u/hollyrose_baker

What would you do for a botany themed birthday party for an adult? A native plant loving adult?

This is maybe a silly question, but I’ve never really been to a very large city. How many people can live in a large apartment building? How do you calculate something like that? People per square foot?

I’ve asked this here before but it’s my favorite thing to think about so I figured I’d ask again. This time I’m curious about some lesser known plants. How could you see them changing over several hundred years of human interaction? How do you see people maintaining their ecological value while increasing their human use? How do you image their gardening and farming systems built around these crops? Any interesting intercropping concepts? What would the cycle of the year look like?

Have yall given much thought to these? trap heat in greenhouses, let it naturally funnel upwards through a tower and power a turbine.

What I like about these is that they seem to be perfectly suited for agriculture and also produce power. Some versions of them have massive water pools underneath that could be used for a variety of purposes.

I love conserving native plants and their specific local ecotype genetics. It’s slowly becoming my life’s work. I helped found the native plant society for my region and we really focus on conserving hyper local population genetics + creating native plant food systems for generations to come. I find this so, so important.

But I’m also not a purist. I’m not mad at the local indigenous woman whose growing plants from two states away that her family has been cultivating for seven+ generations. Im not mad at local black communities who are actively working to conserve okra populations that aren’t native to here but are culturally and historically important + also aren’t invasive.

There is so much room for pluralism while still overall focusing on responsible ecosystem relationships, invasive species removal, and native plants restoration. And when we are open to these concerns, people are far more willing to open their gardens up to our native species that we recommend. It builds trust to be compassionate, nuanced, and understanding.

The key matter is that every plant has to be understood independently. No two are the same, and we can’t make blanket statements. Each plant species has to be evaluated on an individual level and especially understood in the precise location one is working in. We must be sure not to have invasives in our gardens, and to be on the watch out for them. And it is definitely important for our gardens, food crops, and restoration efforts to be mostly native plants. But there is room for other options. I think many of us are hesitant to that because the other options presented are often careless and purposeless, but that doesn’t mean we should shut ourselves out from it entirely. There are good faith opportunities to work with other gardeners in values based ways.

Hello, I am trying to practice reading Spanish. I find it’s easier to learn if I’m reading stuff I care about and reading from fields I already know a bit about, which so far has mostly been botanical writing. My other main interest is anarchy, so I’m looking for some Spanish language authors to read that would be good to practice with.

I know there are writings by Ricardo Flores Magón on the anarchist library and have started with those. Suggestions of his work or others would be appreciated. Thank you.

I was thinking about this earlier. The white lotus is a wise group of old folks holding out for a better world, and catching people who are walking down a bad way and turning them towards something good.

I wonder who Iroh’s mentor was. The Dragon of the West, crumpled to his knees. Mourning, full of grief. I wonder who gave him the wisdom he would need to rise up again, against who he had been?

I used to think he came to the place of wisdom alone. That he arrived there purely through self reflection. Now, I am not so sure. Was it Jeong Jeong? Or did they have some shared mentor? Or was it a thousand small mentorships as he traveled the world?

I know we will likely never know, but it’s a story I find much to imagine in.

Perhaps a bit meta, but I hope within the purpose of the sub.

What are the most interesting questions you’ve received about anarchy or read on here? Ones that really made you think, and helped you develop your understanding of anarchy.