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[narotiza]

idk if i'll really continue to post on here much, the main draw for me was custom page css, but cohost just feels cozier

[owenthetokencishet]

[clownsnake]

sometimes u just gotta accept that a wip is gonna stay a wip forever 😌 enjoy

(They/them please!)

[elodieunderglass]

I grow our own vegetables. Many hybrid and heirloom varieties are bred for flavor rather than for commercial appeal and travel. There are entire species on the allotment that you can’t easily buy in stores because of this - like salsify, a root vegetable that tastes of fish and shellfish. Our neighbours happily take it to make vegan latkes of alarming similarity to fishcakes. You cannot sell it in stores because - despite looking like a white parsnip - it turns brown when you pick it if you scrape/bruise/cut the white root in any way, or damage the delicate little hairs, for some reason, it BLEEDS RED and is very upsetting to look at.

There are whole classes of foods like this. Foods that just don’t ship well or look good on supermarket shelves. Forbidden fruits. Vegetables that bleed and taste like meat. Sorry about this

[curioscurio]

[disasterscenario]

This website is one of my fav places to find interesting heirloom stuff! I ordered a bunch of seeds to try growing next year I’m really excited about! 

https://www.rareseeds.com/

[ct-7567]

@angelsaxis

[itsdetachable]

I’ve gotten and plants seeds from that site, Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, and they grow fantastically well for me.

I’m really looking forward to next season

[incremental-revolution]

Baker Creek Heirloom has good seeds but bad politics. They were going to host Cliven Bundy of the Occupation of Malheur National Wildlife Reserve who’s also pro the Capitol Riots and has made a lot of racist nastiness, although backlash made them cancel their guest list (which included other racist folks) Good sources of heirloom seeds:

Meet the Farmers

Each of the varieties offered through Truelove Seeds was grown by small-scale urban or rural farmers committed to sustainable agriculture, f

Rare Non-GMO Heirloom Seeds | Alliance of Native Seedkeepers

Alliance of Native Seedkeepers is North Americas Top Native American Source for rare heirloom Non-GMO vegetable, flower and herb garden seed

Our Story

Native Seeds/SEARCH (NS/S) is a nonprofit seed conservation organization based in Tucson, Arizona. Our mission is to conserve and promote th

[elodieunderglass]

^^^

[plum-soup]

Highly recommend Native Seed/Search and Truelove. Baker Creek has an amazingly large catalog and has some very cool and rare stuff, but they are also Mennonites and as you might expect, they do have terrible politics as listed above, although they do some decent work preserving heirloom seeds from threatened communities.

An organization that does really interesting work preserving seed from threatened communities (and larger companies like baker creek often piggyback off of some of the work done by orgs like this and NS/S) is the Experimental Farm Network. They are very explicit about their (left-leaning) political views and you don’t have to worry about them being Problematic. They have lots of interesting and rare varieties and species you really cannot find anywhere else.

Threatened Communities

An important part of our mission involves preserving and sharing seeds from communities under threat, and attempting, wherever possible, to

If you are looking for a wider selection of heirloom seed varieties, these two companies are very good resources as well, and carry many of the same things as Baker Creek. Afaik they are not expressly political beyond their general mission to preserve heirloom seeds (although southern exposure does a good job of preserving some very traditional african-American heirlooms from the Southeast US in particular).

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, Saving the Past for the Future

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, Saving the Past for the Future

Heirloom seeds from Seed Savers Exchange. Buy rare, organic seeds and support our nonprofit mission to preserve garden diversity. Free catal

[neolithicsheep]

Omg I hadn’t heard of the Experimental Farm Network and I am delighted! I am also completely thrilled to see people other than me remember that Baker Creek is a bunch of lying fash. They claimed they did not know about Cliven Bundy AFTER VISITING HIM IN JAIL. He was literally in jail for his anti-social bullshit when they first talked to him about the watermelons he and his mentor stole from Indigenous people and made their name on. They also take seeds from Indigenous communities globally and profit from them without sharing those profits with the communities they took the seeds from.

…I am blocked by them on Twitter after publicizing the Cliven Bundy crap, full disclosure, I have an actual feud with these people and their unethical practices.

[tkingfisher]

I was trying to get signal in the goddamn Himalayas to argue with them about Bundy. *grumble*

I also second Native Seed/SEARCH as a great org doing great work. Some of their stuff is so desert-adapted it won’t grow for me, but I’ve had great luck with some of their bean varieties.

[ayamccabre]

New Zealand people: have some links.

https://www.sentinelsgroup.co.nz/ Heirloom growers group in Canterbury. Some truly unusual stuff.

https://southernseed.org.nz Another group out of Christchurch. These guys went out of their way to help me find a rare plant that had shown up in their area like five years before I contacted them. They found it for me and shipped tubers to Wellington.

https://www.seedstofeeds.nz/upcoming-events Seed and seedling swaps, all over the country.

https://www.urbanorganics.org.nz/seed-exchange Otago seed exchange

https://kahikateafarm.co.nz/ Live plants, some of them truly hard to find.

https://koanga.org.nz/ These guys had a scandal a while back and never really recovered. Their range is much reduced (unless you’re a member), but they do the work of importing new species into the country, so some of their stuff can’t be found anywhere else.

https://www.sporeshift.co.nz Mushrooms!

kingsseeds.co.nz/ A large commercial grower. Their seeds are clearly labelled if they’re heirloom (older varieties) or open pollinated (you can save seeds for next year). They have some less common things, as well as all the more popular stuff.

[narotiza]

i wish i were real

[narotiza]

beep boop i need to add links n stuff to my bumblr like my art tag and other links that go eebeybeboboop

the one i have rn (to my website) is kinda plain i wanna do something different with it but i dont know what exactly

[feefal]

Pixie parasol! Or Mycena interrupta, if you wanna be a nerd about it.

[yandere-angela]

i love finding out the meaning of slangs for “attractive woman” in various languages

chick (english) - baby chicken Schnecke (german) - snail/slug sild (danish) - herring fıstık (turkish) - pistachio тёлочка (russian) - heifer ծիտ (armenian) - sparrow

[yandere-angela]

[jheselbraum]

Girls night

[prinnay]

porcelain

[kosmogrl]

what they don't tell you about your 20s is that you'll want to leave but you don't because you're scared of the unknown

[funtergeist]

rain werl

[mossy-covered-bones]

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[hishap]

Bug Fables : “the bug characters are regular bug sized! Here, have common human-made objects littered around to give you an idea of scale!”

Humans B Gone! : “the bugs are bigger than our buildings. Yes, there is a well-researched explanation I’ve come up with for how that’s possible in that setting. Here’s links to the scientific papers I’ve used as reference.”

Hollow Knight : “wait you guys have actually thought about the bugs’ actual scale????”

[narotiza]

and i feel kinda shitty because i don't really have characters, they're kinda just.. shallow vessels that carry the story forward (which is kind of just a dance of inanimate systems) and don't really have genuine emotions. my writing feels like... the script of a play sometimes, rather than an actual story

i can't really excitedly talk about them, like others do with their ocs almost as if they're people, because they're just ..empty, and i kinda have to pretend and lie that there's more to them. and it makes me feel soulless

and here i am just writing things into the void that probably no one will see because i don't know if i'll ever amount to anything and maybe this'll just be something that'll be found one day to help people understand . because im not sure how much further i can go, every day im just so tired and lazy and stupid

i don't rly know what i'm talking about anymore

sorry

[narotiza]

why cant i just.. be normal and make things normally. why do i have to make these big ass fucking things out of nowhere before i've literally had any experience even making a webcomic or even writing proper characters? and sometimes i dont really even feel that big of a push to work on it, sometimes i feel like i just kinda have to, but none of my projects really have much personal meaning to me outside of "itd be cool if this were a thing :)" and i just feel so stupid and lost

[sporepedia]

spore: the art of spore

[alleesaur]

echo from the past