#Wild Forest Home

[judgingbooksbycovers]

Wild Forest Home: Stories of Conservation in the Pacific Northwest

By Betsy L. Howell.

[daydreamdoodles]

Jimmy pausing when Gem suggested killing Scott, before saying no only to be followed up by him saying "we could bang him" (what Scar calls getting someone with a mace) is going to take me out back and kill me

[bumblebeeappletree]

Every once in a while I’ll see some posts about everyone should become vegan in order to help the environment. And that… sounds kinda rude. I’m sure they don’t mean to come off that way but like, humans are omnivores. Yes there are people who won’t have any animal products be it meat or otherwise either due to personal beliefs or because their body physically cannot handle it, and that’s okay! You don’t have to change your diet to include those products if you don’t want to or you physically can’t.

But there’s indigenous communities that hunt and farm animals sustainably and have been doing so for generations. And these animals are a primary source of food for them. Look to the bison of North America. The settlers nearly caused an extinction as a part of a genocide. Because once the Bison were gone it caused an even sharper decline of the indigenous population. Now thankfully Bison did not go extinct and are actively being shared with other groups across America.

Now if we look outside of indigenous communities we have people who are doing sustainable farming as well as hunting. We have hunting seasons for a reason, mostly because we killed a lot of the predators. As any hunter and they will tell you how bad the deer population can get. (Also America has this whole thing about bird feathers and bird hunting, like it was bad until they laid down some laws. People went absolutely nuts on having feathers be a part of fashion like holy cow.)

We’re slowly getting better with having gardens and vertical farms within cities, and there’s some laws on being able to have a chicken or two at your house or what-have-you in the city for some eggs. (Or maybe some quails since they’re smaller than chickens it’s something that you’d might have to check in your area.) Maybe you would be able to raise some honey bees or rent them out because each honey tastes different from different plants. But ultimately when it comes to meat or cheese? Go to your local farmers. Go to farmers markets, meet with the people there, become friends, go actively check out their farm. See how the animal lives are and if the farmer is willing, talk to them about sustainable agriculture. See what they can change if they’re willing. Support indigenous communities and buy their food and products, especially if you’re close enough that the food won’t spoil on its way to you. (Like imagine living in Texas and you want whale meat from Alaska and you buy it from an indigenous community. I would imagine that would be pretty hard to get.)

Either way everything dies in the end. Do we shame scavengers for eating corpses they found before it could rot and spread disease? Do we shame the animals that hunt other animals to survive? Yes factory farming should no longer exist. So let’s give the animals the best life we can give them. If there’s babies born that the farmer doesn’t want, give them away to someone who wants them as a pet. Or someone who wants to raise them for something else. Not everyone can raise animals for their meat. I know I can’t I would get to emotionally attached. I’d only be able to raise them for their eggs and milk.

Yeah this was pretty much thrown together, and I just wanted to say my thoughts and throw them into the void. If you have some examples of sustainable farming/agriculture, please share them because while I got some stuff I posted from YouTube, I’m still interested to see what stuff I might’ve missed!

[boanerges20]

Motolove

[2isted-chocol8-art]

hii!! Would you be cool with drawing maybe Hatch with Hal teasing eachother? (Hatch teasing about height, half teasing about the nickname?) Or whatever you want really,

Love your art!!!

I like to think about hatchy's childhood and how they probably spent most of their time with Hal- They'd be a double pack! Reminder that my requests are open ::) -> More Outer Wilds Art!

[animated-character-of-the-day]

Today’s character of the day is: Sable Able aka Asami from Animal Crossing

[polish-food]

Polish Forest Mushroom Zapiekanka (recipe in Polish)

[lynnlyrae]

“Home”

Some random trivia because why not 

✨ HSY and KDJ are wearing YJH’s clothes. His shelves are empty at this point

✨ HSY usually grins deviously in the novel, but… the idea that she smiles softly at her boys on occasion…… 

✨KDJ’s gesture accidentally looks like gesture of blessing which?? aligns with his role of “savior”???? Sometimes my subconscious does The Right Thing

✨ I did the sketch before finding out about the side story and the current state of KimCom which is… well let’s just say I’m gonna be delulu until the side story ends and I can decide whether I want to read it or no lol🤡

✨ like seriously I need KDJ to survive and read HSY’s next novel and eat YJH’s food and just be alive and be loved for my own survival at this point 

✨he will survive and you will survive and I will survive and can’t we just all survive idk??? 

[sweetybaty]

Flaky with a tree branch crutch

[noseysilverfox]

Aesthetics of the pine forest.

Эстетика соснового бора.

[yellowmanula]

And it’s on! Proud "Mushroom Hunter" 💪🍄🍄🍄 There will be fried parasol mushrooms, mushroom sauce, pickled mushrooms, and the rest for drying.

[amemenojaku]

surprise encounters at Akan lake today

[boanerges20]

Lost & Found

[bekkathyst]

Buschwindröschen 🌸

[animated-character-of-the-day]

Today’s character of the day is: Mabel Able aka Kinuyo from Animal Crossing

[umiagawa]

Garlic Mustard Flower Fritter