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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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natureworks, to animals
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Out gamboling again. having fun in the sun

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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

natureworks, to nature
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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

natureworks,
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A is an ancient, multi-functional, productive ecosystem. A wood. And a meadow. Like a .

The quote that sparked my fire:

“Neither in any other community of Western Europe, nor anywhere in the tropics, does the number of vascular plant species within a few square meters reach the numbers counted on the Estonian wooded meadows.”

https://grwd.cc/paper-when-culture-supports-biodiversity

Photo of Laelatu wooded meadow in Estonia Dr Oldekop on Wikimedia Commons

natureworks, to climate
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There's a #RestoreNatureNow mobilisation in London, UK Saturday 22nd June.

I shall be going, see you there ✊

https://www.restorenaturenow.com/

#ClimateEmergency #NatureEmergency

natureworks,
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I want to #recommon land for the people, create sustainable livelihoods that enhance nature, not degrade. This is my Common Wood Meadow project.

I'm going on a wood meadow fact finding mission to the European conference on Ecological Restoration in Estonia in August.

https://sere2024.org/

I have a fundraiser here for the tickets & accommodation!
https://ko-fi.com/natureworks/goal?g=25

#ecology #restoration #ForestGarden #commons

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I see , everywhere.

Fabulous habitat, easier than walls. Nice example topped with Ivy-leaved Toadflax in Cardigan.

natureworks, to gardening
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Ok, I've just made my paid online courses only £1

I'm not updating them and not making any more courses soon, so do jump in and help yourselves.

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

What I am doing is a fundraiser for trip to Estonia for Restoration conference, to research my project

https://ko-fi.com/natureworks/goal?g=20

natureworks, to gardening
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(think landscape scale ) are an example of how humans can live in balance within nature.

I want to create a Common in West Wales.

There's an amazing ecological restoration conference in Estonia (home of the most biodiverse area in the world) this August. I can't afford to go, so I have made my first ever fundraiser 😳 Trying to raise £940!!

https://ko-fi.com/natureworks/goal?g=0

natureworks,
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This is the conference. It looks absolutely amazing

https://sere2024.org/

Of specific interest is the trip to the Vainu wooded meadow in Alam-Pedja Nature Reserve. But the whole conference looks incredible

https://sere2024.org/programme-info/half-day-tours/

#WoodMeadow #WoodMeadows #ecology #commons

natureworks,
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This is the paper that really did it for me, When culture supports biodiversity by Kull, Kukk & Lotman 2003

> Neither in any other community of Western Europe, nor anywhere in the tropics, does the number of vascular plant species within a few square meters reach the numbers counted on the Estonian wooded meadows.

> Biodiversity of the meadow ecosystems is connected to human use and it declines significantly if this use ceases.

#WoodMeadow

https://grwd.cc/paper-when-culture-supports-biodiversity

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It's always a good day to be an .

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/21/italy-antonio-scurati-rai-broadcaster-antifascist-monologue-cancellation

natureworks,
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@alx holy shit, getting that scary vibe. Luckily we don't have any of that fascist nonsense in the UK

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/19/victimise-people-protest-britain-destroy-families-not-in-my-name

natureworks,
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@alx
I'm sorry, makes me furious

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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

#Library #Libraries #InternetArchive #Commons

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Philanthrophy was invented to convince society that nazi loving wealth hoarders are "the good guys".

natureworks,
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@XoGloomnrainbows
No need for philanthropy in a just society
@seachanger

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Chocolate Mousse is really just Chocolate Mayonnaise.

natureworks,
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@RickiTarr
Oh my! Does mayo have bubbles? 🤔
@lisamelton

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A few weeks back I encountered a FOSS guy here explaining that when he sees open source devs ask for money, he blocks them and then stops using their code because they're morally wrong and he only wants to work with tools made by people who are doing the work for the right reasons. (I'm paraphrasing to avoid indexing the post.)

I've resisted writing about it because I'm slammed, but the question I can't shake is: Who benefits from the ideology of "pure" volunteerism?

natureworks,
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@kissane purists? The morally superior? Capitalists?

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Zielschmerz
n. the dread of finally pursuing a lifelong dream, which requires you to put your true abilities out there to be tested on the open savannah, no longer protected inside the terrarium of hopes and delusions that you started up in kindergarten and kept sealed as long as you could.

~ The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig

Uh-oh…

via Maria Popova https://www.themarginalian.org/2024/04/12/dictionary-of-obscure-sorrows/

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Path past the castle.

You can't really see but there's a swathe of Forget-me-nots (Myosotis sylvatica) on the right. I love them, so blue and perfect, and they form a great temporary ground cover as well, re-seeding happily.

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Unfurl

Hart's Tongue Fern (Asplenium scolopendrium)

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Priceless

Wood Anemone (Anemone nemerosa)

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The river is brown and the buds are green

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I'm rich, rich I tell you!

natureworks, to wildlife
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Early edible perennial, stuffed full of goodness. What's not to love?

natureworks, to wildflowers
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Bank of Wild Garlic (Allium ursinum) in Moylegrove, Pembrokeshire UK

#NativePlants #WildFlowers #BloomScrolling #ForestGarden #FoodForest

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