@genusbarpod
Friends who chat about genera of plants which enhance our lives and ecosystems, over beverages, in a basement bar. Plants first (botany), then associated wildlife, then indigenous uses, foraging, growing, and herbalism.
One of mine too.
This speaks to me: I've rediscovered walking the woods by moonlight.
TO KNOW THE DARK by WB
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that dark too blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
Some favorites so far:
Plants Have So Much To Give Us, All We Have To Do Is Ask
Iwigara
Braiding Sweetgrass
Tending the Wild
Bookstore recommendation: Birchbark Books in Minneapolis MN.
They are an independent teaching bookstore that supports Indigenous artists and writers, and gives back to the Indigenous community while educating us all. Here's the catalogue. I spend a lot of time in the Food & Health section.
Truly lovely. I grow G. clausa.
In an ideal world: Gentians are far more popular than daffodils. A host with gorgeous flowers and roots that are medicinal and used in bitters... Instead of digging roots of declining, slow-growing wild Gentians, we grow native Gentians. The population increases.
F you, maggots, the world hates you and you're felon-in-chief, the orange pedophile grifter who is a national disgrace.
Vote in primaries! We need grassroots progressive candidates on the ballot. Let's not rest our hopes on the same old corporatist, genocidal, bloodstained, complicit blue party that so many failed to turn out for in the presidential election. The DNC refuses to pivot. We can make our party better.
Genocidal colonialism often goes with ecocide. We are continuing our same old crimes against humanity and the planet in a spectacularly accelerated manner.
Ok, thank you. Definitely will not be putting him in my list of grassroots progressives who I recommend
If there's something seriously wrong with having him as our candidate, speak out clearly, please! He's leading the campaign funding drive and we'll need serious investment to change that. Doesn't seem worth it to me, when we have so many complicit AIPAC candidate to replace, but I'm listening.
You're clearly not trying to remain neutral. This guy looks good to me, and I'm confused as to why you're casting aspersions. Far better than a bought-out establishment Dem.
Do you think Hector or Angie would do better? If so, why?
Looks to me like he's taking a strong stand against Trump launching a war. It looks like he's a grassroots funded candidate who won't be controlled by corporate PACs or AIPAC who benefit from the war.
Can you explain why you think he's more of an issue in this regard than his primary opponent?
We need to clean House. The majority of our representatives are either in the Epstein class or are complicit through deals they make for PAC campaign funds. We have only seen the #tipOfTheICEberg in the #traitorous7 who voted to fund ICE, strip search children etc.
We ALL show up to primaries!
That AIPAC sellout can drop a good line when he's not busy sending our tax $ to assist in genocide, or tapping the #Traitorous7 on their shoulders to tell them their handlers have chosen them as the betrayers of their constituents and democracy.
We need to get him off of the ballot for midterms.
Humans are ecological engineers who have been supporting biodiversity on the landscape for millennia.
In the last hundred years, we have realized that using half the land on the planet for largely chemical-laden monoculture destroys biodiversity. But the solution isn't 'no humans,' it's ag reform.
While many of the right wing billionaires who are the main funders of AIPAC profit directly from increased military spending, they get their cut before the weapons/tech gets to Israel. And some are e.g. casino moguls, and it's harder to trace their profit than that of the tech industry moguls.
So we need grassroots progressive candidates who care about the will of the people?
We have plenty coming up. Let's get people out for primaries! Tell me, who are you excited about? Who will you be making calls for?
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But we have such a huge roster of great candidates coming up! The problem is that there's often 2-3 good options to replace the incumbent who takes campaign bribes from PACs.
I want to see everyone debating who to replace our traitorous representatives with. Let's clean House!
go.bsky.app/3bonfDM
All 153 AIPAC "Democrats" need to go if we want a party that can hold together instead of caving and betraying us. All 153 who voted for #HR7006, when they thought we were too busy with Renee Good's murder to notice.
Check @trackaipac.com, and support your local grassroots candidates in primaries!
Jeffries and Schumer choose the fall-guys to betray the will of the people from the AIPAC roster -- those funded by right-wing billionaires. Those they control have hooks in them, and send our tax money to assist in genocide.
Jeffries, Schumer, and the #traitorous7 are just the #tipOfTheICEberg.
The vision that the people want is grassroots progressives who care about the will of the people. Recent elections show that.
Will the DNC try to rebrand their slow corporate fascism and support of genocide? It's better than racist oligarchy's overt, fast fascism, but let's get out for primaries.
Mine had Boneset, Little Bluestem, Purple Lovegrass, White Snakeroot, a little Blue-eyed Grass, Woolgrass, and various Milkweed seeds in them as well. I've only done it once. I usually just put the seeds in bags and walk around scattering them.
Don't forget the graminoids, if you can ID them!
1. Grab some Goldenrod, Aster, Fleebane Daisy, and Evening Primrose seeds heads in the fall, from a local meadow, after identifying the plants earlier in the season and making sure they're native
2. Shake stems in a trash bin
3. Mix seeds and chaff with mud
4. Scoop, and let dry in the sun
Stand by the road. Be a ninebark evangelist.
Not so easy to pocket a bunch and sneak around putting them under windshield wipers, like I do with my milkweed seeds though.
That's so neat and so different from the gentians I know!
As compared to our Closed Bottle Gentian, I vote we call it the Smashed Bottle Gentian. Or in reference to how the Diné use it, 'Smashed Bottle Witch Plant.'
Not that I think Parry is particularly bad as colonizers go.
AIPACs candidate for FL shelled out for a cute pin to pretend to be part of the resistance. Well that's so nice. He'll still vote to turn our tax money into Bombs which vaporize human bodies to cover up a genocide.
VOTE HIM OUT!
Walking in Assabet River National Wildlife refuge is a treat in any seaon. I always see birds. I didn't hear the Redwinged Blackbirds announce their return, I was lucky enough to watch some chatty Bluebirds (Sialia sialis) get a nightcap.
#ecoregion59 #wildlife #bluebirds #wetlands #nature #winter
But hey, she's peppy, smart, charismatic and makes one hell of a speech. So who cares if she is a two-faced traitor who robs us on behalf of a genocidal foreign power in exchange for campaign funds?
Crockett will use our taxes to pay for genocide. She will vote to censure the international criminal court when they take action against the genocide.
I know because she just did (HR7006) after claiming all last year that she only sent our $ to Israel for humanitarian reasons. Let's get AIPAC out!
Crockett voted to fund genocide with our taxes along with the other 153 AIPAC sellouts in our party in #HR7006. I don't see how you can love her or any other genocidal sellout. Any other traitor to an evil foreign power vaporizing people with the new bombs we provide which destroy the evidence.
That's so cool! I have only ever grown the 3 common New England milkweeds, but I have wanted to grow Whorled Milkweed (A. verticillata) since I saw one in the wild. I haven't seen A. quadrifolia, through they're S4 here.