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she/her, biro ace | i live in the pacific northwest (zone 8a) and i dig indoor and outdoor gardening | main blog @dinopuncher

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

maybe instead of getting mad at me when you come down the stairs to see a bowl of freshly churned butter on the island counter you should get mad at yourself for leaving a bowl of fresh cream out when you’re aware of my passions

[lostinthelegs]

[rumade]

Is your barren lawn getting you down?

Try a single allium!

You surely won't regret planting and painstakingly mowing around a single allium

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~ Home Cookery in War-Time, by Ernest Oldmeadow, 1915

[okamikodomo]

Actually very good advice

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[mellifexfarm]

tunkey

[botanyshitposts]

summer in the midwestern suburbs and the ornamental trees and bushes are once again putting out VERY bold new shoots and branches for lads in municipal landscaping distance

[botanyshitposts]

every year this happens and every year i watch an army of weathered landscaping people on riding lawnmovers continue the ancient sysiphysian struggle between man and aesthetically pleasing woody shrub

[taemins-day]

i had a dream that i was walking around in a shirt with stalks of corn all over it and somebody was like “wtf are u wearing?” and i said “it’s a crop top” i laughed so hard that i woke up

[mellifexfarm]

DO YOU HAVE GAMES ON YOUR PHONE

[headspace-hotel]

The more I research about conservation, the more I cannot STAND climate doomerism.

"Ough oof we're all gonna die, everything is going extinct, blaaaahhh"

Meanwhile there are so many efforts and projects that are like "Blease...volunteers...interested homeowners.......random individuals who care.....pleas..........literally begging........."

[headspace-hotel]

A bunch of stuff you can probably do even if you have no land, no money, and no or limited ability to do physical work

like, off the top of my head

share social media posts from nearby conservation organizations so other people can see them

talk to your neighbors. develop a friendly relationship with them. perhaps pepper in casual references to invasive plants and species in decline around you (I have done this)

but talk to your neighbors for its own sake

teach your friends and any kids you may know cool facts about bugs, snakes and creatures so they will care more about them

teach your mom and your dad and your grandma about creatures like spiders and snakes. help people to appreciate them.

make and/or post relevant memes. my anti lawn memes and other memes are free for you to repost without credit.

maybe even make a meme page idk

look up the sounds of birds that live in your area on youtube. impress others with your ability to identify bird calls. increase knowledge of people around you.

vote in local elections

do not have an outside cat. Don't even do it for the wildlife, do it for the poor cat. Don't take my word for it on this, go google the kinds of worms cats can get.

Since the bird flu is going around, tell other people you know with outside cats and inform them that eating a bird could literally kill their cat. this is just a good idea to do regardless

if you have a cat, whether they are outside or inside or not, try leash training them. tell other people. post online if you want. If you are capable of doing so, take your cat out on a leash to chill in the yard with them or walk with them or whatever you want to do.

"some cats can be leash trained" will be pointless to say until people see other people walking cats. Be the first in your neighborhood to be crazy enough to do it

if you have a friend with a garden, ask if they'd like to take your compostable stuff for their compost

or just start a compost pile. you don't have to have a garden to have compost. just make compost and give it to people,?? 

This isn't even getting into existing ways to organize in your community this is just random crap

[headspace-hotel]

The people who are doing the work you can't do are set back by stuff like "people think bugs and snakes are scary and harmful, so they don't care about saving them"

But you CAN help change the way other people see bugs and snakes, if you have contact with other people at all

share!!!! your!!!!! knowledge!!!!! with!! people!!!!!! please! People are RIDICULOUSLY uninformed about nature

*I* know that snakes are good for the ecosystem, that there are only two species of venomous snake in my area, and that snakes are timid and absolutely don't chase you, but that doesn't mean everybody else knows that and more people than you would think actually don't

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[scripps]

many are asking this

[evilcottagecore]

made some cheese today

[funnelcloudd]

Actually if you’re riding in my passenger seat your job is to throw potatoes at people I decide I don’t like. Hey fuck that guy. Yeah go ahead and tuber that bitch.

[evilcottagecore]

it is Time

[evilcottagecore]

[evilcottagecore]

whoops, forgot to update for a couple weeks! shuffled some things around the other day so the slow germinators can get some more consistent heat

[evilcottagecore]

it is Time

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