Also in Baltimore, home of Vegan SoulFest!
Food is culture 💚 and the vegan food here feels like Baltimore. It’s awesome that other cities are doing the same.
Mr. Trash Wheel is pretty cool:
I’ve read that in the southeastern states, Spanish moss was used like wool, also for thread and upholstery. But it doesn’t get nearly as cold down there 😆
I’ve seen folks online use Virginia creeper and pokeberry to dye fabrics, a soft green and vibrant purple respectively. I’d love to take a crack at them on cotton, maybe even a natural tie dye!
The US Forest Service has a chart with plants and their corresponding colors. I wonder if there’s a dye community on lemmy 🤔
Dang, the goblin in me wanted some for my collection 😅 I bet they look awesome during a breeze.
Beautiful 🧙♀️ I love the naturalized look, so much texture!
What’s the tall purple flower in the second pic?
From May 2023 in Reuters: Some 25 types of mammals died in latest bird flu outbreak
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They look like they belong on another planet 😄
Thanks! Yay, I can see your comments now :)
Wikipedia says you’re right! That’s a hilarious origin 😂
The egg-shaped green fruits ‘may pop’ when stepped on. This phenomenon gives the P. incarnata its common name, as well as the fact that its roots can remain dormant for most of the winter underground and then the rest of the plant “pops” out of the ground by May, unharmed by the snow.
I just checked vegantheoryclub.org and none of the newer posts on there are showing up on my subscribed feed. Last one is from 14 hours ago.
I see your other comment though! The colors remind me of a galaxy print ✨️
I think there might be a federation lag? I can’t see all the comments 🤔 I’ll check back later, hopefully things catch up.
The planting time was coincidence 😁 I read the “pop” comes from the sound the fruit makes when crushed. Maybe “May” is from when they usually start blooming? Though wildflower.org says they can flower from March to November.
Do y’all have a community for socialism on this instance? I miss the veganarchism subreddit so much :(
The local cottontail raised her litter in my yard and the family didn’t care for them, other than using them as a hangout spot. They did eat all the Virginia spiderwort and there’s a bunch of violet stems around with no leaves, but mostly they stick to the plantains (Plantago sp.) in the lawn.
I had no idea deer lived in the city until I started doing this. Sometimes I’ll catch one sleeping in my backyard which is a surreal sight. They munched the sunchokes, hazelnut, and chokeberry to the ground, but all are bouncing back.
Most of the flowers are divisions of plants, some volunteers and others I got as plugs in summer 2022. I decided to start small and expand over time. The coneflower was four plants last spring which I divided into 12, then into about 30 this spring. Rose milkweed and late boneset are just as prolific.
I have spread some seeds around and others have blown in. The groundcover in the second photo is all volunteer.
The mulch was leftover from a chipdrop. I used it to make the beds look “intentional” when everything was sparse and muddy back in February :) The plan is for everything to grow so dense that I won’t need to mulch it again.
Around here, it’s spotted lanternflies. The almost glee some have for squashing them is disheartening. I get why they do it, believe me, but I’ve encountered little to no zoomed out perspective that these little dudes didn’t choose to be here.
To really go off the deep end… the spotted lanternfly’s favorite tree, Ailanthus altissima, is just trying to do what its ancestors have done for millennia. Not saying these trees shouldn’t be removed, but they also didn’t choose to be here.
Of these things we speak venom and deem trash. Though, this attitude seems pervasive in how western culture treats the other in general.
They don’t want most of the crap people plant trying to be Eco friendly anyways or so the landscape architect told me.
The research of entomologist, Dr. Doug Tallamy, and his team at the University of Delaware have identified 14% of native plants (the keystones) support 90% of butterfly and moth lepidoptera species. The research of horticulturist Jarrod Fowler has shown that 15% to 60% of North American native bee species are pollen specialists who only eat pollen from 40% of native plants.
Written information from Europeans goes back four centuries, like the account from the 1600s about cultivated food forests. The archeological finds about consumption in general are much older.