Ok but this woman is living the dream

that’s me swimming to happiness in 2020

Is your teen texting about sustainable farming?

OMG = Organic Mushroom Gardening

WTF = Where’s The Fertilizer

LMAO = Left My Axe Outside

LOL = Lots Of Lettuce

DTF = Down To Farm

WYD = Weed Your Dandelions

BRB = Better Results than Borlaug

TBH = This Bountiful Harvest

SMH = Share My Harvest

BTW = Bring The Wheelbarrow

ILY = Increased Land Yield

BS = Big Snail

a gift from me 2 u ♡

IM SO ANGRY

THERE WAS ONCE A TOAD CONSTELLATION BUT IT WAS DECLARED OBSOLETE

https://www.obliquity.com/skyeye/88const/Buf.html

We could’ve had it all…

let’s bring her back

Reclaim Bufo!!!

I couldn't personally afford to donate much but!! to anyone this post reaches!!!!!! please donate to #TeamTrees!!!!! I have the link and stuff and I wanted to make sure that tumblr saw it!! 1 dollar is 1 tree and trees are cute so please consider sending some mon!!!

I'll do it for you, creamy

The bumblebee was officially added to the endangered species list.

 Please:

Please save my fat clumsy fuzzy friends I love them and they’re very good pollinators.

DON’T SCROLL PAST THIS

for the last 2+ weeks, the Amazon has been catching fire. Yes, it’s the season where that’s normal but because of the sayings (aka incentive) of our new president, some farmers are taking advantage of that and intentionally setting the trees on fire. Yesterday, because of this, the sky of São Paulo looked like this. AT THREE IN THE AFTERNOON.

Hospitals of the northern states are filling up with people (especially children and seniors) claiming they can’t breathe properly. ALREADY ENDANGERED ANIMALS ARE DYING. THIS IS SERIOUS.

Germany and Norway, huge donators to the Amazon cause will stop sending money because they don’t see results (that can also be credited to our president, who has been tweeting angrily ever since - not because he cares about the environment, btw). That money gives this guy and his team equipment to save little guys like these:

THIS AFFECTS EVERYONE, NOT JUST BRAZILIANS. The Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world, and it’s being destroyed. WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING.

If your country is holding elections, vote for someone who cares about this. Don’t let another Bolsonaro or another Trump have the power to do something and then do nothing. This is going to shape our future — if we have one.

PLEASE REBLOG, EVERYONE NEEDS TO SEE THIS!!

side note: not to sound bitter or ungrateful but also like what’s up with Europe… y’all exploited South America for centuries but just because you “aren’t seeing results” you stop helping altogether?? if you really wanted to help you wouldn’t stop because you think you aren’t helping lol

theres a petition going around. PLEASE sign it. this is HUGE

Sign it

On the fragility and biodiversity of North America’s native prairies:

Many people (…) grasp the concept that you can’t go out and plant a desert, or an Arctic tundra, but for some reason [some people] have this romantic notion that you can go out to a field, throw out a bunch of wildflower seeds, and bingo: Instant Prairie. (…) You can construct, or reconstruct, a few elements of prairie, and some prairie insects and birds and other creature may take up residence there, on their own. But, prairie in Missouri and elsewhere is thousands of years old – you can’t do an instant prairie makeover and expect all the parts to be intact. (…)

At the time of statehood, there were 15 million acres of prairie in Missouri – about a third of the state. (…) [Now] we have less than 1/10 of 1% of its original acreage in the state. (…) This past summer, a colleague of mine, the botanist Justin Thomas, was surveying one of the Missouri Prairie Foundation’s smallest remnants – a 37-acre original prairie in southwestern Missouri. Justin discovered a record number of 38 native plant species growing in a quarter meter random sample plot. Many of these plants will grow nowhere else in the world but on original, unplowed prairie. The average number of plant species in a quarter meter of a Missouri forest, for comparison, is 7.

In an area of original prairie about the size of the seat of the chair you’re sitting in, Thomas found 38 species (…) That quarter meter of prairie contained sensitive briar; Mead’s sedge; grooved yellow flax – and 35 other plant species. On this same 37 acres, this past June, lepidopterists found this cryptic olivaceous phaneta moth. Goldenrod is its host plant. It hasn’t been documented in our state in 120 years, yet it continues to exist, on 37 acres of original prairie, and, I hope, elsewhere. On another of our organization’s original remnants – a 171-acre prairie – lepidopterists found more than 65 species of moths in only a few hours of collecting.

That kind of biological diversity is simply not possible to replicate in a planting [and prairie restoration projects].

Even in a prairie reconstruction started in the 1940s in Madison, Wisconsin, biologists there are still not seeing the species richness of plants or animals that can be found in original prairie. Last year, Mike Arduser, who is a bee biologist from St. Louis, surveyed an 8-acre tract of land in Joplin, MO that the Missouri Prairie Foundation purchased in 2014. On these 8 acres is a ¾-acre prairie remnant. On this tiny remnant, Mike found Andrena beamerii, a native bee species that forages on Coreopsis pollen, a species that most bee specialists have never seen. In fact, the male has not yet been described by science. As Mike has said, “While a few acres of habitat may be just a corner park to us, for some bees and other insects, it’s their entire world.”

And if we drill down, to a microscopic level, there is still much more baseline data to collect about the things we can’t see, in prairie soil. Two years ago soil scientists from here in Colorado, at the University of Colorado in Boulder, published some amazing news. These scientists had found abundant bacteria in the soil of unplowed prairie from an entire phylum of bacteria that is not present in tilled fields that were once prairie. In 2013 the New York Times editorial board wrote, “finding these bacteria is like finding a piece of a lost continent.” (…)

In addition to the tangible gifts they give to us, our American grasslands help define us, give us confidence to defy, in fact, the concept of flyover country.

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Carol Davit, Executive Director of Missouri Prairie Foundation. Keynote address at America’s Grasslands Conference, 2015.

YOO SPREAD THE WORD PEOPLE

threelittleblackbirds  “Handfuls of soft sweetness 💕”

remember being little and thinking dandelions were fun or a pretty color or something and every adult in an 80 mile radius wouldn’t let you say that without screaming ITS A WEED

also like:

Why ARE they considered a weed? They’re a good flower? Who decided they were bad? =(

lawn culture made the decision to consider dandelions weeds