In this thread, post what you’re working on! Guerilla gardening? eBiking? planting/pruning? Let us know!
I have a small backyard tree nursery which I use to grow rare species I give away to friends and acquaintances who have space to plant them.
A lot of people don’t realize that climate change means species that we grew for shade historically won’t necessarily thrive in the future, and since we usually hope the trees we plant will live for 20+ years, we need to plan ahead. So I’m testing which species can be heat and drought tolerant enough to provide shade and other environmental benefits in the future.
This is awesome. Are we best friends now? I have a background in plant tissue culture, especially micropropagation of woody species. I don’t do that professionally anymore, mostly because I have other skills that the job market likes better. However, I always have a propagation experiment of some kind going.
I think you are doing great work and your vision is very clear-eyed. Even from a grubby capitalist perspective, tree nurseries are a good future-proof business because climate changes are going to necessitate a lot of re-planting. It’s that kind of local knowledge you are making that if more widespread will help us develop the resilience to maybe, just maybe, get through the next couple of centuries.
This is so interesting! When I was growing up we had a small orchard in our backyard with a wide variety of apples, plums, pears, etc. We used to do something similar and give out cuttings to anyone who asked so there’s clones of those trees all over the area as far as 3-ish hours away that I know of. When us kids grew up my parents sold the house but my Dad took cuttings from all the different apple trees and spliced them onto a root stock at the new house to make hybrids with all the varieties from our old house. Unfortunately my parents both passed and before my partner and I were able to move back to the family home someone who was helping us out with the yard work ran over the hybrid-apple tree with the riding lawn mower 😑 so its no longer with us either.
Learning to make, repair and upcycle my own clothes instead of relying of badly made polyester fast fashion that doesn’t fit well. Also getting my fitness up so I can bike instead of drive which is difficult because I live in an absurdly hilly area.
Love this. I have been thinking on it myself just how rubbish most of the clothes I buy are, not to mention concerns about exploitation of the people making them.
Same for mending and sewing clothing. Except I’ve run aground a bit on my own perfectionism. I’ve somehow talked myself into making a pattern block for my butt so I can make the most optimal pants and shorts, but making a block is an Ordeal with Math involved and I haven’t had the bandwidth to accomplish it yet.
I’m a little late to this party, but we’re working on homesteading / regenerating / solarpunking ~50 acres of central NY. Lots of foraging, gardening, a few sheep / goats / horses. Currently experimenting with letting volunteer trees grow sparsely in some of the large fields to see how things around them fare in comparison to full sun.
We generate more power off of solar than we consume, and have enough storage to last indefinitely (if uncomfortably in the winter) off grid.
We’re slowly learning to make clothes from raw wool to woven cloth, and have a 200yo barn frame loom just waiting for enough spun wool to set it up.
We teach like to teach and learn, so host folks who want to get their hands dirty. Renovating rooms in the house so we can host more folks!
I’m actually working on myself. Actively getting fit, building strength to hike and spend more time in nature without pain. Changing my social media habits so I can focus on useful communities instead of mindless scrolling through eternal doom… Planning what to plant in my backyard next
to respond to my own post, i have set up a solar panel to charge a Jackery (mobile generator) that I am going to use to recharge my ebike when the charge runs down. photos forthcoming!
we’ve also got seven birdfeeders up and running on our property, and two bee hotels. it’s been over 100 degrees F where i live (rural western Colorado), so we repurposed an old hummingbird feeder to be a bug waterer, and used our local Buy Nothing group to find one of those pet watering bowls that refills from an attached jug. we filled the bowl part with rocks so bees have a place to land and filled the remainder with water, so now our bee hotels are right next to a bee waterer, too!
here’s a link to the image since i can’t figure out embedding an image, embarassingly.
bee hotel and a hummingbird feeder: https://flic.kr/p/2oRYzjN
