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Huntington Beach State Park, SC
I love getting to appreciate my local area. This time of year is so amazing here. The live oaks are always majestic, the spartina marsh grass is starting to grow back, the wild blackberries are delicious, and the wildflowers and the native dune prickly pears are in bloom!
PSA: *Beware* AI-generated fungi guudebooks!!
…Not a phrase I imagined myself typing today. But, via @heyMAKWA on Twitter:
“i'm not going to link any of them here, for a variety of reasons, but please be aware of what is probably the deadliest AI scam i've ever heard of:
“plant and fungi foraging guide books. the authors are invented, their credentials are invented, and their species IDs will kill you.”
…So please be careful if you run across anything of this kind.
Corporations and the ultra rich have been either hoarding, or ruining (via pollution) land and resources all around the world for centuries now.
This creates a Cage for people, similar to what happened to the Common Lands in Europe -- because if you don't have access to and the ability to organize together with your community for food, water, and shelter, then you don't have access to life.
You are then coerced and forced to obey those who stole that land from you, in order to survive.
To play whatever game they set up, and to be compelled to believe whatever lies the ultra rich feel would justify their exploitative behaviors in the first place.
Hijacking, manipulating, and controlling all the ways that people subsist for the sake of power and profit is the core tenet of Capitalism.
The owning class has seen people start to wake up and gain class consciousness. So, they want to be sure to try to close the Cage as fast as possible, before even their sycophant conservative followers can understand what's going on.
The persecution of people and groups who try to protect land from corporations, trying to create community gardens, or try to feed the homeless, are a part of that process of Earth's enclosure.
The acceleration of genocides and the enclosure of the lands in which those genocides take place, are a part of that.
Dispossession of small farming operators and growers will be part of it.
Which is why understanding permaculture, foraging, and food forestry, and organizing together to protect the land and sow native and zone appropriate seeds can be so helpful in the fight against capitalism.
Successful mushroom foraging. It’s been dry, so what I did find was small. Chanterelles (cantharellus cibarius), a hawk’s wing (sarcodon imbricatus), an unknown cluster of cute little rotters, and a tree with an attitude problem.
i have become radicalized as a pawpaw agent, pollinate a flower or two on your local tree!
More isolated, further north = less likely to be self-pollinated. You need different genetics around and enough awake pollinators to make sure you get fall fruit, so lend a helping hand
Pardon my scraggly hands, but look! I found stuff!
Pardon my scraggly hands, but look! I found stuff!
Pecan crackin'-core
My collection of foraging photos from last fall. Mainly from Norfolk and Thetford Forest.
Eat Your Weeds: a tiny zine about edible non-native plants of North America that are probably growing somewhere near you! This zine is formatted to print on a single sheet of printer paper to be folded into an 8-page mini-zine: find the file here and instructions for assembling a mini-zine here!
Indigo Milk Cap Mushroom
Lactarius indigo
These otherworldly deep indigo blue milkcaps contain a derivative of azulene. This pigment is also found in some species of soft corals throughout the oceans.
Edible (at your own risk). They have a mild taste to me and I prefer them sauteed.
Aug. 14th, 2023
St. Louis County, Missouri, USA
Olivia R. Myers
@oliviarosaline
Chanterelle species
Cantharellus tenuithrix
Aug. 14th, 2023
St. Louis County, Missouri, USA
Olivia R. Myers
@oliviarosaline