#regenerative gardening

[balkanradfem]

Gardening makes me feel so powerful. I can, with my own hands and careful usage of my brain, affect the environment so an area is populated by plants that I desire to be there, which will give me so much food I will be safe and secure for the entire year? I can change an area so it feeds me? By putting my hands in the soil and knowing how to anticipate the rain and where the roots are likely to grow and how long it takes to get a seed to fruition? I can do this with minimal effort and by adding organic matter to an area that will stop all other plants from growing, and fertilize my plants, so only my plants succeed? I can, on top of that, have all kinds of flowers growing in it, making it beautiful to me and helping all kinds of little bugs and critters have a home? I can do it in a way that makes the land even more fertile and healthy? And I'm not some sort of a deity?

Being able to control an area of land and make it into what you need to survive is powerful. Seeing it in your head and then watching it happen by the work of your own two hands is invigorating. Some things we cannot change. But we can change the area immediately around us so it both feeds us, and become beautiful and rich to us.

[tielan]

Sometimes people forget that hippies were also the boomer generation. Sure, many hippies went staid and became 'Okay Boomers', but no small number of them just went underground, or turned a little weird.

Now that they're older and DGAF and seeing what they and their generation have made of the world, those former-hippies are growing back into their weirdness. Welcome them and don't forget that they have experiences to teach us "younger gens" too!

Mom sent me a facebook link to a PBS news hour post about how the anti-lawn movement is growing. The vast majority of the comments on it were stuff like this:

Most people are on our side here, even the so-called "boomers." We just have to be spreading ecological knowledge and practical means of creating useful habitat in back yards! Educate! Protect! Resist!

[ewspconsultancy]

Regenerative Gardening and Regenerative Agriculture

In order to move towards a positive future for all, we need to embrace a regenerative rather than an extractive mindset. Working with cyclical systems, working with nature, we need to remember the importance of giving back, keeping those cycles turning rather than simply taking all that we can get. Regenerative gardening and farming go beyond food production that can endure. They emphasise the…

[divine-nonchalance]

Making Desert Land Fertile with Water Bunds

[drakey-wakey]

This article perfectly captures my frustrations with looking into native plants. there are just so few of them that aren't imported and they're not sold locally usually which is ridiculous

lets start planting native plants again yall

[inthecityofgoodabode]

November & December 2024: The Last Of The First & The First Of The Last

Frosted Echinacea:

I forgot to mention in my previous post that the gravy my queen made for the turkey & dressing was amazing. She used a base of homemade chicken broth & store-bought turkey broth and infused it with homegrown lemongrass & lemon thyme. You'd think that would make the gravy lemony but, instead, it just added a nice brightness:

Sunday's sweet potato harvest. This is what two roughly five gallon sized pots can produce so definitely a productive crop if you are growing in a small space like an apartment balcony. As a bonus, the leaves are edible (raw or sauteed like spinach) and, though they aren't prolific bloomers, their blossoms are similar to morning glories. This year's plants had beautiful pale purple flowers with deep purple veining. We planted Beauregard starts but, looking at the coloration of some of the tubers, I think we had some volunteers from previous years:

I drove around the neighborhood collecting bagged leaves on Friday & Saturday.

We are storing some to make leaf mold with. That will take time & moisture. I imagine by Spring time some of the bags will have broken down sufficiently:

The rest was spread around the front & back garden beds as cold weather protection that will eventually break down to amend the soil & build up the soil level. We're basically trying to emulate what trees do in the forest. It is a kind of regenerative agriculture for the home gardener:

This would have been a great shot (well, great to me anyway) if only that white-throated sparrow had cooperated. There was this strand of light just to the left of that shadow that would have made the white & yellow on its head shine but it either had its head turned the wrong way in the light or the right way but in the shadows. This was the best out of the bunch that I took. I still like the lines & colors in the photo:

[learndirt]

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[phototagebuch]

23.4.2024: Regentropfen auf Ginkgoblatt

[groundvalue]

Hello Fellow Growers

My name is Bernie and I believe in a future world where small local growers will be serving a significant percentage of food needed by our community.

But in order for that to happen we need to make this economically viable for them to do so. This post is the start or our journey.

Do you also believe?

[smell-the-dirt]

Last month's Seedy Saturday event was a resounding success, with about a dozen vendors and half a dozen presenters/workshop instructors sharing their wealth of gardening knowledge with members of my community. Notable items included the community's seed library, a vendor of permaculture crops (pictured above are skirret, Chinese artichoke, and oca), and seeds from various producers around the region. The lecture centered around using seaweed as a fertilizer was most popular- the lecture hall even ran out of seats!

For more information on Seedy Saturday events, please visit https://seeds.ca/Seedy-Saturday/.

[botanisiertrommel]

8.4.2023: Verregnete Ostern!

[lexapenndari]

Today's garden tour ...

The scallopini is sprouting 🌱 !!!

It's happening

I see it 👀

#Life

[fourmsandasilentq]

I love the content and the meme potential of

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I...tried to make a meme and got carried away and made A Thing that is like partially unfinished because i spent like 3 hours on it and then got tired.

I think this is mostly scientifically accurate but truth be told, there seems to be relatively little research on succession in regards to lawns specifically (as opposed to like, pastures). I am not exaggerating how bad they are for biodiversity though—recent research has referred to them as "ecological deserts."

Feel free to repost, no need for credit

[insidecroydon]

Final Brick by Brick annual accounts withheld for three months

CROYDON IN CRISIS: It looks like Tory Mayor Jason Perry and the council execs who now run the failed housing company have opted to bury bad news. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES What could possibly be the very final set of annual accounts to be filed by Brick by Brick have been deferred for three months, in a move that council insiders suggest has been carried out to cover-up bad news about the losses…

[letialia]

Ecosystem restoration camp: a week spent in the Algerve learning about land restoration, agroforestry and reconnecting to nature and the community. A week where I learnt about kindness and giving back and what is possible through community action. Thank you Quinta Vale de Lama 🌱💚