Create your Bioluminescence

Humour, aesthetic, activism 27 years old and feeling my bones creak more by the minute Fandom: @the--starless-saint Bujo/journaling: @lifebuoyjournals

[rob-pattinson]

ANNE HATHAWAY 2026 | Norman Jean Roy ph. for ELLE US: Women of The Odyssey Issue

[ambermaitrejean]

House finch. Jefferson County, Colorado. Photo by Amber Maitrejean

[michaelnordeman]

Mjällådalen nature reserve in Medelpad, Sweden (15 May 2026).

Birds pictured: Eurasian three-toed woodpecker/tretåig hackspett, Pied flycatcher/svartvit flugsnappare, Fieldfare/björktrast, Eurasian wren/gärdsmyg, Redwing/rödvingetrast and White wagtail/sädesärla. Plants include Wood anemone/vitsippa, Wild pansy/styvmorsviol, Marsh marigold/kabbleka, and Mezereon/tibast. The fungi: Inonotus radiatus/alticka, and Tinder fungus/fnöskticka. I'm not sure about the spider.

[midnightinshadow]

[lemonscribs]

The cutest fruity pebble sharks

[mushiniwa]

[titsay]

droplets

[pnwander]

bad hair day

[soymoss]

starling

[intercal]

you could follow the genuinely funny poster who is going to be gone in 6 months, or you could follow me, the mediocre-to-okayish poster who's been on tumblr for 11.5 years and will be here until the flames finally reach and destroy the data center with our precious memories

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[reachperfection]

[estrogenesis-evangelion]

if you've never been clinically depressed, this is the short version

[expressions-of-nature]

by Marina Murashova

[the-enchanted-little-star]

[rounni]

[fireproofs]

happy mother’s day to that mom who sold y/n to one direction

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[throwitonthepile]

[sporifluorous]

Dave Brandt was so much more than a meme. He partnered with universities to experiment with and expand soil conservation and cover crop techniques, worked to educate other farmers through worldwide conventions and direct mentorship, founded the Soil Health Academy, and was called the "Obi-Wan Kenobi of soil health" by the chief of the USDA's conservation department.

There is no healthy planet without healthy ag practices, and this guy was a legend.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

The A-horizon on his farm was 4 feet deep

You do not understand

Most modern Ag operations don’t even have a proper A-Horizon. They’re too busy turning the earth every time they replant. The A-horizon is the Black Gold that makes Soil Soil. It’s a structurally complex soil horizon that must be built in place by the interactions of Plants and Fungi and Insects. It is The Thing that soaks up rain and holds onto it for plants. The A-Horizon is The Thing that builds up when you let a field sit fallow. The act of tilling creates fecundity by breaking up the A-horizon. On a really good Organic no-till farm you might find an A-horizon between 3-6 inches.

His A-horizon was 4 feet deep. 50 inches.

I-

I have no context. His farm was covered in a living skin thick enough for a child to stand in.

Gives me hope for what we could accomplish if we got our collective heads on straight, you know? Like. This was one guy. A brilliant man, who knew what he was up to, but. The thing about brilliant ideas is they can be shared.

50 inches. The mind reels.

[improvrich]

This is so much more impressive than I can understand and comprehend and I would love to know more about A horizon

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Do you love the color of the Soil?

Humus, or Humic Compounds, are a cryptic and poorly understood set of organic substances. As the final metabolic result of once-living things being digested first by macroscopic organisms, and then by microorganisms, they resist most forms of analysis, and have cryptic structures. A few that we have managed to isolate and study are the Humic & Fulvic Acids.

Humus has a number of remarkable tendencies. It is capable of retaining water far better than any raw mineral clay; it also retains electrically charged clay granules, which themselves retain mineral ions, all of which is essential to make a soil a high-quality resource for Plants to grow in.

A composter is a box that contains an environment that is conducive to the production of Humus, but the best way to produce it is in-place, by laying layers of organic material down over an unbroken earth and growing things out of that. The interaction of the plants rooting, the fungus weaving itself through everything, the bacteria and archaea metabolizing as they do, and inorganic weathering forces all combine to gradually build up the microscopic equivalent of a complex megastructure capable of retaining far more water, and containing far more nutrients, than any inorganic substrate.

This stuff is black gold. This is the stuff that determines whether or not a plot of land is going to be “productive.” The knowledge of how to make it, how to care for it, is an essential piece of wisdom that our civilization needs to remember.

Fortunately, folks seem to have the right response:

Farmers are more important to the continuity of civilization than administrators, no matter what the elitists say. This knowledge is important.

Exactly