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11·5 months agoHappy to spread the gospel 🙏 I’m surprised it wasn’t already posted here!
Maryland passed a bill doing just that:
Awesome! Sometimes all neighbors need is to see it in action, to not be the first on the block. Like it gives people permission in a way 😊
19·9 months agoSame, had one inserted over a decade ago. No one said anything about pain medication. Drove myself home and felt every imperfection in the road. About a week of severe cramping.
Went for the follow up and the gyno adjusted its position without warning. When I cried out, she told me the pain would subside in a few days. It didn’t, so I got it removed a month later.
Glad to see the tides are changing 🙌
3·9 months agoThese, or their cousin “we could lose a few billion people,” pop up on my instance from time to time. I’m not amenable to either, but I do understand the feelings of grief behind them. Myself, I adopted a secular practice in order to stay grounded, because it’s easy to fall into the pit… comment sections with debate lords proclaiming why whatever is futile, people raging and posturing or possessed by long dead philosophers, all while the machine gobbles up the world. Soul crushing.
Grief and its companions fear, anger, despair, are blinding and consume the larger liberatory project. The sense of powerlessness these states foster breeds the need to control, and it’s easier than people want to admit to slip. I feel similarly about the tendency to dehumanize. I always try to be empathetic, reminding myself that those thoughts once crossed my mind, the visceral frustration I once felt, but it’s disheartening.
I’m going to think of a live, laugh, love sign when I pull privet now 😂
2·9 months agoAwesome choices 😍 Prickly pear is my absolute favorite. Gorgeous flowers, but weeding around them is tricky. I’m a few years in with them and have some glochids in my fingers right now lol.
Sea oats are beautiful, too. I have a patch in sandy soil in partial sun and another in clay in full blazing sun, mid-Atlantic 7b. Love watching the seed stalks sway in the breeze.
From a relative. They ordered theirs from etsy the spring prior.
I haven’t tried them yet, but that nickname gives me pause 😆
Spring has sprung! I’m jealous, someone ate my chokeberry to the ground 😩
Direct link to the Maryland bill passed: https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0322f.pdf
No sand spurs here, thankfully 😄 Both pictures show groundcover under low tree or shrub branches, so no humans step there. These type of plantings are meant to be soft landings for pollinators.
Violets can handle moderate foot traffic and mowing, especially when mixed in with grasses like nimblewill, but not heavy play.
This is awesome! Love seeing the younger generations getting involved and that your SO lost his mind when he found out lol.
So glad you chose solarpunk as your home on the fediverse :) It was a big reason I chose this instance and I’m happy to be part of the team!
19·10 months agoEspecially us over at [email protected] 🌻
I love Wild Geranium! The leaves just started emerging here in the Mid-Atlantic (with some violets waking up in the periphery):
After planting these last spring, I found Carolina Geranium growing in a sidewalk crack a few feet away 😆
2·11 months agoThe creator’s statements appear to be rooted in the source, “On the Bunny Trail: In Search of the Easter Bunny.”
You may be interested in the discussion under the article between commenter J.H. and the author Stephen Winick, where Winick explains his reasoning on the matter.
The video goes into this somewhat, but mostly focuses on the folklore surrounding the Easter Bunny. It’s speculated that it possibly originated from a springtime children’s game in Germany sometime in the 1600s. However, much is unknown.
I love these update videos! Most of the stuff I planted two years ago finally started to look like something this summer 😆 but seeing all the monarchs, sootywings, fritillaries, skippers, and so many different bees made the growing pains worth it.
The link in the post body has some tips on how to do so responsibly. Might be worth sharing with your neighbors!
For wildlife gardens with native plants, leaving the stems is best practice if not in a fire prone area. From the National Wildlife Federation:
There is nothing that stands out to me as unmaintained, only not maintained in the way people are used to. During spring cleanup and throughout the growing season, invasive species can be removed (and many tend to stick out in the winter as well).