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Here's a real thing that happens in the High Plains of the Northern Texas panhandle: fire tornados made of burning tumbleweeds.

You may associate these tumbling piles of vegetation with Westerns or Simpsons sight gags, but let's talk about what they really are: an invasive threat.

Are we enjoying poisonous meals?

Oh dear, I will check out that site, remove it. Thanks for the update.

Cortinarius species can have the most intense coloration.

#caturday #insomnia #catsky

It’s 4:30 am
Do you know where your kittehs are?

Paris Court Holds Historic Climate Trial in Case Against TotalEnergies - Inside Climate News The lawsuit challenges the oil major’s expansion plans and could set a significant precedent on climate responsibilities for fossil fuel companies if successful, advocates say.

This.
Is
Interesting.
We need MORE of this. Accountability.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1902202...

And there’s this: bsky.app/profile/iwil...

What fine and gorgeous antennae! Wowsers

A moth on my finger. Only the head and a bit of the wings and thorax are visible. The antennae are bright yellow and have a double comb-like structure like tiny fern leaves. The face is dark brown as are the legs. The thorax is reddish brown.

Moth antennae are a true wonder. Males, with their enormous comb-Thales antennae, can sense pheromones secreted by females from 4.5 miles away in some species. This particular guy is in the genus Dirphia. 🌱

#moth #insect #nature

What’s Causing the Sharp Decline in Insects, and Why It Matters Insect populations are declining dramatically in many parts of the world, recent studies show. Researchers say various factors, from monoculture farming to habitat loss, are to blame for the plight of...

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#nativeplants
Susan and Scott working with me in the sunbeds. The blackberries have been weeded out, plant parents are being refreshed, and we are considering installing a gentle swale and berm water harvesting system to slow and collect water coming down the slope.

How does all that happen on one continent?

Yeah, the Australian plants are totally nuts

#gingercats #caturday #catsky

#catsky #catsofBluesky #caturday

I love how, when I come to bed he says: “Rrrrrr” and I boop him and he says “Rrrrr-rrrrr” again.

And then he’s just a warm puddle of furs and purrs

Blue flower with white throat and fringed lobes

Fringed Gentian blooming below Independence Pass #nativeplants

#FallbackFlowers #Fallback to July 25 🌿

Before the suburbs, NA had complex, interwoven systems, megafauna, and microfauna - and their absence has left our modern landscapes silent & struggling
Check out, "Natural Habitats and Wildlife Gardening," to dive deep into the lost ecology of North America and how to garden like nature.
#gardening

Yah, it is. It lifts the spirit to be out in sharp spring breezes listening to the birds calling about the coming of spring. They sound excited.

Chemical fertilizers cannot do what compost, dead wood and mulch do.

Love you all, garden good!

Once Upon a Topsoil - Beech Hollow Farms Every garden season we get questions from friends and customers on what to do about poor soil.  Here is a short description of how we amended the farm beds at...

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This is what our sunbeds used to look like. Very "neat" and very sterile; there was no topsoil: beechhollowfarms.com/once-upon-a-...

Build your soil! Please use your dead woody debris, your leaves, you will not regret it.

Boosting to #nativeplants #gardening

That’s a good one!

Prepping the sunbeds for spring: we’ll be rooting out brambles and aggressive plants; dressing the beds with compost and mulch; thinning some plants to divide for retail, & increasing some of the parent stock.

Clipped canes staged next to the sunbeds for native bees.

Spent shiitake logs are as light as styrofoam, and will break down into duff, further enriching the soil in the sunbeds.

Using the semi decayed logs to raise a few garden beds.

Working the gardens at the farm. Time to rejuvenate the topsoil, pull brambles, cut back canes, and rake out the paths. And weed-weed-weed.

With twigs going in every direction at once, and not one but TWO bird nests from just last year, this tree has more character than any one tree should have to endure.
 
“She” needs a name. 

Got any ideas?

Our witchy little Sugarberry tree.
 
 There’s this very young Southern Hackberry, Celtis laevigata, in our sunbeds. At only ten years old, and looking all sorts of witchy, this little Hackberry has got decades worth of character to be such a sprout.

As a someone with a 33 year NIH-funded lab whose grant is supposed to be reviewed this week, shut NIH down if that is what's needed to end ICE terrorism. Innocent lives are more important 🧪

No, they are so late they are complicit

Honestly. They are so late to the party it’s moved to another house

How blind they are. These tendencies were apparent in his first term.