#in the blessed words of Olly Costello: we have been given all the gifts

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I cannot believe I’m arguing with the most idiotic ecofascist bullshit today:

Me: Serviceberries are delicious! Plant more of them! Eat them!

Some white lady on Facebook: ~what about the birds??? What will THEY eat??????~

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Listen, the myth that the Americas were some ~untouched wilderness~ is not just bullshit it is DESTRUCTIVE bullshit. In 1491, the Americas were a garden. These food forests were actively cultivated, just bc they look different than European agriculture does not in anyway make them less valid. Like, ok Yes, if you live in some suburban hellscape that’s been turned into HOA-enforced lawns, SURE, leave the berries for the birds. But to demand that be the rule for everyone, everywhere?? Fuck that. Last year the serviceberry crop was so bountiful they literally rotted in clusters like grapes on the vine. ~what about the birds~ THE BIRDS WERE DRUNK ON THE GROUND, KAREN! FAT AND ROUND! My woods turn white in the spring bc there are so many serviceberry trees. Right now the hazelnuts are flowering their little peener catkins as far as the eye can see, and because nothing has leafed out yet, THATS FAR!

Kill your lawn. Plant berries and fruit trees. EAT THEM!

#rant #in the blessed words of Olly Costello: we have been given all the gifts #meanwhile in minnesota #foraging #kill your lawn #there has never been an ‘untouched wilderness’ here and to insist on enforcing that causes SIGNIFICANT HARM!