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Forever Berries

@true-dedication.bsky.social
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Climate, water, organic farming, food security, traditional crafts, survival skills, green infrastructure, running, biking, swimming, gay love, growing queer community 🍁🏳️‍🌈👨‍❤️‍👨🍉🏃‍♂️🚲🏊‍♂️ (He/him) 🏳️‍⚧️ ally Treaty 3 land Views are my own and not those of my employer

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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 21h
A hard lesson learned today: leave room for shims between the concrete and the rim joist. That way, if for some mysterious reason the deck isn't level, you can lower it without having to dig the blocks in deeper 😞 Pic is of the happier part of the day which was wall framing (much easier to learn)
Wood wall frames partially constructed on a deck to make a porch for a wall tent.
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great article (and GIF). I see I can't watch the anime on principle... but reading the phrase "Every nation, every culture has its own type of neurotic fantasy", the lesson of this cautionary tale seems to be to aim for an honorable balance between wabi-sabi heart warrior and pants-on-fire demon
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Stories all about the power of love, cozied up with his Cuteness at the Eden Mills Writer's Festival. Also we were elated to be at the same festival as @elizabethemay.bsky.social, the green goddess of Canadian environmental justice #booksky #natureheals
Authors reading their books to a crowd in the background with the knees of myself and my partner in the foreground on a blanket.
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This water is our lifeblood. It should be revered with our actions, not just words. Keep our lakes, wetlands and rivers cool and clean. Protect shorelines as biodiverse buffers. No nuclear heat dumping No untreated waste No AI data centres #waterislife #greensky
Standing in the frigid water of Lake Huron. Shale rock, Craigleith Provincial Park
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Are we exactly the same person in two different bodies
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We're gonna change the world as twins, one fearless handshake at a time
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tfw when you decide to go to the conference reception to eat hors d'eouvres and make new friends instead of burrowing peacefully under the 27 pillows in your hotel room
White man in a dress shirt and a pensive facial expression looking  in a hotel  bathroom mirror
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
'I couldn't bring myself to say goodbye'... heart punched. There's no easy way out
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My handsome farmer showed me an interview with Ocean Vuong (a writer and professor we admire). Vuong talks about the mystery of human kindness, how in hopeless situations, people with nothing are still generous. I keep thinking about Vuong's brave voice, hinting at terrible light and darkness
A rainbow sky background with an overgrown garden foreground, and a handsome farmer walking toward the camera.
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Love Guelph! - Bike the Night, Sept 19, 6:30-10:00PM at Market Square (1 Carden St) @activeguelph.bsky.social - Migrant Rights Protest - Sunday, Sept 20, 2:30-3:30PM. Outside No Frills, Willow West Mall - Pride in Nature: Tree Planting at Arkell Spring Grounds - Sunday, Oct 4, 2026 – 10:00-12:00 pm
Garden herbs and seed that I harvested, roasted and crushed for spice mix
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is exactly the inspiration I needed to make a playlist for tomorrow's queer workout session
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This land is abundantly generous when we protect it and live within ecological cycles. In the face of violent expansion by petrostates and military-industrial mining complexes, my queer friends and allies are saving seed, preserving, rucking, tracking, hunting, racing, constructing, loving #elbowsup
Cover crop seed heads glowing in sunrise yesterday in one of the gardens, part of organic crop rotatation to prevent disease
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Even our labour can bring pleasure. My housemate grows this garden, and I worked with her yesterday to weed and harvest, laughing and swatting and tasting. She loves each glistening orb of colour. She carefully arranged this bouquet of vegetables with total contentment blossoming on her face
Bountiful garden harvest of vegetables and flowers in early September, laid out on a table. Part of the farm fields are visible in the background
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This reminds me of what I read about Radical Faeries and sanctuaries, the power of access to land and shelter to provide for ourselves in queer communities
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Taking care of a herd of cattle is a ton of work for us. But there's something eternally peaceful about stopping to listen to the sound of cows chewing, surrounded by waves of green grass #dextercattle #cowboys #grassfedbeef
Cattle grazing in a green field of grass in late August
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This was my first boyfriend's favourite book of poetry. Walt Whitman. It's a good one to read together in a field in the fall
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Vegetable mountain season! My toddler nephew helped gather beans with gusto and prepare them for preserving. Teaching food skills to the next generation is fundamental to their freedom from capitalist systems of control and supports healthy minds and bodies #localfood #preserving #farmlife
Kitchen counter piled up with vegetables, with a large bowl of chopped green beans and a toddler trying to help.
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I get it now. My worst friend is my greatest enemy. Yet even an enemy is an effective teacher
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I'm thinking about it.. but it seems like best friends have each other's backs? Worst enemies actively try to hurt each other. But if we're talking about vulnerability, then yes, depending on a best friend does run the risk of them failing to follow through. Still, friendship mostly lifts us up
Highland cattle friends at the Fergus Highland Games and Scottish Festival
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I yearn for that wooden loom, may it live long and prosper. The table cloths we use were made on it
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Canoe tripping with the love of my life. The Mississagi boreal forest is an incredible ecological treasure we want to better protect. Gratitude for beaver dams that enable paddling, sandy shores for swimming and thick beds of white pine needles for sleeping #canoe #gaycamping #greensky
Two white men hugging and smiling goofily in front of a black truck with a canoe strapped to the top, after arriving back home from a canoe trip together
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I'm thinking of friendship as the foundation. Building trust, honest communication, and finding shared goals with a new friend. If they want to be lovers and it's good for us both, I'm happy to bring more love into the world with them, but without friendship first it usually flies off the handle
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Peach canning fills my senses. The round fuzzy curves, the ripe scent rising. Climate change is flooding and frosting Niagara peach trees. New pests and diseases kill them. What can we do? Buy from local farms, support strong emissions reductions policies and fund research for resilient peaches 🍑
About 100 peaches spread on paper on an antique table. The peaches will ripen better over 3 to 5 days without mold because they aren't touching. These will be used at our farm for canned sliced peaches.
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Increasing my gratitude. Abundance fills my life every day. Vegetables, intimate conversations, cuddles with friends, healing music, books of wisdom. When one window for love closes, it's still good to know the gifts we shared. I keep my heart open #gratitude #cnm #thisisenoughvegetables
Community farm harvest of vegetables. Organic, one till then no tractor, herbs, kale, green beans, zucchini, cucumber. Coordinated by my friend at Beet Box farm.
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
4,569 g
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Our future depends on reconciliation with First Nations and land defenders, to connect deeply with and sustain the ecologies that give us life. Right livelihood is regenerative and compassionate. I reject the false economy of fossil fuels and extraction. I want renewables and community #greensky
Ottawa River seen from Kiweki point, with Canada's parliament buildings under renovation in the background
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Go far up the river, until you can hear the leaves shushing in the trees and water riffling over rocks. Enter as though the salt on your skin is an offering #waterislife
Ottawa River flowing with blue sky in the background and shoes in the foreground.
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Thanks for the recommendation, I made a playlist based on this and the lyrics / pasion helped me make more sense of my experiences in gay world v.2026
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Even though I don't know what you're going through I do know there's still so much beauty in this world to experience and you deserve to be appreciated for the wonderful person you are
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Amateur carpenter messing around with building a wall tent for a woodworking shop. It has to be strong enough to hold 1,800 lbs of snow with no ridge support poles, so I used a 12" deep ridge beam instead. That leaves floor space open for all the saws and tables #farmlife
White man looking cautiously at a mitre saw blade inside the wall tent he is building.
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"It is in the nature of a military weapon to turn against its wielder... Only on necessity will he resort to them. For peace and quiet are dearest to his heart, And to him even victory is no cause for rejoicing." ~Tao Teh Ching, 30/31
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"There was something else I wanted to thank you for, but I don't remember it now." Said with a kiss as he walked out the door #jun #tea #fermentation #gay #romance
Jun tea in a glass, which is fermented green tea with raw honey. The glass is held up by a white guy who is me.
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Met these amazing women in Elora who make linen textiles from flax fibre. l can't stop thinking about how I could be making clothes from plants growing on the farm #flax #linen #diy #self-sufficiency #farmer #fergusscottishfestival #tartanup
Braids and skeins of linen thread spun from flax stems fibres. Also a poster board explaining the process. Seen at the Scottish Festival in Fergus, Ontario.
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Kaedan O'Brien, Ph.D. @deadbovids.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I once spent 6 weeks in the desert in Kenya without a working cellphone and have never been more productive or happy in my life.
Screenshot of whiny pro-AI guy who isn't aware that people actually lived quite comfortably in 2021.
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
What is it about bagpipes that makes me want to go berserk while also raining tears for all the ancestors who sacrificed for future generations? #tartanup #fergusscottishfestival
Mass bands making powerful waves of vapor and drinking music at the Fergus Highland Games (aka Scottish Festival)
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Beautiful cycles that bring us closer to peace
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
It's a joy to see a bright grasshopper leaping to freedom. Sharing joy in simple things seems to be a worthwhile purpose. Also, another purpose for living beings can be to live and die in such a way as to create the conditions for more abundant and diverse forms of life to emerge
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
We have a better bin and the red wrigglers I like because I think they wouldn't become invasive due to cold winters, but I'm not as sure about the soldier flies. They smell weird too, a bit like shrimp
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The plus side of rejection is you learn to fill your own cup. And when your cup overflows, you have more love to give again #blueberries #queer #summerlove
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
7 years ago we planted 8 acres of organic currants (about 12,000 plants). Mostly left the currants to fend for themselves (not a good idea but necessary when farming with full time jobs). Yields were good for a few years... Then LDD caterpillars, earwigs, septoria spot. Maybe I'll switch to ducks...
Man looking at black currant bush with fruit and spotted leaves in front of a field of currant bushes
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Our dear friends had to bump up their gay wedding by several months to include their dog in the ceremony (as her cancer progresses faster than expected 😢) So we were surprised and honoured to host a wedding at the farm, with the cows mooing, barn swallows swooping, and love and laughter all around
Three friends embrace at a gay wedding with cameras and champagne, along with a dog who is the guest of honour
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This lake is where I'm doing morning swims with the Guelph Triathlon Club. A clean, cool and peaceful refuge from human-caused heat waves #waterislife
Dock overlooking a lake with swimming buoys lined up
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Heartsick at the pain Samra Habib experienced, as well as emboldened to reclaim our queer spirituality "As I was still soaking in every detail of what a mosque could look like, a black trans woman in her twenties got up to give a beautiful recitation of the adhan ... I tried to hold back my tears"
Cover of the book "We have always been here" by Samra Habib
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GCAT @activeguelph.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
A few photos from our successful Love Your Bike Festival on June 20th! Thank you everyone for coming out and celebrating with us. Photos courtesy of Mike Darmon.
About 10 bikes parked in front of a fence at an event. Many of the bikes have trailers or seats for children attached.Adults and children ride bikes in a large group down the road on a summer day with sunny warm weather.Eight adults stand in a semi-circle outside on a summer day for a photo in front of GCAT promotional materials. One is holding a bicycle wheel and three are wearing neon yellow safety vests.Six adults pose for a photo with bike tires at an event outside on summer day.
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Fire is a terrifying destructive force; it briefly illuminates the hard truth of death, and the hope of transformation #solstice #pagan #farmlife #dance #whatdidyoudothisweekend
A group of people holding hands dancing around a large bonfire in a field at solstice sunset
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GCAT @activeguelph.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
June is Bike Month in Guelph! Looking for something to do? Get outside, explore Guelph by bike, join a community ride, and discover local events happening all month long. Find all the active activities in Guelph! gcat.ca/bike-month-e... #BikeMonth #Guelph #BikeGuelph #ExploreGuelph #GCAT
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Bike Month Events! | Guelph Community for Active Transportation (GCAT)
Guelph Community for Active Transportation (GCAT)
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Heart berry, ode min. Pleasure is a gift we can give in abundance because it was given to us, in our own body and awareness. We tend each other out of love. Robin Wall Kimmerer's sharing of Indigenous wisdom transformed strawberry ethics for me #braidingsweetgrass #maplenation #fruit #agroecology
A plate of ripe strawberries
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Young Agrarians @youngagrarians.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
📣 We need your voice to help shape the future of agriculture in Canada! Consultations are underway towards Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's (AAFC) Next Policy Framework (NPF). YA and EFAO have put together a guide to help you fill out AAFC’s survey: youngagrarians.org/npf-consulta...
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
This is the steamship we jumped off to start the swim at Gravenhurst triathlon today! #queerjoy #muskoka #itdidnotimprovemyswimtime
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Forever Berries @true-dedication.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I do need to add another water bottle carrier. I was borrowing a bike this time and I just left the second water bottle to chug in the transition area which was a little stupid but I'll for sure do the second bottle carrier next time, thanks for the tip!
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