#serviceberries

[melgillman]

A page from my new foraging zine, Fruit For Free!

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[garden-and-friends]

harvest time for tart cherries and serviceberries/juneberries/saskatoons 🍒

[dawdger]

Pies - Saskatoon Pie Recipe Serviceberries are used in this flavorful Saskatoon pie, which also uses a pre-made pie crust. It has a lovely apple flavor that is fruity but not overly sweet.

[lafattoriadeglianimali]

Saskatoon Cranberry Loaf Saskatoon berries, also known as serviceberries, combine with cranberries in a delightful loaf cake for tea time or dessert.

[ordinaryheavenn]

the serviceberry - robin wall kimmerer

[gcantread]

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer Illustrations by John Burgoyne

pretty endpapers 3/?

[61below]

Next day follow-up 😍

The juneberries were so thick today it felt like picking at a vineyard. And then I couldn’t have asked for a nicer evening: crisp and cool and just windy-enough to keep the biting bugs away. And even though the deer damn near mowed my entire pollinator garden flat this spring, enough plants have come back enough that the bees and butterflies have been thick

[lakecountylibrary]

Kate's Top 3 Adult Nonfiction Reads of 2024

Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say and How to Be an Ally by Emily Ladau

This book gives readers actionable steps to be an ally to the disabled community as well as how to act and what to say or not to say to disabled people. The author describes how to follow these steps in a nonjudgmental way. She realizes that everyone makes mistakes and she informs readers on terminology to use and to eliminate from your vocabulary when it comes to the disabled community.

This is a concise guide to help readers become more educated, empathetic and accepting. I highly recommend reading this book.

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer

This book focuses on life values that align with my way of thinking, therefore I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. The author explains how important it is to focus on gratitude, reciprocity and community. She uses nature based examples to explain how the natural world also lives by these values.

Other books by this author include Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants and Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. Give this book a try if you enjoy nature and short reads.

The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work by Simone Stolzoff

This book urges readers to reclaim their lives from a work obsessed world. It suggests putting more emphasis on our lives outside of work and allowing ourselves to believe we are doing a good enough job in our work lives.

The author offers strategies for how to have a healthier relationship with work and how to have a better work-life balance. If you are struggling with burnout at your job, this book will hopefully help you realign the important things in your life and make you realize you are doing a 'good enough job' in your career.

I really enjoyed these two quotes from the book:

“You are not the work you do, you are the person you are.”

(Edited to add: This was originally said - or rather, written - by Toni Morrison in a 2017 New Yorker article titled The Work You Do, the Person You Are. It was quoted with the source in the book. Thanks to the reader who pointed out this additional context would be good to add!)

and

“A good enough job is a job that allows you to be the person you want to be.”

See more of Kate's recs

[heatherwitch]

Wishing everyone a happy solstice 🧡

[godzilla-reads]

—From “The Serviceberry” by Robin Wall Kimmerer

[vandaliatraveler]

NC-WV is finally enjoying a dry, sunny spring weekend after weeks of near nonstop, flooding rain. That was all the incentive I needed to take my first long hike of the spring at Coopers Rock State Forest. The wildflower progression on top of Chestnut Ridge is running about 2 weeks behind that at lower elevations, but there were plenty of early spring beauties on display this afternoon. From top: Allegheny serviceberry (Amelanchier laevis); long-spurred violet (Viola rostrata); halberd-leaved yellow violet (Viola hastata); downy rattlesnake plantain (Goodyera pubescens); trailing arbutus (Epigaea repens), which is not herbaceous but a mat-forming, evergreen shrub in the health family; broadleaf toothwort (Cardamine diphylla), also known as two-leaf toothwort; and round-lobed hepatica (Hepatica americana), which prefers drier woods than sharp-lobed hepatica (Hepatica acutiloba), which I typically find growing on the rocky, calcareous slopes along the Monongahela River.

[melgillman]

Not doing a very good job this year convincing strangers to try serviceberries

[garden-and-friends]

soon... 👀

[indigrassy]

Downy serviceberry

[jadafitch]

Blue Jay on Shadbush

[tsuki-in-faerun]

having had some time to marinate on it, i do appreciate how the archetypal merlin/gandalf wizard has to die for magic to be open to everyone.

i agree with someone else who posted that there are plenty of parallels to draw about our only white character at the table being the one to finally end this patriarchal version of the sage. i had previously said I felt a need for those connections to be made more explicit, but it might be more that i am not confidant that there’s a lot in evan’s arc that would be reflective of unlearning white supremacy. to be clear, i enjoy the series a lot more because there is no racial friction between him and the other members of the pilot program. i’m just saying he starts out very savvy about these power structures and remains that way without needing to meaningfully interact with those kinds of preconceived biases on screen. if we're really talking about dismantling white supremacy, or an analogue with meaningful parallels to it, evan isn't really a good example imho. i am also just personally uncomfortable with interpretations that make it seem like allies and race traitors are gonna be our ticket out of white supremacy, and i don't think that's what's intended here by the d20 crew or even by the fans who made the connections in the first place.

it's true that in real life there is no big bad we can target without whom systems of oppression would collapse, but there are character journeys that can teach us how to shift our thinking so that we can create grassroots cultural change. i don't think evan serves that function in terms of the larger systems, i think his journey relative to the main story is how interpersonal relationships and focusing on healing allow us to show up for the bigger fight solid in our integrity.

so as much as i appreciate the symbolism of bombini's death in terms of the very emblem of white western fantasy being destroyed and brennan's character being the one to take it there given his previous attachment to and investment in the canon, right now i don't feel like evan kelmp specifically being the instrument of bombini's demise is particularly significant to the larger struggle.