"We’re not going to save the world with one backyard. But every #garden that supports wildlife, and every person who chooses #habitat over (or in addition to) aesthetics, adds to a growing shift."

#rewilding #pollinators #wildlife #gardening

https://www.rewildingmag.com/our-yard-is-now-teeming-with-life/

I find it oddly comforting that tech corporations are now straight up advertising their vision of dystopian individualism where all your friends have been replaced by their chatbot.

#AI #dystopia

Due to tariffs, Americans are likely to hear a lot about farm mental health as harvest approaches this year. Especially farmer suicide.

So let's get it on the record now. The "farmer suicide epidemic" of the last few years in the US is not real.

It's a lobbying tactic.

Veggie sautee with 100% garden veggies: long beans, sweet pepper, and Okinawa spinach (which grows incredibly well in our area and is a rich source of cooked green leaf veg).

This is the first time we've had my beloved long beans in years (the first year we lived here, we harvested them by the bucket and it was incredible). I'm saving the beans (and cooking the pods, which are soft and tasty) because this is exactly my favorite kind of bean and I don't want to repeat my previous mistake of letting them drop off. They are too delicious and nutritious!

Now I just need a local source of cooking oil (there has to be a local coconut oil company, right? 🤔 There's local macadamia nut oil, but it's very $$$)

...and an alternative to propane 😭 (I do have my solar cooker, but it doesn't fry - it steams, boils, bakes).

This was part of a lunch that included a fried egg (egg from @saltphoenix 's birds), fresh tomato from the garden, and short grain brown rice from the store. Instead of rice, I often have kalo (taro) from my bf, but today I didn't have any.

When the boats stop coming, I think there will be a lot less frying (more cooking over a fire) and when frying does happen, it'll be on butter (or tallow, for the meat eaters). It's definitely easier to get butter from cows than oil from coconuts or macadamias.

And as for propane replacement, I really don't know, but probably the ideal solution would be to get beefy solar panels and batteries, and an induction cooker.

I also don't have a local replacement for soy sauce, but we do have salt on the shoreline. It gathers in little low areas in shoreline rocks during dry periods. To get enough for daily supply though, you'd have to know the spots and spend a fair bit of time harvesting. The shoreline in my area really puts the "trace" in "trace minerals". I'd have to find the right spots.

#hawaii #growyourown #gardening #food #vegetarian #solarpunk

"Rising Cost Of Living Forcing More Buddhists To Continue Working Years Into Reincarnation"

https://theonion.com/rising-cost-of-living-forcing-more-buddhists-to-continue-working-years-into-reincarnation/

#TheOnion

TIL that including "from:me" in the search box in Mastodon will search my own posts.

So obvious that I feel like an idiot for not realising before!

Reading an article in Women’s Running magazine about safety and how many female runners feel vulnerable in the day even though you might think it feels safer than running in the dark.

I have experienced a fair bit of unwanted attention from male strangers while running or walking alone, from cat calling to being asked to be a drunk man’s girlfriend in an otherwise empty park (bit scary), to a teenager slapping my arse and trying to pull me into the bushes. Only the other day a man in group of other white men in their 20s mimicked my running in a sarcastic way as I ran past them in the street.

A friend of mine I met of Twitter actually experienced a man sticking his foot out to deliberately trip her while she was running. She sustained cuts to her face and her confidence in her main psychological wellbeing technique was serious dented.

Why can’t men just let women walk, hike or run in peace??

I missed last month's #solarpunk essay from @AndrewDanaHudson , but I think the 10-year-check-in is a worthy read:

https://www.solarshades.club/p/the-political-dimensions-of-solarpunk10

The world has changed. Solarpunk influenced it, even without a single Masterpiece. We are continuing to build from multiple sides.

People are doing a lot on the ground - whether in the North or the South - and we're finally getting a language which can share their stories.

#writing #essay #manifesto #climate #climateChange #politics