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Nolan is growing mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 @ndmonaghan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

My dad had a Monarch Butterfly chrysalis appear on his watering can

Dark green orb with a golden belt hanging from the handle of a metal watering can

Nolan is growing mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 @ndmonaghan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Folks often draw a dichotomy between organic and monoculture crop production. These fields are both organic AND monocultured.

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Nolan is growing mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 @ndmonaghan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Screaming “my culture is not your costume” in the Munich clubs when Cotton Eyed Joe comes on

Crowded club floor with lots of purple laser lights and fog

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Nolan is growing mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 @ndmonaghan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Charmed by how the town of Manchester, Vermont set up a joint call with 18 other Manchesters in the country to celebrate the Bicentennial. Manchester, Iowa even linked the phone to the speakers at the Fairgrounds

Headline: City to Receive Phone Call From Manchester, Vt.

Body: The community of Manchester, Vermont, will be calling 18 other "Manchesters," including this city. as a special Bicentennial project next Monday at 4 p.m.
Mrs. Edythe Satterlee, president of the Delaware County Bicentennial Commission, said she has been corresponding with Manchester, Vt. whose Lord Mayor and Mayoress. the Kenneth Franklins, will be talking to 18 of the 24 Manchester cities in the United States.
Mrs. Satterlee said tentative plans include her answering the phone and turning the call over the Mayor Milt Kramer. The festivity will take place at the fairgrounds where a loud speaker will be installed in front of the fair secretary's office All interested persons are invited to stop at the fairgrounds at 4 p.m. Monday to listen to the phone conservation from Vermont.
"We really don't know what questions will they will be asking." said Mrs. Satterlee.
Manchester, Vt., is a town of 2,975 people who have raised $500 to pay for the cost of the uniform call to the 18 cities with the same. name that will be participating in the unique telephone hook-up.

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Nolan is growing mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 @ndmonaghan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The graceful meandering of rivers lightly touched by humans

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Nolan is growing mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 @ndmonaghan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Apparently scientists are still identifying new monkeys!! Look at this lil guy

A series of black monkeys with pink lips and sunken eyes sitting in trees

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Nolan is growing mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 @ndmonaghan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The Mizzou Center for Agroforestry just launched a program to breed melons adapted to grow under the shade of tree crops, and I can't get over how cute these promotional photos are

(left) a melon wearing a Center for Agroforesty baseball cap (right) a load of melons in a black truck bed

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Nolan is growing mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 @ndmonaghan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Yesterday I visited a chicken-hazelnut agroforestry system. One of the issues with “free range” chickens is that the birds don't feel safe in open pasture, as they evolved to hide from sky-dwelling predators. The cover provided by shrubby hazelnuts allows them a sense of safety.

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Nolan is growing mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 @ndmonaghan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Adaptive reuse in the rural Heartland Grain elevator -> fireworks store

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Nolan is growing mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 @ndmonaghan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

On the one hand, I love this idea of including a playlist in a book. On the other hand, I just know if it becomes popular it'll immediately be used by media conglomerates for cross-promotion and not actually be crafted by the author.

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Nolan is growing mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 @ndmonaghan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

No shade to the author, but this strikes me as a deeply coastal problem. Come to the Midwest! The land where you can get a seat at the best restaurants just by walking in! www.eater.com/trends/97251...

Screenshot of the linked article reading "That reminds me: A similar email appeared in my inbox last week from the Italian restaurant Swoony’s. “Book a table through our website or Google Reserve,” it told me, both options of which appear to also be powered by SevenRooms. As if reservations weren’t already hard enough to get based on availability alone, we must now seemingly keep track of several apps simultaneously and have a mental index of which one each restaurant uses — woof! When did the very act of making a reservation or finding one get so tedious, requiring all this cross-referencing and Google searching and the downloading of so many separate apps?"

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Nolan is growing mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 @ndmonaghan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

As we approach the nation's 250th, agriculture has been a mainstay, especially at the Great American State Fair. Which raises the question, how was agriculture celebrated during the Bicentennial? On the eve of our 200th birthday, a pillar of agrarian recognition was established: the Century Farm

Century Farm sign in an Iowa farms front yard

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Nolan is growing mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 @ndmonaghan.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Looked up from my dinner plate to realize I'm eating like a cowbow

Plate of cornbread, pinto beans, and fried sausage

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Nolan is growing mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 @ndmonaghan.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Entirely predictable. Skimp out on ingredients for years and just when consumers begin to notice release a nebulous “new and improved” version

A box of "super stuffed" strawberry pop tarts

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Nolan is growing mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 @ndmonaghan.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Minnesota’s Tree-Range Farms has some of the best agroforestry marketing I’ve seen, masterfully and accessibly communicating how trees help them grow sustainable and delicious poultry. headwatersblog.substack.com/p/marketing-...

Text: By focusing on the system’s tree component, they've effectively differentiated their product offerings from other chicken brands (even in competitive natural grocers where free-range, pasture-raised chicken is abundant). Footer: Nolan Monaghan, Marketing Agroforestry to the Public, headwatersblog.substack.com

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Nolan is growing mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 @ndmonaghan.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Perennial Farm Gathering haul! Elderberry juice and heritage grain flour milled less than 2 weeks ago!

myself and a friend, me holding a bag of flour, my friend holding a can, picture is a selfie

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Nolan is growing mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 @ndmonaghan.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I was experimenting with taking pictures through my friends binocs at the same time this flock of seagulls decided to take off

Dozens of seagulls taking off from a river sand bar against a line of bare trees

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Nolan is growing mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 @ndmonaghan.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

After 4 years I finally got the pasta machine out of its box

Spinach pasta with cherry tomatoes plated in front of a vase with a rose and green and white foliage

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Nolan is growing mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 @ndmonaghan.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Add Spotify to the list of apps pushing right wing slop (in this case, Ann Coulters podcast)

A screenshot of the Spotify home page, featuring an episode of the PBD Podcast

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Nolan is growing mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 @ndmonaghan.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

An apartment above the library. Boston is building the dream

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Nolan is growing mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 @ndmonaghan.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

A while ago, I wrote about the future of Kernza and perennial grain research. A concern I voiced was that, as grain yields increase, the plant would move from investing resources in roots and biomass in favor of seed yield, denuding the plants ability to curtail erosion and improve soil health. (🧵)

A field of Kernza with the sun peaking behind it

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Nolan is growing mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 @ndmonaghan.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis is one of the most gorgeous places I've visited. A natural cemetery, they maintain a meadow for green burial (no embalming, simple casket or shroud, no headstone)

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Nolan is growing mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 @ndmonaghan.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

The Missouri Botanic Garden has a wonderful exhibit about plant fragrances, including these scent jars containing important fragrant compounds sourced from plants

4 glass jars arranged on a wooden table, the far left one containing a faint green hue and the three right ones having various pink hues

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Nolan is growing mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 @ndmonaghan.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

It was an honor to serve as the liaison for the Republic of Ghana's delegation to the 2025 World Food Prize, including Her Excellency Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang and Minister of Food and Agriculture Eric Opoku

Me holding 2 cube versions of the sdg goals, specifically zero hunger and responsible consumption and production

Me standing with Ghanian Minister for Food and Agriculture

Ghana vice president standing on a stage behind a podium speaking, with a red wall behind her

Me and three colleagues standing in front of a large inflatable globe

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Nolan is growing mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 @ndmonaghan.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Sleighbells exist because it's quite difficult to brake a sleigh traveling over snow, so folks put bells on them to warn people of their approach The reason they're associated with Christmas is that mailmen used sleighs in the winter, and the bells signaled to kids that presents may be coming

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Nolan is growing mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 @ndmonaghan.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Xiaomi, one of China's biggest tech companies, sounds a lot like my old bosses cat's name. So whenever I'm reading EV news, I can't help but imagine cars made by this little goblin

A grey cat sitting on a blue cushion in a white chair nuzzling its head with its paw

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Nolan is growing mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 @ndmonaghan.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Sooooo, what are the chances these are propaganda tools?

A screenshot displaying two Instagram "chat with AI" services. The first one is "what political party fits you" and the second one reads "democrat or republican?"

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Nolan is growing mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 @ndmonaghan.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

What's the stage of the writing process where you get into comment chains with yourself?

Microsoft Word comment chain, both from myself. The first one reads "Gotta be more subtle man" and the reply reads "I’m just trying to get words on the page *crying emoji*"

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