butterflies that use them for their caterpillars.

WildflowerSearch: AMAZING resource for identification and for learning about new plants. Shows you where plants are native/not native, TONS of search filters.

Native Plant Trust: A New England organization, but probably useful to anyone.

Northern Forest Atlas: Great images and identification resources for trees; has good pictures of bark, seeds, buds, leaves.

FloraFinder: Another plant database site that's being slowly built up by a passionate nerd.

MonarchWatch milkweed by USA ecoregion: Tells you what milkweed species you should plant for monarch butterflies.

Native Beeology: Not plants, but a closely related subject.

I will add more and post an updated list as I find more.

#gardening resources #herbalism resources #I love wildflower dot org

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Finally have some sweet potato vines that haven't been devoured by the insect hordes, and the passionflower is climbing on the old stalks of the sunflowers. Hopefully we'll at least get some amount of new sweet potatoes from this bed. No idea what the cucurbits think they are doing growing at this time but we'll see if they produce anything.

#my garden #grow your own food #well I'm fucking trying #the herbs are still in mostly good shape but ffs trying to grow greens has been a nightmare every single year here. so many damn bugs. #native plants

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I don’t think a lot of people really understand that ecosystems in North America were purposefully maintained and altered by Native people.

Like, we used to purposefully set fires in order to clear underbrush in forests, and to inhibit the growth of trees on the prairies. This land hasn’t existed in some primeval state for thousands of years. What Europeans saw when they came here was the result of -work-

#this stuff is easy to look up honestly #indigenous knowledge is so neglected by the people who should be begging them to step in and repair the ecosystems t b q h #my grandfather was always telling me how the ancestors used to do controlled burns all the time and now settlers think they know better #and we have scrub brush everywhere and fires and it's hurting the water table #although also blame the massive amounts of people moving here and building stupid factories etc for that #he said he remembered when this land was green rolling hills with big trees and not this endless impassable hazard of shrubs and things #landback

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The ecological gardening of the women’s village is continueing and the first flowers and fruits are growing. There are plants of pepper, pumpkin, tomatos, aubergine, potatoes etc. And also local fruit trees and plants.

#amazing #i hope they are still doing well #grow your own food #not mine obviously