#and a shared communal garden

[puretopia]

Converting Glimmerbrook's old academy of magic building into apartments for all my occult sims to live in since that world is SO ridiculously small.

[potionbarrel]

not really fond of the cut off point for this one, but i wanted to get progress update 9 out in time for anniversary day! i'm STILL thinking abt this project and i really want to try and see it through!! community gardens i haven't forgotten about you....

happy 4th anniversary HLVRAI !!!!

[nikinsimland]

ok, this may not matter to anyone else but just in case ...

i'm a new(ish) simmer to the sims 4 and, of course, started downloading cc - cuz, duh. i went on a spree and researched lots of recommendations, one being the cottage garden pack by the plumbob society (mentioned above). when i went to start my game with all this new cc my game wouldn't even load!!!

i did all the things to sort it out & after DAYS i found the problem: a piece of content from this pack. i'll be honest, i didn't find the EXACT piece but i narrowed it down to the wisteria plants (the tree works though)

soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo all that to say: if you're new to adding cc & try this pack, the wisteria might not work for you!

end of story

[timidxtempted]

It's never just a carrot.

I was standing in my kitchen this morning looking out at the garden. The only bed that I can really see from that vantage point is the carrot bed. That's not a complaint, the carrot bed is actually my favourite one.

I like carrots. Always have.

They're delicious pretty much any way you eat them. Lots of good things for the body. Easy to hide in food for people who (for whatever reason) don't like veggies. Honestly, one of the first things I remember wanting to grow when I thought of trying to grow anything.

It turns out that growing carrots is a lot more complex than I thought it was going to be just from reading about it. Like most things, lived experience often veers off the course of what the research tells you.

Is your soil fertile? Is it balanced? What are the boundaries of the space you are growing? What are your favoured varieties? Will they grow well together? Do you have enough light? Do you have enough shade? Are you ready to dedicate yourself to watering, and to fertilizing and pest control?

Are you ready to do the work?

Make no mistake, it is work. The carrots in a garden don't just appear for your use with zero - or low - effort. Lots of work before you get to partake. It's hard work that needs to be consistently done. If that effort isn't maintained, the crop won't be very fruitful and you might not have them when you need them; alternately, your carrot won't be viable - it might just wither in the ground.

But you! You did the work.

You learned as you went, made adjustments... hardest of all - you learned that you didn't have to tend the garden all by yourself.

Good for you!

So now that you have a gorgeous fucking crop of carrots, everything is wonderful and you can stop working so hard! Right? Everything is planted and look at all the lovely green growing up out of the ground... and "oh I have carrots here, I'm covered for all happy carrots, everything is great and I can kick my feet up because look at all the carrots!"

Mmmm.... Carrots. We are all set.

Hold up, hoes.

Lo and behold, one day you need a carrot while you're trying out a new recipe. You go and pull one out and it's the most wonderful, beautiful carrot and it's perfect and bright and full of nutrients and oh-so-good-for-us-ness... you talk about how excellent the conditions are for your carrot, and how healthy your garden is and eat together in happy-joyful-floaty, well earned satisfaction.

Delicious.

Enjoy your healthy garden!

Next time you are cooking up a storm, you suddenly need another carrot and you run to the garden to pull one and... it's ugly and twisted and there's dirt caked in a crack down the side of it and why does it look hairy? But that's the carrot you have and you use it because... you. need. a carrot.

This time, you discuss the garden conditions and the soil amendments. You make the choice to add and change and adjust and grow with your carrots... You let the fucking difficult carrot teach you how to cultivate a better garden. You share your meal, and it is made no less nurturing or nutritious by the ugly carrot; in fact, it is made even more delicious and fulfilling by the work you have put in to enhance your garden... by the choice to secure your future full of delectable, lovely carrots.

Each time you pull a carrot - be it perfect or ugly as hell, each time you talk about pulling a carrot, each time you tend to your carrots... you can make the choice to improve your garden as a whole. You can make the decision to apply what you have carrot-learned to how you handle other issues you might someday come up against with your lettuce, or your beans.

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Hey, something just occurred to me...

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Kinda the same with safewords, isn't it?

Who'd have thought that carrots and safewords would have so much in common?

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Are you ready to do the work?

To prepare your soil? Plant your seeds? Tend your garden?

When you are ready... Use every single veggie or herb you pull... Every flower you pluck... to make your whole garden healthier, more nurturing...

Having to harvest your carrots is not a bad thing. Done with respect, with care, with mutually supportive intention, it serves to improve your garden.

Making it stronger. Resistant to pests.

Growing ever healthier and more resilient.

Sew.

Get fucking filthy.

Garden safe(word)ly on.

🥕

[seventeendeer]

>a queer delight a day, day 3:

went to a garden party hosted by a queer friend, who had in turn invited a bunch of other cool queer people !!!! highlights included:

- fun fashion!! fun queer fashion !!! sparkles and flowy dresses and embroidery and khaki shorts and brightly-colored print shirts and !! loud gender non-conformity!!! casual, fancy, weird, silly, all kinds!!

- doing introductions and hearing so many beautiful and cool and fun chosen names

- “my pronouns are he/him, unless someone thinks I’m cis, then it’s he/they”

- all the butches drawn to the grill like moths to a porch light. hotdogs cooked to perfection, thank you butches

- my partner also went over to the grill at one point but I suspect that was more about the. fire uwu <3

- “I used to identify as butch, but these days I just like the word ‘dyke’“ “dude, I gave up on other labels and I just started collecting slurs like stickers instead, it feels so much better, it’s so freeing” “I know right !!!!!” “I knowww”

- friend training to be a tattoo artist convincing at least 3 of us to consider letting her use us as a training cloth. Big Want ,,

- surprisingly well-coordinated dance party set to Cotton Eye Joe ..?

it was a freakin hoot, I love hanging out w other queers So Much, there is no better feeling than being in a big group of people, including ones you’ve never met before, and thinking “this is exactly where I’m supposed to be.” like what can compare

[nyano64]

I fucking hate capitalism dude i just wanna be a hobbit

[coldcanyon]

Surprising realization that i have no interest in trying to connect to a "queer community" in this city. I want to pull invasives and go to collage meetups!

[asociate]

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[attheideality]

50 Zero Waste Tips Passed Down By Your Grandparents

[boy-gender]

Guys please check on your friends and the people in your communities. The recent supreme court decisions have left a lot of people in really despairing positions. Reach out. Even if we cant help each other financially we can support one another emotionally.

[msronid31]

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[ahhvernin]

They gotta be some miserable sack of guts to be pouring salt into someone's garden. They should have just taken that money used to buy salt to buy themselves a good meal to drown themselves in and leave people's gardens and let them feed people they had no courage or skill to do. Jokes on them because people have figured out how to grow food along coastlines and nature repairs itself fairly quickly. So have fun dumping more money on salt.

An English woman named Carly Burd has been engaged in a project to get healthy food to people in her area who are struggling financially during the cost of living crisis in the UK, and recently someone seemingly snuck into her fields overnight and salted the earth so she can't grow anything. Her existing crops have been destroyed and she's currently trying to work out how to get back on track. As of now she says she can still taste it in the air as she tries to fix the land.

Her GFM has been getting a huge outpouring of donations but I thought I'd pass the link along anyway because I figure more money to make sure people don't go hungry (and potentially so Carly can rebuild) can't hurt.

[gpstudios]

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[brewscoop]

Check out the latest update on the Seattle craft beer scene! The partnership marks a significant milestone in SHG’s ongoing commitment to supporting the craft beer community in Seattle Dive into how Pike Brewing and Fremont Brewing are joining forces to push the boundaries of quality, innovation, and community. Get ready for a new era of brewing excellence and growth 🍻 #CraftBeerSeattle #PikeBrewing #FremontBrewing

[townpostin]

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