#solarpunkactionweek

[acornflour]

:) sidewalk chalk is fun. making some stickers with packing tape, printed designs, and wax paper tonight: I'll let you guys know how it goes!

[practicalsolarpunk]

Solarpunk Action Week is here!! This week I will be:

Putting up a clothesline, so I can stop using my dryer at least most of the time.

Continuing to work on my garden - I’ve got seedlings sprouting, garlic and onions that need weeding, potatoes to plant, and a fence to put up.  Lots to do!

Mending, hopefully getting a few pairs of pants patched up and usable again, perhaps working on darning some socks if I get really ambitious.

Making paper out of yucca, if I have time - the garden is more of a priority at the moment.

What are all of you doing??

- Mod S

[solarpunkdyke]

SPAW Day 1

Seed Bombs

My fiance and I have been saving paper scraps and junk mail for a month or two now, and yesterday we turned some of it into a slurry and made seed bombs!

They're filled with a native wildflower mix to attract local pollinators, and we'll be tossing them around a few select locations around town.

We also have plenty of paper and seeds left, so we may make some more, or use the paper for other projects (like making sheets of paper) and scatter the seeds as-is, if we can find a good place for them to grow.

[anarchopuppy]

It's @solarpunkactionweek! Here's what I've been up to this week:

On Tuesday I helped carry boxes out to cars for Birmingham Mutual Aid's weekly food box distro. I forgot to take a picture so here's one from a couple weeks ago (neither of these people are me):

Gardening work has been ongoing throughout the week, which has included pulling out a huge 5-gallon load of compost (pictured below) and harvesting + pulling up our winter garden (including tons of arugula which went into a salad tonight!). The rest of the week will involve spreading this beautiful compost, filling the composter with leaves, and direct sowing our summer plants. We're trying chaos gardening for the first time this year!

And today I went on a run to 7 different little free libraries in my city and distributed this stack of anarchist literature that I got from the Birmingham Free Store, throwing up radical stickers all along the way (mostly the custom Birmingham Mutual Aid stickers I got printed from stickerguy a while back)

Tomorrow and Saturday I'll be volunteering at the Free Store for around 5 hours each day, but other than that and the gardening I don't have anything else planned for this week. It turned out to be an unideal time for the plans I wanted to kick off (the mutual aid supply drive and people's park workday), but those are still in the cards, just for a little later on

And of course this whole time I've been moderating the SPAW blog and continuing to compile resources and education on my main like always ✊💕

[sonic-oscillator]

here's my project for SPAW; built and delivered a pallet bench to make a nearby bus stop more useable! did some trash pickup too. i want to do this for a few other stops around my immediate area eventually, as i get my hands on more pallets, but this was what i got done in the Week proper. <3

[facegodandwalkbackwards]

Got some native pollinator favorites growing alongside some food! Heirloom carrots and turnips and, as a fun experiment, some sugar beets!

So excited for when our flowers start blooming!

Oh, and there's a few green onions I replanted and a leek, and also what will eventually be a dewberry bush for my mom and dad!

@solarpunkactionweek How'd we do for a first try?

[lady-book-trash]

the apples are coming...

hello friends! today is a bit dreary here but enjoy these images of my apple tree! thanks to my plant ID app, we now know these are Paradise Apples. funkee.

for the last day of #Solarpunkactionweek I went around my property and discovered pretty much Every Plant Life's name. weeds, vines, trees, even grasses. it was epic.

[fennopunk]

I am so damn glad I gave myself permission to not be productive this Solarpunk Action Week. SPAW has generally been important week for me and I spend months planning for it, but I also know that I may have a bad week just then and promising to do something and then not being able to is excruciating, even if others understand and are supportive.

I've had a bad week. Not awful, thankfully, but I've slept poorly since my sleep medication doesn't work for me anymore, so I've been groggy and haven't had the energy or focus to do much.

I've done little tho, and that's a win and enough.

I sneaked into my brother's apartment when he was at work, in the guise of getting a bottle of May Day Mead he made. He has started to make that every year in large enough quantities that he can share with rest of the family and I really did get a bottle. But I also left potted cuttings of rhaphidophora tetrasperma, because my brother has started to show interest in plants (it took just 34 years of professional-gardener-as-grandparent and mom-and-little-sibling-love-plants levels of exposure) and he recently had birthday, so I gave my tetrasperma a haircut :D The absent mind is also a family trait, so just in case I stuck a water bottle on the planter, because the cuttings require constant moisture, and I don't trust my brother to remember water it often enough.

The strawberry is slowly but surely growing too and I have been giving geraniums some outdoors time. It's still bit too chilly to have them outside full-time, but I try to ease them up little by little.

There's couple more days to go. Let's see if I have more spoons for them.