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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

How should socialists govern? How can a position of power in the capitalist state be used to advance the socialist project? I wrote about realistic policies that can begin shifting power to the working class, using NYC as an example open.substack.com/pub/thelastf...

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How Socialists Should Govern, Part 2

Giving the working class an inch so it can take a mile

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

When socialists win power within the capitalist state, how should they govern? What are the measures of success? Can they move us closer to socialism, or just mitigate the harms of capitalism? I turn to an essay by Erik Olin Wright for answers open.substack.com/pub/thelastf...

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How Socialists Should Govern, Part 1

On using the capitalist state against itself

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Death to America Death to Israel Long live Iran

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

The 2nd installment in my native edible plant series is here! I wrote about an oak shrub perfectly suited to small gardens that pumps out high-quality food under tough conditions with zero inputs. It’s also an ecological powerhouse that supports hundreds of native insects & mammals

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I'm going big on these plants in 2026, Part 2

Another edible native for your garden

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Americans spend more than 3 billion hours **per year** pushing or riding gas-powered lawnmowers. That’s the equivalent of 187,500 people working full-time just on lawn mowing It’s hard to imagine a more vacuous & destructive embodiment of unearned wealth & ecological ignorance

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Yeah you could say I have a lot going on this month

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I’ve started writing a new series on edible native plants Based on my own testing, these are species that belong in your garden, where they can provide abundant, low-input yields while forming the bedrock of a healthy ecosystem open.substack.com/pub/thelastf...

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I'm going big on these plants in 2026, Part 1

Edible, native species that have worked great for me

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Had to try it Super good, tart and fruity with a complex herbal finish from the turmeric. Great condiment for anything fatty

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

This new study shows that restoring peatlands—which cover just 3% of the Earth’s surface but store 2x as much carbon as all forests combined—can restart long-term carbon sequestration in just a few decades This is the real “carbon capture & storage”

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Not tylenol or vaccines, dumbasses

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

This is an ultra-efficient wood-burning masonry heater with an integrated oven and stovetop If this is fueled by a regenerative supply chain—such as a coppice or invasive management program—it’s vastly more sustainable than high-tech heat pumps and induction cooktops

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Meanwhile, in Venezuela, the commune movement in collaboration with the Ministry of Food just opened a grocery store in Caracas with prices 50% lower than market. As many products as possible are sourced from communes around the country

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

In America’s class war, only one side is fighting for control of the land

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Ignorant apologia for invasive species is rampant, sometimes coupled with nonsense about supposedly harmful language yada yada The reality is that invasive species have created a global ecological crisis and exterminating them should be a top priority

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

“But what should we actually DO?” To answer that question, you must first understand how to make change open.substack.com/pub/thelastf...

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How To Make Change

On The Path To Victory

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Just catching up on this Maduro guy. Look at this tyrannical insanity!

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

If you want some background on one of the most exciting and important democratic initiatives in the world—the communes of Venezuela—and Maduro’s role in supporting them, here’s a very good and thorough new piece on the subject www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/03/v...

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Happy New Year, everyone! Make it a year of joy, meaning, & regeneration. Eschew optimization, competitiveness, & individualism Spend your year perpetuating life, it’s the most beautiful and unlikely phenomenon to ever exist

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

After successfully fighting to un-dam the Klamath River, a land trust formed by 4 Northern California tribes just completed the purchase of a huge swath of land in the basin. They plan to focus on habitat recovery, cultural resource protection, & fire management lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/dec/29/...

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Klamath Indigenous Land Trust Buys 10,000 Acres Along the Klamath River From PacifiCorp

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

This guy sponsored a bill that legalized shooting prairie dogs from a vehicle

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I wrote about why we don’t need any more renewables, and how we can reduce demand and inequality while improving quality of life instead open.substack.com/pub/thelastf...

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We Don't Need Any More Renewables

Here's how to reduce electricity demand while improving quality of life

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas The phrase of the day is “enemy release,” describing the absence of predators and diseases faced by invasive species when they’re moved out of their native range. This gives them an unbeatable competitive advantage over native species in their introduced range

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Anybody out there wanna help The Intertribal Buffalo Council set-up a “contact your Congressman” form/email campaign? They’re calling for people to support this bill but don’t appear to have any of the usual digital infrastructure

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Just living in a county with industrial agriculture increases your cancer risk: “Even after adjusting for ultraviolet radiation & socioeconomic factors, 2 patterns stood out: Counties with more cultivated cropland and higher herbicide use had significantly higher melanoma rates.”

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Obviously hate the emphasis on extractive benefits here—logging & cattle are the enemies of the North American ecosystem—but the research is instructive nonetheless This landscape evolved with prescribed fire; it’s one of the keys to regenerating it

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

One of my projects for next year is growing some less common milkweeds that are native to my area —Red milkweed (Asclepias rubra) —Fourleaf Milkweed (Asclepias quadrifolia) —Eastern Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata ssp. pulchra) —Clasping Milkweed (Asclepias amplexicaulis)

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Not only is Kerala a shining beacon of hope & sanity, it’s also home to the sickest houseboats in the world

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Lowest possible carbon district heating: A hybrid solar thermal, water brake wind, & rocket stove-powered system connected to a big thermal battery, such as an insulated water tank. A coppice fuels the rocket stove for heat on-demand as needed Feasible & cheap at scale

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I would be a lot more excited about this if DSA actually maintained its commitment to “class struggle elections.” But there is no ask being made here beyond “vote for Zohran.” It’s not electoral organizing, it’s electoralism

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

The state of California is killing wolves to protect ranchers’ profits. Absolutely despicable and ecocidal

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

The anti-degrowth position, on both the left & the right, is that this is good & necessary. Anyone who opposes this is a “primitivist” calling for “austerity”

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Cancer patients who received an mRNA COVID vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy were twice as likely to be alive 3 years later

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

We have such an idiotic civilization

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Just thinking about Quercus insignis (the chicalaba oak), an endangered Mesoamerican tree that produces the world’s largest acorns This is what real abundance looks like

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) and Blue Vervain (Verbena hastata) are such a stunning combination

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

If you’re an environmental data researcher interested in an 18-month gig at $60-70k in upstate NY assessing the impact of invasive species on native biodiversity, there’s a job opening at SUNY that looks interesting esf.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Wapato (Sagittaria latifolia) in bloom The root is a delicious tuber often known as a duck potato. This remarkable plant was once a foundational piece of North American ecology & civilization, tended in vast water gardens and traded between tribes across much of the continent

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Me inspecting the ripening tomatoes in my garden

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

This is how you know you’re living right

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

This is Pomander Walk, a pedestrian street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan featuring 27 lovely row houses This is the model for a beautiful, sustainable, affordable NYC. I wrote about how @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social can make it happen open.substack.com/pub/thelastf...

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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

This is What @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Should Do: A Feasible Eco-Socialist Agenda for NYC I wrote about how the future socialist mayor can advance his policy goals without getting any help from Albany open.substack.com/pub/thelastf...

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This is What Zohran Should Do

A Feasible Eco-Socialist Agenda for NYC

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