#Harvest for Hope

[watercress-words]

Dr Jane Goodall-Messenger of Hope-and Medal of Freedom Award

President Joe Biden awarded the Medal of Freedom to Dr. Jane Goodall, in recognitionof her "activism, vision, and message of hope that have mobilised a global movement to protect the planet."

updated January 6, 2025 Dr Jane Goodall, DBE, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Joe Biden on January 4, 2025. The award recognised Dr. Jane’s activism, vision, and message of hope, which have mobilised a global movement to protect the planet. “I am deeply honoured to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom,” said Dr. Jane Goodall. “This recognition reflects the hope…

[badolmen]

They don’t even attempt to assassinate US politicians anymore. You notice that? Not since the anthrax scare back for… who was it, Barack? And even that… pathetic. This new generation has no respect for an honest hitman. I’m not sure this new generation has any honest hitman - you see that shit with Boeing? Sloppy, fucking disgraceful - you kill the whistleblowers before they get halfway to a lawsuit. What kind of fucking amateur is doing faked suicides the night before testimony? Goddamn greenhorns. Back in my day someone tried to shoot Ronald Reagan in broad daylight. There used to be bomb threats to Congress. I took out a few union leaders in the utilities sector myself. Today’s generation? Won’t even threaten to throw a punch - not even over on that - what’s it now, ‘X’? They got no guts. None! And they don’t even have poor impulse control to boot! Too much of that - that panopticon anxiety bullshit. “Oh what if I get a called out post???” People used to send the president letters full of bioweapons. In the mail! Today’s generation? Not a chance. All because of woke.

[reasonsforhope]

Legit though, we should start turning ecosystem restoration and work to make our world more tolerant to the effects of climate change into annual holidays and festivals

Like how just about every culture used to have festivals to celebrate the beginning of the harvest or its end, or the beginning of planting, or how whole communities used to host barn raisings and quilting bees - everyone coming together at once to turn the work of months or years into the work of a few days

Humble suggestions for festival types:

Goat festival

Besides controlled burns (which you can't do if there's too much dead brush), the fastest, most effective, and most cost-efficient way to clear brush before fire season - esp really heavy dead brush - is to just. Put a bunch of goats on your land for a few days!

Remember that Shark Tank competitor who wanted to start a goat rental company, and everyone was like wtf? There was even a whole John Oliver bit making fun of the idea? Well THAT JUST PROVES THEY'RE FROM NICE WET PLACES, because goat rental companies are totally a thing, and they're great.

So like. Why don't we have a weekend where everyone with goats just takes those goats to the nearest land that needs a ton of clearing? Public officials could put up maps of where on public lands grazing is needed, and where it definitely shouldn't happen. Farmers and people/groups with a lot of acres that need clearing can post Goat Requests.

Little kids can make goat-themed crafts and give the goats lots of pets or treats at the end of the day for doing such a good job. Volunteers can help wrangle things so goats don't get where they're not supposed to (and everyone fences off land nowadays anyway, mostly). And the goats, of course, would be in fucking banquet paradise.

Planting Festival and Harvest Festival

Why mess with success??? Bring these back where they've disappeared!!! Time to swarm the community gardens and help everyone near you with a farm make sure that all of their seeds are sown and none of the food goes to waste in the fields, decaying and unpicked.

And then set up distribution parts of the festival so all the extra food gets where it needs to be! Boxes of free lemons in front of your house because you have 80 goddamned lemons are great, but you know what else would be great? An organized effort to take that shit to food pantries (which SUPER rarely get fresh produce, because they can't hold anything perishable for long at all) and community/farmer's markets

Rain Capture Festival

The "water year" - how we track annual rainfall and precipitation - is offset from the regular calendar year because, like, that's just when water cycles through the ecosystems (e.g. meltwater). At least in the US, the water year is October 1st through September 30th of the next year, because October 1st is around when all the snowmelt from last year is gone, and a new cycle is starting as rain begins to fall again in earnest.

So why don't we all have a big barn raising equivalent every September to build rain capture infrastructure?

Team up with some neighbors to turn one of those little grass strips on the sidewalk into a rain-garden with fall-planting plants. Go down to your local church and help them install some gutters and rain barrels. Help deculvert rivers so they run through the dirt again, and make sure all the storm drains in your neighborhood are nice and clear.

Even better, all of this - ESPECIALLY the rain gardens - will also help a ton with flood control!

I'm so serious about how cool this could be, yall.

And people who can't or don't want to do physical stuff for any of these festivals could volunteer to watch children or cook food for the festival or whatever else might need to be done!

Parties afterward to celebrate all the good work done! Community building and direct local improvements to help protect ourselves from climate change!

The possibilities are literally endless, so not to sound like an influencer or some shit, but please DO comment or reply or put it in the notes if you have thoughts, esp on other things we could hold festivals like this for.

Canning festivals. "Dig your elderly neighbors out of the snow" festivals. Endangered species nesting count festival. Plant fruit trees on public land and parks festival. All of the things that I don't know anywhere near enough to think of. Especially in more niche or extreme ecosystems, there are so many possibilities that could do a lot of good

[ranchstoryblog]

Steam Farming Fest Sale!

Steam's got a farmin' themed sale going on right now, with nearly every PC Story of Seasons and Rune Factory game on sale for 20 bucks or less... but also, it seems the entire Marvelous catalog is on there! So if you wanted to try out the Rune Factory-adjacent dungeon crawler, Silent Hope, that's here too, along with the Marvelous-published non-Bokumono farm sim, Sakuna of Rice and Ruin.

Wow, they even have other games Yasuhiro Wada, creator of the Story of Seasons series, was executive producer on. Like Little King's Story and No More Heroes!

Oh, and there's a free farming themed Avatar Frame on Steam's Point Shop that's pretty cute.

[kinokoshoujoart]

oops all rock (springtime edition)

i’ll be able to draw digitally again soon! ;w; in the meantime i’ve been scribbling a lot on paper…

could not wait for Soon, so i resorted to coloring it using the markup tool in default iphone photos app (don’t do that ever again)

[aashiyancha]

Hi @faerlumie ! I've got a little present for you for bokumono exchange!

I heard you like Lillian and Oracle from ToTT so I drew a little scene of Lillian hunting down her elusive best friend after a long day of work. Hope you enjoy☆

And then they probably proceed to spend the rest of the day creating very silly potions in Oracle's workshop.

@bokumonoexchange

[savingthegeneration]

"She turned into stone one year ago and has been that way since."

Harvest Moon: Magical Melody (2006) - dev. Marvelous Interactive

[vic-does-battlecats]

If I throw a bunch of hats in the ring surely one of them has to fit right

Featuring the three recolors of one design cause I like them all

[cornaceee]

my og video game husband

[lilacwriter07]

Tails and Horns omegaverse adamsapple

Lucifer happily purrs as his mate, kissed his neck slowly as his big hands softly stroke his tail .

Adam gives a bit pressure on his fingers tips, slowly massaging his way up and down, as the Omega king just melts into his arms . He was so happy that the former human, sneaked his way down to hell to be with him . He missed his Beta so much, the way he whispers sweet nothings, to his musky earth down scent, his big hands on his back to his tail .

Lucifer almost came as Adam kissed his horns, the Omega hated these horns at first . The way they popped out of his head, blood and flesh falling on the ground .

But now with Adam's lips, and the way his tongue softly licked them . Lucifer could not help but show them off to him, especially when Adam first saw them looking amazed ."You are so beautiful ." He would always say .

Lucifer moans as Adam starts to rock his hips against the Omega, his hands playing with his tail rougher .

The devil could not hold back but he came hard ."So cute ~" Adam smiled kissing Lucifer's forehead ."More .." Lucifer whines .

"Always for you my beautiful Omega ~"

(@inubaki I tried but I never did a fanfic that focused on the tails and horns ;-;, but I hoped you enjoyed Beta Angel Adam x Omega Lucifer 👉🏻👈🏻👀)

[turnipbox]

molly !

[tenebrous-dream]

i love spending hours drawing pixel art on the grand bazaar signboard for literally no reason

[fantasydoctor]

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[canarydraws]

Harvest Goddess 2023

[ranchstoryblog]

Story of Seasons and Rune Factory on the 2024 Steam Summer Sale

The annual Steam Summer sale has begun, and all of the current releases for Story of Seasons and Rune Factory are there! From now to July 11th, the following Story of Seasons and related games are on sale:

Friends of Mineral Town - $15.99

Pioneers of Olive Town - $19.99

A Wonderful Life - $19.99

Rune Factory 3 Special - $19.99

Rune Factory 4 Special - $14.99

Rune Factory 5 - $19.99

Silent Hope - $19.99

Piczle Cross: Story of Seasons - $6.99

(Prices are in USD, so it might be different in your region)

[kinokoshoujoart]

romeo!! or rock….? idk he’s the ds guy. y’know