Genus Bar Podcast

Urtica dioica - Stinging Nettle

Nettle chips, tea, nettle matcha, stir fry greens, ... A nettle patch in the spring is a wonderful friend to have.

I used to think our Stinging Nettles were European, and borderline invasive. It turns out they're a mix of the native species and the introduced near coasts, and mostly native inland.

That's wonderful! We have some in Eastern MA, but I've only ever found it in one park in Acton. If you want to see it here, you go to Garden in the Woods: a native botanical garden run by Native Plant Trust.

Someday the world will be grateful for these groups protecting species from disappearing.

Hey, any interest in starting to use #ecoregion59? I'm West of Boston, on the inner rim of the Northeastern Coastal Zone.

The inner rim except for the cutback into the interior along the Hudson Valley: Ecoregion 59i. We should have mostly the same species, doing the same things at the same times.

CEP! I love Oenothera biennis. They feed the birds all winter here too.

Japanese beetles prefer them to our native Roses and Viburnums and the finches are more likely to find them on the CEP, hunting on tall stalks.

Also edible roots, shoots, leaves, flowers, seeds, and self-sowing too!!

This is a test. What happens if they seize ballots? What is the resistance? What legal response do states have?

This will decide how they respond if we get as far as a free and fair election, and they needed to change results to stay in power.

Gorgeous!

We have our own Callophrys, and Optunia, but these are more impressive. Our Optunia in New England are little things that are all glochid and no spine, but touch them and you'll regret it. Our Hairstreaks that I usually see have little patches of orange flair, but that green gradient...

Nope, but my bare roots trees, Castanea dentata incl, have all done well if I plant them early, and water them only once per week, when we get less than 1/2" of rain and it's hot.

I'm looking forward to willow blooms!
Here in Eastern MA, the catkins on the Hazelnuts are still bundled up tightly.

Wow, they look a lot like an Oxalis when they are little.

“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky, from The House of the Dead

We are a society whose idea of justice is barbaric. Where rapists in our prisons are accepted and joked about: a form of torture outlawed in all our codes, yet ubiquitous.

I don't want him to die of natural causes. At least not yet. I want him impeached, removed, tried for his crimes, imprisoned, and then he can die in jail.

Yeah, like "this analysis was done on this dataset. Do the same analysis on this other dataset and write up results." Then you follow it through, and guide it where it messes up, and you get a nice derivative paper that extends the results a little, maybe. But you don't get new ideas.

I completely agree with you. AI is great for many things, like searches, data handling, API design...

But it can't write new things. It writes derivative drivel. Reviews should definitely not be AI. I've read examples in my field, and they are generic BS. An AI paper is a waste of energy.

I only block the genocidal human trolls and bots.

Promoting genocide denier accounts inflicts harm against the people who are suffering the worst of humanity's crimes, by amplifying the words of their oppressors.

I want people to see that ^ and they won't if we block, but block me if you must.

I wouldn't follow or promote anyone who is supporting a genocidal regime, or anyone who promoted such a person by sharing lists incl them.

You choose who you host/promote and it reflects on you, even if it's just that the lists you share are crap you haven't vetted, and won't vet with feedback.

Hippocratic medical texts and later commentaries discuss elderberry use for treating colds, flu, and fevers...

Pliny the Elder praised elderberry fruit as a remedy for many ailments, talked about its widespread use and trusted efficacy in Roman times.

Modern medicine made us forget basic medicine.

You're got someone in there who describes themselves as 'pro-Israel.' IMO that's about the same as being pro Germany in the 1940s: an unacceptable stance. Anyone for whom that makes the short list of how they describe themselves isn't someone I'd choose to associate with.

Hey, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, don't you see how libraries are one of our last bastions of community? Librarians/raries are defenders of the downtrodden and of privacy rights and organizers in the resistance, underpaid/funded by far given the value of community education.

Do right by them!

For the terrorist libs!

JK, we'll be a minority in the concentration camps. It will be mostly immigrants they can't/won't deport. Many who were not committing the civil offence that fascists are using as an excuse to violate the Constitution, and massively expand the prison slave labor system.

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This is a story of #community and #resistance from #Minnesota.

The guests (@lindablackelk.bsky.social) are heroes of my heroes. None better to talk herbalism and community.

Right,
@samthayer.bsky.social (Sam Thayer)
@foragerchef.bsky.social (Alan Bergo)
@blackforager.bsky.social (Alexis Nicole)?

Have you seen his interview with Shapiro? Seen his treatment of the homeless? Taken a look at his campaign donations?

Is Gavin Newsom really the person you want when we need to dismantle fascism and take our government back from the oligarchy-Eps? I think he'll be making deals with the wealthy.

Not loving Corp left's Gavin Newsom for president. He's charismatic and witty but he wants to move toward center, won't tax billionaires, won't support his own voters over his campaign donots, PACs, will take a similar stance on genocide as the one which voters hated from Kamala...

Elderberry (Sambucus canadensis) cyme: an inflorescence that blooms from the center (terminal flower) out, otherwise like an umbel (umbrella-shaped inflorescence at the end of a stem). Flowers have 5 little white petals and 5 stamens with little yellow round balls of pollen on top

Side and bottom views of Elderberry inflorescences. They begin with a flat top like an umbel, then the cyme blooms from the center, curling back at the edges.

Elderberry Sawfly larva on Sambucas canadensis. Sawflies are welcome guests here. They nibble the foliage, and are found by finches as they work their way up the plants. I have yet to see them do any significant damage. They're just trying to live their lives, and cycling some of those plant sugars and proteins up into the food chain.

Elderberry, 9-12' tall in a habitat behind a path crowded by Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca).

Our third episode is out! Genus Sambucus: Elder/Elderberry. Elder is a gateway to foraging, to permaculture, to herbalism, to the Fey. Please step through!

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#podcast #plantpodcast #newpodcast #nativeplants #ecoregion59 #foraging #grownative #permaculture #herbalism

They broke the law. They should be arrested. And by they, I clearly mean ICE. MAGA hypocrisy and bootlicking is ridiculous.

I care more about the federal government respecting the law about how they treat civilians far more than I care about any civil offence, especially undocumented immigration.

Multiple types of Human prints, stretching into the distance on a frozen pond, with white pines bordering the edges above Grey Birches, Red Maples, Cattails...

Cross country ski tracks in the hardened snow shell on the pond. White Pines in the distance.

A snowshoe trail and my shadow stretching away across the snowy pond toward White Pines on the shore

Lowering sun over the lake

#Assabet National Wildlife Refuge: I like to step off the trail when the snow is deep. With a floating step that never pierces the snowpack, no plants are harmed. Plus, walk on H2O!

I took hundreds of pictures of White Pines (Pinus strobus)!
#winter #adventures #nativePlants #wetland #ecoregion59

I would love to be added! @elisnativeplants.bsky.social too, if all the political posts over there aren't disqualifying. This is the page I keep mostly about plants.

Wow, nice shot! I didn't know it grew all the way out there!

Is it fertile? We have an infertile polyploid version here in New England. It was spread here by indigenous peoples as a crop, and grown from the roots so they could propagate clones. Further south along the East coast it grows beans.

Mourning Dove descending onto a snow-lit feeder rail, wings mid-spread, feet extended toward scattered seed, bright winter shadows behind.

A velvet anchor breaks the winter light.

#Monostich #Poetry #Micropoetry #WildlifePhotography #Birds #Birding #MourningDove #Nature #ImageAndVerse #Haiga #Winter #EastCoastKin #BirdOfTheDay

I'm in this camp! Soy milk is nice and creamy, and great for adding protein to overnight oats/chia pudding.

But it curdles in a strong acidic coffee! Maybe we just like stronger coffee than the soy-coffee folks.

I'm always frustrated when there is only soy milk for coffee.

My favorite vegan white tablecloth establishment gives you soy milk with your coffee. It mixes in nicely for a minute, then curdles and makes little curds. Way to soil my coffee and cheesecake.