Cities without vehicles are more accessible, less congested, require less travel time, increase pollinator and human health, eliminate vehicle costs, increase the potential space that can be greened, as well as habitat, and offer more mobility! 🌱 Inhale the cleaner air, car-free cities win!

Chefs, garden and bee people, I am headed to Sydney this 26-4th. What should I not miss?! Rooftop gardens, regenerative farms, pollinators, farm-to-table, Chefs that would want to meet? (We collaborate with 3-Michelin Star + a Green Michelin Providence, plus others, including Aramburu, Argentina 🌱

Anyone know a gardening design book agent? I need one for some very bespoke things we’ve done in this 5-tiered orchard and garden (we installed and maintain). Client has been gone 2 months. My staff and I feel the same everytime we’re here my jaw drops, flower and food production + breathtaking. 🌱

Wow @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social appreciating the politicking techniques of a monster, is still appreciating a monster, and that makes you one of them.

Me to @honeygirlgrows.bsky.social

Queen bee shortage is likely repeating next Spring - thanks to climate warming. So I am adding new queen bees in 6 hives. The strategy and equipment it requires to get her accepted with 98% success is SO dang hard, my brain hurts. Hoping it pays off in Spring with no swarming, defensive wild-mated 🌱

Got my Pfizer (only available 2025) not the worst, but no fun. Arm has never hurt more (and I used arnica). Chills, fever, nausea, 👎sleep. If this is a preview of what COVID is like, no thanks. Still NOVID, year 5, we mask in surges, no kids, 7th vax.

CVS *some* Kaiser have walk-in COVID shots. Both ask if you’re immune compromised (2x), but not how. All are! Because every single covid infection makes you 1.5 x more likely to have a stroke, 2x as likely to have a heart attack, between 1.6 or 2.4 x more likely to develop 2 types of arrhythmias).

Hey Los Angeles, it’s possibly going to RAIN for the 3rd? time all year, Thursday. Put your plants outside Wednesday night! 🌱

🐛🦋Of 336 butterfly host plants tested, 314 had pesticide residues. ☠️ Some had up to 18 different compounds on a single plant. ☠️ Levels were known to harm or kill butterflies. List in comments. academic.oup.com/etc/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/etojnl/vgaf218/8245823 🌱

2025 Butterfly counts: Tachinid fly parasites 80% of S. California Monarchs, I’m just over 13%!! ! OE is typically under 10% 240 monarchs released (low for me): Tachinid Parasitized: June: 2, July: 15📈‼️August: 18 Sept: 1 OE : June: 4, July: 7, Aug: 10, Sept: 2 More in comments 🌱Read alt text!

Just did CPR on a caterpillar, resuscitated this giant swallowtail caterpillar that was lifeless in a pool of water… with salt. I gave up, set all in a jar lid, came back 20 minutes later and it was moving! Washed it off in a sieve, and it crawled away. I have also done this with monarchs. 🌱

One of the best ways to help ICE-impacted communities is to support @lataco.bsky.social

Just installed four wildlife cameras for this client, but the live show is nonstop. These sweet two baby fawns and mamma have been hanging around every day, eating everything (happily outside of the fenced orchard /cut flower/ veggie garden!) 🌱

Reasons to pay out of pocket and tell your doctor you are at-risk for heart disease - true for ANY who get COVID (you’re 1.5 x more likely to have a stroke, 2x likely to have a heart attack, between 1.6 or 2.4 x more likely to develop 2 types) of arrhythmias, after EACH Covid infection for 3 years!

🌱 Butterflies! Morhs! Art! What’s not to love!

We’ve been installing owl habitat all over Los Angeles, reducing rat poison use with a MUCH more effective method… 🦉🦉🦉 1/6 🌱

Trying to add the magic here. Maximum flowers usually does the trick! 🦄🪄✨🌱

I’m so sick and ashamed of my country today. 😭

My clients are sending me their garden eats if the week. 🫠 🌱

The Pope recognizes climate warming. Your family may be slower, less godly, (more invested in the stock market than humanity…). 🌱 reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/pope-leo-climate-push-open-vatican-run-ecological-training-centre-2025-09-03/

Too many heirloom tomatoes = gazpacho night! It was perfection. 🌱

After each COVID infection, you're 1.5 x more likely to have a stroke. 2x as likely to have a heart attack. 1.6 or 2.4 x more likely to develop (2 types) arrhythmias - for the next 3 years. But Americans don’t care, don’t mask for themselves, or others.

THIS is how you strike like the French! This gives me hope! YES Chicago! General Strikes next! Let’s do this BEFORE things get worse, not wait. Volunteer, raise mutual aid @thepeoplessickdays.bsky.social @generalstrikeus.bsky.social

WHEN do California farm workers and farmers unite to hold produce from shelves with demands every other week. Both are already losing harvests and pay. 🌱 We need general strikes also but not likely to happen until there is food scarcity, much greater poverty/inflatuon, or a bloody Sunday. 😞

A week in harvests! (And climate warmed a gardens 🥵) 🌱

One of my favorite queen bee facts is that a virgin queen will mate with 20+ males over 2 weeks, but “swipe left/right,” after, to reject the sperm of the males she deems unworthy DNA. The sperm she accepts, she keeps and is mated for her lifetime. This ant study is equally bonkers and cool 🤯 🌱

Anyone ever burn their yard? (is just fun to ask because we couldn’t dream of it in the drought end of my state). Specifically, for native plants that need fire stratification to seed? 🌱

RIP beekeeper in Ireland. I had NO idea they also had defensive DNA, we have it in S. California - it kills dogs, horses, and this year spread through commercial pollination due to a shortage in queen bees. We requeen to shift DNA. 🌱 www.rte.ie/news/regional/2025/0903/1531566-kathleen-devine-bees/

Remediation with plants/other collectors of contaminants from soil are NOT the best option (per our Duke U soil scientist partner in the 5-year LA Fires Soils Study). See comment for a far better method… 🌱 www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-08-23/natural-soil-remediation-eaton-fire

Hate heat? Climate disasters? Love saving gas? Butterflies? Native bees? NOW is the time to flood comments if you want to fight the dictatorship’s proposal to raise greenhouse gas emissions. 🌱 www.regulations.gov/commenton/EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0194-0093

This mature, science-minded high schooler is my new paid intern, met when his home burned with his hive, (he emailed the Santa Monica Community Gardens). He helped @jstpwalsh.bsky.social and I dig fire soil samples for our 5-year study with Duke, and will get his name on the study ⚡️Community!! 🌱

The Trump administration is trying to revoke the “roadless rule.” The public won’t have much time to weigh in. 🌱insideclimatenews.org/news/30082025/trump-administration-roadless-rule-public-comment/

The largest white chard (the mildest in flavor) I’ve ever seen. 🌱 A green shakshuka might be in their future. @nyt Recipe with quail eggs from my clients is my favorite.

New tomato arch IN! 🌱 🍅🍅🍅🍅

S. California gardens are starving pollinators in climate warming. Why? All creatures that rely on pollen or nectar from flowers are often no longer getting a Winter sleep or pause laying/mating (diapause). So Winter-dormant (non-flowering), gardens starve many. Our gardens have to work harder. 🌱

Imagine the greatest architects you know of, then imagine they had to design and build in complete darkness. 🌱 nytimes.com/2025/08/26/science/honey-comb-bees-math-engineering.html?rsrc=ss&unlocked_article_code=1.hk8.lIyA.mxATRo-5_-5R&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

🫀The best thing you can do for your heart? 🧠The best thing you can do for your brain? 🦠The best thing you can do to lower your risk of getting an autoimmune disease or dementia? Don’t get COVID. Mask 😷 indoors diligently. No sick-days (like me). Year 5 NOVID (no symptoms, ever). 💪

🌱 seed art, and grief sown with love.

Save the Beltsville Bee Lab from Trump. The loss could have terrible impact beyond honey bees and farming-honey bee diseases spread to native bees. Scientists, colleagues, beekeeper colleagues, beekeeping/pollinator organizations, please send comments and share 🌱 [email protected] thru 8/31

Nigerian melon, Armenian pomegranate, Egyptian cotton, Pakistani wheat seeds are on their way to the International Space Station (ISS) 🌱 www.seti.org/news/small-seeds-big-mission-seti-institute-contributes-to-the-first-cultural-payload-to-iss/

Love always shows up in a garden. 🌱

Now only one step away from being 💯% plastic-free in hives and honey production. Last step: a porcelain mold to replace my feeder. No clue where to even start with that one, but pretty happy to be able replace plastic buckets! 🌱

"Trump wants to strip those exceptions away. Under his plan, the VA would only allow abortions when a doctor certifies that a veteran’s life is at risk should the pregnancy be carried to term. Not health. Not rape. Not incest."

Honey bees are the only farmed animals whose feed is not nutritionally complete (pollen substitute is soy based, and lacks an essential carbohydrate), this may be very good news. 🌱

With harvests lost, and farm workers hiding at home, why not unite to strike and hold produce from grocery shelves with demands to end ICE? 🌱 (Donate produce to BIPOC communities).

Do this. Do it now. 🇲🇽

The tomato arch we made from cattle panel (to save $), finally collapsed under the weight of overwintered tomatoes! A custom much sturdier version is ready soon, and the plants are happily still alive, and still producing heavily. This will get black powder coating, and be ready to grow 🍅🍅🍅 🌱

Support @LATaco - their coverage of ICE and the dictatorship brutalities, as well as community support and community in Los Angeles has been phenomenal.

We need a climate revolution, and it’s not happening under this dictator. But you can defund fossil fuels by changing your bank and credit cards ti ones that don’t invest in fossil fuels @ Mightydeposits.com or @bankgreen.bsky.social The Robins (including me), will thank you. 🌱