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nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"these issues are... tightly interconnected... part of a single Earth system... Hence, our analysis – [and] political responses – need to be systemic, not ad hoc, firefighting each symptom as it flares up. No other concept reflects this planet-wide transformation in its proper context of deep time."

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In our Rubus episode, I said Purple Flowering Raspberry fruits were mealy and flavorless, and Thimbleberries were delicious. I think the PFR at my Grandma's house were just poor fruit producers. I just had some PFR berries that were just like Thimbleberries.

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Genus Eurybia, like the larger Turtle Island aster genus, Symphyotrichum, is a new-to-Europeans world aster that has been split from genus Aster (formerly Aster divericatus). Eurybia consists of a handful of woodland species with white or pale rays, and smooth stems compared with hairier Symph. spp.

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is how we should be feeding ourselves and our wild relatives. Settler culture has little connection with wetlands, but species that thrive in human disturbance for millennia would appreciate more feet pounding the mud to release roots. We adopted this food on the settler frontiers, then forgot.

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Important Foods: Wapato - Confluence Project

Wapato are a wetland tuber which were a part of Native diet. Though consumption of wapato ceased after land cultivation by white farmers, wapato are being reintroduced to the Yakama diet. Notes on coo...

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Reading: A Place on the Glacial Till —how our ecosystems are still shaped by the events that shaped the rocks and soil. I love the descriptions of the ecosystems. It is beautiful to hear from a human who sees the life around them. I'll try my hand in alt text. #nativeplants #ecoregion59 #ecosystems

A woodchip path through an open Pitch Pine/Oak forest near the coast: the base of Cape Cod, near Falmouth, MA.

Overstory: Pitch Pines dominate, but oaks are coming up to join them. The pines are broken by storms off the ocean, straight lower trunks and twisted regrowing tops. The oaks (Q. rubra, coccinea) are coming to fill it in, and shade out the understory.

Understory: Black Huckleberry (Gaylussaccia baccata) dominates, with Hillside Blueberry, lower, on dryer, raised areas, and Wild Raisins reaching above them from wet swales. Hayscented Fern is mixed in with other diversity, but the huckleberry is by far the most common.

Midstory: there are few tall shrubs, few small trees, little showing above 3' so that the huckleberries look unbroken in the distance, but here and there, Sassafras albidum writhes upward toward the overstory. As you notice their distinct leaf shapes (plural) you see that they are common in the understory as well.

This place is longing for a fire. The berries are profuse in a few open patches, where weather has broken a crown, but they will become more sparse as the oaks fill in. The Huckleberry and blueberries, Pitch Pine and rare raspberries would all bounce back vigorously after a burn cleared away oaks and the overstory. The abundance of this place would put the blueberry patches of coastal Maine to shame. No wonder Indigenous peoples practiced controlled burns.

Let's give it back to the Wampanoag, to the Nauset band in particular. Their people managed it much better for 12000 years. Or at least, let's learn from them and not let every diverse, productive pine barren become an oak forest.

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Wild Raisins, Viburnum nudum, have the tastiest berries of any Viburnum species I have tried, including Nannyberries. Wavy-edged, waxy, opposite leaves on this wet open understory shrub, and berries ranging in ripeness and color. plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/vibur... #nativeplants #ecoregion59

Dark purple to pale pine berries dangling in clusters near the end of the branches of a leggy Viburnum nudum

Viburnum nudum in the understory of a Pitch Pine/oak forest, with a dense understory of mostly Ericaceae: huckleberries, blueberries, Mountain Laural

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

If you buy potted cultivars of our native Hibiscus, Swanp Rosemallow (H. moscheutos) make sure they are not treated with pesticides or other chemicals. Butterflies and moths rely on this species as a host. Also you won't be able to make tea. Pic: before and after adding lemon juice to Hibiscus tea

Bright red hibiscus tea, with lemon juice and tan/pink tea without, in mason jars

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Speaking of materials science, and my PhD days, I just posted about Pitch Pines. I learned about them while in grad school, studying dynamics in Stokes regime, where swimming works like hammering a nail through wood (velocity ∝ force). The pitch drop experiment made it into my slides a few times.

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Pitch Drop experiment

We're home to the famous Pitch Drop experiment, which holds the Guinness World Record for the longest-running laboratory experiment.

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Pitch Pines (Pinus resinosa) at Crane Beach in MA. Leaves needle-like in bundles of 3 (2 for Red, 5 for White Pine), are thick and stiff like Red Pine. They are adapted to fire, and do well with sand, salt, and coastal disturbance. #nativeplants #ecoregion59 #pines #beaches #coastalflats #ma

Looking up at gnarled bark and poorly abandoned (dead, braking, persistent) lower branches and into the crown of a 20+m tall Pitch Pine, with Roundleaf Greenbriar in and Red Maples behind. Blue sky and dark green canopy through pine branches on the mid left.

Coarse bark of a younger Pitch Pine before it becomes platey on the straight centered trunk section, with 2 older pines behind. The older pines are straight too, lower down, and gnarled, twisted shapes where they have been broken by weather and regrown high up in the trees. In harsher weather or after a fire, they are low twisted pines that look like the tops of the pines in back. They have evolved to regrow and resprout after damage and fire.

Coarse, flattened triplets of needles in dense brush-like form on the ends of branches with a cluster of last-years open cones on the thicker branches that go through the image horizontally

A little, spreading, upward-reaching Pitch Pine in a sandy open area. This one is bright green with healthy looking foliage, spotted with old cones, and undulating higher up where the trunk had broken and regrown. It is <10m tall.

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A group of protestors have gathered in 105 degree weather in southwest Texas to stop the Trump administration from bulldozing and destroying Big Bend National Park. 💪

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Crane Beach, in MA, has amazing nature trails, and a wealth of berries. American Plums (Prunus americana), Black Cherry (Prunus serotina), and Northern Bayberry line the parking lot. I hiked, picked (from the parking lot), and jumped in the cold ocean to cool off. #nativeplants #foraging #seedsaving

American Plums, ripe, surround the parking lot and boardwalk to the beach at Crane Beach. This is a close shot showing many ripe red plums and foliage of Prunus americana, taken with my feet on asphalt.

A dangling branch of a Black Cherry taken from the parking lot. Clusters of berries (1-1.3cm cherries) mostly black, with a few unripe red ones hang from a small twig with a few pale green leaves. Many clusters retain a bract (leaf attached to the cluster) indicating that this P. serotina and not P. virginiana (Chokecherry).

The trunk of the cherry tree stands over a dense clump of Northern Bayberry (Morella pensylvanica) in the out-of-focus background.

Glorious dense, waxy-leaved Northern Bayberry (Morella pensylvanica) under a Black Cherry, taken from the parking lot at Crane Beach

Three bowls containing Black Cherries, American Plums, and Northern Bayberries. This is enough of each species for me to harvest and distribute seeds. I didn't have to break the rules and step off the path to pick at all. I wouldn't have anyway, but I didn't even have to pick as I hiked. There was enough genetic diversity lining the parking lot.

Btw, Black Cherry and Northern Bayberry are common species throughout the area, but American Plum, marked as introduced to the MA coast by Native Plant Trust, are only by the parking lot, competing with the invasives found throughout the park (Alder Buckthorn, Sea Pea), and the ones only found near the parking lot (Beach Rose, many others).

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Have I mentioned that in a physicist, not a botanist? I got my PhD in soft matter physics at Brandeis University. Bulbul Chakraborty is there doing amazing work on grandular materials. I enjoyed talks and seminars in granular cascades and collapses. Sand is awesome. #granularmatter #physics

Granular collapsed and cascades demonstrated by sand ripples and rivulets and the tide retreats

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Growing up in the Finger Lakes, we had Eastern Hemlocks encircled in fencing to keep the deer (overpopulated) from browsing the foliage, because our husky wasn't enough to keep them at bay. Now their main threat is an invasive insect: the Woolly Hemlock Adelgid. Range pushed to the cold North.

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P.S. @workforpeace.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

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Plantifa
noun.
A person who uses gardening, growing food, and restoring ecosystems as a quiet form of resistance against systems that prioritize profit over people and planet.
Rise up, root down!

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Anyone have a good resource on skipper ID? I've always wanted to be able to tell them apart, but I have struggled to get started. #butterfly #skipper #bugs #bugsky #insectID

A little orange skipper on a goldenrod. Wings are held in classic skipper fashion, folded out at 45° and 90° from vertical and have darker borders, but are otherwise carrot orange.

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Near Minneapolis? This could be a great way to meet some folks who are passionate about learning from and about nature. RDNA was designed to reject institutionalized dogma and coerced religion. Basic tenets: nature holds profound spiritual importance, and is a path to spiritual truth. #DruidSky

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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Artist Yehan Wang #Art

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Ever notice how, once you identify a new species, it jumps out at you again and again? I identified Catberry, Ilex mucronata, for the first time the weekend of 8/1, in Blue Hill, ME. This past weekend, I found it a second time, at my wife's family reunion in Southern NH.

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I bring a little backpack with a little hand saw, or a bigger backpack and a pair of loppers when I visit woodlands full of Asiatic Bittersweet and Porcelain Berry. This is a Porcelain Berry clearing, and the vines of older plants in surrounding woodlands. Coasters? #ecoregion59 #invasiveplants

Porcelain Berry stump, looking like a small tristy tree trunk, with light outer wood, a dark ring, and a nut brown center. Twigs on the ground and other vines behind. The one on the R looks like a grape vine. The ones on the L are Bittersweet

Vine segment didn't fit in my little backpack.

Bittersweet vine 2" which wrapped tightly CCW around a tree. The vine is cut near the bottom

The edge of a meadow filled with Porcelain Berry. It is growing over all of the shrubs and the smaller trees at the forest edge. It is 60" up in a 90" oak set far back, top center

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Even in coastal Maine, #ecoregion57, where berries abound on the coastal plain, the best places to pick are powerline cuts. Black Huckleberries, highbush and lowbush blueberries, Wild Raisins, Chokecherry, Serviceberry... These species do best where cutting every few years mimics fire. #nativeplants

A powerline cut filled with shrubs, starting with Black Huckleberry and Lowbush Blueberries, blending into a continuum of shrubby growth under the power lines, bordered by mature White Pine

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Chokecherry? I like Turtle Island Bird Cherry better for Prunus virginiana. Native to a wide swath along the US/Canada border, you'll find them in a ditch or on a forest edge. This lover of disturbance is doing well in #CoastalME. #nativeplants #ecoregion57 practicalselfreliance.com/chokecherry/

Waxy, lanceolate, light green, finely toothed leaves of Prunus virginiana, and a hanging cluster of almost 30 berries: red to purple shiny little cherries.

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Black Huckleberry lines the paths in much of the Hundred Acre Woods, in Brooklin, ME Gaylussaccia baccata, denizen of Northeastern oak woods and pine barrens, waiting for a fire. It thrives in powerline cuts, and where the coastal weather and poor soils limit competition. #nativeplants #ecoregion57

A wide, flat stone chip path lined with Black Huckleberry and White Pine

Dense shrub layer of Black Huckleberry before the trees start up

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Ants on Witch-hazel (Hamamelis virginiana).

Ants on a Witch-hazel twig overhead with spreading leaves catching sub and the silhouette of an ant on top. Two ants on a forming seed pod. Spreading green leaves with prominent veins

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Sassafras: Understory heavy-hitter, magnolia family, a truly unique variety of leaf shapes, a neat trunk. A rich history. Also, a nice spice, the leaves, and a medicine that may also be a carcinogen in the roots. I suggest you make root beer some other way. #foraging #nativeplants

foodprint.org

Sassafras and Filé

Learn all about the foodprint of sassafras and filé, including their impact on the environment, as well as how to shop for them and eat them.

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Edible, medicinal, grown as a root crop and flower in Europe (German Rampion), but underappreciated where it is native —almost the entirety of the Continental US. You'll more likely find it in the beauty products (listed as EPO) than the gardens of most households. It is an ecological powerhouse...

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I don't agree with pointing at religion alone, and not the hierarchical culture it is tied to but... Indigenous cultural practices worldwide are much more tied to the land and sky. B&L they are far better stewards of biodiversity. There are heaps of studies showing this. A good direction forward:

sciencedirect.com

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Good morning from Harriman's Point, Brooklyn, ME.

Harriman's Point, with a little patch of green, accessible at low tide, out past a stretch of rocky, kelpy, muddy part-time ocean floor. Ocean and mostly clouded bright blue sky, and more land in the distance.

Still ocean inlet past a rocky shore, looking toward the Sun. Far side of the inlet is a coniferous forest.

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Please excuse the interruption of the regularly scheduled plant posting. We are contemplating the ocean. Elliot is contemplating seagulls and sandpipers.

A barnicle- and shell-crusted rocky beach in Sedgwick, ME, looking toward an inlet, at still ocean water, with a reflection of trees and sky.

Also, my little poodly dog Elliot, pulling at the leash. He's a mobility-impared rescue dog. That's our excuse for not teaching him better manners. But he's an avid birder, and manners would be out the window with the raucous bird calls in the distance anyway.

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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Deer in the Forest by German painter Eugen Krüger (1832-1876)

Oil painting depicting a deer in a dark forest on a full moon night.

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A storm on Monday took down a big Northern Red Oak (Quercus rubra) limb, which smashed a young White Ash (Fraxinus americana) and some Witchhazel (Hamamelis virginiana) down into the path too. My wife thinks I'm crazy for going around with a hand saw. #nativeplants #ecoregion59 #trailMaintenance

The just-opened path, with clumps of Red Oak leaves, and a branch still arching over it. One branch was smashed half into the sandy, rocky soil, so I left it. Behind the draping, wilted oak leaves if the overarching branch is a path lined by rock, through a forest of Cherry Birch, American Hophornbeam, Witchhazel, Red Maple and various oaks. Understory is mixed natives, like blueberries and Poison Ivy, and invasives like Japanese Barberry and Burning Bush.

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Tribalmoon @materobscura.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

He thinks if he erases us, he doesn't have to face us. The seals represented acknowledgment these Nations weren't outside stakeholders commenting on federal land, they were participants caring for a place of profound cultural, historical, & spiritual significance. #Indigisky #Resist #LandBack

moabtimes.com

Days after slashing Bears Ears, Trump administration removes tribal seals from monument signs

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Spotted Joe-Pye Eutrochium maculatum Joe was a real Mohican healer named Schauquethqueat (settler name Joseph Pye). He used the E. purpureum for fevers in the late 1700s. The legend of him saving a colonial town from plague is a myth. His memory is honored by the name nonetheless. #NativePlants

A moist meadow filled with Spotted Joe Pye with a backdrop of Cottonwood, Speckled Alder and Red Maple. Cluster of pink blooms will become clouds above the foliage in the meadow as the blooms continue to open up. There are more buds than full flowers now

A blooming Spotted Joe-Pye plant on the edge of the path, over the corner of a boardwalk

The boardwalk/flat bridge, with meadow trying to envelop it, and a patch of Joe-Pye plants on the far right.

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Blooms don't tell the whole tale. The bees were going wild: they love Porcelain Berry blooms, and this whole valley is blooming with this wall and all-draping carpet spreading monoculture of a plant with a tactic with which this ecosystem cannot compete. #rewilding #nativeplants #combat #invasives

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I have a special place in my heart for the whole Heath Family, from Rhododendrons to Ghost Pipes, but Vaccinium is my favorite genus. I feel guilty about lumping Vaccinium species together in my seed collection, but it's too much trouble to pick into 4 or 5 bags. #seedcollection #nativeplants

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Rainbow Warriors - The Time Has Come 🌈🌍 @rainbow-warriors.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Support the Declaration on the Abolition of Trophy Hunting 🙏 ✍️ SIGN & SHARE HERE: ➡️ actionnetwork.org/petitions/su... The Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting

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Tweety @tweety-woody.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Joe Pye weed is 8ft tall. Had to take pictures from underneath. 😅 #Joepyeweed #Plants #Bloom #Photography

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

My favorite socialist responds to the current international "Red Scare." Nick Estes is a historian, writer, academic, cofounder of The Red Nation, community organizer, member of the Lower Brule Sioux, and a light in the current darkness. @nicke.bsky.social Substack: substack.com/@nickestes?u...

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The New Red Scare - The Red Nation Podcast | iHeart

<p>President Trump is fomenting a right-wing fever dream of a communist plot to destroy America. TRN Podcast host <a href='https://nickestes.substack.com/'>Nick Estes,</a> debunks this myth.</p> <p>Wa...

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Niladri suggested doing Acer (maples) in syrup season and I prepared. Learned more about the snakebark maples (section Macrantha), but I had posted about them last spring (link below). They're pretty neat. We missed that season. Now I'm thinking of starting smaller for our first tree genus. Ostrya?

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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

"Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life." - Hermann Hesse 🎨 Julia Tar

Illustration of a large oak tree with a face on its trunk. A person is sitting on the ground, facing the tree, and there is a reflection of a white stag in the water.

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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The artist's account: @juliatarart.bsky.social

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Julia Tar @juliatarart.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Всем привет! Я Юля Тар, художница, и тут будет еще одна копия моего рассыпающегося цифрового гнезда. • арт-дневник иллюстратора: работа, скетчи, рефы, метания • пет-проекты ("И Треснул Мир" и "Пустая Рука")

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John Hickenlooper @hickenlooper.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Public lands belong in public hands.

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

My co-host and his wife worked very hard and turned their first delivery from ChipDrop (free woodchips!) into a lawn conversion and aging chip pile for the garden before it yellowed the grass. I helped, but this is where I left it. I'm very proud of their hard work. #gardening #woodchips #homestead

The woodchip pile, mostly Norway Maple apparently, with Niladri and his wife hard at work filling wheelbarrows from the pole on the lawn in front of their house.

Their first crops are in! The woodchips were used to surround the raised beds they build this spring to grow their veggies. I helped arrange the crops, since I know who gets along and who doesn't among garden vegetables, but they did the rest.

Green tomatoes, yellow squash and zucchini on the railing by their garage port, with their pup Maisy's butt making a surprise cameo.

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James Gryboski @jgryboski.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Tennessee warbler in a crabapple tree for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #Birds&Flowers

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Genus Bar Podcast @genusbarpod.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Staghorn Sumac is ripe here! That's Rhus typha, with the hairy stems like downy buck. It's ripe for sumacaid or the local version of Palestinian zataar: forage Sumac and Bee Balm from the hillsides like they harvest their Rhus and Zataar Thyme. #wildfood #nativeplants #ecoregion59 #foraging

Red spire of small hairy Staghorn Sumac berries over a spray of pinnately compound leaves

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Catalina Fernandes @catalinafernandes.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

“The world’s top court is clear. Israel’s occupation of Palestine is illegal — and Governments must act now to end it.” UK MP Richard Burgon, alongside Imran Hussain MP and more than 80 MPs and Lords, has called on the Foreign Secretary to impose comprehensive sanctions on Israel, citing the

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