Native plants ftw! Did anyone look into pocket forests too? I'll try to pitch it on my next community meeting
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2025
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I have a yard for my dog. But also have a massive vegetable garden, insect houses, different flowers for attracting different helpers, worm garden, and soon bees will be getting a home for honey.
All this can be done in a backyard and it's honestly way less hassle to set up than dealing with fruit and veg picking in the store.
Assess what's on your plate most, what grows well in your region, which bugs help the most, and grab some seeds! Tastes so much better too, omg.
Incorrect. The earth is sick, infected with a particularly nasty strain of the Human virus. The fever may take a while to kill the infection, and may take a few species with it, but temperatures rise, and rise.
This made me laugh and be sad at the same time...
This is fascist talk. Humans can and have co-habitated with the ecology of the earth for as long as there's been hominids, except for the last 300-150 years or so. Let me ask you: what changed?
You have a strange definition of fascist
In this case, it is a very loose use of the term, yeah
Current contents of my yard:
Misc cardboard garbage (the bin fell over due to wind recently)
An exhaust pipe (the mounts broke, and I'm getting rid of the car soon anyway, so it was easier to just tears it off)
Misc trash wood and furniture (indoor building projects)
An old crappy looking car (because for the next month I will still be driving an old crappy looking car)
I may not be helping the bees, but neighborhood cats love the "terrain"
Also, I'll be supporting a local dumpster rental as soon as the building project and shit weather is over, hopefully in a week or so.
You sound like me. Also an old trampoline. My grass has a lot of other stuff growing in it too, it all mows though. But I won't be ready to rent a dumpster for a few months.
The trampoline in my yard is reasonably new. The kids are waiting for better weather so we can properly rig it.
This is why I refuse to touch that shit. It killed the birds and the bees! It's toxic AF!