I live in a city, but I’ll share some programs that/organizers who may provide some inspiration:

BMORE Beautiful - provides trash picking kits and helps residents organize cleanups in their neighborhood. They were incredibly friendly, so might be worth reaching out on how to build a similar program in your area

Weed Warriors - trains participants to recognize and remove common invasive plants, provides training for participants on how to organize efforts in their communities

Community gardening - this video is from an animal liberation podcast, but the guest’s opening story of being completely ignorant about gardening but doing it anyway is inspiring. The remainder is about their work on food justice and grassroots organizing

Compost collective - this is the podcast of the guest in the previous video. They interview the founder of Baltimore Compost Collective who works with youth in the city

Guerrilla gardening - this is a classic TED Talk. The speaker discusses growing food in a public space and how they successfully fought their city to keep their garden. They also talk about their volunteer gardening group, planting food gardens at homeless shelters

Maryland Food & Abolition Project - may no longer be active, but an interesting idea nonetheless. Their mission was (is?) to partner community gardens with prisons to provide fresh produce

Echoing @poVoq, don’t discount seniors! I used to be a case manager for the elderly and many are more interested than people give them credit for.

Did you know they’re edible? I found out from this video last week, but it seems like a lot of work.

Awesome resource :) I’ve been looking into soft landings too! Nearby me, there’s a corp owned commercial lot that’s been vacant for years, bare-bones maintenance. The street trees out front are Callery pear, which I can’t do anything about, but the ground under them isn’t tended.

There’s also two very sad trees in the middle of the parking lot and one empty tree well (which recently inspired me to rewatch this video lol).

This was planted in fall 2022 and bloomed for the first time this summer, so no idea. I’m in the Chesapeake Bay area and it’s been pretty warm down here.

You grow them too, right? Have you ever seen/heard of them doing this before?

Thanks! They smell great, too, but it was too windy to get a whiff :(

Your point at the end is crucial. I heard a local story about a bunch of people rolling up in a neighborhood, planting trees, never to be seen or heard from again :( Kinda gross and presumptive.

The link in the post body has some tips on how to do so responsibly. Might be worth sharing with your neighbors!

Cool beans 😉

I can help out with /c/food

Wow, same here! I hadn’t watched the show either and that clip had me blubbering.

Vincent van Gogh since seeing his Sunflowers 🌻 series in 3rd grade art class, especially after learning in my 20s that we share migraine disease. Louis Wain is a close second with “Cat’s Nightmare” (my profile picture) being one of my faves.

Also, I went down a 90s kid nostalgia trip recently and watched some FernGully clips. Anyone remember that movie, specifically Batty’s rap? It was about vivisection 🤯 I was tempted to post it in the music community lol.

Written information from Europeans goes back four centuries, like the account from the 1600s about cultivated food forests. The archeological finds about consumption in general are much older.

Also in Baltimore, home of Vegan SoulFest!

Food is culture 💚 and the vegan food here feels like Baltimore. It’s awesome that other cities are doing the same.

On the post image, Knowing Animals Podcast: Episode 58: Animal Rights in Palestine and Israel with Esther Alloun

This episode of Knowing Animals features Esther Alloun from the University of Wollongong. We discuss her article ‘’That’s the beauty of it, it’s very simple!’ Animal rights and settler colonialism in Palestine–Israel’ which appeared in the journal Settler Colonial Studies in December 2017.

Mr. Trash Wheel is pretty cool:

https://www.mrtrashwheel.com/technology

I’ve read that in the southeastern states, Spanish moss was used like wool, also for thread and upholstery. But it doesn’t get nearly as cold down there 😆

I’ve seen folks online use Virginia creeper and pokeberry to dye fabrics, a soft green and vibrant purple respectively. I’d love to take a crack at them on cotton, maybe even a natural tie dye!

The US Forest Service has a chart with plants and their corresponding colors. I wonder if there’s a dye community on lemmy 🤔

Dang, the goblin in me wanted some for my collection 😅 I bet they look awesome during a breeze.

Beautiful 🧙‍♀️ I love the naturalized look, so much texture!

What’s the tall purple flower in the second pic?

From May 2023 in Reuters: Some 25 types of mammals died in latest bird flu outbreak