Rosemary's Friends @friendsofrosemary - Tumblr Blog

This blog's purpose is to act as an archive of resources pertaining to gardening, nature, sustainability, permaculture, environmentalism, anti-capitalism, and the solarpunk movement. The owner of this blog will refer to themselves only as Dandelion. Dandelion believes that hoping the rich and powerful change their ways is a waste of time. They have shown how much they really care which is not at all. We must force the change ourselves as a community. This means we do not ask permission before we act. We must simply act.

The resources found on this blog are meant to educate, motivate, and inspire new ideas. Submissions are open if any who come across this archive have knowledge or resources they wish to share.

#gardening #solarpunk #sustainability #environmentalism #permaculture #anticapitalism #nature #anarchism #eat the rich

i-am-a-fish

can somebody who is really good at assassinating please just try their best

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friendsofrosemary

Fuck the police

#stop cop city #anarchism #mutual aid #defend the atlanta forest #anticapitalism #acab1312 #protect the environment

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Activists in Tasmania have stuck up more honest promo stickers inside Coles & Woolworths stores, the two dominant supermarket chains in Australia.

#anti-capitalist #eat the rich

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As a society we have done thistles so dirty. Not even pollinator-plant zealots recommend planting thistles even though pollinators go absolutely crazy over them.

I saw 2 (two) Great Spangled Fritillaries trying to cram themselves onto the same thistle flower today as well as a thistle plant with multiple American Bumblebees on it. These things are a monarch magnet too.

I know what I'm gonna be gathering seeds from

#plants #pollinators #native plant gardening

"Once you know what propaganda looks like, really, America is horrifying at every turn" -A friend of Dandelion's during a conversation about posters in a Walmart break room.

#solarpunk #anarchism #anticapitalism #environmentalism #sustainability

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Mount Pleasant State Forest • 2023

#nature #forest

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I've started to actually get excited for school starting, I spend a lot of time online reading scientific papers about my favorite weeds, and I think I want to study weeds forever.

Apparently it's an ongoing mystery why dandelions in North America are so diverse, when all dandelions that have been found so far are apomicts that reproduce only by cloning themselves.

However, any given site will have many distinct dandelion genotypes, with many different traits.

For example, a site might have one dandelion strain that blooms primarily in fall, and another that blooms primarily in spring.

One theory is that there's new genetic information constantly coming in from Eurasia somehow. Apparently dandelion seeds can spread on the wind 150 KILOMETERS! Perhaps some are just blown across the ocean in a storm? But if that's the case, why weren't dandelions found all over North America already when European settlers came?

The other theories are that there are sexually reproducing dandelions here that we just haven't found yet, and that they somehow make new diversity very rapidly purely through mutations and recombination and such.

#plants #dandelions