Are you a badass #fruiterrarist at heart but unable to battle the grass due to distance or disability?

Do you feel more comfortable with agitprop and HTML than with machetes and shovels?

Would locating and retrieving valuable plants and supplies from across the world be your kind of adventure?

Is your fiat cash about to become worthless if you don't use it to buy a large tract of threatened #rainforest ?

Does your spirit yearn for a world free of oppression even as you find yourself too oppressed to travel?

Afraid of banana? No problem! The #AmazonRainforest doesn't discriminate, and it needs all the help it can get.

We welcome all who share our Core Values to contribute in whatever way they can toward saving the Amazon.

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If you feel drawn to participate in this movement, don't hesitate to contact us about getting involved!

All skills are needed. All (peaceful) animals are comrades. All clams are bivalves.

#conservation #reforestation
#vegan #anarchist #veganarchist
#Amazon #Amazonia #jungle
#fruiterrarism #TreesNotGrass

At just two years old, they are much too young to be having babies of their own!

#Artocarpus integer × heterophyllus

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#nangcem #cempejack #chempejack
#fruiterrarist #fruiterrarism
#veganarchist #veganarchism
#veganic #rainforest #gardening
#FoodForest #FruitForest #FoodFreedom
#Amazon #Amazonia
#BloomScrolling #SolarpunkSunday
#GrowYourOwn #TreesNotGrass
#volunteer #volunteering #FincaDelSoul

Another native #fruit from the #Amazon !

Tangy, salty, and bursting with flavour all year long, it's easy to imagine how the #passionfruit got its name. Here at #FincaDelSoul we mostly grow the yellow form, Passiflora edulis f. flavicarpa (known as #maracuyá in most of western #Amazonia), which is more suited to the ultra-tropical climate of the lowland #AmazonRainforest. Sometimes the #Passiflora vines get devoured in caterpillar season, but these are going strong!

Are you passionate about #Reforestation and #SustainableLiving ? Do you want to grow (and eat!) a radical #abundance of fruit? Finca Del Soul is currently accepting volunteers to help us grow this movement, spread the abundance, and climb all over everything ugly until it gets shaded out and strangled and eventually disintegrates. (This offer is not available in stores.)

https://amazonrestore.codeberg.page/volunteer/finca-del-soul/

#fruiterrarist #fruiterrarism
#veganarchist #veganarchism
#veganic #rainforest #gardening
#FoodForest #FruitForest #FoodFreedom
#GrowYourOwn #SolarpunkSunday
#volunteer #volunteering

Rollinia mucosa, formerly Rollinia deliciosa and still muy deliciosa for us, is a native #Amazon #rainforest #fruit tree that is widely adapted and (unlike many of its cultivated congeners) grows well in areas with a high water table. It sprouts up like a weed at #FincaDelSoul as the birds scatter seeds across the the landscape and aid us in the #reforestation effort and the stewardship of an abundant #FoodForest ecosystem. The fruit is more goopy than most of its Annona relatives, without well-defined carpels, and it has a very pleasant custardy texture with a sweet and slightly tangy flavour that is maybe something between cherimoya and caimito. Here our new friend and valued #volunteer is harvesting the last fruit of the season, about to enjoy a small sample of the deliciousness that is possible when we grow together with the forest and plant #TreesNotGrass.

Great fruit, great friends, great aspirations. Finca Del Soul is accepting volunteers to co-create a new paradigm of #SustainableLiving and #FoodFreedom here in the #AmazonRainforest and set a positive example that others can emulate.

https://amazonrestore.codeberg.page/volunteer/finca-del-soul/

#Rollinia #Annona #Annonaceae #biriba
#fruiterrarist #fruiterrarism
#veganarchist #veganarchism #volunteering
#veganic #FruitForest #gardening #Amazonia
#ecuador #VeganTravel #TravelWithPride
#GrowYourOwn #SolarpunkSunday

Theobroma cacao is an understory tree native to the #Amazon #rainforest where it grows and fruits in the dappled shade cast by ice-cream beans and other canopy trees. The cacao's showy pink flowers feed bees and other native pollinators, and the #cacao fruit is sweet and sour with a very pleasant and refreshing flavour. Any #FoodForest in #Amazonia could get a boost of biodiversity benefits by including some cacao.

However, in #ecuador and many places throughout the tropics, commercial farms slash and burn the #jungle and plant huge monocultures of cacao in order to maximise profits. These monocultures open up the landscape to invasion by grass and other noxious weeds and leave the cacao trees highly susceptible to infections — problems that the growers control with toxic chemical fumigants that poison the soil and water, so the plantations are almost completely devoid of animal life.

Immediately after destroying the rainforest, people often grow maize first and sell it locally, then "convert existing agricultural land" to cacao plantation or cattle pasture and market their product as "deforestation-free" or other labels that command a premium in foreign markets. Do not fall for it. If you do not #GrowYourOwn then the #chocolate bar or hot #cocoa that you consume is most likely a product of #deforestation in the #AmazonRainforest or elsewhere.

Badass Fruiterrarist Land is a #reforestation effort reclaiming the lands cleared for cacao plantations and cattle pasture and transforming them into diverse and abundant #FruitForest in order to restore a functional ecosystem while also securing #FoodFreedom for the badass fruiterrarists who live here and protecting the habitat of the native animals from further destruction.

(In the meantime, we have a lot of cacao available to eat.)

https://amazonrestore.codeberg.page/badass-fruiterrarist-land/

#veganarchist #veganarchism
#fruiterrarist #fruiterrarism
#vegantravel #volunteer #LandForSale
#SolarpunkSunday #TreesNotGrass

#FincaDelSoul is the home of a developing #FoodForest with several trees producing fruit now and many more growing and starting to flower and fruit. We're watching the #Amazon #rainforest being destroyed all around us while we're planting and restoring this land, and we invite people who are conscious about the #deforestation (and environmental devastation in general) to #volunteer here and help with the #reforestation efforts.

https://amazonrestore.codeberg.page/volunteer/finca-del-soul/

#veganarchist #veganarchism #vegantravel
#fruiterrarist #fruiterrarism #volunteering
#gardening #FruitForest #GrowYourOwn
#ecuador #Amazonia #AmazonRainforest #jungle
#SolarpunkSunday #TreesNotGrass

Flowers from the Finca

At #FincaDelSoul, we're tearing up the tools of tyranny and turning inhospitable invasives into beautiful blooming #biodiversity one plant at a time.

From cattle pasture and grass-infested coffee plantation, we re-beautify this land into a functional ecosystem with the end goal of meeting the needs of all who inhabit it. As our neighbours continue to destroy this amazing #Amazon #rainforest landscape around us, #bees #butterflies #hummingbirds and other #pollinators find refuge among the #flowers and fruits of our labour.

These flowers not only provide for the animals who are displaced by the expansion of grassland and monoculture plantations; their vibrant colours brighten our days and remind us that what we do here is making a difference, however small it may seem at times.

In an age when nature is increasingly under siege, protecting wild and free places is the ultimate form of disobedience. Cultivating beauty has become an act of protest. For us, flowers are just the beginning, a sign of what is to come: a thriving #FoodForest and a radical abundance of fruit.

We welcome you to visit our website for more information about what we do here and how to join us here as a #volunteer or start your own #reforestation project as our newest neighbour.

https://amazonrestore.codeberg.page/volunteer/finca-del-soul/

#veganarchist #veganarchism #vegantravel
#fruiterrarist #fruiterrarism #volunteering
#GrowYourOwn #gardening #fruitforest
#AmazingFlowers #orchid #heliconia
#passiflora #plumeria #lantana
#BloomScrolling #SolarpunkSunday #TreesNotGrass

Role call....where are the warriors?

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#fruit #fruitforest #reforestation #fuckgrass #badass #earthwarrior
#vegan #anarchist #anarchism #veganarchist #veganarchism
#freedom #selfsufficient #selfsufficiency #TreesNotGrass