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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 1h

I'm a huge fan of genus Panicum. Panicum capillare aka Witchgrass is my favorite. It is also a lover of sidewalk cracks and salty sandy roadsides.

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 6h

Masters degrees, living paycheck to paycheck. Even in blue MA where teachers earn far more than elsewhere, teachers live paycheck to paycheck because the cost of living is so high here. We need legislation to make teachers strikes legal.

www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

Teachers would be paid a minimum salary of $70,000 in Massachusetts if bill becomes law

There's a new push to establish a minimum salary for public school teachers and other educators in Massachusetts.

www.cbsnews.com

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 6h

I love a good veggie lasagna, but I can't find joy in eating alone. Joy, for me, is feeding good friends a delicious veggie lasagna that I made.

Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 7h

Be nice! That's just her face, and I think she is sweet. She cleans up our garbage, and gets a bad rep that her cousins the Jays don't have largely because of the color of her feathers.

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 7h

It won't be a bunch of rednecks with face paint next time. It will be a military coup by one of the most highly funded militaries in the world, equipped (already) with billions of dollars worth of heat-seaking missiles: ICE. We need him out of office before 2027.

Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 7h

ICE has billions of dollars worth of heat-seaking missiles. The next time it will be a military coup, not a bunch of redneck goons. We need to get him out before then.

Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 18h

The corporatist blue party is better than the fascist billionaire red party, but that statement is a little much considering that the votes of Democrats in Senate are statistically independent of the will of their constituents and highly correlated to corporate will

act.represent.us/sign/problem...

Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think

I had no idea how bad things actually were until I saw one simple graph.

act.represent.us

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 1d

We need to relearn how to be good citizens of our ecosystems. It breaks my heart to see the evidence of how little humans understand or care about the rest of the living world.

We need our park rangers, and the people trying to reforge the connections to the more-than-human world.

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 1d

Oaks are in full fall regalia, here in Acton, MA. They took their time, then changed fast over this rainy Tuesday-Wednesday. They are just in time to join the maples and birches before the maples go bare. Look at the colors on these three saplings!

#quercus #nativeplants #ecoregion59 #fall

Starting from the left, the pale-leaved oak is a Swamp White Oak, (Quercus rubra). Front and center is a Northern Red Oak (Quercus bicolor), with mottled red-yellow leaves. Behind the Red Oak, to the right, with deep red leaves is a Black Oak (Quercus velutina).

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta get some silence, so you have the reserves to get loud in the streets. I would love to walk that beach, but there's a nice forest and meadow nearby. Today I had the time to walk far enough from the road to escape the blight of Asiatic Bittersweet girdling the trees. I cut a few vines daily btw

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 1d

We are still fine in Middlesex Cty, MA. There have been sightings, but I haven't seen one here. I found out about them years ago when visiting Philadelphia. They were everywhere, and were killing all of the grapes.

Growing Fox Grapes (Vitis labrusca), is a pet project, and I'm worried for them.

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, greenwashing cattle farming is so ubiquitous. There are definitely better ways to farm cattle, but pasture raised beef is a wildly unsustainable venture at the rate we are consuming it. The best thing to do is just not produce so dang much of that wildly inefficient food.

Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 2d

I can hardly bring myself to pick and dry these lovely flowers. These are the more common northern wild-type: Crimson-eyed Rosemallow. It takes weeks of blooming before I can bring myself to start picking and drying flowers.

Close-up on a Hibiscus moscheutos flower, with other flowers and buds above and below. My hand for scale -- these are the largest flowers native to my area.

The grass at the bottom of the image is Nimblewill (Muhlenbergia schreberi). Sadly, if you search the Internet for this lovely beneficial native grass, you'll get a list of ways to kill it instead of a list of the cute little Skipper butterflies it hosts, or a list of the ecosystem services it provides.

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 2d

Hibiscus makes me happy. That's just one of so many reasons that I grow it. Our New England native Hibiscus moscheutos hosts over 30 butterfly and moth species and even has its own specialist bee. I make tea from dried flowers and I'm thrilled when I find Hibiscus Sawflies. Why grow just for me!?

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 2d

Guess you didn't read how netanyahoo pretended the Israeli landmine that blew up a settler was their justification for resuming bombing. We (people paying attention) knew it was a PR stunt and Israel had no intention of ceasing the genocide. That war criminal (yahoo) needs to hang.

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 2d

They are commiting genocide in plain sight, starving people to death, and running torture camps. Israel should be getting sanctions from every country in the world yet manages to subvert the will of the people on an international scale.

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 3d

Grow native beans! If you're in the Eastern US, and you plant some Woolly Beans (Strophostyles helvola) in with tall herbs or by a fence, you can have beans next fall with no additional work. It even works in my gardens, where the bunnies eat any cultivars of beans that I plant to the ground.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s a list of companies to file complaints with and boycott for running ICE advertisements.

ICE recruitment ads appearing on Spotify, HBO Max and other streaming services

DHS says the ad blitz has led to more than 175,000 applications and 18,000 tentative job offers

www.independent.co.uk

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 6d

I listened to the weak deflections in addition to the racist rants. It's wild to me that you bigots have no understanding of what is wrong with you, or that decent people will see through it and be disgusted by all that you are. As if listening to the trash he spewed would win over any decent human.

Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 6d

Probably throwing a bone to MTG so she'll get back in line. I'll bet her breaking with the party of the Republican shut-down and campaigning to get Santos released were a calculated combination to get that little treat before she started marching to the fascist beat again.

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 6d

Invasive plants degrade our ecosystems and harm us all by doing so. They should be killed. But people use it for plants that are inconveniently aggressive in their garden, often including beneficial native species. I push back because the word can have weight if we preserve the meaning.

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, I'm aware of that. I think it's time to be done using it that way, since we're fighting literal Nazis.

I make a similar argument about invasive plants, as do ecologists. Don't misuse it until it loses meaning like the word 'weed.' Invasive plants should be driven out by any means necessary.

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 6d

You don't have to invent words. Just learn what they mean and use them correctly. You could say 'stop being so socially rigid' or if you're into Freudian psych, say 'anal.'

Anyway, Nazis are people who are my bitter enemies. The word has no power when you use it for everything, Sloppy Jo.

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you; Plants of the Gods sounds really interesting! I just realized that I love paleoethnobotany (after reading Feeding Cahokia), and I'll bet I'll love learning from another perspective on ancient cultures

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 7d

What a wonderful podcast. Matt (the host) got me into The Field Guides, and that's pretty great too. I left Audible (and my addiction to audiobooks) as part of my Amazon boycott, and I'm so glad I can listen to hundreds of hours of experts talking about our ecosystems.

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