B's over this s🌱🐛🎼

I've gone full hippy, catch y'all in the garden!
Planting all the things, volunteer teaching science through native gardens while living w/multiple invisible disabilities. Artist, author, photographer, drummer, scientist, etc.
Environmental Science BS-Junior focusing on nature interpretation, ethnobotany of Midwest plants, & rewilding urban/suburban lands
Gen X
Not here for your pleasure, I kinda cuss a bit
😷💉
I eat the plants!
Pics my own unless stated otw
Proprietor of Midwest native plants

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2026-04-29 00:51:29 UTC

Okay. That was seriously fun! Cannot wait for pics to arrive but we planted a lot of potatoes, lettuce, & squash, then we planted cups full of extras for them to transplant later, then we went on a walk at the park to the big ol' bush of honeysuckle & the scouts got to try sucking the ends of the flowers for nectar.
Wouldn't you know it that the hesitant ones were the ones who didn't want to stop? 😂
Nothing like a kid asking if I'd tried them only for me to turn to them with lips full of flowers

2026-04-26 13:56:42 UTC

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and with you 🙏🏼🕉️

2026-04-08 20:39:28 UTC

Yes, yes that's me taking pictures of insects and leaf buds on the school campus. That's also me laying on the ground with my feet in the air doing meditation while I wait to attend the exam study session...
I just needed a moment of non chaos to balance, well, everything really.
Here's hoping you find a moment of peace to reset your minds today in the chaos that is today and everyday
💚🫂🕉️

2026-03-30 12:22:49 UTC

Well, it's Monday... should've guessed it'd be a doozy by the way my bones and joints feel. 😂 Bus was super late, was told it was broken down by a trucker, then as I was assessing what to do next it came flying by and honked it's horn at me 💨 decided an Uber was the answer this morning instead of waiting another 40 minutes for the next bus and be late... Not ideal, but at least I'm on campus
At least there's flowers in them thar trees
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2026-03-22 15:30:06 UTC

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looking for candying the actual flowers to be passed out as treats. I'd like them to retain their shape if possible, but mostly trying for ways to introduce how candy can be made from flowers as simply as possible with a history of how they were made prior to easy access to sugar (kind of like a survival type thing, ie. access to sugar in woods would be difficult to obtain).

2026-03-22 14:04:16 UTC

I wanna make candied flowers this year!!! No eggs and trying to get a close to the versions that would have been accessible to indigenous tribes before colonization. I'd like to learn this before I teach the youngs about edible flowers again this spring... Any recipes or tips? How did one candy before easy access to sugar? I need to know this!
Please help.
#CandiedFlowers #Cooking #VolunteerNaturalist
#Naturalist

2026-03-12 23:37:32 UTC

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ooooh! 😍

2026-03-12 23:28:59 UTC

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it is so much fun

2026-03-12 16:01:20 UTC

It is with a heavy heart that I pass this information along. Dr. Elaine Ingham has passed away. I learned so much about soil science through her work with the Soil Food Web school and what I learned there set me on my path of going to school to learn more about soil science.
🌱💚
#SoilScience #SoilFoodWeb #Soil

2026-03-10 01:26:24 UTC

Just introduced my elder client to the Merlin Birding app. Don't think I've ever seen someone so excited for a phone app. 😊 She said she probably wouldn't use most of the features, but she will most definitely be using the sound id feature! So happy that I showed it to her... I was curious about who I was hearing in her yard after I had finished working in it. 😅

2026-02-22 13:55:29 UTC

Alright, who turned the snow back on?

2026-02-17 21:03:52 UTC

Not certain how this happened, but my order of free potatoes to grow and give away has placed me on some sort of food growers list for free food seeds! Looks like I'll be feeding people regardless of the school availability for my program. If you are local and need food plants/seeds let me know. If you want to help me grow some food to donate hit me up! (Cincinnati, OH)
These are not for resale. They are to feed communities.
#Cincinnati #Gardening #SolarPunk #Food #Seeds

2026-02-15 16:42:35 UTC

Finally getting around to transplanting some of these seedlings... 5 yogurt containers has become 18 with just the first species... Goldenwave Tickseed. I might run out of space before I run out of plants 😳 This is the best run of seed starts I've done 🎉
So grateful for the seed houses, heat mats, and lights. Let's go spring!!! 🌱

2026-01-14 12:24:02 UTC

RE: https://mas.to/@bilal_mo/115527340079831885
Is @npub1d6t…vdlg and is reaching out for support. I know it's a struggle right now for many, but please consider aiding others where/when you can. A little love goes a long way
🫂
#note1x3q…q406

2026-01-14 11:29:34 UTC

One thing I've noticed on campus is how shiny these youngs all look 👀
I'm becoming quite ripe in my mids, if not a bit pruney... was asked if I was teaching the class I was looking for 😳
Nope, just started a lot later than y'all is all 🤣

2026-01-10 23:14:13 UTC

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He was a fun person. I heard so many of his stories about growing up in NY from immigrant parents, leaving the family to start on his own, then there was the gardening advice! 😅 I remember fondly of most of my neighbors in the FL panhandle. Many elders of a variety of backgrounds, all with stories to share. Every story is a blessing

2026-01-10 23:03:25 UTC

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an elder Italian man who was a volunteer driver for a local hospital & also happened to live up the street from me. He would hold conversations at top volume about everything. Joked on his heritage & upbringing in NY, plus was a superb gardener. He took one look at me after hearing my story & told me to never stop moving. Once you stop, it gets harder to get going again. I have degenerative joint issues & was in PT for ACL/Meniscus rebuild at the time. I heed that advice every day

2026-01-10 22:54:15 UTC

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🫂 beautiful sentiments to hold to heart. My elders did try to warn me...that as one ages there will be more funerals and friends that leave, but I have learned that it is the memories and stories that we keep alive. 🙏🕉️ Blessed be during this difficult time

2026-01-10 21:35:03 UTC

Tapped maple trees today at the Cincinnati Nature Center! It's my first time and was a blast! Looks like it's Maple Sap time!!!
P.S. they have weekend hikes to check the buckets and help with the process if you're local ✌️

2025-12-22 17:17:59 UTC

Never underestimate the simple joys when with elders. What you both find fun separately may not be the best choice for together time. A car full of '80's pop tunes, sweet coffee drinks, and cruising for hours looking at holiday light displays became a memory for a lifetime that kept my momma talking for hours and drove all other repetitive thoughts from her mind.
#MomentsWithMom #Alzheimers

2025-11-29 12:58:02 UTC

Sunrise of fire over frozen lands
A path that invites you to explore
Unexpected surprise upon open door.
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2025-11-27 19:09:07 UTC

WKRP Cincinnati 🎶🎵🎶🎙️
https://youtu.be/HiSkjcl9yW4?si=q_DNnhyYB61N4xv0

2025-11-27 14:16:36 UTC

For those who celebrate the Honorable Harvest, have a fabulous day!
💚
Choose foods grown locally, give respect for all living things, share your bounty
May you find peace, joy, and harmony in all you do.

2025-11-26 13:34:18 UTC

RE: https://mstdn.social/@junesim63/115615071555846911
This is my dream! We can all succeed if we all give a little 💚
#note1ps7…68mm

2025-11-12 00:40:54 UTC

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fascinating. Do you have many problems stemming from your self-hosted site? That does look like a promising avenue. Also, do you get a lot of traffic directed from here or do you have your site listed elsewhere too?

2025-11-11 21:13:23 UTC

I know a lot of y'all on here are writers, so I have a question for ya. Where is a good place online to post my writings w/o fear of them being ripped of or used to train ai?
is wordpress still ok? Idk, been years since I last placed my work online.
#writer #writing #author

2025-10-25 12:48:13 UTC

Not me waking up after passing out exhausted from yesterday's garden work to find bits of tree in my hair and sleep cap... 🙄 it's gonna be a 10 cuppa coffee day.
6 peonies planted, 2 acres watered by hoses, 1 large bag of periwinkle and poison ivy vines pulled by hand, leaves blown, hoses rolled, sprinklers stored, and the water shut off for the season. Long, good day of work in nature with a buck watching me in the distance. 😅

2025-09-26 15:08:10 UTC

Study science they said, you'll never be without knowledge
They weren't wrong.
It's past time to share that knowledge with everyone!
Change the status quo, educate everyone!
#paperclip #science #SciComm #Education
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2025-08-22 16:39:38 UTC

Planning meeting about upcoming pollinator class session for city residents wrapped up. We're designing infographics and scavenger hunts to leave in a brochure box at the park sign as well as hand out at the event. Super excited!!!

2025-08-17 18:42:33 UTC

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this one is non-US hosted and quite active
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2025-08-09 03:50:40 UTC

Aced the quiz... good news is i could tank tomorrow's exam and walk with a "C"
tempting all things considered

2025-08-07 20:56:26 UTC

Took the bus for the first time in years. Way better than driving the distance if there's no transfers. Will be doing that versus spending extra for a parking pass on campus next spring

2025-08-05 13:56:21 UTC

Please send photos of flowers, bugs, or cats. I'm in big need of beauty, intrigue, and love
Some transitions are unavoidable, i suppose

2025-07-26 11:46:28 UTC

Said spotted lanternfly adult
These are some of the largest treehoppers that I've ever seen 👀
#InvasiveSpecies #US #SpottedLanternfly #Insects
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2025-07-25 14:50:24 UTC

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What a great idea!!

2025-07-16 14:43:49 UTC

The butterfly presence in the gardens this year is amazing. Finally seeing a huge host vs one or two. That adage, "build it, they will come," has now come to fruition. With the pollinator spaces being in their 5th year of growth, the diversity is staggering. I've well surpassed my 500 species goal on iNaturalist and there's quite a few new lepidoptera amongst those listings
https://www.inaturalist.org/users/3687324

2025-07-10 12:38:40 UTC

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Safe travels! I need to make it down to Savannah soon too, got some fam down there. Hot time of year for a visit, hydrate well 🥵
Hope you all have a fabulous time

2025-06-13 02:11:36 UTC

Too stinking adorable! Found today at the school pollinator garden while watering 💙
@npub1v5a…ny6w #Gardening #pollinators #bee #video #nature #NativePlants
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2025-05-19 21:50:33 UTC

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We also taste tested strawberries from the garden! Which means we had enough ripe and ready to feed two classes of students! The ever bearing strawberry beds are producing well in their third year of growth.

2025-05-19 21:43:10 UTC

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Another view, still no face
Edit* photo taken by teacher friend
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2025-05-19 21:34:02 UTC

Today was Teacher Passion Project day at one school. Students were given a list of activities to choose from and got to attend 2 different projects that interested various teachers. My teacher friend chose gardening and asked me to facilitate the sessions. We focused on pollinators and their needs, but while students were counting pollinators, a new garden friend was found.
#Nature will always surprise you!
#Gardening #Turtle @npub1v5a…ny6w
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2025-05-14 12:36:13 UTC

Why do good things happening to me always make me anxious? A good thing happens and I wonder when the next bad will happen. Too many bad times... too many...

2025-05-13 22:46:06 UTC

This garden tour is turning into something bigger than a tour! 👀 If any of my local nature buds wants to hang out, the 21st of June is about to be a thing! Bring anything you want to share (free only) with a focus on native plants! More details once they're finalized, but I also plan to screen my pilot episode during this time.

2025-04-18 01:44:07 UTC

Any #gardeners in the Hamilton County region of #Ohio a local Juliet Scout needs of these #native #pollinator #plants to rehabilitate a neglected city park:
beard tongue
Rue anemone
Wild geranium
Wild lupine
False solomon's seal
Bishop's cap
Ohio spiderwort
Wild columbine
Purple coneflower
Butterfly milkweed
Prairie coreopsis
Nodding onion
Fragrant hyssop
Spotted bee balm
Stiff goldenrod
Joe Pye weed
Blue eyed grass
False sunflower
Aster
Please reply if you do and I'll send a message.
#Gardening

2025-04-16 13:46:26 UTC

Last night's adventures in junior gardening included teaching young scouts about how our homes are like hotels between natural areas, how beans and peas create fertilizer plus food, and that violets make great jelly and have exploding seed pods.
They planted pansies, violets, snap peas, and black beans to take home in recycled containers. Yay, Plants!
#Gardening #Volunteering #Flowers #GYO #GrowYourOwn #Scouts
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2025-04-07 17:44:42 UTC

In other than-curse-those-european-house-sparrows news, the nature center visit went well! I'm going to look totally goofy in an official photo for the tour guide, w/ wild hair & muddy boots, but there was enough plant life to show & they're stoked about the native foods from native flowers concept that I've been building on in these spaces. Along w/ the perennial food garden, traditional food garden, & wildlife spaces, there's so much life! Bonus? Each concept can be built in a small space.

2025-04-05 19:34:35 UTC

Just got word, city approved the Scout's Park Rehabilitation plans with my native pollinator garden design inputs. Such a great project! I've already set aside plants! Time to contact all my garden friends with the list of plants needed!
Edit* forgot to say, we're still waiting on the mayor's stamp
#Gardening #SolarPunk #Service #Naturalist #GrowNative
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2025-04-04 13:33:16 UTC

Coolest scene this am occurring in the rain sodden gardens, robins foraging for nesting materials in the plant material I left up over winter. Passionflower vines, milkweed tufts, flower stalks, all are becoming nests 😍🥰

2025-03-31 17:16:56 UTC

Best feeling ever! Someone telling you how at ease you've put them about a large, stressful project. Scout garden planning is going great! We're even going to add border logs for decomposition and educational components. Like a kid in a candy shop, I'm enjoying this moment!

2025-03-31 01:04:50 UTC

Eeeeeek! I was just discussing with my dad recently about a similar storm to this one... it was the one where lightning both struck him and the tree beside me, where my sister and I were standing to get our pictures taken under the Grand Canyon's park sign... terrifying
Take shelter!
#ExtremeWeather #Ohio #wx

2025-03-18 12:29:07 UTC

Agroforestry offers many avenues for long term food security, carbon sequestration, air purification, & many other ecosystem services. They become semi-permanent resources to all in the region, but they require time to grow & space to stay. Unlike traditional Ag where land can be turned into food space, a food forest stays put, offering its bounty for years to come. This stationary nature & greed often threatens these spaces as is happening w/the linked petitioned forest.
https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-destruction-of-the-world-renowned-dartington-forest-garden/exp/v2/cl_/cl_sharecopy_490468164_en-GB/9/630963365?recruiter=630963365&recruited_by_id=eab8a390-a883-11e6-937f-2f6d643bba36&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf&utm_medium=copylink&utm_content=cl_sharecopy_490468164_en-GB%3A9

2025-03-17 14:56:45 UTC

Some profs realized spring break is this week others got confused and gave a week last week. Ugh... whatever... not like I have a life right now anyways 🤪as I just picked up another garden design project. A scout wants to install a native pollinator space with trails and continuing education in an abandoned company park.
Wheeee! Love all these young fighting for a sustainable future.
Hey there adults! Time to jump on the sustainability bandwagon!

2025-03-13 23:55:49 UTC

Did some work at one school... weeded, relocated the compost bin, watered, cleaned, and created a path from donations and stones students painted a few years ago
#Volunteering #Gardening #BloomScrolling @npub1v5a…ny6w
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2025-03-13 23:40:11 UTC

I just received an amazing book... John Seymour The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It
The food farm info alone makes this book a must have for #UrbanFarming
At first glance, I'm blown away.
Want to #GrownYourOwn food? Looks like a great book to start with. Will see how updated the soil info is and get back to y'all.
#Gardening #Farming #SolarPunk

2025-03-12 19:08:22 UTC

My garden past the final selection process... ~450 visitors in eight hours. Mid June.
WHEEEEEE!!!!
Garden Tour!!!!!!!!!

2025-03-12 13:53:02 UTC

Oh, yes.... forgot to mention...
It's spring peeper time in Southern Ohio!
#Naturalist #frogs #spring #ClimateDiary

2025-03-12 05:08:39 UTC

What struck me about tonight's tea party wasn't the insanely good homegrown food dishes or blends of tisane from their fields of herbs, but that it felt like a coven of garden witches just claimed me. 😅

2025-03-10 02:56:08 UTC

Finally got outside to play with seeds. So grateful it was still warm after dark tonight. I planted the first round of flowering natives for the home... a tray full of mountain mint and bergamont. Bees are gonna love it here 💙
Note to self, pay attention to the sowing temperatures before you start your planting... had to insulate and set up a seed shelf with a heat mat after the fact. Kinda hard to keep quiet in the dark basement. 😂
#pollinators @npub1v5a…ny6w #gardening
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2025-03-09 15:58:54 UTC

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world history...

2025-03-09 06:30:38 UTC

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heh, heh, heh... yeah and I'm taking an exam tomorrow. Oh, joy

2025-03-08 14:05:18 UTC

So, I bought more seeds... in my defense, when I mentioned walkable flowering ground covers to hubs, he gave an enthusiastic 2 thumbs up... I also added a "Prairie in work" sign to ward off nosey city officials
🤞
Now to start those taller native plant seeds that I got in the fall. Live close by? I might have few extras for ya in a couple of months. Feel free to stop by, just introduce yourself... I give dirty looks to randos who slow down just to watch me garden instead of stopping to say hi.

2025-03-03 16:05:34 UTC

The young are exploring their world!
Time to get out those cameras and start documenting critters as they emerge from sleep, eggs, or wherever.
It's SPRING!
#spiders #spring #invertebrates
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2025-03-02 14:58:10 UTC

Y'all, writing a quick survey. What do you want to see developed into a 5 minute miniseries?
#poll #video #series #GroupThink

2025-03-02 04:14:18 UTC

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2025-02-28 20:34:48 UTC

~450 people...
That's the number of people I should be prepared to receive throughout the day on the day of the nature center's garden tour. Final decisions will be made soon. 🤞🏼
That's a lot of people learning about urban rewilding and native plants from an urban agriculturist who also happens to grow a lot of native plants. 😂

2025-02-28 15:39:32 UTC

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It was as easy a searching on duck go for "who hosts Pandora's servers"

2025-02-28 15:35:38 UTC

Wow, even Pandora uses Amazon cloud services... Guess I'll be making my own music today or running through some old cds and mp3s. Pay attention to your service use today... Netflix, Hulu, All your cloud based BS is hosted somewhere. Find out where and avoid it like the plague

2025-02-27 14:15:09 UTC

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it's mudsville here in the midwest too! Was sticking a branch of raspberry in the ground and found the frost layer. 😂

2025-02-27 01:48:02 UTC

I planted peas, carrots, and lettuce after installing the first bed. Tomorrow is one of the schools' turn, then another here, then the other school, then here, then Mom's, then here, then school, then here....
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2025-02-26 13:05:12 UTC

Today's "between the assignments" will entail new food bed constructions and installations... Then we fill and plant salad fixings!!!

2025-02-26 01:25:08 UTC

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They're looking for a garden that incorporates native plantings and that's my specialty! 😍

2025-02-26 01:22:22 UTC

My gardens were requested to be added to a nature center's garden tour this summer. OMG😱 I'm so honored to be asked. This has never happened before😱

2025-02-06 06:17:33 UTC

Want big food, large flowers, or healthy trees, then watch the documentary The Living Soil by the Soil Health Institute.
https://soilhealthinstitute.org/our-work/initiatives/living-soil-documentary/
#Gardening #Agriculture #Farming

2025-02-03 14:18:14 UTC

Looking for orgs to join that are protesting this mess. Which orgs do you recommend? I'm looking at aclu and amnesty, but what others are there? I'm usually in the environmental protesting world, so not familiar with all of the social justice orgs

2025-02-02 19:47:04 UTC

Now on most fedi places as BsCreativeLife
Peertube (awaiting validation)
(Jumped gun on Loops, still on a wait-list I guess)
Pixelfed
Will slowly start loading old content that hasn't been seen since leaving evil sites
Time to stop hiding and learning, time to apply and fly

2025-02-02 15:19:37 UTC

My family is not your political pawn
Step up
Protect those who need it
Most don't have access to a backup plan
Most can't flee or apply for asylum
Wake the fuck up!
Trans is normal
Gay is normal
Neurodivergence is normal
Disability is normal
All variances on the human experience are normal
Our reactions to this normal are not
FYI passports are now in limbo
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/i-feel-like-i-m-stuck-here-trans-nonbinary-americans-passports-remain-in-limbo/ar-AA1y1q9m

2025-02-02 03:47:20 UTC

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what you watchin? I started Tokyo ghoul last night

2025-01-31 15:56:59 UTC

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That's my porch right now... Slowly working through it

2025-01-30 17:13:54 UTC

Oh my goodness! I don't know how I'm going to swing everything, but I'll be teaching little people again this fall!
Super excited to work with kindergarten & 1st grade this time! Guess we'll just keep adding grade levels as we get funding and help. 😍😍😍😍
I'm really hanging on by a thread, but this project really has a life of it's own now. I have a responsibility to carry it as far as I can, to reach as many as possible. We can have hope in our own strengths and abilities to care for one another

2025-01-24 14:41:55 UTC

Birds are fascinating to watch in the dead of winter... Nothing else is really doing much, but spread some seed on the frozen snow and blue jays, cardinals, downy woodpeckers, doves, finches, sparrows, wrens, and more provide a spray of color and noise to liven up the day.

2025-01-18 19:11:03 UTC

What a perfect urine marked canid paw print in the snow. By the gait and size, I'm thinking coyote. It came through the back open area and stalked close to the house before using the the trail to hunt in the front, if I'm reading the tracks correctly. Lots of activity in the front yard due to the seed extravaganza thrown out by Thing 1, so hunting there is not too far of a stretch.
Glad I caught these tracks before the rain hit!
#HomegrownNationalPark #naturalist #Nature #snow
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2025-01-16 14:43:34 UTC

Someone wants to go on a trip to see snow, I suppose. 😆
Making friends everywhere!
#NotMyCat
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2025-01-08 14:57:32 UTC

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The book info is
National Wildlife Federation's: Attracting Birds, Butterflies, and Other Backyard Wildlife, Expanded Second Edition by David Mizejewski

2025-01-08 14:51:58 UTC

This book is so invaluable, as it educates on the key principles of gardening for wildlife! Absolutely love it and recommend it
https://a.co/d/gCCJMUU
Okay, time to get back to rain garden designing 😊
#gardening #naturalist #HomegrownNationalPark #Nature

2025-01-06 02:49:27 UTC

It's Snowmagedeon over here!!!! Wheeee! Thing 1 and I dashed through the snowscape giggling like hyenas, with the snow reaching the tops of our boots. It's been years since we've seen this kind of snow. No roads, no noise, peaceful blanket upon the earth. What a joy!

2025-01-04 23:58:08 UTC

Sigh. Work is done. Only got frostbite on my left big toe 😆, but the beds at the second school are trimmed up and leaf litter removed from the food beds to encourage squash beetle (and other pests) death. I don't use any chemicals on the school grounds, so natural control methods are required during freezing temps to reduce agricultural pests in the summer. It's going to finally hard freeze in the Cincy area. Finally!!!
So, so cold out there.... I'm going to crawl into a hole and hibernate now 🛌🏼

2025-01-04 04:39:30 UTC

So much work goes into the planning of rainscaping... So much to consider from the soil quality to location of groundwater, from elevation to runoff of water, etc.
It seems that I've gotten myself into another big project with this mouth of mine. 😂
Should be educational for all involved though, and it's needed, so onto the next thing! Forward, march!

2025-01-01 17:52:09 UTC

Grant not working in your favor, change the perspective. Only covers improvements, not tools? Then we're going to install a rain garden to buffer the storm drain from all of our gardening.
Send me your best ideas for Midwest rain gardens, please!
Gotta put together a proposal by the 12th
#gardening #NativePlants #RainGarden #SchoolGarden #Volunteer

2024-12-30 15:54:03 UTC

Using my one week off before college resumes to build beds that I got at a steep discount from Menards. Not the petty hate garden yet, these will host strawberries, lettuces, carrots, whatever other easy access food plants I want near the kitchen. Have four of these 5x2x11 beds, and there will be wooden trough styled pots in between each with low growing natives florals (or these might just hold the hated plants 😂, idk).
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2024-12-28 21:20:55 UTC

Catkins are starting to show their poofs...
It's too early!!! Go back to sleep, my babies, it really is winter, regardless of the rains and warmth.
Poor pussywillow babies, I hope they don't bloom too soon...
#ClimateDiary

2024-12-27 15:58:25 UTC

The Oak House
Stands amongst the oaks both big and small, hosts all the plants, and welcomes those who wish to help nature thrive.
The sign uses portions of the old oak that was just taken down. Next up will be a name placard for the house, refinishing the railings, and painting that concrete landing anything but that color.
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2024-12-18 06:10:41 UTC

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Prickly pear and mums are first on my list to go into those planters; prickly pears are edible so I will also harvest them, but I hate growing cacti. Mums are simply ridiculous, imo with their one season of growth that everyone destroys their gardens to install in the fall. I'm sure there are more plants I dislike, like maple trees, which I dislike because they displace oaks in cleared forests. Another would be the milkweed vine. Amazing smelling, loved by butterflies, but is a terrific mess

2024-12-18 06:06:32 UTC

Can't wait to build my petty little hate garden...a wall of hand-formed hypertufa pots, filled with the beneficial Ohio plants that I dislike to grow, marching down the property line...
Sigh, my gremlin is showing again. 😂

2024-12-16 14:14:15 UTC

Found drums, learned sib is creeping, started some cuttings of bidens, transplanted an octopus agave, attended church, learned about observing some sort of sabbath for mental health regardless of faith, & slept well. Other than the sib who demo'd in front of our mom their unwillingness to communicate w/me, pretty good day.
Grades are mostly posted, looks like I did pretty well, aced two finals (which surprised me), and it's time to get business caught up.
Daily life catch-up time! Happy Monday!🫂

2024-12-02 14:00:12 UTC

Today marks the end of a magnificent oak's tale. May it's hundred years of life give back to the soil what is needed to nourish it's several young offspring. Here's to the circle of life.
I am humbled

2024-11-29 14:22:03 UTC

Good morning ⬜ people!
Need a tree ritual. To respect the tree that was/is, to share the gratefulness of it's presence, & to prepare for the coming end on the 2nd.
I wonder how old she truly is... Near 100? Older?
Please help me celebrate this life that's seen so much.
Side note: I'm trying to keep an much of the wood as possible on site to respect the cycle & nature that have come to rely upon it's wood for survival, +the baby trees I've been harboring in this tree's shadow will soon see sun.

2024-11-26 16:33:21 UTC

Time to redirect negativity into positivity...
3 good things...
1. I'm not in pain right now
2. Squirrels can always make me smile
3. I'm home with my gardens
#squirrel #3GoodThings
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2024-11-25 04:50:18 UTC

Alrighty US desert #gardeners hit me with your favorite native plants!
Need ideas to start this spring, what should I look for? What can I propagate?
Any good books I should look for?
#Naturalist #plants #NativePlants #desert #gardening

2024-11-13 17:18:36 UTC

Red headed woodpecker has decided to pick up where the squirrels left off, cracking nuts on the rocks & taking off with the grub.
It was a mast fruiting year for both oaks, unfortunately it's the last for the front tree. According to arborist the tree could fall at any time, according to the type of fungus we're seeing grow out the base. We knew it was coming, but it's still very sad for me to realize the time has come.
Hoping the young oaks I've let grow under it take off once they see the sun

2024-11-10 13:41:47 UTC

As we #SitTogether I'm listening to rain and leaves pitter pat on the roof while looking out on trees that are losing their leaves once again.
Not quite the #silentSunday but a peaceful one