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the homoeroticism of leaning into the blooms with your chef friend and showering him with compliments
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I have done wild berry picking for some time and I must say it infuriates me when I see little articles in the newspaper about someone who runs pop up kitchens with all "wildcrafted" foods, or when I go to a patch that has for years sustained a large population of animals and humans who each just take a little bit and see the whole thing picked clear because some newbie decided this would be a great way to fill their freezer for the end times and/or start a business.
Now, in my opinion, sometimes it might be argued that it is okay to pick destructively in some cases. In the Northwest U.S. we have an invasive species of blackberry, so you could argue that picking all the berries and leaves for commercial use is helpful because it would damage the population of these blackberries. Honestly IDK about that argument because these guys are really hard to kill. And since invasive species have led to habitat destruction and it being harder to find some of the native berries, it could be argued that taking them away could harm the animals that eat them. It's a complicated issue.
Garlic mustard in the United States, on the other hand? Eat it all.
But those are exceptions. To identify the exceptions, you have to understand local ecology.
Wild areas aren't vegetable gardens or farms. You don't need to worry about vegetable gardens and farms being self-sustaining because humans set aside a certain number of seeds, or buy them from people who do, and plant new seeds every year. In nature, you are relying on natural cycles. So you have to understand the natural cycle before you can responsibly harvest.
Oh my god I'm sooooo mad right now
So. I have no business telling people not to collect wild plants/materials.
I do it all the time.
However.
The words "wildcrafted," and "foraged," even "sustainably harvested," are terrifying to see in an ad on Etsy or Instagram
There is a such thing as the honorable harvest where you ASK the plant if it is okay to take, with the intention of listening if the answer is NO. Robin Wall Kimmerer talked about this, She did not make it up, it is an ancient and basic guideline of treating the plants with respect.
Basically it is not wrong to use plants and other living things, even if this means taking their life. But you are not the main character. You have to reflect on your knowledge of the organism's life cycle and its role in the ecosystem, so you can know you are not damaging the ecosystem. You have to only take what you need and avoid depleting the population.
Mary Siisip Geniusz also talked about it in an enlightening way in her book Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have To Do is Ask. She gave an example of a woman who was on an island and needed to use a medicinal herb to heal her injured leg or she would not survive the winter. In that situation she had to use up all of the plant that was on the island. This was permissible, even though it eliminated the local population, because she had to do it to save her life. But in return the woman had the responsibility to later return to the island and plant seeds of that plant.
And what makes me absolutely furious, is that there are a bunch of people online who have vaguely copied this philosophy of sustainability in a false and insulting way, saying "wildcrafted" or "foraged" materials to be all trendy and cool and in touch with nature, when it is actually just poaching.
If you are from a capitalistic culture the honorable harvest is very hard and unintuitive to learn to practice. I am not very good at it still. This is why it is suspicious if someone is confident that they can ethically and respectfully harvest wild materials with money involved.
So there's this lichen that is often called "reindeer moss." It looks like this:
It grows only a few millimeters a year.
This is "preserved" reindeer moss.
It is from Etsy, similar is also sold in many other online shops, many of which have the audacity to describe it as a "plant" for decorations and terrariums that needs no maintenance.
It is not maintenance-free, it is dead. It has been spray-painted a horrible shade of green. The people buying it clearly don't even know what it is. It is a popular crafting material for "fairy houses," whatever the hell those are. So is moss, also dead, spray-painted, and wild-harvested. Supposedly reindeer moss is harvested sustainably in Finland, where it is abundant, for the craft industry. However poaching of lichens and mosses is absolutely rampant.
It's even more upsetting because there's hardly any articles drawing attention to the problem. This one is from 1999. And the poaching is still going on.
There is a "moss" section on Etsy, and it is so upsetting
These mosses and lichens were collected from the wild. Most of the shops are in the Pacific Northwest or Appalachia, which are the major locations of moss and lichen poaching. There are some shops based in Appalachia selling "foraged" reindeer moss.
Reindeer moss may be abundant in Finland, but in Appalachia it should NOT be harvested to be sold on Etsy as craft supplies! Moss doesn't grow quickly. Big, healthy colonies like this took years to grow. Some of these shops have thousands of sales, all of bags and bags of moss and lichen, and thinking of how much moss and lichen that must be, I am filled with horror.
Clubmosses do not transplant well, and these ones have no roots. The buyers do not realize they have bought a dead plant because clubmoss stays green and pliable after it is dead.
This is especially awful because in Mary Siisip Geniusz's book she talked about clubmosses being poached so much for Christmas wreaths that they had almost disappeared from a lot of forests.
I don't even know if this is illegal if it's not a formally endangered species so I don't know if I can report them I'm just. really sad and angry
#wildcraft#wild harvest#sustainability#the language of asking a plant may or may not speak to different people#I look at it in terms of consulting the ecosystem rather than the individual plant#but let's face it I'm not very spiritual
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Adrenal Tonic | Restore | Australian Native Plants | Alchemical Spagyric...
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Today we are sharing the Alchemical Spagyric Restore Adrenal Tonic made from Australian Native plants:
- She oak (casuarina) – womb wisdom, hormonal balance, improved mood, menstrual pain, womb hydration, menopause, fertility, regulates fluid in the body
- Cinnamon myrtle (backhousia myrtyfolia) – Indigestion, anxiety, boost antioxidants
- Riberry (syzygium luehmannii) – Vitamin B12, anthocyanins for cognitive function, protection against certain cancers, folate, calcium
- Desert lime (citrus glauca)– Vitamin E, Lutein (eye health & wellbeing), Potassium (reduced blood pressure, Folate (10 times more than blueberry)
- Native ginger (alpinia caerulea)– headache, nausea, stress, anxiety & fear, calming, indigestion
What is Spagyric's?
It is an ancient Egyptian alchemical process based on the three philosophical principals of the following:
Salt – Body
Sulfur – Soul
Mercury – Spirit
You can find more on my website here: https://onenessbeing.org/offerings/remedies/herbal-tinctures/restore-adrenal-tonic/
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Veggie Burger--Animal Style
"There's a rugged irregularity to the Beyond Burger's texture that is very much like actual cooked ground beef. It browns like ground beef and pulls apart under your teeth like ground beef. It tastes almost like ground beef." Veggie Burgers--Animal Style
The invention of the veggie burger–or as he called it, the VegeBurger–is generally credited to a London restaurateur named Gregory Sams. Sams, whose restaurant had been making meatless burgers for the likes of John Lennon and Yoko Ono throughout the 1970s, started selling a dried, rehydratable mix of sesame seed, oats, wheat gluten, and soybean under the VegeBurger name in 1982. Of course…
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#actual veggies#beyond burger#black bean#dr praegers#meat replacement#morningstar farms#pure farmland#vegetables#veggie burger#wild harvest
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uh hi hello!! first i wanted to say i am deeply in love with your art (god those shapes, these lines, texture, anatomy, expression, EVERYTHING) and your latest drawing just moved something in me i cant quite grasp it, been thinking about it for a couple days. sooo i felt inspired and made myself a smol little machete out of uh wild clay so i could kiss him on the forehead before going to sleep, i hope you're ok with that? (also sorry he's kinda wonky, me and acrylics hate each other haha)
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#oh man are you seeing this??#little clay chete#that's absolutely precious you captured his rounded puppy shapes so well#those floppy ears especially#and the worried look on his eyes#really good likeness with facial proportions and snout shape#I really like the simplified form of his body it's so visually appealing#and I think your paintwork is just fine! you managed to include his pink gradients too#the inside of his ears looks almost like watercolor#and that nose detail!#also wild clay?? as in you harvested it from the nature yourself? that's so impressive#I've never used wild clay I've done ceramics before but only with processed and packaged clays#getting extra coolness points for that if you ask me#he's so terribly cute! thank you for showing me#please take good care of him he's just a little lad in a big world#gift art#putridcrow#own characters#Machete#also having a little crisis here atm because how come it has never crossed my mind to make something like this myself?#I think I should try that sometime
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nintendogs original ds + some of my favorite ds games.
#nintendogs#nintendo#nintendo ds#original ds#ds#style savvy#pkmn#pokemon#pokemon bw#animal crossing#animal crossing wild world#ac#acww#harvest moon
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vegan food is boring
#some stuff I’ve eaten recently#that third pic I made yesterday and I need it again rn#quinoa harvest bowl with roasted veggies and homemade sauce#some chickn in there too#was actually the best thing#and my dads on a pizza making kick#so good#I wish I had a good picture of the burger from rhythm n wraps but I don’t#we always eat it in my car in the dark like wild animals#then go take a walk and see all the pretty architecture around#but anyways go get a cheeseburger from them if ur in the boston/cambridge area#vegan food#food
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Blackberry-and-apple
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Dunno if this is something you've been asked before but how does our favorite post apocalyptic beanboy and his most excellent gal celebrate Halloween in the Commonwealth?
It's been a long time since we talked about this in detail (probably in 2014-15?) but I think we established that many traditional American holidays were lost in the Great War (people were more concerned with surviving, obviously). A lot of these celebrations were kept alive by Vault residents however. Buttons does his best to inspire his fellow Arefu settlers to celebrate Halloween to some extent and Meg plays along, even if it makes no sense to her. The budget Brahmin has to be my favorite Halloween post so I did a quick redraw:
Buttons had a couple other Halloween costumes since 2014:
Butt-O-Ween skeleton
Slutty Molerat
Hancock (aka raunchy mayor)
GTA Online Buttons is a sexy cat every year
#I'm sure Meg and her family have some sort of harvest celebration#seeing how they're farmers#but it's probably a lot less wild and removed from logic haha#I don't think Buttons knows the origin of any of his holidays he's just like THIS IS WHAT WE DO don't ask for reasons#Why dress up as stuff? Don't ask questions. Put on the horns.#Halloween#Fallout 3#OC#Buttons#Meg#budget brahmin#redraw
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September 2021
#noseysilverfox#photography#nature#original photography blog#original photography#photoblog#nature photography#naturecore#naturelovers#outdoors#wild life#forest#forestcore#autumn aesthetic#autumn photography#autumn#nature aesthetic#landscape#fall colors#harvest season#wood#flora and fauna#фотоблог#турумбочка#природа#осень#осеннее настроение#фотографии природы#лес#лесной пейзаж
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🍂🎃 Pumpkin Harvest 🎃🍂
#more wild robot art!!!#I like to think that maybe Roz would grow pumpkins in that little garden thing around their house#and maybe Brightbill helps her with harvesting stuff#not just pumpkins#but in this case it’s the pumpkins#I mostly just wanted an excuse to combine my current obsession with the fall vibes#henceforth this drawing#the wild robot#wild robot#the wild robot movie#brightbill#wild robot brightbill#pumpkin#pumpkins#fall#autumn#fall art#fall aesthetic#digital art#digital drawing#digital illustration#procreate#procreate art#my art
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possum creek is releasing some new books by @wildwoodsgames and they're cool as hell and i'm so excited for them
GRAND GUIGNOL is a victorian romance/horror game where you take on the queer themes of classic Victorian gothic stories like Dorian Gray, Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde, and Carmilla, playing with both violence and desire
HARVEST is a folk horror RPG about a bucolic pastoral village on a small island in the british isles with a grim and monstrous secret — every year someone must die in order to keep the island perfect. inspired by The Wicker Man and Midsommar.
i'm SO excited for them, luke is a phenomenal designer and the project is launching as a double-feature on halloween in just 3 weeks!! you can sign up for updates here
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misc photo dump to pass the time
#ts4#ts4 gameplay#sims 4#sims 4 gameplay#the sims 4#the sims 4 gameplay#nsb2#gen one: onyx#oc: liah monedas#a beach cleaning club seems to go against everything Liah believes in#was tired of the slimy water moodlrt and the green ass water#liah lore#liah harvested the wild pineapples from around the island#she planted some on her land and now touts the harvest as pineapples with magical healing abilities to nonsuspecting tourist
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Uses and Benefits of Dandelion
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Today we are sharing the potential uses and benefits of dandelion such as promoting liver health and reducing inflammation in and on the body.
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save me silly farming sim i played in 5th grade
#skye's doodles#slooowwwly getting back into the groove of drawing... so glad i came back to this game all the characters are soo fun. augh#im so soo obsessed with the character designs too. ulyssa and reina are probably my faves. its the lesbianism <3#i always picked bluebell as a kid but i picked konohana this time and its easily my favorite now. ayame gombe and mako are my best friends#also ik this game thinks gay people dont exist but laney n georgia being marriage candidates is wild to me. they should kiss#harvest moon#harvest moon tale of two towns
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My favorite tomatoes.
I panicked a bit when it was time to sow them, because I didn't save any seeds last year and from my old ones all I could find was a baggie from 2016, so I didn't know how they'd germinate, but here they are.
#wild tomatoes#orchard garden#harvest#heirloom tomatoes#tomatoes#gardeners on tumblr#grow your own food#gardenblr#edible gardening#garden#gardenblog#gardening#gardencore
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