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onlytiktoks · 4 months

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#tiktok #andrew_the_arborist #urban gardening #urban landscape #ecofriendly #native wildflowers #eco friendly #eco lawn #native plants #garden #gardening

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samwisethewitch · 14 days

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Homemaking, gardening, and self-sufficiency resources that won't radicalize you into a hate group

It seems like self-sufficiency and homemaking skills are blowing up right now. With the COVID-19 pandemic and the current economic crisis, a lot of folks, especially young people, are looking to develop skills that will help them be a little bit less dependent on our consumerist economy. And I think that's generally a good thing. I think more of us should know how to cook a meal from scratch, grow our own vegetables, and mend our own clothes. Those are good skills to have.

Unfortunately, these "self-sufficiency" skills are often used as a recruiting tactic by white supremacists, TERFs, and other hate groups. They become a way to reconnect to or relive the "good old days," a romanticized (false) past before modern society and civil rights. And for a lot of people, these skills are inseparably connected to their politics and may even be used as a tool to indoctrinate new people.

In the spirit of building safe communities, here's a complete list of the safe resources I've found for learning homemaking, gardening, and related skills. Safe for me means queer- and trans-friendly, inclusive of different races and cultures, does not contain Christian preaching, and does not contain white supremacist or TERF dog whistles.

Homemaking/Housekeeping/Caring for your home:

Making It by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen [book] (The big crunchy household DIY book; includes every level of self-sufficiency from making your own toothpaste and laundry soap to setting up raised beds to butchering a chicken. Authors are explicitly left-leaning.)

Safe and Sound: A Renter-Friendly Guide to Home Repair by Mercury Stardust [book] (A guide to simple home repair tasks, written with rentals in mind; very compassionate and accessible language.)

How To Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis [book] (The book about cleaning and housework for people who get overwhelmed by cleaning and housework, based on the premise that messiness is not a moral failing; disability and neurodivergence friendly; genuinely changed how I approach cleaning tasks.)

Gardening

Rebel Gardening by Alessandro Vitale [book] (Really great introduction to urban gardening; explicitly discusses renter-friendly garden designs in small spaces; lots of DIY solutions using recycled materials; note that the author lives in England, so check if plants are invasive in your area before putting them in the ground.)

Country/Rural Living:

Woodsqueer by Gretchen Legler [book] (Memoir of a lesbian who lives and works on a rural farm in Maine with her wife; does a good job of showing what it's like to be queer in a rural space; CW for mentions of domestic violence, infidelity/cheating, and internalized homophobia)

"Debunking the Off-Grid Fantasy" by Maggie Mae Fish [video essay] (Deconstructs the off-grid lifestyle and the myth of self-reliance)

Sewing/Mending:

Annika Victoria [YouTube channel] (No longer active, but their videos are still a great resource for anyone learning to sew; check out the beginner project playlist to start. This is where I learned a lot of what I know about sewing.)

Make, Sew, and Mend by Bernadette Banner [book] (A very thorough written introduction to hand-sewing, written by a clothing historian; lots of fun garment history facts; explicitly inclusive of BIPOC, queer, and trans sewists.)

Sustainability/Land Stewardship

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer [book] (Most of you have probably already read this one or had it recommended to you, but it really is that good; excellent example of how traditional animist beliefs -- in this case, indigenous American beliefs -- can exist in healthy symbiosis with science; more philosophy than how-to, but a great foundational resource.)

Wild Witchcraft by Rebecca Beyer [book] (This one is for my fellow witches; one of my favorite witchcraft books, and an excellent example of a place-based practice deeply rooted in the land.)

Avoiding the "Crunchy to Alt Right Pipeline"

Note: the "crunchy to alt-right pipeline" is a term used to describe how white supremacists and other far right groups use "crunchy" spaces (i.e., spaces dedicated to farming, homemaking, alternative medicine, simple living/slow living, etc.) to recruit and indoctrinate people into their movements. Knowing how this recruitment works can help you recognize it when you do encounter it and avoid being influenced by it.

"The Crunchy-to-Alt-Right Pipeline" by Kathleen Belew [magazine article] (Good, short introduction to this issue and its history.)

Sisters in Hate by Seyward Darby (I feel like I need to give a content warning: this book contains explicit descriptions of racism, white supremacy, and Neo Nazis, and it's a very difficult read, but it really is a great, in-depth breakdown of the role women play in the alt-right; also explicitly addresses the crunchy to alt-right pipeline.)

These are just the resources I've personally found helpful, so if anyone else has any they want to add, please, please do!

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thrivingisthegoal · 8 months

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Hey, hey, don't cry. Plants fruiting and flowering, okay? The earth is laughing and exhaling and taking up space, right?

#solarpunk #sustainability #gardening #permaculture #urban gardening #nature

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climatecalling · 7 months

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“Guerrilla gardening is the practice of planting in public spaces in your neighbourhood” she says on a humid summer afternoon, walking between outlaw flower beds in Hackney, east London. “And that’s how I define it … because, for me, it’s all about community ownership and belonging, and I think we have a right to cultivate these spaces in the areas we call home – and a responsibility to, as well. “So-called public spaces have been really privatised, and communities actually don’t get a chance to interact with them often. So I think we do have a right to do that in the places we put down our roots, where we live.” ... “I do think there is an issue in society at the moment with the lack of agency and autonomy for people,” she says. “Guerrilla gardening, even if it is just sowing something in a tree bed, it might not change the world – you might help some bees, you might bring joy to someone walking down the street – but you’re also reminding people, or awakening something that is like ‘Maybe this is how it should be.’

#guerilla gardening #anarchism #green spaces #urban gardening #climate crisis

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martha-anne · 1 month

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Things are starting to happen in the garden

Seedlings! Tulips! Buds bursting!

The fruit bushes I planted over winter are showing signs of life!

I planted these peas outside last week. It's too early, but they were desperate to LIVE and to CLIMB. I could not give them the life they wanted indoors. It snowed pretty much immediately, and was frosty for several days. And yet, the peas remain unbothered and flourishing.

I had a 100% germination rate with these guys too. The variety is Lord Leicester if anybody is interested.

I've stacked up a load of old twigs and prunings which were lying around to make a bit of a habitat wall area. I'm hoping this will one day give frogs a safe passage to the pond. In the shorter term, I'm wondering if any climbing plants might like to use it as a support. Does anybody have experience with this?

This is the inside of the compost bin. I just like to look at it :)

#permaculture #small space garden #urban gardening #solarpunk #peas my beloved #compost #shall i compare thee to a february pea?#no thou art nowhere near as lovely

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queer-ecopunk · 1 month

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Hey, don't be sad. Seeds are sprouting today.

#these are the sugar snap peas and nu mex peppers #container gardening #urban gardening #plants #solarpunk #gardening

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shonkikong · 1 year

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urban gardening project, Hamburg

Mamiya RZ67 / Kodak Portra 160

#film camera #film photography #color film #kodak portra 160 #kodakfilm #hamburg #urbanjungle #urban gardening #gardening #medium format #lensblr #documentary photography #analog photography #film #healthy #urban farming #vintage

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leebrontide · 8 months

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One of my favorite things about gardening is other gardeners. There's just such an urge to share plants, seeds and cuttings. Such a freeness with sharing information and ASKING for information. I can't wait for my front yard to stop looking like crap so I have little old ladies stopping by to ask me what kind of plant such-and-such is and does it attract many butterflies? And would I like some spare hostas? Are those blueberries there? What kind are those? Good for jam?

MN is not known for it's front porch culture but if you sit there and have a garden you will attract gardeners eventually, no matter how chaotic your garden is. I miss that from the old house, but I'll get there eventually.

#urban gardening #gardenblr #gardeners on tumblr #gardening #rhombus house garden

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turtlesandfrogs · 1 year

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New gardeners in urban areas, are you concerned about soil pollution?

Read this, it's got some useful information and advice:

Also this:

And always wash your produce, because soil isn't the only source of pollution.

#gardenblr #gardening #urban gardening #grow your own food

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flowerishness · 4 months

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This is one of the largest hanging baskets I've ever seen. Of course, the landlord can afford it - welcome to Vancouver's financial district. When the first tower (on the right) opened on Burrard Street in 1967, at 22 stories, it dominated the downtown skyline. Now it's just another boring, 'ultra-modern office block', amongst a crowd of later arrivals. However, this building does have one redeeming feature - this beautiful hanging basket out front. I think it's a floral masterpiece!

#flowers #photographers on tumblr #The hanging baskets of Babylon #urban gardening #summer flowers #fleurs #flores #fiori #blumen #bloemen #Bentall Centre #Vancouver

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ghettogardener · 1 month

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Ooooookaaaay Round 2! Transplanted all.of those morning glories that shot up into bigger pots.

Distributed Marigolds into Basil and tomato pots.

Got 8 cucumber shoots transplanted into their own pots.

Planted Hollyhock seeds and a varying variety of different tomato plants.

My craft room is over flowing!! I can't wait to get the greenhouse back up. Hopefully it will be done by April 15th!

#urban gardening #gardeners on tumblr #container gardening #urban farming #green thumb #gardenblr #cottagecore #greenblr #cottageblr #self sustainability #hollyhock #tomato plant #basil #dill #cilantro #marigolds #native wildflowers

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thrivingisthegoal · 6 months

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There's a nice to read New York Times article today about what local environmental action can amount to

If you don't have a NYT sub (stupid paywalls) I'll offer a lil synopsis.

The main woman of the article is someone who cares a lot about monarchs, and knows a few patches of milkweed that keep getting mown with monarch eggs on them.

She talked to SO MANY local leaders, gave presentations, but they didn't find fruit. UNTIL she talked to the director of arterial highway maintenance who finally listened.

What's so interesting to me isn't that he listened, not necessarily because he wants to do the right thing etc etc, he listened because so many other had talked to him about it before. The people in the article are the people who finally broke the dam and made someone listen enough to take action. But the article mentions people for about six years who bring up saving the milkweed for monarchs.

In the end, there are now 20 patches of milkweed along highways that are unofficially protected, and grew until hatching season. Change did happen!

What I like about this article is that it's a little case study in the long game of community, it takes time, it takes effort, and it takes finding the right people at the right time. That is specific, but shouldn't be daunting. Because if you find that you aren't being listened to, there's still a chance for another person to hear you, or, maybe down the line you help make this issue bigger, Because six months from now someone comes up with the same issue as you, and because you made a big deal now, that person has more of a foothold later.

But also, I wonder what could've happened if all the people from six years asking for monarch milkweed protection found each other earlier and gathered together ?

#solarpunk #sustainability #climate change #monarch #monarch butterfly #urban gardening #activism

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thestudentfarmer · 3 months

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Good afternoon everyone~

It's cold, windy and it's been raining on and off all day but I finally got out to harvesting the sweet potatoes.

I started with the 'L' bed.

This is the bowl I'll be using to collect the spuds for this deep raised bed.

Those are full size scissors btw. This is the absolute biggest strainer I own and when I do harvesting I'm always glad to have it! Helps with carrying and washing off dirt outside so much easier!

It was pretty fun digging round for the spuds and to be honest the size and shape of some of them really suprised me!

For some size comparison, my hand is right on top of them.

All cleaned out!

Next was the little round bed in the corner. I wasn't really expecting much, but it filled the bin pretty good.

I've washed the spuds off and am letting them dry off but I'll be finding a spot inside soemwhere to let them sit and cure for a bit of time. (I probably will let them cure until end of febuary.)

Curing your sweet potatoes is what makes them sweet, you can eat them right away but their said to be bitter. (I will be trying 1 potato to see if this is true!) Curing them should be done for at least 2 week in a cool dry space (around 80*f). If you under 80*f space add 7 more days.

I thought this was neat and wanted to share it. since I've not seen a sweet potato grown or dug up before

I wasn't expecting so much differance in spud size from one single root.

And one last pic,

The ducks quite like the greens, while there's not much left of it I'm going to leave the vines a couple days so they can use it as enrichment/snack opportunity.

Weigh in on the spuds later!

🍠🌱Happy Homesteading and Harvesting!!

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1.11.2024