GreenLife Hot

Pretty cool stuff.

I didn’t plant it (intentionally) but it’s definitely more than a weed. I’m letting it grow just to see what it wants to grow up to be.

cross-posted from: pixelfed.crimedad.work/p/…/702253073847662361...

My pak choi army has fallen. I sent them out to harden and the slugs just rolled over them in a night....

In this bed we have basically a remainder of seeds from the other ones, not gonna be able to rotate the beds like I originally planned, but oh well....

It’s not all wine and roses in terms of requiring sustained fracking, which defeats the purpose of transitioning away from fossil fuels, but the estimate is there’s enough lithium (as lithium carbonate) coming from these sites to cover 40% of domestic demand.

In the pots are peas. The close raised bed is flowers and strawberry plant....

In this revelatory work, Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of struggle and a place of possibility for reshaping the future....

Here’s my green balcony :)...

Here is a video of the slide deck with the presentation audio if you would like to both see and hear the presentation I gave....

Here are some guidelines and techniques for training and pruning trees from Oregon State University’s extension office....

OK I haven’t seen the whole thing yet but I’m at the point of the video where I think she’s going to say “Solarpunk” and I’m excite!

Rock is called Alberta Rainbow Rock, probably under a different name elsewhere, shows its color when wet. I cut a strip of grass out so I could have the rock be about 4” deep where the grass is. Other than that left the old grass to compost underneath the rest.

in three years [the solar panels] generated enough savings to transform the district’s $250,000 budget deficit into a $1.8 million surplus.”

Our kids wish we had more. I’m not sure which verity these are, but they put out tons of runners which makes me not want to put them directly in soil....

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/10045103...

I was under some physical restrictions and bed rest orders last week, so this week has been a flurry of planting and weeding to get some more summer veg gardens up and running....

The experimental mat has been out for about a week now, but extremely high winds during a storm last night pulled up a corner of the mat spilling out the contents....