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the pacific garbage patch is largely composed of fishing gear, not straws, but we sure did stick it to people with limited mobility anyways
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/great-pacific-garbage-patch-plastics-environment/
“It’s 2019. Can we all now please stop saying “climate change” and instead call it what it is: climate breakdown, climate crisis, climate emergency, ecological breakdown, ecological crisis and ecological emergency? #ClimateBreakdown #EcologicalBreakdown”
- Greta Thunberg
In related news:
Huge swathes of the Arctic on fire, ‘unprecedented’ satellite images show
Earth’s boreal forests now burning at rate unseen in ‘at least 10,000 years’, scientists warn
July growth
From top to bottom, left to right, photos are of as described:
POTATO - Flowering potato plant with small black and red bug perched on a petal
BEE BALM- Dark pink bee balm, fully flowering
EGGPLANT - The pink and purple bloom of an Eggplant flower
TOMATO - Brown skinned hand holding a green tomato still attached to the vine
BASIL- Close up of flower buds on a basil plant
LETTUCE - Close up of flower buds on a red lettuce plant
I’m serious too when I say that settlers and their aggressive, destructive farming practices were main factors in the dust bowl.
They stripped the prairie by plowing deep, deep into the soil—destroying the deep roots of the prairie grasses and plants that hold onto moisture in the soil and hold it together even during a drought.
Those roots were so important:
They planted voracious plants by themselves acre upon acre—things like corn which is so destructive even here in the Great Lakes region we rotate our fields of corn with soybeans because the corn strips nitrogen and beans put it back.
The soil turned to dust. The plants were not there to hold the soil and hold the moisture. The droughts hit and that was that.
Settlers version of farming is DANGEROUS and harsh and requires so many chemicals—chemicals most white people will never have to worry about in their water
So yes. Fuck your fantasy. Grow some lettuce in a wheelbarrow, put some herbs on your window sill, and raise some backyard chickens instead lmfao.
And make connections with the Indigenous people on whose land you’re living! The people who know how to live on it sustainably, and from whom it’s been stolen. Work with them to restore what can be restored, and create what needs to be created anew. Make friends. Share food. Swap seeds. Support them in their struggles. Realize that the problem of a sustainable and liveable future won’t be solved until this one is.
You’re in this mess because Indigenous land was stolen, and Indigenous methods of living on it were compromised. Idyllic farm fantasies won’t change that.
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Plastic in our environment is largely the result of substandard systems of education around recycling.
In the United States, only 9% of plastic is recycled.
Nasturtiums are: - super easy to grow - drought tolerant - attractive to bees and hummingbirds - 😍gorgeous😍
Also edible! The flowers are very tasty.
Put em in a salad 🍝🍝
Candy them because YUM 🍡
Cute! Thats the caterpillar of the monarch butterfly!
Growing food in Minneapolis
This summer im working at a teaching garden!
I teach families and individuals how to grow their own food.
Check out our first harvest!
Fruits and vegetables, before and after human intervention.
Source
We did a pretty good fucking job, Jesus Christ
Remember this the next time you want to complain about GMO’s, we may not have done it in a lab but they still are that.
Bananas looked like lemons wtf
Isn’t this more of a combination of selective breeding and GMOs? Not just GMOs?
Yes. But people talk about how GMO’s are “unnatural”, yet for centuries humanity has been exploiting mutations in animals and plants to produce food for themselves.
GMO’s are simply the process of inducing these mutations reliably.
People hear “Lettuce being modified with scorpion DNA” and think that we’re now eating scorpions. But, in reality, they’re taking a tiny bit of scorpion DNA and splicing it into the plant. Why? So the plant will produce poison that is not harmful to humans but will deter insects, reducing the use of pesticide, which CAN be harmful to humans and the environment.
GMOs are producing rice that can survive flooding, which makes rice more reliable yields and will prevent food shortages in poor nations that rely on said crops for staple food.
GMOs are also creating spider-goat hybrids. Why? So we can splice web production into the goat’s udders. We’ll be able to spin huge quantities of spider silk, enough to reliably create spider silk cables and ropes, which have more tensile strength than steel.
I for one am glad I live in a time where watermelons aren’t giant tomato abominations
The issue with GMOs is that corporations like Monsanto are patenting GMOs and arresting indigenous farmers for cross pollinating with they seeds. But there is nothing dangerous about the science.
^This.
The problem isn’t the science, it’s what capitalism does with that science.
this should be in the largest letters we’ve got, plastered everywhere until it gets through people’s heads:
The problem isn’t the science, it’s what capitalism does with that science.
catch me gardening topless at 5am telling my baby tomato plant about my bad dream
How to make succulent babies!
Step 1: Pick leaves Gently twist the leaf near the base, it should snap off the plant cleanly. Good cuttings will be slightly rounded at the ends, and have no ‘open’ wound:
Bad cuttings will not grow, you need to make sure the whole leaf comes off in one go. Bad leaves are jagged, torn, or cut:
Step 2: Lay all cuttings inside on a piece of cloth. I usually put a piece of old scrap material down on my desk and lie all the leaves out in rows. I try not to pile up the leaves, as this tends to promote rot. Do not water at all. AKA no misting the leaves, no watering the leaves, nothing. Everything the baby succulent needs to grow is stored in the mother leaf, watering may rot the leaf before the new plant is big enough to survive on its own! Make sure the leaves aren’t in direct sun, as they will wither before they form new plants. Filtered light from a window is strong enough!
Step 3: Waiting After about 4 weeks you will start to see the first signs of life. The leaf may send out roots first, it may start to grow with no roots. Both are okay!
Step 4: Planting (Start watering once a week at this stage) After 6-8 weeks the baby succulents will be big enough to plant outside! I do this by placing the leaves on top of loose, sandy soil that has not been compacted. I do not bother burying the leaves, as it tends to do more harm than good (you may snap roots/damage new shoots in the process):
I place all the plants together, they don’t really seem to mind! These is how they look after about 10 weeks:
When the plants are big enough, the mother leaf will shrivel up and start to die off:
TADA! You’ve created baby succulents :)
I’m sorry, this is a very beautifully illustrated, informative plant post, but every time I read “Make succulent babies” I put the emphasis on the wrong part of the phrase and expect something.. very… different.
Lily (flowering) 7/23/2018
Mojito Mint plant 7/23/18
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