Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Good morning, everybody! Sending love to you all today! ❤️ 000
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Almost a year later (took my first weaving class the 4 weeks of Feb) and my loom is almost totally setup. It just took a few hours! We are turning the apartment into a craft room. BEST DECISION EVER. #weaving #loom 0120
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 20/07/2025I’m going to look into it when i don’t work full-time. The volunteer hours required to be a Master Gardener are no joke! Sorry, but I have too many hobbies right now! Too little time. 110
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Perfectly timed pause! 🫢😆🤣 Finally started watching #Hacks We just watched 5 episodes? I think we like it. 😉 010
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Guess who’s Red Cap Mushroom spawn was delivered yesterday!!!!!! #mushrooms #soilrejuvenation #killyourlawn #gardening northspore.com/pages/mushro...northspore.comHow to Grow Mushrooms Outside in Your Garden | North SporeDiscover the benefits of growing mushrooms outside in your garden with our comprehensive guide. Learn how to grow mushrooms in mulched beds, logs, totems, and more! 020
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Yummmm #beer Prairie Artisan Ales #Lifesource Co-Op in Salem, OR has the BEST brew selection. 010
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Yr 3. I think it’s going to bloom for the first time!The deer better stay away. 🙏🏼 I’m pretty sure this is slender leaf milkweed. I sowed a LOT of seeds in fall ‘23. The majority did not mature successfully. Or, honestly…I may have weeded them. Watching these plants grow this year has been exciting. 110
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 02/06/2025I’m SO EXCITED! I ordered wine cap mushroom spawn (and a blue oyster mushroom bucket) to grow in my garden!!! With killing the lawn and smothering it with arborist chips, this will hopefully really rejuvenate the soil and improve the clay structure. #gardening #mushrooms 120
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Apple tree #espalier 2/3 support posts installed. Shou Sugi Ban. 220
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 25/05/2025I’ve decided that part of why I am so taken by cedar waxwings is because they are so apart of the background. They’re not eager to show off their beauty. I can hear them. They’re hanging out, often in our neighbor’s madrone. But I rarely ever see them, maybe once a year. #birds #nature 000
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 25/05/2025I just took our uvBeast flashlight outside at night…SO COOL. You’ve got to do it!!! #gardening #nature I bought the light after we bought a house that had prior dogs…best/worst purchase ever. But to see nature like that? A spider’s legs and belly glowed. Weird bright dots on petals…just do it. 020
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 24/05/20251 month ago. 4-23-25. A glorious collection of mostly native plants. Like, 98% native. #plantnatives #gardening 050
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 24/05/2025I use coyote urine, too! It seems to work! I’ve tried so many things. 020
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Got rid of the front lawn last fall—with 3 #chipdrop deliveries and a lot of sweat. Just got 2 espalier apple trees in the ground with our new garden beds. This is a dream fulfilled at age 45, kids. 🥹🥰#getridofyourlawn #gardening 110
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 23/05/2025I love my neighbors. I really do. They both have more than an acre, I only have 1/3 acre. But I fight English Ivy and Himalayan Blackberry on either side. Oh—and shiny geranium. I JUST finished removing English Ivy from my big hill. I don’t want to do it AGAIN! 😭 240
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 23/05/2025The deer ate my wild gingers both times I planted them. Or something did. I usually blame the deer when there’s NOTHING left behind. It’s just such a cool plant. Maybe one day i’ll try again. 110
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 23/05/2025My neighbor in Alaska left his door open. I watched, wide-eyed, as a porcupine waddled in. I was like, “HELLO!!! Sir? SIR!!! If you can hear me, a PORCUPINE just went inside your house!” It was under his bed. Surprise!!! 110
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Maybe it’s just a paywall? But the sections just…. Do you see? I’ve seen abstracts with a paywall, but never partial access before. 110
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Nooe. Black tailed bumblebee. www.inaturalist.org/taxa/130222-...inaturalist.orgBlack-tailed Bumble Bee (Bombus melanopygus)Bombus melanopygus, the black-tailed bumble bee, black tail bumble bee or orange-rumped bumblebee, is a species of bumblebee. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California,... 000
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 22/05/2025The paper was incomplete? I’ve never seen a published research paper like that before. I have so many questions. 100
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 22/05/2025I took a couple weeks off from work and from…all the crap out there. I recently found collections of videos that depict non-mainstream ways of thriving. I now start each day watching them. I love their thoughtfulness. #mentalhealth #staycation #joy #reset www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du7f...youtube.comDon't PANIC - experiencing Pain is the Human Condition but so is experiencing JoyYouTube video by Reflections of Life 010
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Oh, I feel this. I try to just go with the flow. But. Having lost many of my new plants to deer or slugs over the last couple years…i am putting out slug beer traps and coyote urine granules—only things that have worked. I’ve tried everything because I don’t want to build a fence…yet! Good luck! 010
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 22/05/2025It may be the red belted bumblebee. wildcolumbia.org/wildlife-gui...wildcolumbia.orgBees of Columbia County, OregonBees belong to the Anthophila clade of the Superfamily Apoidea. They are most closely related to wasps and ants. The current decline in bee populations – likely due to pesticides, loss of hab… 110
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Look at this adorable bee!!! What is it? We saw it last week on penstemon—lost it before we could get a picture. Saw it again today!!! Then saw 3 of them in the cascara. 120
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 21/05/2025The #deer are here. It got my checker mallow on its first year’s bloom, and nibbled on my Pacific Waterleaf and Swamp Rose, too. Just…be patient!!! I #plantnatives for everyone, but just let them get established so we can share, buddy. One just walked by. I said, nooooo. Not yet! 000
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 21/05/2025are stable enough to walk on so we (I) can get down to the water. I can sit on a big rock and stick my feet in the water in the summer. Reminds me of our old property in Metalline Falls. 000
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 21/05/2025The (fired) landscaper used to blow all the leaves into the creek—against the law. Lots of chemical sprays to make it look clean. I threw all the fallen tree debris onto the rocks, left the leaves, threw a bit of chips, and have sown native seeds every fall. The result? Ducks!!! ❤️🥰🥲🤗 and rocks that 100
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Added sword ferns, nootka roses, swamp rose, salmonberry, western vibernum, red elderberry, pacific wax myrtle, Oregon grapes, salals, gooseberries, coltsfoot, pacific waterleaf, goatsbeard, pacific ninebarks, hummingbird trumpet, willows, incense cedars, huckleberries, seablush, twinberry, & more. 030
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 21/05/2025As it was when we bought the house. #plantnatives #gardening 110
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Beaver tracks, monkey flower, lupine, red osier dogwood, snowberry, slough sedge, rushes. None of this creekside flora was here 3 years ago. Just bare rock. I over-seeded the existing lawn with a native mix. 240
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Every time I see one, I get quiet and think of so much lost potential on so many levels. I see them too often in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. Probably weekly. 😢I hate them. And everything they stand for. I mean, the “crumple zone”? Do they want to kill other people? Seriously. 😐 010
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Stop destroying nature AND do more. Plant natives. Remove invasive plants/weeds. And for us, after a lot of education…we have begun supporting native mason bees harvested from the Willamette Valley. Cool. Glad we’re on the same page. I’m going out to my garden now. Less talk, more action. 020
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Right. Right. But again, climate change/new predators have put our native bees, like the blue orchard mason bee, at increased risk. Therefore, “just” planting natives still doesn’t adjust for the new predators like the Houdini fly. So. That’s why responsible mason bee keeping can help more. 020
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 21/05/2025After attending 3 mason bee seminars, we finally installed 2 bee houses/bee blocks and put out cocoons. In another week we’ll bag them up and bring them inside to PROTECT them from predators like mites, wasps, and the Houdini fly. Responsible ownership of boxes improves survival by 60%. 👍 000
Dev @dev-in-pnw.bsky.social · 21/05/2025This is a tiny shoot of a red elderberry I planted last year after we cut down 2 burning bushes. I thought this was dead, after succumbing to the slugs. I am THRILLED to see it’s hanging on!Everyone says elderberries are easy to grow…I argue easier for slugs to eat. 😢 #plantnatives #gardening 000
