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verysmallaminal · 2 years ago

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starting a horticulture program and rapidly learning that mainstream hort culture sees plants as toys, decoration, and maybe food sometimes, and not as living things that exist as part of an ecosystem to whom we have a responsibility as a species. it’s very uncomfortable

#someone pulled up a weed while we were dividing shastas #pulled up an id app and read out that it was an aster and a 'favorite of pollinators'#and someone scoffed and said i'm pretty sure if it's a flower bees will love it #same person in another class said 'who would plant solidago'#and breeds hybrid daylilies #the earth gave us asters and goldenrod and instead of being grateful we talk about it like it's trash and replace it with sterile 'vars...#just a completely alien way of thinking to me

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