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Lots to unpack in this somewhat ranty article, but also some food for thought.

In this thread, post what you’re working on! Guerilla gardening? eBiking? planting/pruning? Let us know!

Having never owned a house or really had a yard of my own, I got pretty excited and decided to do some ad-hoc landscaping. Built some raised beds for vegetables, and just laying in some organic shaped in-ground beds for low water decorative plants. Gonna fill the rest in with gravel. Any pointers?

TL;DR: apparently the management at my apartment complex considers plants to be “Seasonal decoration.” Here’s the email chain:...

TL;DR: the meat industry’s misleading messaging campaign + lobbying

The ruling class wants you to be literate enough to understand their written orders. And nothing more. True literacy is punk. True literacy is revolutionary....

Collective:...

This was only my second year gardening, and first year with my own yard 😤 Everything is in containers. I struggled a lot with figuring out a good place to put containers that got enough sunlight. I was trying to avoid the front yard because I was worried about car exhaust and grossness getting onto veggies, but when I finally...

Some choice quotes from the article:...

Note: I might just be uneducated on the subject....

Hi all, I’m working on a Solarpunk world building project and I want to know your thoughts on one of the main features of my world. To preface all this and provide some context, my world is an alternate-history with a divergence point sometime in the 2020s. The divergence was caused by a vocal and technically-skilled group of...

Working from home was a difficult transition for me, but adding plants (and having good light) make all the difference. I thought you folks would approve.

Today marks the beginning of the second full week of Spring in the northern hemisphere, even if some of us are stuck in second winter. Share your garden goals, projects, challenges, and successes for this growing season; share your tips, tricks, and garden hacks, or anything else you’d like. Let’s all help each other grow...

Full conference room for the talk about Solarpunk at the CCC congress in Hamburg.

Are you starting on your gardening journey this year? Maybe branching out to some new-to-you plants? Trying out a new style of gardening?...

I’ve been slowly converting all of my outdoor lighting to solar and adding more rain barrels for my garden. This got me thinking–what are the rest of you working on? I’d love to see and hear about your projects if you feel like sharing them....