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Conservation Professional - Gardener - Vegetarian - Cook/Baker - Chicken Mom - Actual Mom - Gamer - Rabidly Progressive
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An ode to beneficial insects: Never shall I spray you With poisons or cruel toxins You're part of this garden And I need you where you are 🌱🐌🪲🦋🐝

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Today I made strawberry ice cream from ingredients almost entirely sourced from the surrounding 15 miles. And with such an emphasis on local, I didn't even want to waste the strawberry tops. Luckily I had some friends on hand to eat them! 🌱🍓🦎🐔

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Beautiful spring flowers. 🌱🌸🌷

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

These girls are doing the hard work right now. The puppy, on the other hand, is eating all of my asparagus. 🌱🐔🐶

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

A few photos from around the yard, including one particularly nasty (and impressive) weed. 🌱🐌🍓

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Our Black Australorps have been laying (relatively) huge eggs compared to the Speckled Sussexes. In theory both should be making "medium" eggs but apparently Biggs and Wedge didn't get the memo! 🐔🌱🥚

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Native plant gardening (in the US at least) can be really hard. Not everyone sees the beauty in it and of course the blooms are very seasonal. But I can see how lovely it's all going to be. Native blueberries, slender mountain mint, prairie phlox, and a grasshopper friend I found while weeding. 🌱

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Here come the flowers! Lots of buds. - Fava beans up close - Blueberries - Pomegranate - Native Coral Honeysuckle

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Finally home after being away for more than a week, and it sure does look like spring down here! Baby fig leaves, blueberries about to bloom, a good radish harvest! Good yard. 🌱

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

Got to meet the alpacas herd that my friend has! They're pretty great. Not necessarily going the alpaca route myself but I'm going to lightly "apprentice" for a while to learn as much as I can about livestock. 🌱🦙👩‍🌾

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I'm out of town but I got this photo that my fava beans are blooming! 🌱

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

I wrote to my congresspeople. I'm making the text public in case anyone would like to use parts of it. Fill in with your own state as needed. 🏛️✍️

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Homegrown lemons! Going to do my best to preserve them well or use up as much as possible. Juicing and zesting and candying the peels. #lemon #gardening 🌱🍋

submitted 34 days ago • 6 comments

I overdid it a bit yesterday with yardwork, housework, and cooking/baking. But the plants sure look happy, including tiny spinach sprouts. And these croutons (from homemade bread) are awesome. Link to recipe is in the comments.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

A heads up - you won't see as much activism on my page because I'm spending most of my day at work on climate activism, EDIB, protecting natural resources, etc. But trust me that I am angry about what's happening, I'm fighting, and I'm not going to shut up about what our vulnerable populations need.

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

Today the Merlin app thought my chickens were a pileated woodpecker. Usually it just thinks they're mallards or Canada geese, this was a new one. 🪶🐔

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

This last year I grew both Genovese (green) basil and purple opal basil. Of course I knew that the seeds for the purple opal would be hybridized. The babies are a super cute mix. I'm hoping to continue to hybridize it (with itself) to see what I get! 🌱

submitted 36 days ago • 3 comments

If I could turn the intensity of the stares from Chicken Judgement straight at the executive branch - heck, let's say the entire federal government - I sure would.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Sometimes I wonder whether other vegetarian chicken owners joke this much about eating their flock. At least daily here.

submitted 189 days ago • 0 comments

The golden dragonflies are back!!! 🐜🦗🪲🐝🐞🦋🐛

submitted 294 days ago • 1 comment

IF YOU ARE NOT WATCHING MARVEL'S "WHAT IF" SERIOUSLY I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU ARE STILL READING THIS INTERNET MESSAGE GET OUT OF HERE

submitted 423 days ago • 0 comments