Bush Goddess🌱🍄🦋🌻🖋🎨🐝

SO proud of this issue!! It's here!!!! Can't give enough thanks to @trippjcrouse.bsky.social and Yasmine Bolden!!!

We're uplifting radical writers and artists through our first issue themed Resisting Authoritarianism. Join our movement and donate here: secure.actblue.com/donate/radic...

Rhizosphere (for Writers) | Janisse Ray | Substack A mycelial support system for people who choose to write. A rhizosphere is roots, soil, and everything in between. Click to read Rhizosphere (for Writers), by Janisse Ray, a Substack publication with ...

Join Rhizosphere (for #Writers) rhizosphere.substack.com?r=17aa8

Graphic of a Black trans woman in red lipstick centered in a gilded frame above the words "Lambda Literary is proud to announce our new executive director Jozie (J. Clapp) Clapp"

🚨 New chapter at Lambda Literary: Meet our new ED, Jozie (J. Clapp) Clapp!
J. Clapp brings bold leadership, deep roots in the LGBTQ+ movement, and an unstoppable passion for queer lit.

Read the announcement: lambdaliterary.org/2025/06/anno...

#LambdaLiterary #QueerBooks #J.Clapp #TransLeadership

A handy solution for growing with a changing climate:

"When high humidity combines with high heat (around 100F), Calcium transports slows and even shuts down. This is why foliar sprays with water soluble calcium work so well at that time of year!!"

Recipe from the #RegenerativeSoil book!

FarmSTAND branded graphic of a white piece of paper on blue background showing excerpt of a USDA grant termination notice that says “The Department's priorities include ensuring that its grants, cooperative agreements, and other similar arrangements do not support programs that promote or take part in climate change or environmental justice initiatives.”

All across the country, people are building a fairer, more sustainable agriculture system. The Trump admin illegally cancelled grants supporting this work—so we sued farmstand.org/case/stoppin...

2025 Food Justice Conference Session Spotlight - Sheryll Durrant and Ruth Katcher
Urban CSA: Healthy Food Options, Healthy Farms
Read more: conta.cc/3H85Nlf
Register: tinyurl.com/2025FoodJust...
#foodjustice #nutritionsecurity #foodasmedicine

It’s National Pollinator Week! A week native plant growers are ready for! This week, we’re celebrating the bees, butterflies, moths, beetles, hummingbirds, and other pollinators that keep our ecosystems thriving and our native plants blooming. @xercessociety.bsky.social

My new favorite native mallow.

The tender pink hue reminiscent of cotton candy.

#nativeplantsoflouisiana

Beyond beauty, sunflowers are permaculture powerhouses! 🌻 They create living trellises for climbers (beans/cukes), provide dynamic shade for cool-season crops, draw in beneficial insects, and their deep roots improve soil structure. Chop-and-drop stalks add biomass! #Permaculture #Sunflowers

The elegant Lanceleaf Coreopsis. Read all about this wonderfully easygoing yet hardy native plant in a recent article from the Native Plant Initiative of Greater New Orleans. npi-gno.org/lanceleaf-co...

A perfect little Drummon Phlox blossom. Another native brought to you and me by the Native Plant Initiative of Greater New Orleans.

www.npi-gno.org

#NewOrleans #Louisiana #Natives
#BloomScrolling #NOLa #Nolasky

FREE Coloring Pages for Download - Louisiana Native Plant Society Click here for more information and reference images.

FREE #NativePlants of Louisiana #ColoringPages for summer fun!

www.lnps.org/free-colorin...

There are many more to come. I'm visiting my sister, the master gardner. I hope you're having a lovely early autumn. Very warm here...🔥

There are things people do in communities that aren't even seen as community/mutal aid. Have a free-cycle group? That counts. Neighbors that give away extra veggies? Counts. Little Free Library/Pantry/toy exchange? It all counts.

Record number of water sector criminal investigations launched as sewage issues rise “Water companies have too often gone unpunished” said the environment secretary

Freshwater habitats are crucial ecosystems which we rely on for ecosystem services as well as for supporting biodiversity they must be protected 💧🐟🦫

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Only one country in the world produces all the food it needs, study finds | BBC Science Focus Magazine The others are vulnerable to the effects of war, natural disasters and trade disputes on their food supply.

🌶 Extremely proud of this beautiful and bountiful country!

🥥 The markets there are filled with incredibly delicious and satisfying foods.

www.sciencefocus.com/news/only-on...

A butterfly perched on a vibrant green leaf. It has wings that are brilliant metallic blue with striking black edges and an eye-like marking.

We're at the very end of the dry season here in this part of Costa Rica and there are #butterflies everywhere at @tapirvalley.bsky.social

This is a Deep-Blue Eyed-Metalmark, a less-common and beautiful butterfly here.

#costarica #bugsky 🌿

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The Interbellum Constitution A synthesis of legal, political, and social history to show how the post-founding generations were forced to rethink and substantially revise the U.S. consti...

it has taken me a minute to finish, but if you’re a 19th century american history/legal theory nerd you will love this book yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Pollinators are loving it! There is an abundance of butterflies, moths, bees, dragonflies, birds and more beautiful wildlife.

😎 Or how I show you I'm an Agroecological Educator without saying the word Permaculture.

This is a historic Kitchen Garden I curate and cultivate with Edible and Medicinal plants, demonstrating beneficial relationships through integrated pest management techniques and sustainable soil amendments.

Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

BBC Radio 4 - Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane, Episode 1: Anima Robert Macfarlane explores an idea that changes the world – that a river is alive.

Hello—Is A River Alive? has been adapted as Radio 4’s Book of the Week next week.
Five episodes, read by me—& we’ve folded in field recordings & some beautiful Max Richter music.
First episode, Anima, broadcasts tomorrow at 11.45am.
You can listen here:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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The Art of Compilation: Manuscripts and Networks in the Early Medieval Latin West / Edited by Anna Dorofeeva & Michael J. Kelly #openaccess punctum books punctumbooks.com/titles/the-a...

Discover more about Earth’s circulatory system beneath our feet in a new article by @beebrookshire.bsky.social in National Geographic: buff.ly/Wo21Qno

Research led by @cbisot.bsky.social & Loreto Oyarte Gálvez.

Thanks to AMOLF, Princeton, VU Amsterdam, @thomasshimizu.bsky.social & Howard Stone.

Blackberry comin thru

How it be. Nature is forgiving.

I treasure my peace and joy