WildMoon Initiative

Life and Living with Mama Fen WildMoon

[mamawildmoon]

My garden didn't exactly.. go as planned this year thanks to my back injury. That being said, I am proud of what I have been able to accomplish despite it. Despite my poor health in general. I have tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, potatoes, and hopefully more as some new seedlings have just been transferred. It may not be the huge garden I envisioned and planned out earlier this year. But it IS a garden. It has my blood, sweat, and tears in the soil (literally). It grows with my love. And in return they're feeding my family. I'M feeding my family. I may not move fast or well anymore, but I'm still moving, still breathing, and most importantly, still growing. Take time to celebrate what you can do, the little accomplishments. And for the love of the Earth, plant some veggies 💚 https://www.instagram.com/p/CEQIbexHu52/?igshid=sgdawv5jfafd

[mamawildmoon]

Make today beautiful, witches! ✌🏻🌄 https://www.instagram.com/p/CCddX18n90v/?igshid=g5msbya6rsp2

[mamawildmoon]

Let's play: let's spot the mama! The kids, @xnikkersx , and I all watched this beautiful mama build her best earlier in the spring. Now she's almost always tucked in protecting her babies. You couldn't have picked a more perfect home. Enjoy the mulberries when they come in! 🥰🥰 #mourningdove #dove #birdwatching #mamadove #babybirds #birdnest https://www.instagram.com/p/CAaxJ77AScV/?igshid=t9r2icxh779v

[roanokeautumn]

I have two moods-

A dark, brooding academic studying the occult in a vast, ancient library, who’s soul purpose in life is to make sense of this nothingness called life

Or

Feral village witch who collects bones and leaves on the side of the road, shuffling away into an ominous hobbit hole with strange and cyptic tunes carved on the door

[mamawildmoon]

I thought I was the only one!

[roanokeautumn]

Oh, to be an old soul

A soul that has gone through so much before you’ve even begun

Of course your always tired and weary

It’s because your body is new but you are not and some may never understand that

Let yourself rest

[txmriddlx]

Can you please reblog if your blog is a safe place for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, asexual, aromantic, pansexual, non binary, demisexual or any other kind of queer or questioning people? Because mine is.

[poptartsaysthatyouareloved-deac]

ofc!

[a-fools-stone]

im bi so I would be an idiot if I wasn’t

[mamawildmoon]

I'm agender and pansexual. My blog is a safe place for ALL queer and questioning people 💚💚

[despazito]

vegans who refuse to even eat backyard eggs….why

[despazito]

people who think its unethical to eat chicken eggs are like people who think bees should keep all their honey. they literally produce more than they need and your unwillingness to even buy local means you are doing nothing to help them, support your small farmers you heathens

[feminist-james]

This is not true.

1) honeybees do not produce “extra honey.” And beekeepers don’t take some of the honey, they take all of it.

2) chickens have been artificially selected from naturally producing eggs once a month to producing eggs every couple of days. Their bodies are not sustainable and the health complications of this rapid egg production kills chickens.

[spoonfulofwhoopass]

Hey idk who like. Lied to you about the way honey farms work, but could you stop spreading misinformation? Are you a beekeeper?

Because I am!

Beekeepers make sure hives are fed before there is pollen in the air, protected from predators and the elements, and have enough honey to sustain themselves. We don’t take all of it.

But overproduction of honey leads to stagnation in the hive. It puts stress on the queen to lay eggs, and when they inevitably fill up all their space with honey (instead of filling up the multiple empty, clean boxes of frames beekeepers might put on top of the main hive box), the queen can get so stressed she dies. If there’s a spike in the weather and the hive hasn’t prepared new queen brood, that’s it! The colony is dead. Because there wasn’t enough space for eggs and honey in the hive.

Beekeepers take excess honey. We are constantly monitoring the state of the hive, checking for parasites, analyzing the eggs for diseases, and making sure they are fed and healthy (usually with sugar water and pollen substitutes until they have made enough honey to sustain themselves in the early spring months). If a queen dies prematurely, we make every attempt to replace her to save the colony.

I know there’s an urge to patronize everyone who works in the farming industry, but try to understand the differences between small scale agriculture and industrial farming. There IS a difference. And stop spreading misinformation.

If you’re this passionate about ethical consumption, look into some of the ecofeminist research on non-hierarchal interspecies relationships (working on building animal-human relationships in a non exploitative way).

But yeah! Stop spreading misinformation! Please 🐝

[fslut]

Also if I can harp on the chicken part?

Yea Chickens are some of the most abused animals on big factory farms and I’ll be the first to admit it’s criminal and more needs to be done to regulate this.

Yes selective breeding over time has caused an increase in the ammount of eggs produced by chickens and factory farms have some messed up practices to get more eggs from them including forced moutling.

THIS IS WHY YOU SUPPORT LOCAL FARMERS AND THEIR EGGS

Many people take to raising their own hens because of America’s immoral treatment of hens in factory farms like you’re not helping the poor chicks by starving these farmers financially you’re just hurting the one people trying to change things and making the OPTION of cage free organic cruelty free eggs even harder to find

[harvestspriteirl]

Yeah, as someone who like… lives on a chicken and duck farm… Coops help keep wild animals out but birds are kinda dumb. And chickens literally do not need to keep the unfertilized eggs! 

Most chickens will sit on unfertilized eggs until they can tell if they are or not… By the smell of rotting egg. Yeah, ew. Farmers can hold that bitch to the flashlight and tell if there’s a baby in there! They know! The eggs are not being abused!

[kuzuryuu-course]

Also, if you separate your cocks and your hens, there wont even be that issue in the first place. Egg-laying is basically chicken menstruation, but unlike mammalian menstruation which is full of blood and dead tissue, chicken menstruation is full of tasty tasty nutrients

[cluckbuck7]

Support local farms! Most grocery stores carry eggs from small, local farms that give hens acres of open pasture and healthier housing.

[jheselbraum]

Also, that “selectively bred to lay eggs more often” thing? Literally just comes from feeding the chickens every day. The chicken’s ancestors would only lay an egg when there was abundant food, so people started feeding them every day to get more eggs. That’s it.

[thatgayguywitch]

Support local farmers and beekeepers!!! 🐝

[nomadfae-deactivated20210306]

Also, an egg may be fertile but that doesn’t mean there is a baby in there. That just means, should you incubate it, it can produce a baby. Otherwise, it isn’t any different than an infertile egg. It’s just a yolk and egg white.

Just like a human woman being fertile doesn’t mean she is already carrying a baby. It just means she can carry a baby.

I really wish vegans would stop spreading all this harmful nonsense and, you know, actually educate themselves.

[great-tweets]

[teasugarsalt]

The blue eyes mark this crow as young, not a full adult.

You’ve been pranked by a teen hooligan.

[animefacialrecognitionsoftware01]

You’ve been pranked by,

You’ve been sticked by,

A teen hooligan

[roanokewinter]

Edit- if you’re seeing this please consider checking out my new cottagecore / goblin/gremlin blog RoanokeAutumn for more posts like this, for this current blog only posts dark academic things now. Thank you!

[prairieantics]

cozy upcycled dresses by SimplyCathrineAnn on etsy<3

[judestims]

🏠💕Cozy Stimboard💕🏠

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[starlighthome]

cottage gardens 🌸🌼🌿

[mamawildmoon]

This is what my backyard needs to look like 😍

[dirtshrines]

Darling retreat on the  Isle of Wight

[cottagelf]

oh, to be surrounded by plants both outdoors and in

[odonianpoet]

[mamawildmoon]

I have a mighty need!

[thewitches-lovenest]

CHEDDAR BISCUITS RECIPE

INGREDIENTS

Biscuits:

2 1/2 cups Bisquick

4 Tablespoons cold butter

1 cup cheddar cheese shredded

3/4 cup milk

1/4 tsp garlic powder

Butter Glaze:

3 Tablespoons butter

1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

3/4 teaspoon dried parsley flakes

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat your oven to 400 degrees. Lightly grease or line one cookie sheet with parchment; set aside.

Combine Bisquick with cold butter in a medium bowl using a pastry cutter (I just use a fork to cut the butter into the mixture). Don’t worry about mixing too thoroughly; there will be small chunks of butter in the mix about the size of peas. Add cheddar cheese, milk, and garlic powder. Mix by hand until combined, but don’t over mix.

Drop 1/4 cup portions of the dough onto the lightly greased or parchment lined cookie sheet. Bake for 11-13 minutes in preheated oven or until the tops of the biscuits begin to turn light brown.

While the biscuits are baking, melt butter is a small bowl in the microwave. Stir in garlic powder and dried parsley flakes.

After biscuits have come out of the oven, use a brush to spread the garlic butter over the tops of all the biscuits. Sprinkle a little kosher salt on the freshly coated biscuits. Makes one dozen.

[celesse]

Oopsies! Well, happy Mother’s Day anyway ❤