Cindy Davis

At Wasted Food Summit, Chef Alejandra Schrader shares creative cooking tips to reduce waste.

Try C.O.R.N. - Clean Out the Refrigerator Night. Make muffins with black beans and used coffee ground.

Reducing food waste can be a fun way to reduce environmental impact and improve sustainability. 🌎

Lots of lovely folks want to cook for neighbors, fill community fridges during SNAP shutdown but are intimidated. A mutual aid group in Flatbush, Brooklyn has been feeding 80+ people every single week for a year and a half or so now. Nobody is born knowing how to cook for 80, so here's our guide!

Broccolini plants in a garden bed with a green paint stirrer labeling the crop and a veggie mural in the background

Cauliflower plants in a garden bed with pvc hoops overhead supporting a white row cover

Cauliflower and nasturtium in a garden bed labeled with orange and green paint stirrers and a mural in the background reads EAT THE RAINBOW with assorted fruits and veggies

A seed is sprouting through a layer of golden straw mulch with two little green oval leaves

The Fall food garden is cruising along, seeds are sprouting and brassicas soaking up the sunshine. Teaching kids how to grow food is fun 🌱

Donation receipt for $25.00 to Porchlight Community Services

Signed up for $25 monthly recurring donations to our neighborhood food/community services, Porchlight:

givebutter.com/PorchlightCS

The article talks about opening up central California to oil and gas development.. Looking at Bureau of Ocean Energy Management maps, this could include a large swath of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, including the Bodega and Año Nuevo basins, and Partington basin off Big Sur.

Close-up image of a bright orange, fuzzy moth with feathery antennae and black eyes perched on the edge of a green leaf. Black background.

Arthropod Photo of the Week: October 15, 2025
Tangerine furry-legs moth
Acraga moorei
Lepidoptera: Dalceridae
By Tom Myers, Kentucky, USA
#arthropodPOTW

We also seeded a new library garden with a southwest regional mix of wildflowers and shared about 80 bags of soil with nearby schools in a free soil distribution. More to give away tomorrow!

A late Jack-be-little pumpkin flowers next to a comfrey plant that loves to take over the whole garden bed

Cauliflower seedlings share space with a volunteer potato as our fall crops settle in

Broccolini rapini seedlings for a raised garden bed, labeled with a green paint stick

The school garden edibles are mostly in the ground, seedling, seeds, and garlic bulbs are nestled in and labeled. The students worked so hard and had so much fun planting these last two weeks 🌱

Meet the Women of the ‘Alt Food System’ In ‘Reaping What She Sows,’ author Nancy Matsumoto documents the women designing food systems that benefit communities and the environment.

In her new book, "Reaping What She Sows," author @nancymatsumoto.bsky.social documents the women who are working outside the industrial food system and creating short supply chains that consider factors other than profit.

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My old pittie learned to respect the big birds from a flock (?) of wild turkey we ran into once. Turkey charge and bark back and roll with a mob, she learned haha

This feeling endures

A brown California mantis clings to a lush green tomatillo plant facing the camera

A speckled brown California mantis stretched long across the green, fuzzy leaves of a tomatillo plant

Spotted this California Mantis in a tomatillo at a Growing Garden Educators conference hosted by UC Master Gardeners. Happy to see them hanging out! 🌱

Glaciers in California’s Sierra Nevada are likely disappearing for the first time in the Holocene The projected loss of glaciers in California’s Sierra Nevada is likely unprecedented in at least the past 30,000 years.

❄️ A glacier-free Sierra Nevada is unprecedented

New evidence shows that glaciers in California’s Sierra Nevada disappearance would be the first in recorded geological time.

🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scia...

#SciComm #ClimateCrisis 🧪

Irrigation assembly against a beige wall. A gray digital irrigation timer and assorted tubing couplers and white pvc that make up the connection assembly

Black tubing and connectors from irrigation timers to pvc pipes

🌱 Some days school gardening is the glamour of troubleshooting, diagnosing, and repairing irrigation in between school drop off, birthday cake baking, meetings, dog walks, laundry, and school pick up. Worth it because hand watering 20 garden beds is not for me!

This is so good & tailored expertly for an audience that needs to throw in with abandon right now.

I want to focus on this aspect now:

"....most Americans do not seek out news. In August 2022, a Pew Research Center survey found that only 38 percent of Americans claimed to check news regularly..."

Plus Louisiana hot sauce yes

Another succinct explanation by @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social of the many reasons it makes sense to shift to plant-rich diets before the polycrisis forces us to do so anyway - thus helping to stall the crisis!

Wishing you maximum Epsom salts and minimum pain (if only it were that easy)

hEDS (Q79.62) Self-reported data in a cross-sectional study of those with ME/CFS suggests that 15.5% of those with ME/CFS have joint hypermobility and 28% of those with ME/CFS + Long COVID report it In a self-reporting prospective observational study those with generalized hypermobility were ~30% more likely to experience chronic symptoms after recovery from acute infection by SARS-CoV-2 with many meeting ME/CFS criteria

Braden Yellman from Bateman-Horne is now talking about comorbidities of #MECFS. 🧪

Starting with hEDS (hypermobility, hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos)

Pink shirt hard for me but everything else is for sure (my) normal

I think so because I’m in the U.S. and I hear these sounds from possum regularly, (we have a lot of canyon wildlife around). For whatever reason the first YouTube links were all Australian.

YouTube video by Mr Possum Possum screech

Yes, shrieks and grunts:

youtu.be/GkncjNn-ygE?...

Sponsor an Environmental Activism Art Night! By Skype a Scientist

I'm looking for event sponsors for the next 2 Bad Art for Good events!

Why?
- This event is valuable! I want to bring in more people
- More people come when it's free (over 40 people came last night!
- The perfect venue costs $$

Learn more about sponsorship here givebutter.com/OxQyPt

One of my daughters goes as an archer (Ranger) and it’s very comfortable and gender fluid.

From plant identifying app Picture This:
Rabbit Tobacco
Also known as: Fragrant Cudweed, Sweet Everlasting, Fragrant Rabbit Tobacco, Cudweed, Tall Cudweed, Old Field Balsam
Genus
Pseudognaphalium - Cudweeds,
Rabbit tobaccos
Family
Asteraceae - Daisy, Compositae, Aster, Composite, Sunflower

A long table is filled end to end with light pink seedling trays filled with seed starting mix, divided in the center with 3 potted orchid plants. A terra cotta chiminea sits to the right of the table and a chair at the end is draped with an ivory dish towel printed with various succulents

Little behind on my fall seed starting but close enough! Trays are set, seeds in the next time our new puppy takes a nap 🐾 🌱

Good tip!

Inspiring!