Mastodawn

Hi @Hellybootwader just read your bio. I am doing the same—planting more perennial food plants as conventional veggie gardening becomes more difficult with extreme weather. We just past through a long drought period (may still be in it even though rainy season has begun.) Looking forward to following your feed 🌱

PermaSolarPotter 1h ago

Ever since struggling with our deficient soils this past winter, I’ve been on a mission to grow our #compost piles as quickly as possible with free materials. Starbucks will give you used coffee grounds if you ask and I also made friends with a woodworker who only uses untreated wood and gives me bags of sawdust. So there’s your nitrogen and your carbon. We also add kitchen scraps and Mexican sunflower aka “green manure”, a beautiful fast-growing plant rich in nitrogen & potassium. #gardening

PermaSolarPotter 1h ago

Molly Cantrell-Kraig 🇺🇦2h ago

Sometimes self-care doesn’t come wrapped in a spa day or a big revelation. Sometimes, it’s a bottle of mint-infused water.

This mint? It came from my own garden; a reminder that we can cultivate our own restoration, even in small ways. In the midst of deadlines and deliverables, I offer this prompt: what’s one small, nourishing thing you can grow, steep, or stir into your day?

Stay thirsty, my friends.

🌿

#gardening #HeatWave

PermaSolarPotter 21h ago

Ms. Que Banh 1d ago

One of my ruffled #pink breadseed #poppies is going to seed. I'm collecting seeds from them.

#Bloomscrolling #florespondence #floral #Summer #Wsanec #flowers #botanical #perennials #nature #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #Zone8 #PrettyInPink #poppy #gardening

PermaSolarPotter 1d ago

Kate Bowles 1d ago

Derek Jarman’s garden by the sea, a life-changing gift to visit and sit with. #gardening

PermaSolarPotter 1d ago

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Carolannie 2d ago

But don't forget
https://www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't

Completely non-credentialed Botanist. Phylogenetics, biogeography, speciation, selection pressure. Tender bastard beneath a coriaceous exterior.

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't

PermaSolarPotter 2d ago

Planet Chad Photography 2d ago

Got my 2nd "big" butterfly of the season. I was hoping this was a monarch but after watching the flight pattern and how much smaller it was I knew it was a viceroy.

#butterflies #insects #pollinator #nature #garden

PermaSolarPotter 2d ago

An atala butterfly visiting our native coffee bush. The seeds do not contain caffeine, unlike its cousin coffee arabica. Birds & insects love it and it puts out decorative red berries after it flowers. #Florida #NativePlants #pollinators #zone10 #gardening

PermaSolarPotter 2d ago

The irony is that our garden struggled through the winter and spring, a popular growing time in #Florida, because we had soil issues. Now that our soil is richer, our garden is thriving at a time when most give up planting until the fall. During our hot, muggy summers conventional veggies become pest ridden and so the “trick” is to plant vegetables suited to our zone. Here we have yard long beans and Seminole pumpkin. I learned a lot of this from https://theurbanharvest.com/collections/seeds. #gardening #zone10

PermaSolarPotter 2d ago

Rancho de la Libertad 2d ago

Finally finished this month's newsletter! One of our Quarterly Updates, a moment of reflection aligned with the post-Solstice new moon.

We are at a critical moment! If you can spare a few dollars a month, it would make an enormous difference if you subscribed at the paid tier. As a bonus you'll get goodies around Winter Solstice. We make zero profit, anything material/financial support just goes back into the land. If there's anything we can do to bring you more value, let us know.

https://rancholibertad.com/quarterly-update-summ/

#MutualAid #LandStewardship #Activism #DirectAction

Quarterly Update: The Sun's Xenith

The experience of Summer in the Mojave desert is quite different from that of Summer in temperate climate zones. During the weeks leading up to and the weeks after the longest day of the year in our hemisphere, we are entering into a sort of semi-hibernation, a stillness that is

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