#Harvest on the Coast

[arctic-hands]

I get why potatoes are popularly associated with Ireland and to a lesser extent other parts of Europe, but it's a bit messed up that most people will think potatoes were originally cultivated in Ireland and not ancient Peru and Bolivia like they actually are

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Second Harvest by Serena Malyon

[badolmen]

Look at me. LOOK at me. Old growth forests are important. Their loss is violence against the land.

BUT that isn’t a reason to point at younger, perfectly healthy closed canopy forests and claim they’re ecologically insignificant or bad. Their sparse understory is a function of closed canopy forests. Even old growth forests will have sparse understories if the canopy is closed. That’s how photosynthetic strata works.

The west coast has vastly different forests and history than the east. The rare volcanic eruption that made the giant stands of Douglas fir in the west possible would be literally impossible here. Our species are adapted for stand replacing fires set by indigenous peoples to drive deer and rejuvenate oak. Oak as a genus is dying here. We can’t set fires. We can’t harvest patches large enough to simulate a fire. Our deer are overpopulated and browse down every sprout that dares to reach for sunlight.

Making a sweeping ban on clear-cut and similarly ‘scary’ harvests would kill them for good. The restrictions on fire have nearly done that to species like Jack and pitch pine that rely heavily on fire to establish. They’ve been relegated to pine barrens and the rare sandy forest clearing. Our fire Cherry, thankfully, can last decades in the soil seedbank. You can only see them the first few decades after a large, complete harvest and then they die.

What’s good for one forest kills another. Not all trees are made ecologically equal - and that’s a very good thing. All trees and forests have their ecological value. Management of one forest is never applicable to other forests; they all have their own unique histories and communities that should be imitated when possible and left alone when not.

[environmentavegan]

I feel like every few years there's some huge issue that causes mass recalls or extremely escalated prices having to do with animal products. it's almost as if there's fundamental problems with the system and how we produce food

[morgenlich]

extremely italian sentences

[postcard-from-the-past]

Seaweed harvest on the Île de Ré island, Aunis region of western France

French vintage postcard

[alteredstatesstuff]

moon rising

[jeremythejirachi]

Best Coast To Go On Indefinite Hiatus, Frontwoman Announces Debut Solo Album

As one door closes, another opens. Best Coast announces indefinite hiatus and @BethanyCoast is going solo.

Indie darlings Best Coast are calling it a night for the time being. The Californian duo of front woman Bethany Cosentino and multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno broke the news Wednesday. In a statement posted by Pitchfork, Cosentino wrote, “My identity as a human being, and as an artist, has been so wrapped up in Best Coast for over a decade. The decision to pause the project indefinitely, and…

[duaneburnett]

Harvest Cider Stroll 🍂 🍎 🍻 1-5pm Saturday September 21, Downtown Sechelt on Sunshine Coast BC Canada 🇨🇦 Enjoy locally crafted cider and beer, complemented by $8 bites from select restaurants and cafes around town.

Tastings take place in our charming boutique shops, where you can discover unique treasures to take home. This event not only showcases the rich flavours of our local ciders but also highlights the vibrant community spirit and the diverse offerings of Sechelt’s small businesses.

🎶 Enjoy live music in downtown while you sip, eat and shop your way through town! 🎟️ $25.00 Presented by Sechelt Downtown Business Association.

MORE INFO at https://secheltdowntown.com/event/harvest-cider-stroll

HASHTAG #harvestciderstroll #sechelt #downtownsechelt #sunshinecoast #event #summer2024 #britishcolumbia #event #thingstodo #events #sunshinecoastbc #sunshinecoastcanada #SDBA

[suxxesphoto]

Landscape Photography Review August 2024

August 2024 has been a month of dynamic weather and breath-taking landscapes, offering countless opportunities to capture the beauty of the changing seasons. From the dramatic storm clouds over Butts Brow to the vibrant fields of sunflowers and poppies near Woodingdean, each location presented its own unique challenges and rewards. My camera and I journeyed through misty mornings and golden…

[hxans]

Moonset and a morning star

[just2bruce]

Water isn’t rising on Mississippi, but barge rates have steadied for now

America’s most prominent inland waterway for commerce is the Mississippi River. It’s been plagued this year by low water. There hasn’t been enough rain in the middle of the continent. Low water causes barges to run aground, and the remedy is to put less in them, reducing the capacity of the routes. That has been the state of affairs on the river this year as we get into grain harvesting times.…

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Harvester of Misery by Jorge Jacinto

[espiritogato]

Happy Fall 🍁

Harvest Season Blessings 🦉🎃🕷️🕸️

Pictures taken at the Southcoast Harvest Festival in Westport, Massachusetts

[probablyasocialecologist]

The global food economy is massively inefficient. The need for standardized products means tons of edible food are destroyed or left to rot. This is one reason more than one-third of the global food supply is wasted or lost; for the U.S., the figure is closer to one-half. The logic of global trade results in massive quantities of identical products being simultaneously imported and exported—a needless waste of fossil fuels and an enormous addition to greenhouse gas emissions. In a typical year, for example, the U.S. imports more than 400,000 tons of potatoes and 1 million tons of beef while exporting almost the same tonnage. The same is true of many other food commodities and countries. The same logic leads to shipping foods worldwide simply to reduce labor costs for processing. Shrimp harvested off the coast of Scotland, for example, are shipped 6,000 miles to Thailand to be peeled, then shipped 6,000 miles back to the UK to be sold to consumers. The supposed efficiency of monocultural production is based on output per unit of labor, which is maximized by replacing jobs with chemical- and energy-intensive technology. Measured by output per acre, however—a far more relevant metric—smaller-scale farms are typically 8 to 20 times more productive.

5 November 2024

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Management sim where you play as a coastal society in a world with rising seas. Not an actual coastal society facing real-world rates of sea level rise, but in some kind of fantasy world, constantly retreating from the rapidly rising waters. Productive land is tied to the coast so you can't just move far further inland right away; you have to constantly move back and rebuild, and work to grow. harvest and move resources faster than the waters can claim them. The win condition would be to slowly gain enough technologies to make you entirely independent of the land, allowing you to stay rooted in one spot as the water takes it away.

This would have the same main benefit of Against the Storm -- namely, the vast majority of the game is spent in 'initial building mode' rather than getting locked into a pattern in the mid game because of building choices you made at the start. The moving coastline would make resource route efficiency incredibly important, and technology that affects distribution and production efficiency would be big factors in how big you can grow and how much free labour you have to spare for frivolities. In the mid game you could discover construction materials and techniques that allow you to build boats that can withstand the tumultuous ocean (and possibly sea monsters), allowing you to build your first permanent buildings and bring them with you as the town moves; these would be major investments so prioritising what should be put on the ocean would be a big deal.