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@dthinksit
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Concerned for the Earth, its Inhabitants, Democracy. Hope to enjoy a thing or two along the way.
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huge fan of tarragon! #Food #Recipe #Vegetarian #Climatarian "...cultivated a wide variety of crops harvested by hand, forage wild seeds to develop heirloom varietals, grow cut flowers to improve pollination..." "We use a lot of intercropping and cover cropping to keep our soil and the environment going." "That style of planting allows us t #Pollinators #Bees #Butterflies #GardensofPost Birch trees are "a key source of habitat for the insects. Birch trees provide a food source with their leaves for an estimated 413 species of butterflies and moths." (quote source: Trees for Bees ) #Trees #Pollinators #GardensofPost This is our opportunity to be heard and give this sweet neighborhood a chance. Please. 🙏 #gardensofpost #Cooking #Food #madeonpost #Post #photos #please "...stones...hold more heat than mulch. This will dry out the soil underneath. ...growing plants & trees from a stone top base can be challenging, as the stones don’t add any nutrients to the soil. In fact, stones can make soil alkaline instead of acidic, and trees need acidic so I am actively sourcing #nativeplants for the #pollinators , but a side benefit is that they are seriously hearty. I am a lousy gardener...always forgetting to water the poor things once I get them in the ground. The native plants are much more forgiving ha Off-Season Front Garden, Berea, Kentucky #LocalFood #PostPlaces #Photography #PostPhotos #AYAT I don't have an answer for how to buy plastic/styrofoam-free take-out when we're on the road, but I am trying to reduce plastics at home. I'm hit & miss about it but working to do better. Scratch-made cake layers cooling on rack #reducewaste gotta love picnic weather 🌞 #SkySunday 🌞 Salvadoran pastelitos...always love trying something new #PostPhotos #OriginalContent well, this was unexpected! came across a Devil's Tongue flower today (3 pics & link to more info on this type of plant) #GardensofPost #PostPhotos #OriginalContent hoping to be able to source this beautiful native...not evergreen but the berries provide winter interest & feed our bird friends (2 links) "USDA Native Status: L48 (N), CAN (N), SPM (N) The leaves of Common winterberry are not shaped with sharp teeth like other hollies and are no Carrot Bacon, anyone? (can't remember what magazine this was from, because the pic was taken too long ago) #Vegan #Vegetarian #Climatarian #Food #Recipe a little less grass, a lot more action #pollinators #biodiversity #GardensofPost Happy National Park Week!! "Entrance fees will be waived on April 20, 2024, to kick off the celebration and to encourage everyone to enjoy their national parks in person." #Nature #News Find your closest park with this link... the kinda thing that makes you go hmmnn... "Bumblebees can surprisingly withstand days underwater, according to a study published Wednesday, suggesting they could withstand increased floods brought on by climate change that threaten their winter hibernation burrows." #Bees #News they paved paradise & put up a parking lot, 2011 #WaterWednesday #PostPhotos #Sky #OriginalContent “As climate change worsens, the threat to our food supply chains – both at home and overseas – will grow...” #ClimateCrisis #News “It’s humbling, and a bit worrying, to admit that no year has confounded climate scientists’ predictive capabilities more than 2023...” “If the anomaly does not stabilize by August – a reasonable expectation based on previous El Niño events – then the world will be in uncharted te
