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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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CodenameTim, to gardening
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Saturday morning harvest!

Pollinators,
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@CodenameTim That’s a good harvest. I can see a fermented hot sauce in your future. And hopefully many more harvests and ferments. . . , .

Minimus, to random
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traho: I drag
Minimus is Hercules again, and this time he's completing his ultimus labor (final task) and dragging a rather undersized Cerberus from Tartarus (the Underworld). This is the easy bit - working out how to tie a copula (leash) on a dog with tria capita (three heads) and unum collum (one neck) was more difficult!

Pollinators,
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@Minimus Hercules! A reenactment. By Minimus the Mouse.

dnc, to gardening
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First time growing cabbage, and I really didn’t think ahead. There’s at least another wheelbarrow full to harvest and I don’t think fermenting sauerkraut is not the ultimate solution for all this. I have a “cold room”, but it’s about 16C degrees this time of year. Any ideas on what to do with it? https://www.diningandcooking.com/858220/first-time-growing-cabbage-and-i-really-didnt-think-ahead-theres-at-least-another-wheelbarrow-full-to-harvest-and-i-dont-think-fermenting-sauerkraut-is-not-the-ultimate-solution-for-all-this-i-h/

Pollinators,
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@dnc The wheelbarrow of cabbages are treasure. You may have to gift some away to neighborhood fermentation enthusiasts.

Iva852, to random

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Season of making a tomato sauce is opened 🙃

Pollinators,
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@Iva852 The season of tomato sauce is a wonderful season. Your gardens are a couple weeks ahead of . Enjoy the season. .

Pollinators,
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@Iva852 Southern has been extra dry and extra hot. The vegetable garden is a notill garden. The mulch is straw mulch. The kohlrabi and Ukrainian Eggplant are approaching harvest. The tomatoes are not ready yet. The first ferment could be a few kohlrabi. Just to start. The first sauce batch is over the horizon. The garlic is lifted. We usually ferment garlic during the snow and ice season.

fulelo, to climate
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'
We’ve passed into a ferocious new phase of global with much worse to come. Biden must declare a .'
A guardian opinion piece, by @ClimateHuman
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/27/joe-biden-climate-emergency-peter-kalmus?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Pollinators,
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@fulelo @ClimateHuman Thank you for sharing the article about declaring a climate emergency in the USA. The urgency is needed. The leadership is needed.

seachanger, (edited ) to random
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last of this year’s garlic scapes. guess I’m making pesto, and maybe a ferment?

update: I’m lazy and going to try fermenting all of them in a large crock to make scape pickles. https://sabrinacurrie.com/lacto-fermented-garlic-scapes-traditionally-pickled-garlic-scapes/

Pollinators,
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@seachanger Yes. the garlic scapes. Yes. That was a week ago. Ok. Ferment another garden good. We enjoyed the fermented scapes, cilantro, and peppers blend in the 2022 fermenting season. , .

sundogplanets, to random
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Meet our new farm guardian animal, who came pre-named, with probably the best name ever for a llama.

Introducing...

Barack O-llama.

(I have an amazing story about him arriving here, I will share later when I have more time)

Pollinators,
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@sundogplanets Who will be the Llamas best friend?

StillIRise1963, to random
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"At the end of 2022, average annual property insurance premiums had risen to more than $4,200 in Florida, which is triple the national average. About 12% of homeowners in the state did not have property insurance, compared with the national average of 5%, according to the Insurance Information Institute, a research organization funded by the insurance industry. At least six insurers went insolvent in Florida last year."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/12/florida-farmers-insurance-climate-crisis

Pollinators,
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@StillIRise1963 The big jumps in the cost of homeowners property insurance is another canary in the coal mine for people. The becomes a real big deal to more people monthly bill by bill. . Thank you for sharing the Guardian article.

Pollinators,
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@StillIRise1963 @mintyfresh It’s bad news to be trapped. What is the escape from an uninsurable home in ? .

Pollinators,
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@StillIRise1963 @mintyfresh The homeowners insurance is relatively stable in . Our experience is not applicable to . The Mastodon community will have ideas. If they find this message in a bottle.

breadandcircuses, to environment

Climate breakdown is occurring faster than most scientists expected, and the pace certainly is far ahead of official projections from the IPCC.

One reason for that could be increased levels of methane in our atmosphere. Methane (CH4), as you may know, is a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide (CO2), though its effects do not last as long, only about 20 years. But during that time, methane increases heating with up to 25 times more vigor. So it's extremely dangerous.

And the more closely scientists look, the more sources of methane they seem to find...

As the Arctic warms, shrinking glaciers are exposing bubbling groundwater springs which could provide an underestimated source of the potent greenhouse gas methane, finds new research published in Nature Geoscience.

The study, led by researchers from the University of Cambridge and the University Center in Svalbard, Norway, identified large stocks of methane gas leaking from groundwater springs unveiled by melting glaciers.

The research suggests that these methane emissions will likely increase as Arctic glaciers retreat and more springs are exposed. This, and other methane emissions from melting ice and frozen ground in the Arctic, could exacerbate global warming.

"These springs are a considerable, and potentially growing, source of methane emissions — one that has been missing from our estimations of the global methane budget until now," said Gabrielle Kleber, lead author of the research who is from Cambridge's Department of Earth Sciences.

Scientists are concerned that additional methane emissions released by the Arctic thaw could ramp-up human-induced global warming. The springs the researchers studied hadn't previously been recognized as a potential source of methane emissions.

FULL ARTICLE -- https://phys.org/news/2023-07-arctic-glaciers-unearthing-source-methane.html

Pollinators,
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@breadandcircuses Professor Andrew Hodson, “I can’t think of anything more stark than the sight of methane out gassing in the immediate fore field of a retreating glacier.” , , , ,

futurebird, to random
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Listening to all of the heat records being broken gets me really upset in a very unproductive and unhelpful way.

I try to turn the fear, helplessness, frustration around by thinking of something that I can do to push back, prepare, educate, preserve--

But sometimes the dread just -- makes that hard.

How are you coping?

Pollinators,
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@futurebird Coping with the climate emergency and all that. Yes. It might be impossible. I was searching for footing. I read the book about it all. by . This helped. Good luck on your journey.

rahmstorf, to random German
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Places like the Bay of Bangkok, where land subsidence meets rising seas, are hot spots of sea level rise relative to the land. They experience already now what will come later to most of the world’s coastlines, thanks to fossil fuel use. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/01/just-four-pupils-left-how-the-sea-rose-up-on-a-thai-village?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Pollinators,
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@rahmstorf “We are like small ants compared to nature,” says the teacher Orrawan.

Pollinators,
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@rahmstorf These are not good things we have done. I use to confirm my thoughts.

Pollinators, to random
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@RSMacKinnon I wish the dangers were in daily weather reports when the conditions are forecast.

glynmoody, to random
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First cheetah cubs born in India in more than seven decades die in heatwave - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/26/first-cheetah-cubs-born-in-india-in-more-than-seven-decades-die-in-heatwave what a terrible symbol - and frightening warning of what is to come...

Pollinators,
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@glynmoody The canary in the coal mine is cheetah cubs in India.

pvonhellermannn, to random
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“99% of manufactured goods are tossed within 6 months, and I know for certain that 100% of them are tossed eventually. Amazon seems like it’s delivering your order, but in fact it’s a massive entropy machine.”

https://link.medium.com/dX2mUmfXWzb

Pollinators,
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@pvonhellermannn This article is written by Indrajit Samarajiva. This is two sentences that are powerful. “Half the time what people in the North call recycling is just dumping stuff in the South so they can feel better about filling up the bins every week. It’s cosmetics on the corpse of consumer society, which stubbornly refuses to decompose properly.” This is a good article to read after you read . , .

peeteepee, to random
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    Pollinators,
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    @peeteepee That sounds like our Sunday. Namaste.

    cognissart, to art

    So this is one of the reasons I've been so busy this week. I needed to finish this for submission to an amazing upcoming exhibition of (more detail soon). Much unpicking and restitching has been involved! But I'm finally happy.
    Beech Walk, Tideswell

    @fibrearts
    @textilearts
    @embroidery

    Pollinators,
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    @cognissart @fibrearts @textilearts @embroidery This is a beautiful scene along the beech path. It is a peaceful spot for anyone to linger. Thank you for sharing.

    inherentlee, to random

    paging @futurebird - these absolute piles of ants were a sight to see at Snake Lake in Tacoma.

    An even bigger pile of ants! Lit by the sun this time and with more greenery in the background. In the sun, you can see more reddish colors on the ants.

    Pollinators,
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    @futurebird @inherentlee Very nice. A passive solar battery. Each is recharged repeatedly. And it’s an ant. .

    BadSeedGarden, to plants

    @plants

    Pollinators,
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    @BadSeedGarden @plants Have you got an alt text for us?

    juliajaniszewski, to climate
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    One of the things that gets missed in the vs debate around and is that my individual actions are pretty much the only things keeping me sane right now. Which feels somewhat important.

    Pollinators,
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    @juliajaniszewski Well said. Namaste.

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