Amishar

Eternal sole controller...

[marymwoolf]

Wasily Kandinsky Bright Unity, 1925 Oil on board

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[atomikpunk]

[amishar01]

[seedkeeping]

Veilchen König. King of Violets. This sweet and odorous Sweet Violet (Viola odorata) came from Kiel, Germany to Kansas with the Raasch family, and was brought to Pennsylvania by Karen Raasch Strawbridge several generations later. I took this photo two days ago at Roughwood Seed Collection! The flowers send their perfumy smell through the garden year after year. They flower at odd times, and so they do not tend to get pollinated despite their delicious nectar and sexy flowers - instead they propagate by sending out runners. Originating in Asia and Europe, they’ve traveled far and wide. These flowers have been used in perfumes at least since Victorian times, and are used to make violet syrup for flavoring scones and marshmallows. In our house we eat violet leaves (high in vitamins C and A! liver cleansing!) before our other greens are ready in the spring, or if we are foraging while traveling. They are also used in herbal medicine for many purposes, such as using the flower as a laxative and the leaf for coughs and as a poultice for bruises and even helping to dissolve cancerous lumps. #roughwoodseedcollection #veilchenkonig #violetking #violaodorata #violet #sweetviolet #herbalmedicine #plantmedicine #violetgreens

[amishar01]

[thingstolovefor]

The Secret Lives of Fruits and Vegetables by  Maciek Jasik. #Love it!

[gawdofdopeshit]

This is strangely dope to me

[amishar01]

John Brown's Dream Tommy Jarrell

[amishar01]

Veins and Veils Converge

[amishar01]

Lovely Wagon Christ

[amishar01]

Burned By The Cold Dilly Dally

[amishar01]

Omnipresence Future Sound of London

[amishar01]

I Woke Up And The Storm Was Over Tropic of Cancer

[amishar01]

Come Little Children Donny Hathaway

[biodiverseed]

Urban Farm Hack: Encourage Self-Sowing Plants

A self-sown garden may go against your green-thumb intuition, but it could make your garden life a whole lot easier.

In the natural, undisturbed lifecycle of fruits and herbaceous plants, reproduction relies on fallen, rotting fruit and dispersed seeds from bolted seed heads. Typically, gardening involves disrupting these processes for the sake of order, disease prevention, consistency of cultivar, and yield. Instead of letting tomatoes fall to the ground and bolted lettuces self-sow unpredictable offspring, we pull up the tomatoes and cut off the lettuce seed heads, usually planting new hybrid seeds from a fresh packet next year.

In many ways, this commitment to neat rows and consistency prevents the development of plants uniquely suited to our biomes (often called “landraces”). Doing the counterintuitive thing—leaving plants largely to their own devices in a competitive environment—can, over the course of a few years, develop hardier strains with unique adaptations to a local climate.

Read more on Urban Farm

My latest article is up over at Urban Farm! You can read my archive here.

[williamokpo]

WILLIAM OKPO | FW 15 photo : @ackimesnow

[continentcreative]

Mahany Pery for Elle Brazil Gustavo Zylbersztajn

[occupythedisco]

I am actively annoyed by “the poor millennials vs. entitled boomers” posts now. Everyone of them is “your generation had everything while mine is suffering in squalor” as if the majority of boomers live comfortably and every millennial is broke. People making lazy generational arguments is always obnoxious in any direction, but it’s moved from “parents just don’t understand” responses to this actual serious thing where folks want to act like every baby boomer had equal access to the benefits and advantages they insist “defined” a generation even though they were really only defining for a specific but vocal subset of a generation. 

Because my black working class parents and grandparents didn’t get to participate in a lot of the shit that built and sustained a stable and functioning middle class for their generation, so a lot of that wealth consolidation was shut off to them. As a result, financial stability has always been a precarious thing for them and I imagine that’s true for a lot of people with similar circumstances who aren’t the ones in mind for these posts but are very much a big part of the generation being described as having more opportunity. They were being screwed over then and they’re being screwed over now.

 It’s clear that your grievance is with late capitalism, institutional white supremacy and the general fiscal irresponsibility of the rich. However it’s easier to blame old people, because then you get to ignore how rich white millennials are also complicit in continuing to promote the inequality you’re bringing attention to. As if Silicon Valley, DC and Wall Street aren’t littered with ambitious young folks with tons of money and connections just itching to climb to the top via the same tactics.