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Bess
@hudsonhobbyfarm.bsky.social
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Artist, hobby farmer, and BIO Grad student in soil science
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Had to say goodbye to my Tweed this morning (center). She will be missed. 😢
The Jacob sheep grazing in a green pasture with wild carrot during the summer months.
January 20, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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I second this review. Read it. www.npr.org/2025/03/17/n...

#buffalohunterhunter #goodbook
'The Buffalo Hunter Hunter' is Stephen Graham Jones' horror masterpiece
The prose is gorgeous and the plot is complex. The author of The Only Good Indians returns again with a spellbinding yarn about one of the bloodiest, most significant parts of the nation's history.
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December 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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#duckduckgoose the chicken's name is Duck.
December 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
hudsonhobbyfarm.bsky.social
This is what happens when you don't heed lessons of the past. What is the stat? Something like 4.6 tons per acre per year of soil currently being lost to erosion? I believe it. Farmer plowed after harvest. Nothing to stop it.
Drifted snow covered in soil scoured off an agricultural field, alongside a paved road in rural Michigan (where best management practices are something only other farmers do). A smattering of bare trees line the ditch.
December 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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December 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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A beautiful red-shouldered hawk hunting in my yard today. I watched them snatch and eat three rodents in my native plant area. #hawk #redshoulderedhawk #raptor #wildlife #photography
A photograph of a hawk from behind with maple branches in the foreground. The hawk is mostly brown with streaks of russet coming down the back of its head and neck. It may be looking at you.
December 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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I felt like someone might need a little breath of fresh air. Please accept this small gift. It's all I can give.

#breathe #desert #nationalpark #arches
Dessert scene with a large blooming rabbitbrush shrub in the foreground. The flowers are fading, straw yellow, but still offer a beautiful color against the similarly colored hills and rock formations in the distance. The sky is mostly cloudy with a sliver of blue sky peeking through. Taken at Arches National Park in Utah.
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Green soil in Utah. Many years ago volcanoes spewed iron-rich lava. The resulting soil was later at the bottom of a wetland, areas of highly reducing conditions that turned the soil beautiful shades of green 💚. #redox #soil #science
Side cut of a hillside featuring layers of soil and rock in shades of cool, minty greens and warm white. There are some shrubs in the foreground and juniper-like trees on top of the hill. The sky is overcast.
December 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Tom Moran: My love for the Hudson River, and Trump’s vandalism
Trump can declare his war on the environment, but that doesn’t mean he’ll win it.
www.mlive.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Holy J*effing*C
November 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
I don't think people will truly understand what's happening to justice in America until it impacts them. Even my family: My parents voted for Trump. I don't think they see it as a priority. I mean, they're not going to be criminally indicted anytime soon. When I tell them what's happening, I don't think they really believe me.
November 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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#poetry #change #weekendvibes #monday
10-27-25 By Bess On Sunday, an empty lot Canadians gone; now wasted pavement Still, pious vomitus persists LED lights swarm, puzzle, and buzz Blinding displays The same indoctrinated songs, almost subliminal, aloof Over gaudy green carpet, odorous tannins, and milling consumers Soaking in the fading sunlight, clock story told Crisp skies and crunching underfoot On borrowed time, the long way home Back roads, frost returns and melts. On Monday, billowing steam hangs in contrast against the sky Dry stalk color and chaff take flight Into leathery oak, red sumac and stubble Filled silo cities with nowhere to go; soybean excess Feed corn faucets pour grain waterfalls and sugar beet boulder walls Worthless crops and shortage; to fatten and kill At home, an electric bulb broadcasts heat Nuggets plump on crumbles and sun Bumble and sprawl on the cold ground in fragrant alehoof And heave strained breaths into a muffled wind Wood without a stove, water without a pump Gas in the line… While the memory of mills turn and blink in synchrony Against all that is to come.
October 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings
(around an image of the No Kings logo) IT’S OFFICIAL Nearly 7 million people have attended today's peaceful protests, which makes No Kings Day the biggest single-day protest against tyranny in American history! With more than 2,700 lawful and peaceful protests across all 50 states, No Kings Day was 14 times larger than both of Trump's presidential inaugurations (combined).
October 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Lansing Michigan today. #nokings
Crowd gathers in front of the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing with anti-fascist/King/dictator/regime/ICE, etc signs
October 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...
www.npr.org
October 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.
October 10, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Kindly consider donating to the soil judging club (choose "Soil Judging Club" from the dropdown menu) we need all the help we can get to continue learning about soils. #soils #stem #soiljudging

Join me and make a gift to GVSU's Student Philanthropy Week. www.givecampus.com/schools/Gran...
GVSU Student Philanthropy Week 2025
Join me and make a gift to GVSU's Student Philanthropy Week.
www.givecampus.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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THESE PAGAN LIBTARD WAR DANCES CAN ONLY PRESAGE CALAMITY!!

MEIN LEADER PRÄSIDENT TRUMP, HERR REICHSCOUCHVUCKER VON VANCE, HERR VERRÜCKTPSYCHO STEPHANMÜLLER, DER VOLK DEMAND YOU DEPLOY DIE PANZERBRIGADEN NOW!!!

Vielen Damk für your attention to this matter
October 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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October 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Greater yellow legs.

#photography #birding #shorebirds
Bird on long legs standing by a minty green water and a rock covered in algae.
September 14, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Juvenile bald eagle, one of five spotted today.

#baldeagle #photography #birding
Juvenile bald eagle on an electric pole with blue sky surrounding.
September 14, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Great blue heron

#blueheron #photography #birding
Great blue heron seen landing from behind, feathers ruffle as it slows. Set against a hazy white sky
September 14, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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The visual difference between organic store-bought broccoli (needless to say, on the left) and homegrown organic broccoli (obviously on the right). Taste the difference a healthy soil can make and reap its nutritional value. Garden of you can.

#gardening #whysoilmatters #soilsrule
A piece of compact, sad-looking broccoli with a white stem next to a large, lush, dark green broccoli branch on a wooden butcher block. I wish you could taste the difference!
September 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Spider on native northern sea oats. My garden. #photography #natives #spider
Tiny tan crab spider on a seed head of sea oats, still bright green in late summer, and guarding its egg sack.
September 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM