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natureworks

@natureworks@mas.to

Wildlife & forest garden designer in West Wales, UK. Climate activist. Professional ne’er do well, busyness is a curse. Commoner. Resistance is fertile. He/his.

#AntiFascist #ExtinctionRebellion #JustStopOil #UniversalBasicIncome #UBI #CitizensAssemblies #CommunityAssemblies
#FreePublicTransport #InsulateBritain

I’m not radical by nature, I’m just responding to the #ClimateEmergency & #NatureEmergency

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Billionaires and oil barons can build up tolerance to guillotines. Here’s how.

natureworks, to gardening
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Let's not forget the basics.

And that is damaging that topsoil and messing with the rain!

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Your regular reminder that are the backbone of ecosystems.

Grow in your as they have co-evolved with wildlife.

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I'm rich, rich I tell you!

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$7 trilliion in government subsidies for in 2022.

Seven trillion dollars.

WTAF.

https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/08/24/fossil-fuel-subsidies-surged-to-record-7-trillion

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Donate to the Internet Archive cos they are fab, have an amazing online library and an archive of the, er, internet

@internetarchive

https://archive.org/donate/

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In the technically-not-a-recession UK, has taken an understandable hit, because gardens are considered a luxury. A damning indictment but hey, that’s the economic lemons.

Luckily, I am still making lemonade. If you’re fortunate enough to have a garden design budget, please see my portfolio.

I have nearly 10 years of design experience, with an ornamental emphasis on , &

https://natureworks.org.uk/portfolio

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We’re living through a mass extinction event, and isn’t taught at UK schools.

Why? Is it because if we knew what we were doing, we would stop? Or just because ecology doesn't make any money?

Is there such a thing as , like there is ?! @RadicalAnthro

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“I don’t see a riot here. Why are you in riot gear?”

The real rioters? Cops and college presidents.

by Marisa Kabas

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/cops-college-presidents-rioters

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Seriously, consider donating to @internetarchive because they do fab work

https://archive.org/donate/?amt=10

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Internet Archive Files Final Brief in Publishers Lawsuit

“Resolving this should be easy—just sell ebooks to libraries so we can own, preserve and lend them to one person at a time. This is a battle for the soul of libraries in the digital age.”

Brewster Kahle
@internetarchive

https://mailchi.mp/519141338ca1/empowering-libraries-12084078

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is my thing. I am actively looking for work.

I am based in the UK and my focus is on using , edible crops & in ornamental settings, weaving wildlife habitat into the very fabric of the garden. Remote design a speciality.

Thank you 🙏 🌳

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Time to prioritise ecological viability over economic viability

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Manifesto

  • Every garden can be a
  • Use where possible
  • Create habitat where you can
  • Grow & perennial crops for humans
  • Extend garden principles of mutual aid into the commons
  • Create edible ecosystems

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Less consumption, better living

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If you are creating a garden, please design for the wildlife.

It’s not “Humans vs. Nature”, we are nature, so we can design for everybody. The more diversity of life in your garden, the more joy there is.

I’ve compiled a list of free resources https://natureworks.org.uk/resources

and made a free taster class about in the

https://store.natureworks.org.uk/l/native

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I’ve started reading The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber & David Wengrow. Fascinating, about how the Enlightenment was informed by Indigenous American cultures.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawn_of_Everything

I paraphrased this excerpt as it stands out for me:

‘In Wendat society, no way to transform access to material resources into the power to make others work for you’

https://archive.org/details/graeber-wengrow-dawn/David%20Graeber%2C%20David%20Wengrow%20-%20The%20Dawn%20of%20Everything_%20A%20New%20History%20of%20Humanity-Farrar%2C%20Straus%20and%20Giroux%20%282021%29/page/n71/mode/1up?view=theater

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“It is quite striking if you’re used to working with plants just how erratic the climate-plant system is becoming - and this is just the start of decades of increasing chaos.”

Martin Crawford

https://martincrawford.substack.com/p/end-of-season-reflections

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Yeah, I'm on and preaching to the converted. But this is spot on:

“The truth is many of the ills of today’s internet have a single thing in common: they are built on a system of corporate surveillance.”

Privacy First: A Better Way to Address Online Harms

By Corynne McSherry, Mario Trujillo, Cindy Cohn, and Thorin Klosowski

https://www.eff.org/wp/privacy-first-better-way-address-online-harms

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How do we live together in #nature? Wood meadows, a managed & productive #ecosystem, can achieve this balance, a model of human activity benefitting #biodiversity.

And I want to create a #WoodMeadow in #Wales.

For research, I’m going to the 14th European Conference on #Ecological Restoration this August in #Estonia, where the wood meadows are the most biodiverse sites in the world.

#ClimateEmergency #NatureEmergency #ForestGarden #Gardening #Agroforestry #Commons

https://ko-fi.com/natureworks/goal?g=35

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Out gamboling again. #RonnieBarker having fun in the sun

#DogsOfMastodon

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A free online spreadsheet of 100 & for your garden.

Use native plants where possible, as they’ve co-evolved with wildlife & provide the best food source.

https://bit.ly/garden-wild-spreadsheet

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My full Backyard online course, over 3½ hours of material, 8 sections:

  1. Intro - grow edible crops with nature
  2. Plan - surveying the land
  3. Design - put things in the right place
  4. Protect - with dead hedges & windbreaks
  5. Perennial veg - resilient & low maintenance
  6. Canopy - plan the big tres carefully
  7. Ground preparation - ways to clear the ground
  8. Shrubs & ground cover

50% off with this link, only £24.99

https://store.natureworks.org.uk/l/BackyardForest/FiftyFifty

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Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria) in flower, in mid-October

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Please, can people stop screaming into the void? I came for the eternal silence but it’s currently noisy as hell

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