Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 13hIDK, friend. I only learned about the movement (ecofeminism) last year, when I read something along similar lines. It clicked for me immediately too. Perhaps we heard such things before, and considered them pithy aphorisms. We are clearly primed to understand now. 010
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 22hEcofeminism: justification for abuse of each other starts with how we treat the land. Fascism too, grows out of abuse of other animals and the land. Activists who resist abusive exploitation are labeled terrorists, starting with animal rights activists and indigenous people, like water protectors. 2184
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Please read this letter from Iran. The world is watching the US and Israel, and our place in the global community going forward will depend on how we atone for our ongoing corrupt imperialism. It didn't start with Trump and Netanyahu, but it can end with them. www.cpiusa.org/news/iranian...cpiusa.orgIranian President’s Letter to the American People - FULL TEXT — The Center for Political InnovationPresident Masoud Pezeshkian of the Islamic Republic of Iran has written this letter to the American People. Below is the full text: In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful To the people... 143
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A burst of purple by the highway warms my heart. Great pictures! 120
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Teaberry, Boxberry, Checkerberry, Wintergreen... Of all the things people call wintergreen, I give the capital (species name) to Gaultheria procumbens, because it has the flavor to back it up. I love finding these cheerful little red berries. Acton Arboretum, MA, 9/30 #nativeplants #ecoregion59 060
Reposted by Eli's Native PlantsArt & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 30/09/2026#Poetry #Painting #EverdayMagic Nature is not stingy with her miracles We simply forget to look 🎨 Rex Preston 211616
Reposted by Eli's Native PlantsGina @createnewpaths.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us.” ~Henry David Thoreau Yes. Allow Mother Nature to guide you and have a wonderful day✨✨ #eastcoastkin 2032242
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If we replace enough complicit centrist Dems with progressives we might get a real resistance from our politicians, instead of cute speeches that are all just posturing and aren't backed by even steadfast obstruction let alone resistance. 100
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 24/09/2026None of the #Traitorous7 who keep betraying Democrats and e.g. voting to allow ICE to strip search children (’25), voting for increased ICE funding and the SAVE Act (’26) are progressive. They are all centrist Dems. Jared Golden, Marie Peres, Laura Gillin, Henry Cuellar, ...e.gm 100
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Definitely the prettiest kind of crow around here 😉 010
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I take great stock in names. They shape thought. And I don't like the Christian ideas of sexual 'purity,' white at the wedding, white flowers on the wedding bower... Woodbine is better, even as a British catch-all for a vine, but I'll just call it Clematis, lacking a Cherokee or Haudenosaunee name. 100
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Virgin's Bower (Clematis Virginiana) is our only native vine that will flower in full shade, theoretically. I see it more often in wet meadows and forest edges, draping over a shrub or tall clumping herb, blooming profusely. #nativeplants #ecoregion58 1111
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Opening up the field edge for feral apples, Hawthorns (e.g. this Crataegus pruinosa?) and other #nativeplants at my grandparents' place is humbling work. Removing thickets of Alder-leaved Blackthorn. Tools: A weed wrench, hand saw, and seeds. I'll be back with a hatchet to cut resprouting stumps. 090
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Be cautious and respectful of our friends the Hickory Tussock Moths (Lophocampa caryae). Avoid skin exposure to setae (hairs). Annual life cycle, seen as catrplrs in NE US in fall. Hosts: deciduous, woody plants. Picked around them in the Am. Hazels, NP. More info: extension.psu.edu/hickory-tuss... 091
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It's hard on the vocal cords. I could hardly talk for days after a cathartic screaming session in my car earlier this year. Howling, ritualized wailing, taking inspiration from your indigenous ancestors' grief rituals, and other things that don't leave you (usually temporarily) mute may be better. 000
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Spicebush Swallowtail (Papilio troilus) caterpillar on American Hazelnut leaf (Corylus americana). They prefer Spicebush or Sassafras but will eat Hazel or Birch. #nativeplants #insects #lepidoptera #ecoregion58 (Berne, NY, 09/26) 1150
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It's all connected. Caring about all animals means caring about humans, and ecocide, including marine devastation, deforestation, and genocide. Ecocide is genocide and vice-versa, linked in both causes and effects, as shown in Malm's essay, The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of Earth. 010
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Prunus serotina, Black Cherries, are native to most of the Eastern US. To harvest: put the cherries in a blender (low) or food processor with lemon juice (1:4). Process, then strain through a fine seive or cheesecloth. Use juice in dressings, frostings, drinks. #nativeplants #foraging #seedsaving 050
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 08/09/2026He is just reminding the UK that they are an imperialist power still, and supporting occupation and colonization is in their interest as well. Subtext: support Israel's ongoing colonization and genocide of Gaza, or Israel will point out your colonizer hypocrisy. 010
Reposted by Eli's Native PlantsSuzanne Daley @suzannedaley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Trees ~ keepers of ancient wisdom, holders of the light 🌲🌿🦎 #greenwitch #forest #nature #trees #animism #peace 291532218
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Purple-flowering Raspberry (Rubus odoratus) is local species I maligned in our the Rubus podcast episode. @genusbarpod.bsky.social These were delicious: just as good as Thimbleberries (R. parviflorus)—western/northern cousins (in subgenus Anoplobatus) w/ simple leaves. #ecoregion60 #nativeplants 070
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Are you trying to distract from this effort to replace traitors in blue in primaries? This is about having a party that actually resists instead of complying with the fascist regime. 100
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Turncoat Tom Suozzzi voted to allow ICE to strip-search children without parents present, to increase ICE funding after the shooting of Renee Good, for the SAVE Act. He is helping the fascists—no wonder he doesn't want competition for his primary. But the DNC often backs reps like him. #traitorous7 130
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 02/09/2026These are wonderful! I love the hanging with the Joshua Tree. The Tiger Mosquito gives the the heebeedeegeebeez. 110
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The strength of these trees... Some of our hardest hardwoods (Janka: 1800+) love the escarpment and Helderberg hills: The Ironwoods, as they call them up there, American Hophornbeam (Ostrya virginiana), and Shagbark (Carya ovata) don't mind holding lots of heavy wood on twisted trunks. 030
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Helderberg Escarpment [1] #ecoregion60 the Allegheny Plateau falls away changes toward the Hudson Valley, and the ecosystem (eg plant life) changes to #ecoregion59, like the S. ME coast to New York NY. 1/2 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helderb... dmap-prod-oms-edc.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ORD/Ecoregio... 150
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The Peace of Wild Things By Wendell Berry I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.courier-journal.comWendell Berry, influential Kentucky writer and activist, has diedWendell Berry, a Kentucky native and man of letters and the land, who helped inspire the new American food movement, has died. He was 92. 02711
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 31/08/2026People suggest that Israel should not exist and don't suggest what that means for a Jewish colonist. This suggests rebranding after restructuring and ending the apartheid state named after the Jews; Israel is a name of David, and the Jewish People. I agree that they will need a new, inclusive gvt. 000
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 31/08/2026You're welcome! It may appear a bit dry, and I certainly haven't read the whole thing. But when I wanted to see what features defined genera e.g. Eurybia and Oclemena, it provided just what I was looking for. 000
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 30/08/2026If it gets big enough to try to procreate, you can mail pollen to the American Chestnut Foundation so they can use it to cross with their blight-resistant chestnuts and increase the genetic diversity. Doomed to die back to the roots again, but they've been doing it for 100 years. Indefatigabe. 100
Reposted by Eli's Native Plantstree creak @moistwelldrained.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Whorled wood aster! #nativeplants #CT 031
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Neat! I love finding them, even when they are just little resprouts, as a reminder of what was and what will be again. How big was it? 100
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Seems to me that it's not one of the popular species with native plant gardeners. IMO it should be as it's great high-protein forage for wildlife and hosts many species of butterfly and moth. illinoiswildflowers.info/savanna/plan...illinoiswildflowers.infoPanicled Tick Trefoil (Desmodium paniculatum) 030
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 30/08/2026It should do OK. That patch that I took the picture of the other day way under Norway Maples. They like it dry and are one of the few natives I find growing under my invasive nemesis tree. 100
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I don't often get answers on such things here, but often do on iNat. As someone who has seen a grand total of 3 tree crickets since I found my first last year, I'm not gonna weigh in on ID. 020
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 29/08/2026^ Oclemena acuminata aka Whorled Wood Aster. For a Turtle Island aster deep-dive: www.guynesom.com/GenericConsp...guynesom.comGeneric Conspectus - Astereae of North and Central America 100
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 29/08/2026It doesn't seem to grow in dense populations like White Woodland Asters here. I also see it around Eurybia divaricata; maybe a little more out toward the open, instead of between the trees. I should have mentioned it in my quote post with @genusbarpod.bsky.social (on the Turtle Island asters). 110
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 28/08/2026White Woodland Asters (Eurybia divaricata) are native from Southern Maine to Alabama. They grow in dry woodlands with partial sunlight, often along paths and near woods openings. They host the Pearl Crescent Butterfly (Phyciodes tharos), and multiple moths here, in #ecoregion59. #nativeplants 1141
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 28/08/2026That complicit billionaire (Pritzker) does make some cute quips on social media. But he actively courts corporate investment through trade missions and economic agreements with foreign governments, prioritizing business growth over labor protections. He is no friend to the working class. 000
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Both parties serve the 1%. One burns the house down; the other just repaints it. Your wages stagnate either way because the system demands surplus value for owners. We need to organize independently, but we also need grassroots progressives in office to dismantle capitalist structures. 170
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Republicans strip wealth from the working class with reckless speed, gutting safety nets while billionaires feast. It’s looting disguised as freedom. Dems run the same extraction carefully, smoothing over crashes to keep capital flowing. They’re slower, but they protect the rich at your expense. 150
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 26/08/2026And if that critical thinking extends to actually looking into how gvt enacts policy about those issues, instead of making empty speeches and gestures then quietly giving industry free reign, then you go toward the progressive/leftist. 000
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I said 'ubiquitous' and implied Human credit for the spread. An anthropologist academic would probably just say Wapato was used by many Peoples of the Pacific Northwest and Great Lakes (Chippewa, Maidu, Navajo, Ojibwa, Cherokee, Iroquois, and Katzie) and goes back thousands of years.archaeologyroadshow.orgAbout the Archaeology Roadshow | ARThe Archaeology Roadshow is a large-scale public outreach event held on Portland State University campus and in other communities in Oregon, designed to promote stewardship of Oregon’s heritage and educate adults and children about the value of archaeology to all citizens. 020
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The abundance of this species over the vast majority of Turtle Island is one of the signatures of indigenous cultivation. We have historically dismissed how Indigenous peoples tended their wild garden (Eden), but this species and the ubiquitous use thereof is a hot research topic.smithsonianmag.comThe Northwest’s Earliest “Garden” Discovered in British ColumbiaThe 3,800-year-old stone platform was used to cultivate wapato—wild water potatoes—a staple crop for many North American peoples 130
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Wapato (Sagittaria latifolia) blooming on the banks of the Assabet, in a spike of lovely little lilly-like tri-petalled flowers. It hosts 7 species of butterfly and moth (e.g. the Waterlily Owlet) in my zip code, according to NWFs 'native plant finder.' #nativeplants #ecoregion59 #foraging #wildfood 1110
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Awen, friend. By Oak and Ash and a Thorn, so mote it be. 110
Reposted by Eli's Native PlantsSuzanne Daley @suzannedaley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Green ~ 🌲nature🌱 growth 🍃 renewal 🐸 balance 🐲 hope 💚 love 🐢 health 🌳 vitality #greenwitch #green #nature #forest #trees #health #peace 30803145
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Misinformation and misunderstanding. Seeing it as a conflict between two powers, believing Israeli propaganda about Palestinians. You need to understand their skewed view to correct it. Grandpa set himself up as a defender of Jews in a conservative hilltown. He thought he was still defending them. 041
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 24/08/2026This lovely animal looks like it might be an inspiration for some traditional Turtle Island indigenous artwork. 060
Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I am in favor of trying to understand people's views, then educate. Grandpa and I had it out on the family chat. I'm trying to deescalate and come back to it. He almost drank himself to death after we argued and I convinced him to watch The Voice of Hind Rajab. I haven't broached the topic since. 231