This type of lentils has been cultivated for almost 2,000 years in the Canary Islands. The indigenous population was almost decimated when Europeans took over the islands but settlers (and the people they trafficked) adopted the indigenous people’s crops and continued to grow them. #BeanSky #Beans

adaptation vs manifest destiny the reverence for cyclical harmony vs search/seek/destroy power of connection vs power of power the acceptance and embracing of the "imperfect" vs. the ruthless destruction of anything obstructing "perfection"

I may not say when I harvest native horsetail from the river-bottoms... (that I buy from Poland as a tea because 'mericans are obsessed with "native" plants but don't know fuck about them so I still have to get my horsetail tea from clear Polish people) ...but there will be signs.

"A hit was sent, from the President, to raid your residence Because you had secret evidence, and documents On how they raped the continents, and it′s the prominent Dominant Islamic, Asiatic black Hebrew The year 2002..." Fitzgerald Robert Diggs and E. Gary Grice #countrymousecitymouse #RZAtoldyou

Working through the last of the deck mint and green tomatoes means salsa verde non traditional pero què rico. 🍜

Going, going, going, gone. Good night deck. See you next year. ✨🌱✨

Arugula on sale for $.99 = arugula & date pizza arugula salad w/pine nuts & mandarin oranges and shrimp scampi w/wilted arugula. 🍜

The annual purchase of the important book and flipping immediately to the most important page. Haters gonna hate, but I will die on this hill.

I remember what my father said after 9/11 - "send us they already broke and don't break more young boys."... and that was before he tried to die and then eventually succeeded in 2006. Happy Veterans Day. www.ursuline66.com/class_profil...

This shit is why people don’t trust the Democratic Party.

🥳 HUGE win! Cuba just made history by formalizing #agroecology as national law (Decree No. 128). And this isn't a top-down reform, but the institutionalization of a powerful, people-led movement that's been growing for over 30 years. Farmers leading policy! #agsky

The dems caved after 40 days of not getting paid cause shit gets real fast. Doesn't sound like they're going back to now stand up for people laid off or unemployed with no exit back into comfort.

Remembering astronomer, scientist, and science educator Carl Sagan on his birthday November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996

From North Carolina to Mississippi, Black-owned farms are filling the gaps left by SNAP funding delays

Once every 2 weeks I cross over to Illinois for NOYB and to enjoy the (mostly) OG STL skyline on my way back. 42 years of this drive and it never gets old.

Corporate Welfare The TRUE Welfare Queens Is BOEING a Broke B*tch? FORD?? GM??? TESLA???? AMAZON????? This post is about SNAP... FEED PEOPLE...like you feed your corporate friends' coffers!!

My grandmas didn't cook every meal 'cause they were rich-they were poor. My mom & I didn't live in 5 states before being taken in because we were rich-we were poor. I don't cook every meal because I'm rich. I'm happy for those that live in houses & can eat what they want-but that ain't all of us. 🍜

The hardest part about my degrees, botany credits, ethnobotanist training & years of farming is "master gardeners" wanting to lecture me about perennials & zone systems.. because gforbid self seeding annuals and actual climate change are in the mix. Just like people who can't cook without recipes.

Home office vibe is 🔥 (quartz fire to be exact 🤣) Food Factory and Diz & Bird The Beginning...on a portable 1960 tube amp. Yup.

My girl Queenie "picked the ball up that was dropped & boii did she slam it." The first time I ate her food was on a farm we both worked on in 2022 & I cried. Seriously-her food made me cry. Absolute magic. The people I post I know - so I mean it when I pump them up. 🌟 m.youtube.com/watch?v=87u1...

I stopped watering over 2 weeks ago, surrounding trees have turned, and even through freeze and clumsiness the tomatoes persist. 🌱

Special delivery for @futuretime.bsky.social - a couple pages from this odd little group of roadside bought books of great depression stories and recipes. 🍜

I used to have a woman from Africa come to my farm last season for food equity and supply meetings. She would travel back to Africa and share with us information on how the fight(s) against Gate's was going on the farms she knew there - because he's here in STL too. 👏🙌👏 mg.co.za/the-green-gu...

One of my favorite deserts is gluay kaeg (thai fried banana) & my favorite versions in Boston used egg roll wrappers..so when my 🍌s got too ripe I got ($2) wonton wrappers and things got deliciously outta hand.. 🍜 Cranberry filled (?) w/powdered sugar, glass noodle eggrolls, and fried banana.

You can't punish SNAP discounts that have been in action under the nonprofit hood for years. City Greens (STL) accepts SNAP/EBT & doubles benefits on fresh produce through the Double Up Food Bucks program. Earthdance Farm takes SNAP and has pay what you can...etc www.stlcitygreens.org/our-story

One last thing (sorry thought I was done).. I wonder why I'm off farm this season 🤔... and how it would ever be possible to grow up where Monsanto is based (and AgOne now) and not understand the context of my own work..let alone my face to face from Kern to Cimarron and beyond. (H-2A=17% in 2024)

Updated St. Louis Area, Missouri & Illinois, Plant & Seed Sales & Swaps This Saturday, Nov 8th 🌱 11 am St. Charles City-County Library Plant & Seed Swap at Spencer Road Branch 🌱 11 am - 3 pm Plant Lovers of Metro STL Plant Swap & Sale at Greenscape Gardens, Manchester

I try to keep my page a proactive rather than reactive space, but NTs yesterday tryin my last nerve hard. Please tell my tax consult Janis that I'm not a farmer;she'll been trying to get me to do something else. Also hope they catch that bitch that keeps signing my farmer job contracts. Last season.

Twice a week I drive 12 miles to the county and run on remote trails with archery management, fishing, cliffs, waterfalls, lakes, and the most diverse immigrant populations you'd ever be so lucky to live along side of.

Stopped by my "old" work (most seasonal growers are laid of annually) and was gifted tomatoes from volunteer tomato plants Farmer Bill let grow after I left. He said he was waiting for me and didn't even spray it. That's real love. 🌱💚🌱

Love this….Manny’s Deli in Chicago will be feeding the community that needs help starting Monday….this is the way 💪 since our government/MAGAs want people to starve

Please don't forget that there are all types of farms and farmers. Stay curious and check your filters. 🫶

In 2009 my exhusband and I were laid off from the glass company we both worked for while owning a house in Austin Texas. I received $70/month SNAP at that time and worked 4 hours a week farm share to supplement. I was also very sick from Grave's disease. Farming saved me in every way. It still does.

Period.

Episode 9 of how to use 10lbs of potatoes and still want to eat potatoes - Potato au gratin with hippie cheez'its on top. ...that I also used to stuff a fugazzeta... and the rest of which will become potato flautas tomorrow. 🍜

Egg, cheese and potato breakfast tacos just like Abuelita Torchy's. (🤣) 🍜

This 🙌. STL does this too if anyone is needing.. (there are many more than this list, but these are some of my people on the path).. www.juliasfarmstl.com www.gfgp-stl.com/who-we-are earthdancefarms.org/pay-what-you...

This warmed my heart, and reinforced my belief that our National Guardsmen would rather be helping the American people, than turning their guns on and terrorizing them. You can see the pride they have and feel .

2lbs of pork for $5 = 3 meals for myself and 2 to share with friends. Also a 10lbs bag of potatoes for another $5 means fries with every meal for the foreseeable future. Pork tenderloin w/ mac and cheese. Pork tenderloin gravy fries- steak and shoestring. ✨ 🍜

This day really got away from me. Totally normal sugar cookies. 🍜 🐈‍⬛🤡🌙

The snap came quickly, as it often does these days. ... and yet the vines still thrive after a hard cut. ✨🌱🌿🌱✨

Mayor of Chicago Brandon Johnson calls for a general strike, at least 300,000 people attended the protest. #3E #NoKings #EndImpunity #EndOligarchy #EndAutogenocide #EpsteinFiles

You feel that? The tides are turning.

How do you tell the stories of learning recipes from village women amidst Mayan ruinas, Garifuna fishing trips, naval confiscated cocaine boats, and dancing that mocks colonizers in the murder capital of the world in 300 words? 🇭🇳 Baleadas de pollo frito y Tacos Hondureños 🍜

Looking for that Tarsus life. ✨

Everything is perfect coated in Italian bread crumbs and dipped in marinara. Baked green porch tomatoes dipped in 4 cheese marinara. 🍜

I’m back and ready to tear down Christian nationalism brick by brick #deconstruction #exvangelical #currentevents #news

Back home and back on my 🐂💩 - accidental goat purchase and the global market I shop at beefing up oranges for the moon festival = Goat chili with blood orange and fennel bulgar salad. 🍜

Truth be told - I feel a little glittery inside watching the tide shift and the stones thrown at neighbors finally being thrown at the corrupt rich men who do whatever they want while stomping every foe in their path.. cause those are the men that have objectified me and punished me for nonservitude