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Pollinators

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I am retired and #gardening in #Zone4b in #Minnesota. However it was Dakota territory. I am interested in #Vegetarian cooking and #Fermentation. My interests include pollinators and native plantings, #Pollinators, #Nature, #Wildlife, #EcologicalCollapse, #ClimateChange, #Biodiversity, #Sustainability, #Rewilding, #Hummus, #Fungi, and #Mushrooms. He/him.

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ZLabe, to random
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Practically everyone in the lower 48 will be experiencing temperatures warmer than average in the days leading up to Christmas. Anomalies in the Midwest will be nearly 25 to 30°F or more

Time to put on some cheesy holiday movies and day dream about snowy landscapes I guess!

Pollinators,
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@ZLabe. Southern Minnesota is thirty degrees above normal. That is a scary thing. , , , .

Rasta, to NovaScotia
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Customary on weekends, I take a little time to write a short story, about our adventures.

As a background, in case you are new, here's who we are: 2 seniors, my wife is disabled (I'm crippling up too), defying difficult trails to show that it can be done.

Hashtag shown is relative to places in , that others might never have seen, but will want to visit.
"When Are You Coming To Visit?"
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FANCY'S BEACH


Special Mention @capla

Pollinators,
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@Rasta. Good morning. Thank you for the walking tour of the Nova Scotia beach. It appears nice and quiet.

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@Rasta. Where’s the trail head for this blue rock hike?

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@Rasta. Ahhh. The trail head. .

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@Rasta. Well said. Your Shores of Nova Scotia hiking adventure series was complete. Mastodon is great for travel adventures thanks to the enthusiasts.

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@Rasta. Where are the gardening blogs linked? Thank you.

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@Rasta. A duck duck go search shows 14 WAYCTV videos.

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@Rasta. The cold winter temperatures of , have been killing trial pears and apricots for generations.

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@Rasta. Ussurian Pears are Zone 3. We have these by the apple trees to expand the blossom season. The pollinators and blossoms have to survive the spring temperature swings together. This spring was too hot too fast. , .

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@Rasta. 6a and 6b. Ahh. Very nice zones.

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@Rasta. Way to grow your own fruit. Will the date palms ever fruit in your set up?

Pollinators,
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@Rasta. The comfrey plants are mixed in. They can blossom during the apple tree blossom time. Comfrey blossoms appear to bring in the pollinators. This is a pitch for . ,

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@Rasta. Growing your own fertilizer, amendments, and plant teas is a good thing. Nigel Palmer has the book recommended by the mastodon allotment team. It’s very cool. The Regenerative Growers Guide to Garden Amendments….

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@Rasta. A cold frame greenhouse is wonderful. What can you overwinter? We have grow lights in the house for starts. We start the vegetables and native plants for the local biome.

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@Rasta. Thanks for the description of cold frame gardening in Nova Scotia.

StillIRise1963, to random
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I want a cat. My husband is allergic. My sister told me to stop sending her cat posts.😭

Pollinators,
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@StillIRise1963. There are levels of allergic.

CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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"About 20,000 people protested in the Belgian capital on Sunday to demand more action to fight as delegates from some 200 countries met in Dubai for the United Nation's climate conference."

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/there-is-no-planet-b-belgian-climate-protest-tells-cop28-2023-12-03/

Pollinators,
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@CelloMomOnCars. I imagine it is relatively difficult to protest the in Dubai. Compared to Brussels.

compost, to climate
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So far the is a good demonstration to those who say that can not be fixed by individual actions.

The elites can't fix the and do not want to fix it. So sadly all we have left is individual actions.

So we will keep inspiring individuals to reduce their waste and create black gold.

Pollinators,
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@compost. is extremely successful recycling. Imagine a recycling contest in a college study. Nothing can come close to the system of food waste and members of the biological team like woodlouse, worms, mites. , , , , , , , , . Keep up the good work. Shout at the neighbors. Are you going to compost that?

bwinbwin, to anarchism

In Marshallese culture, there is a prominent attitude of "Enaaj Emman," which translates loosely to "It will be okay." It is strongly embedded in the culture and people's everyday thinking. If you are ever despondent, somebody is always there to remind you that "enaaj emman." It is a focus on hope and happiness that pervades daily life despite the struggles, setbacks, and disappointments that inevitably happen. People retain this optimism even after being irradiated by nuclear testing by the USGovt throughout the 1950s.

Having lived in the Marshall Islands for eight years, I am acutely aware of the threats and dangers posed by both nuclear waste and fossil fuels.

At this point, I expect to see this country of beautiful coral atolls and generous, gentle people be subsumed by rising sea levels. They are undergoing severe stress at 1.1C and will be completely uninhabitable at 1.5C. We will push past 1.5C by the end of this decade, and I don't think we have enough time, nor are we doing the right things, to reverse the momentum. These islands will be gone, and an entire country and culture will have been displaced or extinguished.

It fills me with profound sadness, especially when I think how it all could have been prevented but for the fraud perpetrated by fossil fuel energy companies and the greed of their executives. And let's not forget about the collusion of our politicians through bribery, nor forget about the perpetuation of the fraud through mass media owned by members of the same bourgeois class.

I understand the need to continue seeking solutions. I hope people create those solutions. Enaaj emman. I appreciate people like @pvonhellermannn who, despite feeling despondent, has provided to us long threads informing us about this crisis. Hope is still alive as Tina Stege, from the Marshall Islands, impresses upon us in these two posts:

https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/111482858888081587

https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/111381241869510068

Yet I am despondent. I am also very angry. My reaction is to want to dislodge and remove the parasitical elites of the 1%, punish them harshly, and completely dismantle their capitalist systems. I despair that billions will have to die before we make that happen. Certainly among the first great wave of casualties will the Marshall Islanders. And that fills me with rage.

It also brings back memories of living in the islands. It's as close to an anarchist way of life as I've ever seen in the world. And I'm now reminded of an elder woman who was asked by another Peace Corps Volunteer, "Who do you think is the best US president?" Her response: "I think President Kennedy was the smartest president. He sent all these young people here so they could learn "mantin majel" (Marshallese custom). There is so much wisdom in that statement, that it resonates even more strongly for me 35 years later. The world needs to learn Mantin Majel and enact its inherent values of peace, cooperation, solidarity, and optimism.

Pollinators,
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@bwinbwin @pvonhellermannn. Thank you for sharing the Marshall Island story. Their home, their way of life may be gone this decade. , , , .

BroadforkForVictory, to random

I’m taking on another half plot at the weekend. It’s like a marsh & one of the wettest plots on site.

The aim is to improve the plot’s resilience to adverse weather by building up the soil level & soil health.

Not everyone makes their own compost on the allotment site. I’ll use organic matter donated from across the site to build the plot level up & make compost.

Most of the compost made will be a communal resource for other plot holders to use.

Two green wellington boots in a puddle of water on a waterlogged allotment plot. One boot is raised above the water the other is part submerged.
A part submerged wellington booted foot on a waterlogged allotment plot. Every step through this plot is like this including the pathways. Grass and weedy vegetation cover the ground so it’s not all bad. Having just bare soil in these conditions would be far worse.

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@BroadforkForVictory. The allotment has great green cover crops. It will be a good compost day. , , . The ground is slowly freezing here in southern . The earthworms should be digging down for the winter. ,

compost, to random
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This is why we started to do compost at home.

Our native soil is very poor in nutrient and only grows weeds.

You can see the difference with and without compost and why it makes sense.

All of this compost is homemade with organic waste.

Pollinators,
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@compost. Imagine the progress over the years.

StillIRise1963, to random
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I missed my Mastodon anniversary. On November 10, it was one year.

Pollinators,
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@StillIRise1963. Happy Anniversary.

18+ Leisureguy, to food
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I just started a new batch of fermented pepper sauce, using mostly cayenne peppers but a few red jalapeño (and garlic, dates, and a carrot).

More info in post:

https://leisureguy.ca/2023/11/11/fermented-sauce-2/

@vegancooking @wfpb

Pollinators,
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@Leisureguy @vegancooking @wfpb. This looks like another fun, healthy food.

Pollinators,
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@Leisureguy @vegancooking @wfpb. It’s the combination. Lentil spread should be so popular.

msquebanh, to Canada
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It’s 14,000 years ago, and enormous ice sheets cover most of what is now called , except for portions of the coast.

An site in coastal gives us a glimpse into this world and reaffirms the (núyṃ) of the Haíɫzaqv ( ) people who still live here.

Scroll through an on —layer by layer—and one of the oldest repeatedly occupied settlements in

https://triquet.hakai.org

Pollinators,
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@msquebanh. This BC archeological site is fun to learn about. Thank you for sharing.

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