Howl Mountain

A small farm in the North Georgia mountains run by two non-binary people. Settlers living on land stolen from the Cherokee during the 1832 Land Lottery, working to return it. CONTACT: [email protected]

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It was intensely gold for about 10 minutes yesterday as the sun set

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From November 2018

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Hopefully these are viewable at a large size. if not, here is a link to where they are

Set of drawings by Clifford Harper imagining an alternative future. Published in a book called Radical Technology in 1976.

[lithicc]

These are blowing up again in notes. Clifford Harper is a gift to anarchism/anticapitalism. I’m always nervous I’m gonna hear bad news cause he’s old and in really bad health. 

If you can, pick up his  Anarchy, A Graphic Guide to the History of Anarchism it’s basically an intro to anarchism with lots of wonderful illustrations

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[fravery]

Namiki Hajime, Starry Night

[serenata-your-neighborhood-lefty]

Capitalism only values nature by how it can be exploited.

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Case in point. 

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People in my replies be like “bUt wHaT aBoUt fRuIt TrEes and CaMpInG GrOuNdS”. Yes that’s pretty much my point. Trees are only valuable if you can make money off them or hijack them for human activities, rather than because they literally sustain life on earth.

In capitalism’s eyes, everything is but a tool or resource to make profit. Workers and nature alike. A forest is not inherently “valuable” to a capitalist; individual people are treated as “human resources” and labour for 8 - 13 hours per day, most days of their life, until they’re physically too old to continue.

We will only attain a better world when nature and people become inherently valuable, rather than something to exploit.

[mauricesmall]

We use three different types of mulch year round on our farms and in our gardens. All are free. All are considered browns as it applies to compost. All are considered waste products and all are considered to be carbon. These products feed the soil, keep the weeds at bay, look attractive as they decompose, feed the soil microbiota, support the soil food web and reduce waste in our landfills and oceans.

[geopsych]

Violets on a cliff seep.

[howlmountain]

In one trip to the neighbor's construction dumpster we salvaged all the wood we need to build one of the new chicken coops

[stickyfrogs]

Bruce has had a wonderful afternoon sitting in the Excellent Hole that he dug!

[platycryptus]

people often see these evergreen plants on the forest floor and assume that they’re seedlings of some sort of coniferous tree. They’re actually neat little primitive called clubmosses or lycopodia (left to right: Dendrolycopodium sp., Diphastriasum digitatum, Huperzia lucidula)

(more riveting clubmoss trivia below!)

Keep reading

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[howlmountain]

Here are some reasons to order seeds from Fedco other than just the fair prices and cooperative structure

[garyachapple]

Sea Green Tree 

Purple Ridge Conservation Area, Oshawa, Ontario, October 13, 2020 

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That Rhus looking plant in the background, what an old clonal colony! amazing 

[kr1g]

Important step of bravery for me as a hobby mychologist today! Tasting a raw mushroom as a part of identifying!

Nobody yell at me this is a legitimate way to identify mushrooms and you only taste a little bit and you with swallow it, plus I rinsed my mouth afterwards!

Plus I'm reasonably sure of what the mushroom in question is, and I'm using the info I gathered to seek the advice of others who are more experienced, and I'm not going to actually eat any until I'm 100% sure

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Working my way up to this step next since I’m taking spore prints and even using a friend’s microscope to look at spore shapes, obviously I can’t be afraid to taste and spit anymore

[allthingssoulful-garden]

The time for frostbitten blackthorn berries has finally come! I’m a happy gal now. I’ve been waiting for these for, not quite a year, but close.

[violetsandshrikes]

1510 N. Villere is The Enchanted Yam Garden which is a volunteer-run sustainable community garden in New Orleans with a goal to build healthy soil, combat flooding in the neighborhood, grow food for volunteers and neighbors, and provide a 24-hour food waste drop-off site.

They fundraising in order to sustain materials, resources, and costs that will go towards growing food! (They also take resources if you’re anywhere near!)

$610 raised of $2,300 goal

[cultural-antifascism-deactivate]

thing is that access to greenspace (”take a walk in a forest uwu”) does improve people’s health and that access is gatekept away from poor people and people of color