#Plant City

[onthisdayts]

March 1, 2009 - 74th Annual Strawberry Festival in Plant City, Florida

[razzberry-rain]

Not my images/gifs.

[transfloridaresources]

Seeking post Hurricane Milton information for resources in Plant City pertaining to power / food. Please DM!

[hyper-coasters]

Is dinosaur world good? I drove past it so often but have never actually gone in and I'm tempted to stop one day lol

I LOVED Dinosaur World! It was incredibly peaceful. It is not a very popular park, especially during the week. You may see a private school field trip, but with the way the park is set up, it's very quiet after leaving the playground. You are able to bring in a soft bodied cooler with food & drinks, bags, etc. We brought a cooler full of picnic items and drinks and a small blanket to lay out on the picnic tables located all around the park. We also participated in the fossil digs and visited their small museum. Inside the museum they have some old animatoronics that we quite enjoyed.

There is a lot of shade and a lot of places to sit and rest. It is one of the most accessible parks I have visited if not the most accessible park that I have visited. It was around 20$ entrance fee, or 45$ for the year at the time of my visit (May 2023). Many of their dinosaurs located around the park are quite out of date, as far as modern interpretations of dinosaurs go. We have learned a lot since the opening of the park, which may contribute to lower visitor rates. However, I truly love & enjoy this park and have both loved childhood memories there as well as loved adult memories there. I took my fiance to the park for his 20th birthday :)

[reasonsforhope]

"With “green corridors” that mimic the natural forest, the Colombian city is driving down temperatures — and could become five degrees cooler over the next few decades.

In the face of a rapidly heating planet, the City of Eternal Spring — nicknamed so thanks to its year-round temperate climate — has found a way to keep its cool.

Previously, Medellín had undergone years of rapid urban expansion, which led to a severe urban heat island effect — raising temperatures in the city to significantly higher than in the surrounding suburban and rural areas. Roads and other concrete infrastructure absorb and maintain the sun’s heat for much longer than green infrastructure.

“Medellín grew at the expense of green spaces and vegetation,” says Pilar Vargas, a forest engineer working for City Hall. “We built and built and built. There wasn’t a lot of thought about the impact on the climate. It became obvious that had to change.”

Efforts began in 2016 under Medellín’s then mayor, Federico Gutiérrez (who, after completing one term in 2019, was re-elected at the end of 2023). The city launched a new approach to its urban development — one that focused on people and plants.

The $16.3 million initiative led to the creation of 30 Green Corridors along the city’s roads and waterways, improving or producing more than 70 hectares of green space, which includes 20 kilometers of shaded routes with cycle lanes and pedestrian paths.

These plant and tree-filled spaces — which connect all sorts of green areas such as the curb strips, squares, parks, vertical gardens, sidewalks, and even some of the seven hills that surround the city — produce fresh, cooling air in the face of urban heat. The corridors are also designed to mimic a natural forest with levels of low, medium and high plants, including native and tropical plants, bamboo grasses and palm trees.

Heat-trapping infrastructure like metro stations and bridges has also been greened as part of the project and government buildings have been adorned with green roofs and vertical gardens to beat the heat. The first of those was installed at Medellín’s City Hall, where nearly 100,000 plants and 12 species span the 1,810 square meter surface.

“It’s like urban acupuncture,” says Paula Zapata, advisor for Medellín at C40 Cities, a global network of about 100 of the world’s leading mayors. “The city is making these small interventions that together act to make a big impact.”

At the launch of the project, 120,000 individual plants and 12,500 trees were added to roads and parks across the city. By 2021, the figure had reached 2.5 million plants and 880,000 trees. Each has been carefully chosen to maximize their impact.

“The technical team thought a lot about the species used. They selected endemic ones that have a functional use,” explains Zapata.

The 72 species of plants and trees selected provide food for wildlife, help biodiversity to spread and fight air pollution. A study, for example, identified Mangifera indica as the best among six plant species found in Medellín at absorbing PM2.5 pollution — particulate matter that can cause asthma, bronchitis and heart disease — and surviving in polluted areas due to its “biochemical and biological mechanisms.”

And the urban planting continues to this day.

The groundwork is carried out by 150 citizen-gardeners like Pineda, who come from disadvantaged and minority backgrounds, with the support of 15 specialized forest engineers. Pineda is now the leader of a team of seven other gardeners who attend to corridors all across the city, shifting depending on the current priorities...

“I’m completely in favor of the corridors,” says [Victoria Perez, another citizen-gardener], who grew up in a poor suburb in the city of 2.5 million people. “It really improves the quality of life here.”

Wilmar Jesus, a 48-year-old Afro-Colombian farmer on his first day of the job, is pleased about the project’s possibilities for his own future. “I want to learn more and become better,” he says. “This gives me the opportunity to advance myself.”

The project’s wider impacts are like a breath of fresh air. Medellín’s temperatures fell by 2°C in the first three years of the program, and officials expect a further decrease of 4 to 5C over the next few decades, even taking into account climate change. In turn, City Hall says this will minimize the need for energy-intensive air conditioning...

In addition, the project has had a significant impact on air pollution. Between 2016 and 2019, the level of PM2.5 fell significantly, and in turn the city’s morbidity rate from acute respiratory infections decreased from 159.8 to 95.3 per 1,000 people [Note: That means the city's rate of people getting sick with lung/throat/respiratory infections.]

There’s also been a 34.6 percent rise in cycling in the city, likely due to the new bike paths built for the project, and biodiversity studies show that wildlife is coming back — one sample of five Green Corridors identified 30 different species of butterfly.

Other cities are already taking note. Bogotá and Barranquilla have adopted similar plans, among other Colombian cities, and last year São Paulo, Brazil, the largest city in South America, began expanding its corridors after launching them in 2022.

“For sure, Green Corridors could work in many other places,” says Zapata."

-via Reasons to Be Cheerful, March 4, 2024

[believing-is-seeing]

Metals and Nature, Plant City, FL

March 2024

[conandaily2022]

Larry William Hayes biography: 10 things about US Army veteran from Plant City, Florida

Larry William Hayes is an American man from Florida, United States. Here are 10 more things about him: He is a resident of Plant City, Florida. He previously lived in Laporte, Indiana, USA, in Cameron, North Carolina, USA, in Clarksville, Tennessee, USA and in Fort Gordon, Georgia, USA. He is married, He is retired from the U.S. Army. He is a former U.S. Department of Defense employee. As a…

[ai-dream]

Pinkcore.

[help-lana]

I am Lana, a Palestinian residing in Gaza. It is with deep sorrow that I reach out to you today, seeking assistance to relocate my family from Gaza to Egypt. Allow me to briefly share my family's story: During the war, we were compelled to move from the north to the south, experiencing displacement and enduring over seven evacuations. Our current living conditions are incredibly challenging. The situation in Gaza is dire, intolerable, and our lives are in grave danger.

I hope to be on your list or pin the post. Thank you for your humanity.

Relly Need Your Help To Evacuate Them To A Safe Plece As Soon As Possible Outside Gaza

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[florealegiardini]

Little windowsill kitty 🌿🪻

[starlightomatic]

something about how the disability rights movement got watered down, in people's eyes, from "we demand that buildings are built to physically accommodate us, eg with ramps" to "there's nothing we can do about the world around us, but it would be nice if people were more accepting of seeing people stim"

[transfloridaresources]

Donate to continue to assist trans Floridians impacted by Hurricane Milton!

[Photo 1: Screencap of a Cash App donation of $72 dollars with a message reading: 'have a good trip! 🩷' /End ID]

[Photo 2: Screencap of a receipt for a power bank costing $39.55. /End ID]

[Photo 3: Screencap of a Cash App donation of $32.45 with a message reading: 'enjoy your food! 🤤' /End ID]

We've raised $144 / $500 so far for Hurricane Milton Relief! We've funded a trip for some people to travel towards relief from power loss heat & bought a power bank for someone else in need. Unfortunately, the stores were sold out for immediate availability, but this will still arrive for this individual to have FOR FREE & use for any future outages. We used the last of our money left today to help someone buy groceries.

✨Please keep spreading the word! Links to donate are here.

These donations are having a direct impact on trans Floridians (a majority so far being bipoc trans folks), providing not only resources but hope & a feeling of being loved & seen - something that surpasses everything else, esp in times of crisis.

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 329

Bruce was admittedly suspicious when Talia requests a meeting, and is admittedly still upset with the entire hiding Damian’s existence from him for literal years. But he also admits that he just… has to take a moment. 

“Run that by me again please?” He had to have misheard, right? Or gotten drugged by something maybe. 

Talia sighs, sounding just as tired as he felt. “Father’s tea supplier has moved to Gotham after an argument, and he wishes to discuss the agreement of him not entering the city- to speak with said vendor.” 

[nikswonderland]

autumn in the city —

[academic-vampire]

𝔐𝔶 𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔰𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔞 𝔥𝔬𝔪𝔢, 𝔞𝔰 𝔩𝔬𝔫𝔤 𝔞𝔰 𝔶𝔬𝔲’𝔯𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢. 🪟

[theacecouple]

Happy Ace Week! We've got our cake and we're ready to dig in!

Learn more about the history and significance of cake in the Asexual community in Courtney's article for Bon Appetit!