Sassafras: A triumph of the understory, a truly unique variety of leaf shapes, a neat trunk. A rich history. Also, a nice spice, the leaves, and a medicine that may also be a carcinogen in the roots. I suggest you make root beer some other way. #foraging #eatthewild

Sassafras and Filé

Learn all about the foodprint of sassafras and filé, including their impact on the environment, as well as how to shop for them and eat them.

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Eli's Native Plants@elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 4h ago

A tale of two Sassafrass One Sassafras in their prime, near the forest edge, has outstripped the Witchhazel and outlived the birch. One lost an old stem, started again by shoots, and will wait decades for an opening to again go for the upper understory. #nativeplants #ecoregion59

Edible, medicinal, grown as a root crop and flower in Europe (German Rampion), but underappreciated where it is native —almost the entirety of the Continental US. You'll more likely find it in the beauty products (listed as EPO) than the gardens of most households. It is an ecological powerhouse...

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Common Evening Primroses are starting to bloom. Bumblebees approve. Humans sometimes gripe that they spread too much. I understand mobility issues can make this hard, but don't 'weed' a plant with edible roots, shoots, leaves, flowers and seeds. Harvest it. #nativeplants #ecoregion59 #wildfood

Massachusetts farm installs 832 solar panels above berry fields, and the berries grown underneath turned out sweeter and juicier and could change the future of American farming - The Economic Times share.google/GDGqQBgisqhG...

Massachusetts farm installs 832 solar panels above berry fields, and the berries grown underneath turned out sweeter and juicier and could change the future of American farming

A Massachusetts farm is integrating solar panels above berry fields. This agrivoltaics project generates electricity while shading the crops. The elevated panels create a cooler microclimate, retain...

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I don't agree with pointing at religion alone, and not the hierarchical culture it is tied to but... Indigenous cultural practices worldwide are much more tied to the land and sky. B&L they are far better stewards of biodiversity. There are heaps of studies showing this. A good direction forward:

Good morning from Harriman's Point, Brooklyn, ME.

Please excuse the interruption of the regularly scheduled plant posting. We are contemplating the ocean. Elliot is contemplating seagulls and sandpipers.

Deer in the Forest by German painter Eugen Krüger (1832-1876)

A storm on Monday took down a big Northern Red Oak (Quercus rubra) limb, which smashed a young White Ash (Fraxinus americana) and some Witchhazel (Hamamelis virginiana) down into the path too. My wife thinks I'm crazy for going around with a hand saw. #nativeplants #ecoregion59 #trailMaintenance

He thinks if he erases us, he doesn't have to face us. The seals represented acknowledgment these Nations weren't outside stakeholders commenting on federal land, they were participants caring for a place of profound cultural, historical, & spiritual significance. #Indigisky #Resist #LandBack

Spotted Joe-Pye Eutrochium maculatum Joe was a real Mohican healer named Schauquethqueat (settler name Joseph Pye). He used the E. purpureum for fevers in the late 1700s. The legend of him saving a colonial town from plague is a myth. His memory is honored by the name nonetheless. #NativePlants

Blooms don't tell the whole tale. The bees were going wild: they love Porcelain Berry blooms, and this whole valley is blooming with this wall and all-draping carpet spreading monoculture of a plant with a tactic with which this ecosystem cannot compete. #rewilding #nativeplants #combat #invasives

I have a special place in my heart for the whole Heath Family, from Rhododendrons to Ghost Pipes, but Vaccinium is my favorite genus. I feel guilty about lumping Vaccinium species together in my seed collection, but it's too much trouble to pick into 4 or 5 bags. #seedcollection #nativeplants

Eli's Native Plants@elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 2w ago

Highbush, New Jersey Highbush, Lowbush, and Hillside Blueberries at least. Latin in alt. My 2026 Vaccinium seed supply from powerline cuts, swamps, riversides, and forests. -Food processor w/ lemon juice -cheese cloth -dry -separate seeds #nativeplants #ecoregion59 #seedsaving #cropwildrelatives

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Joe Pye weed is 8ft tall. Had to take pictures from underneath. 😅 #Joepyeweed #Plants #Bloom #Photography

My favorite socialist responds to the current international "Red Scare." Nick Estes is a historian, writer, academic, cofounder of The Red Nation, community organizer, member of the Lower Brule Sioux, and a light in the current darkness. @nicke.bsky.social Substack: substack.com/@nickestes?u...

The New Red Scare - The Red Nation Podcast | iHeart

<p>President Trump is fomenting a right-wing fever dream of a communist plot to destroy America. TRN Podcast host <a href='https://nickestes.substack.com/'>Nick Estes,</a> debunks this myth.</p> <p>Wa...

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Niladri suggested doing Acer (maples) in syrup season and I prepared. Learned more about the snakebark maples (section Macrantha), but I had posted about them last spring (link below). They're pretty neat. We missed that season. Now I'm thinking of starting smaller for our first tree genus. Ostrya?

Eli's Native Plants@elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 2w ago

Red Maple (Acer rubrum) and Striped Maple (Acer pennsylvanica) in Oak Hill Conservation Area. Red Maple is determined to be in the canopy. Striped Maple is an arching understory tree of moist hardwood forests. A last holdout from the early maple migration from Asia: section Macrantha. #ecoregion59

"Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life." - Hermann Hesse 🎨 Julia Tar

The artist's account: @juliatarart.bsky.social

Всем привет! Я Юля Тар, художница, и тут будет еще одна копия моего рассыпающегося цифрового гнезда. • арт-дневник иллюстратора: работа, скетчи, рефы, метания • пет-проекты ("И Треснул Мир" и "Пустая Рука")

Public lands belong in public hands.

My co-host and his wife worked very hard and turned their first delivery from ChipDrop (free woodchips!) into a lawn conversion and aging chip pile for the garden before it yellowed the grass. I helped, but this is where I left it. I'm very proud of their hard work. #gardening #woodchips #homestead

Tennessee warbler in a crabapple tree for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #Birds&Flowers

Staghorn Sumac is ripe here! That's Rhus typha, with the hairy stems like downy buck. It's ripe for sumacaid or the local version of Palestinian zataar: forage Sumac and Bee Balm from the hillsides like they harvest their Rhus and Zataar Thyme. #wildfood #nativeplants #ecoregion59 #foraging

“The world’s top court is clear. Israel’s occupation of Palestine is illegal — and Governments must act now to end it.” UK MP Richard Burgon, alongside Imran Hussain MP and more than 80 MPs and Lords, has called on the Foreign Secretary to impose comprehensive sanctions on Israel, citing the

I hope you resisters found a way to celebrate the 4th of July authentically. I did: The Red Nation Podcast, white Swamp Azalea flowers, and blueberries 🫐. This episode is a great intro to the Red Nation: Indigenous people discussing our history. #RedNation #Socialism #Resist #250th #podcast

First America S3.E1: Merciless Indian Savages - The Red Nation Podcast | iHeart

<p>'Native people have been written out of the American story, but without us you don't know what happened. This summer the United States will celebrate the 250-year anniversary of the signing of the ...

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A "very hopeful gesture in the broader movement for the rights of nature." Thank you. Next? Rights for Rivers? They contain/support vital living ecosystems as well. Is A River Alive? #Quebec remains an unceded territory of Indigenous peoples. What about their rights? #LandBack

Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights | CBC News

A small town west of Montreal has decided to officially recognize trees as living beings with rights of their own, in what an environmental organization describes as a first in Quebec and Canada.

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7/4, a low key gathering with the family of my wife's teacher friend/colleague. Grilling vegan sausages, chatting travels and foraging with her father. A highlight was when I snuck out to walk the nearby power lines. Never have I ever seen so many hazelnuts or blueberries together. #ecoregion60

Swamp Azaleas (Rhododendron viscosum) are native to any state near the East Coast. They are blooming with impressive large white tubular flowers. This is the first time I've caught the bloom. gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/rhod... #nativeplants #ecoregion59 #flowers #bloomscrolling

The Earth is being destroyed not by a lack of resources, but by an excess of human greed. Every tree saved is a step in the right direction.