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Here’s some that I use:
BPlant for finding your ecoregion in the North American continent:
https://bplant.org/regions.phpChesapeake Bay Watershed (DC, Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia) Native Plant Finder:
https://www.allianceforthebay.org/native-plant-center/Native ground covers for the North American Eastern Temperate Forests:
https://choosenatives.org/articles/plant-native-ground-covers-make-america-green/Information on creating soft landings under trees for pollinators:
https://www.pollinatorsnativeplants.com/uploads/1/3/9/1/13913231/softlandingskeystonehandout.pdfThese two blog posts (also Eastern Temperate Forests) are probably a looser fit for the wiki, but I’ll share them here anyway. The first discusses why not to be afraid of “aggressive” plants and how to start experimenting. The second has a list of 20 ground covers:
https://www.humanegardener.com/how-to-fight-plants-with-plants/
https://www.humanegardener.com/pulling-stiltgrass/
3·2 个月前That sounds like a good start! Next best time to seed and/or plant is the fall. Common blue violets make seeds around then if you want to collect them yourself.
Since you’re so close, I say give something on the list a try. Plants don’t pay attention to our maps anyway :) There’s a search bar at the bottom of the page for each ecoregion where you can plug in the plant name to see if it pops up.
I’m further south than you near the Chesapeake Bay, so hopefully someone else swings by for more specific advice. I do stick by the common blue violet and native wood sorrell suggestion, especially if the area is mowed. Start small and see what sticks, experimenting is part of the process!
That sounds beautiful! Places like Prairie Moon Nursery sell seed in bulk, but it’s better to find local sources if possible. iNaturalist can be good for this. You’d have to look up when they go to seed and be mindful not to over harvest.
Personally, I would test the waters with landscapers using common blue violets and native wood sorrels since they aggressively spread themselves. They can handle a wide variety of conditions and mowing.
You can find your ecoregion here: https://bplant.org/regions.php
For example, I’m in the Eastern Temperate Forests. If you are too, this list can get you started: https://choosenatives.org/articles/plant-native-ground-covers-make-america-green/
5·3 个月前I’m sure that’s happened. Some can be monomaniacal, especially those where veganism is their only branch into liberatory politics.
Here though she’s more talking about the pressure to minimize chronic illness and downplay disability due to not wanting to play into the “vegans are weak” myth (aka the protein myth). I’ve done this myself and still catch myself doing so occasionally. Part of it is self-imposed as she admits, but the expectations can be read between the lines of some mainstream messaging.
Having a lawn for sports is a great use. We should keep what we need for our neighborhoods to enjoy life and play, plant native and edible plants on the rest.
The problem is with lawns that aren’t used except to serve abstract purposes, such as signaling status, adhering to socially conditioned ideas of beauty, or holdovers from the colonial impulse to terraform.
For example, I’ve lived in my home for nearly two decades and have not once seen any neighbor use their front lawn other than to mow it. Many are the same way with their backyards. Blocks and blocks of this type of land use, all over my city. This is what the nolawns movement is about.
Brad Lancaster is a cool dude!
Nice! It took me a couple tries too, but I got one soon after a big storm uprooted a bunch of trees.
As soon as I saw the purple, I knew where this belonged lol.
Found it linked on a page about poetic faiths.
2·6 个月前Nice! I recently relistened to an episode of the Michael Brooks Show where they discussed incorporating secular spirituality into socialist movements.
One of my faves about atheopaganism was The Placebo Magick Podcast. Iirc, the host worked in the tech industry and left to live in a tiny house and farm. It wasn’t focused on politics, but I think the host unlocked all the episodes after it ended.
For wildlife gardens with native plants, leaving the stems is best practice if not in a fire prone area. From the National Wildlife Federation:
Leave seed heads and flower stalks. Like fallen leaves, the stems and seed heads of perennials can be essential habitat for insects—especially some overwintering native bees—long after flowers have faded, says Mizejewski. Come spring, “cut the stems down to 10 or 12 inches, and native bees will nest inside.” If you prune back shrubs such as forsythia or blackberry, whose stems have hollow or pithy cores, bundle those on your property for more bee nesting sites, says Cane. Mizejewski points to an added bonus of saving seed heads until spring: “They will attract goldfinches, chickadees and other songbirds you can enjoy watching all winter.”
There is nothing that stands out to me as unmaintained, only not maintained in the way people are used to. During spring cleanup and throughout the growing season, invasive species can be removed (and many tend to stick out in the winter as well).
Become a 🌻 Social Justice Druid 🌿
Happy to spread the gospel 🙏 I’m surprised it wasn’t already posted here!
Maryland passed a bill doing just that:
3·1 年前Cool find 🌛 Looks like they’re accepting submissions for the next issue until end of August.
Awesome! Sometimes all neighbors need is to see it in action, to not be the first on the block. Like it gives people permission in a way 😊
The article is chock-full of information about the hows and whys, if you’re interested in learning more.