Ethical FarmCore

Farmcore and Cottagecore, but im not parading across someone's crops to take Aesthetic Photographs. I know what indigenous lands I am on, and I do what I can to pay dues to those communities. The animals and plants that I take photos of are not being exploited, they are well cared for by me and a team of other dedicated professionals. Any persons depicted here are either of myself or of someone who consented to being in the photo and that photo being posted here.

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The ladies roaming free

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Chicken photo bomb

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We got some snow last night ❄

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Tonya Harding (b&w hen) has found her way atop the garden trellis...

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[theviewfromhalfwaydown]

On “cultural appropriation.”

And “cottage core”

It’s not that complicated.

You as a human being with autonomy have the right to ask any questions about the world and people in that world, you also again as a person with control over your own body have the right to don whatever you want.

You as a human being have the right to keep things to yourself, and have no obligation to share information or practices from your “closed” religion or practice.

You shouldn’t ever be reprimanded for asking a “sensitive” question.

Nor should you keep pressing if your question is ignored or you are told no. These are just manners.

A white person whos grandparents hunted indigenous people can don a warchief head dress.

Is that disgusting? Can you call them gross? Yeah. But that’s as far as your right goes. You have no right to pressure them into stopping after suggesting they do because

EVEN THOUGH THE ACTION OF APPROPRIATION MAY FEEL VIOLENT

It is not.

Is cultural appropriation disgusting and a symptom of capitalism and representative of violence? Sure. Is it actually violent? No.

A white guy whos grandpa owned slaves can try to become a voodoo expert.

You can call them stupid, but you can’t try to force them to stop.

It’s really that simple. Just zoom out and remember that people probably wouldn’t fall into appropriation if capitalism didn’t obliterate critical thinking skills.

The full weight of human history can’t be concerned with one human being an idiot on Halloween.

As for cottage core

It’s mostly poor white people AND BROWN PEOPLE doing a little escapism. That’s literally all it is.

People going on and on about how white the idea of wanting to escape capitalism in the woods or whatever probably don’t talk to a lot of people.

I live in a town with a lot of brown people and hand to god I have heard more of them fantasize about abandoning civilization and becoming fisherman more than other whites.

The line people trot out is

“Cottage core is just white people wanting to leave a situation they created.”

I mean Jesus h if you see a white person make a cottage core post keep in mind the corner of the internet you are in and that it isn’t representative of the real world or their opinions.

What percentage of white people on earth use what website you’re seeing these posts on?

What percentage of those white people are American / English?

What percentage of those posts are cottage core?

All these questions point to the bigger idea:

Maybe this cottage core mindset isn’t the big threat you all seem to think it is.

At least the cottage core people fantasize about touching grass unlike some people on this stupid website.

If you see a cottage core post instead of wasting the energy being angry and ranting at them take the opportunity to ask why they wanna live in the woods and then try to insert communism

- a brown guy

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This is an extraordinarily complex issue and a glaringly simple take that I vibe with and have (in my own personal experience) found to be true, but I also have some questions and concerns. I would love to have a longer discussion about this at some point if you're open to it, OP!

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Cat

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The fruits of their labor 🥚

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Setting up 5 new hens. So far only one is named, the black hen is named Baby Love.

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The garlic is sprouting strong this season

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Genuinely curious of everyone who’s raised a puppy recently enough for it to be fresh in their memory: what will you do differently next time? Do you have any regrets from this go around?

I think next time I will care less about training and focus more on being patient. I won’t let them interact with strange dogs at all, and I’ll crate train them in my bedroom and let them sleep in the bed as soon as they’re able to (partner be damned).

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I struggled a lot with Marceline and I think part of it was her individual personality and needs, but part of it was also my expectations, goals and desires, and the way these two things sometimes failed to mesh.

What I now wish we had better foundation on:

Toilet training – yeah, she’s still not 100% at almost two years old and I honestly don’t know why

Training as a game – I know it’s damaging to compare, but I often see other dogs of her type/age engaged in training in a much more joyous and playful way and I think I made training sessions into something else (not negative, but not the complete joyful game I was hoping for)

Handling – she doesn’t fully trust me and she will often run away from me when she knows I need to restrain her for something

Dogsitting – she hasn’t ever experienced us going away so I’m kicking myself now for not preparing for this earlier with overnight trips to my parents’ place (pre-pandemic I travelled somewhat regularly so this wasn’t an issue with Luca)

This isn’t a long list, but it is pretty critical stuff, so it does make me feel like I’ve failed in some really major areas. Overall, Marceline has been a wonderful addition to my family and I do feel that we have a special bond. I hope that with time, patience and effort I can turn some of these issues around.

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Raising a puppy of an entirely new breed type for the first time was probably the biggest learning curve of all for me, and in general I think that it’s always important to remember that you are raising an individual vs a Type or Breed or Purpose etc etc.

Next Puppy I think I will possibly have to do a lot of socialisation to loud machinery (we have a lot of it). Molly was already heavily exposed to trucks/road trains/tractors before I got her due to where she was born.

Dog socialisation is really hard for me because I know next to no one close-by with appropriately dog friendly dogs. Especially ones to bring to us vs visiting them. Molly is very territorial of our yard and vehicles because of this but is getting better.

Molly has a bit of a problem of too much freedom. This is largely a human issue because my family members have her out with them and don’t pay attention to where she goes. As a puppy she would stay with us, but as she got more confidence she began to wander a bit. It can be a difficult thing to avoid when dealing with other people though.

Dog yard training. We are only now training Molly to be in the dog yard on occasion when we aren’t at home due to the terriers getting older. In future I think I would alternate on-chain training and dog-yard training (dependent on dog type).

Other than that I generally just think my training has improved a bit? I would like to be home a lot more than I was while Molly was younger and really nail some foundational stuff and tricks etc.

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Socialization is a big thing I wish we'd handled better, it was really hard with the pandemic but now it's kicking our asses that we didn't do it effectively enough or early enough.

Also I would rather start out not letting her up on the furniture without an invitation. I didn't think it'd be a big problem, but it is, and once we stopped letting her on the couch all the time she stopped trying to guard us/our food/our stuff from the cat and strangers. Shes finally starting to understand that the People domain is not her domain. Shes also much less stressed with less to protect.

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Shalom and happy Thanksgiving, please consider donating to the mashpee wampanoag tribe in Massachusetts, a tribe that was one of the first to be pushed out of their lands and are often in the fake folklore of the history of Thanksgiving. Currently Massachusetts does not recognize the mashpee wampanoag as a tribal nation and has been trying to steal even more of their land and destroying their culture

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Today I processed nearly 4 pounds of tomatoes by hand. I'm making a small (ish) batch of sauce. It's the last batch of the season, since we got heavy rain last week to end a summer-long drought, a lot of the fruit split open. I picked what was good this morning and then set to work ripping out the tomato plants.

This is all that's left of the tomato jungle. I'm going to spread the straw down and plant some garlic for the fall season.

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We put up one of those rainbow reflection things in the window