#seed bombs

[hobgobknowsbest]

credit to @icarusxxrising 🖤🖤🖤

[kropotkindersurprise]

Take up guerrilla gardening to beautify your city and provide food for bees and other insects!

[robinlovexo]

might* fuck around and make some seed bombs

🌱🌸🪻🌷🌼🌿

*this is not a might, i absolutely will be doing this and inviting all my friends over

GUERILLA GARDENING💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼‼️

[solar-lunar-punk]

"What even IS Solarpunk?"

It's a social, artistic and environmental movement that aims toward a sustainable future via environmental activism and cultural education. (hence the "solar") Against climate doomerism, capitalism, and profit over anything else. Very DIY, counterculture, anarchism (hence the "punk")

So like: creating micro-self sufficient strategies that are accessible to everyone can apply to everyday life, helping pollinators, picking up trash, learning and teaching how to repair stuff, A LOTTTTT of upcycling, advocating for environmental causes, educating masses via literature and art and events and whatnot

(that's like, the "brochure" explanation. Then there's also the more chaotic and less legal actions like clandestine seed bombing, local creatures feeding, company boycotting in any fun way you can think of and moss grafitti)

How to stay active year-round?

Winter

- Host art workshops/soirées (nature themed, to make ornaments and stuff that can be sold in exhibitions, or just for fun and to raise awareness) 

- Inside greenhouse prepping

- Teas and tincture making to give as gifts

- Donating clothes and shoes

- Looking into all the activist activities for the upcoming year, note important dates, be aware of demonstrations, colloques, expos, etc

Spring

- Early spring: throwing green grenades/ seed bombs

- Managing small outside cultures and inside greenhouse cultures: herbs, fruity , seasonals, etc

- Flower picking (to dry or whatever)

- garbage picking strolls

Summer

- Fruit drying/curing (to make ornaments, compostable water plates and infusions, etc)

- Herbs drying

- Making water drinking stations for local animals (out of hollow fruits) in dry areas

- Materials gathering (hay, seeds, dry branches, etc)

Fall

- Early fall: moss grafitti

- Knitting scarves to donate or sell for environmental organizations support

- Ornament making (to gift or sell in winter time)

- Art soirées (ornaments making, collages, "watchbooks")

- Garbage picking strolls

- Materials gathering (leaves, pinecones, sticks, etc)

- Feed local creatures and make safe spaces for them during winter

Year-round activities:

- Crafting, learning and educating: zines, tutorials, posters, books, etc

- Building stuff out of recycled materials

- Volunteering and donating to verified organizations

[deergravity]

Today I finally culminated a project that has been in the works for a LONG time -- seed bombs!

I started a container compost bin on my balcony during the pandemic to generate the dirt/compost. I researched local, native flowers and pollinator favorites and picked a variety so they would have a chance in any lighting and hopefully produce new blossoms from May-July. Then I waited almost 5 years. Last week I ordered some clay.

Today I gathered my seeds, the powdered clay and a scoop of compost (and let me just say, the compost is SLAMMIN' -- the tea is crazyyy dark, iykyk). Mixed the seeds and clay, then pinches of compost to wet it into balls. Probably should have dried some of the compost out bc it was wet AF so idk if I hit the 1:1 ratio I was aiming for but fuck it we ball!

Literally! I made a few with seeds from a friend's wedding too to see what happens. Those I'll toss into tree beds I think bc they are probably not going to be wildflowers.

This is my local mix:

Mountain Phlox

Early Sunflower

Smooth Blue Aster

Spotted Bee Balm

Golden Alexanders

Wild Bergamont

I'll be sure to post an update once I toss a few into empty lots XD

[solar-sunnyside-up]

Hi!! I’m new to this community and have been seeing some talk about seed bombs. They can be absolutely wonderful, but *please* ensure you are using native plants. 

I work for a company that is government contacted to plant native plants alongside some roads and outside government buildings. Last year, someone threw a seedbomb with nonnative seeds into a garden area (tbf it takes a few years for plants to become established, so they may not have known it was a native plant area).

We get very little time to work on these areas, the government prefers to spend its money in other ways, and attempting to recover from this seedbomb took a lot of our time - preventing us from improving the area in other ways.

Again, seed bombs can be absolutely wonderful, but please be cognizant of what is in them and where they are thrown. Let’s all try to make sure we’re planting the right seeds in the right places!

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Absolutely! Knowledge of an area is key!! For me researching native plants and learning how they grown and live is like half the fun (I'm a nerd tho)

[bolaneno]

I'm going to get air-dry clay tomorrow to make seed bombs 🙂. I'll put seeds of coreopsis, dwarf palmetto, swamp rose mallow, and goldenrod in them (they're all native plants)🌻. I'll assemble them on the 1st.

image(s) credit: LifebyLeanna

[solarpunkani]

So this clearly is not a novel idea (I actually took this screenshot from a website, though the listings on said website weren't working) but we all know about seed bombs, right? Well, get ready for

Guerrilla Droppings

Seed bombs made to look like animal droppings!

I'm not sure how necessary it is to make them in this shape (though I can 100% appreciate the extra sneaky feeling factor), and I did end up finding the listings on Amazon, but surely it wouldn't be too hard to make something like this at home with a custom seed mix, right?