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From November 2018

It was intensely gold for about 10 minutes yesterday as the sun set

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Hopefully these are viewable at a large size. if not, here is a link to where they are

Set of drawings by Clifford Harper imagining an alternative future. Published in a book called Radical Technology in 1976.

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Namiki Hajime, Starry Night

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Capitalism only values nature by how it can be exploited.

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We use three different types of mulch year round on our farms and in our gardens. All are free. All are considered browns as it applies to compost. All are considered waste products and all are considered to be carbon. These products feed the soil, keep the weeds at bay, look attractive as they decompose, feed the soil microbiota, support the soil food web and reduce waste in our landfills and oceans.

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Violets on a cliff seep.

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In one trip to the neighbor's construction dumpster we salvaged all the wood we need to build one of the new chicken coops

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Bruce has had a wonderful afternoon sitting in the Excellent Hole that he dug!

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people often see these evergreen plants on the forest floor and assume that they’re seedlings of some sort of coniferous tree. They’re actually neat little primitive called clubmosses or lycopodia (left to right: Dendrolycopodium sp., Diphastriasum digitatum, Huperzia lucidula)

(more riveting clubmoss trivia below!)

Keep reading

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Here are some reasons to order seeds from Fedco other than just the fair prices and cooperative structure

#gardening #homesteading #cottagecore #garden #organic gardening

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Sea Green Tree 

Purple Ridge Conservation Area, Oshawa, Ontario, October 13, 2020 

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Working my way up to this step next since I’m taking spore prints and even using a friend’s microscope to look at spore shapes, obviously I can’t be afraid to taste and spit anymore

Important step of bravery for me as a hobby mychologist today! Tasting a raw mushroom as a part of identifying!

Nobody yell at me this is a legitimate way to identify mushrooms and you only taste a little bit and you with swallow it, plus I rinsed my mouth afterwards!

Plus I'm reasonably sure of what the mushroom in question is, and I'm using the info I gathered to seek the advice of others who are more experienced, and I'm not going to actually eat any until I'm 100% sure

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The time for frostbitten blackthorn berries has finally come! I’m a happy gal now. I’ve been waiting for these for, not quite a year, but close.

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1510 N. Villere is The Enchanted Yam Garden which is a volunteer-run sustainable community garden in New Orleans with a goal to build healthy soil, combat flooding in the neighborhood, grow food for volunteers and neighbors, and provide a 24-hour food waste drop-off site.

They fundraising in order to sustain materials, resources, and costs that will go towards growing food! (They also take resources if you’re anywhere near!)

$610 raised of $2,300 goal

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thing is that access to greenspace (”take a walk in a forest uwu”) does improve people’s health and that access is gatekept away from poor people and people of color