Kimberly Bryant aka 6gems
@kimberlybryant.bsky.social
Founder and CEO Black Innovation Lab http://blackinnovationlab.org Founder Black Girls CODE 🎙️Host: Inner Garden Podcast http://bit.ly/40q9BoS rootsandresilience.substack.com Author~Ascending Nov '26 (Penguin RandomHouse) 💗💚💗💚 Memphis raised~BayArea made
I have two fig trees in the garden. The largest of the two is massive but I struggle with getting it to produce consistently. This year I decided to start harvesting the leaves for fig leaf syrup. Been drizzling it over ice cream and using in my morning coffee. 🌱
The perspective is a bit off here. This plant is a little bit under 3 ft tall now. I think it's been about a month since she was growing in a starter pot in the first pic.
Kimberly Bryant aka 6gems@kimberlybryant.bsky.social · 2d agoAn update on my cannabis grown from seed. 😯🙃💚
An update on my cannabis grown from seed. 😯🙃💚
Kimberly Bryant aka 6gems@kimberlybryant.bsky.social · 2mo agoHappy Thursday garden friends! Well I decided to clean out my herb bed and pull up the "volunteer" potato plants and wouldn't you know it..I got more volunteers than the batch I intentionally grew in a grow bag. 🤨😂 A few other things blooming and growing too.
Heyyyyy garden friends! So, this summer I focused on planting my garden with a less is more approach, and using something from the garden at least once a day. The star of last night's dinner was this peach/tomato salad made w/tomatoes + basil I grew from starts. It was delicious! 🌱
Morning glories! A little morning picking in the garden before I sit down at my desk. My roses are going through their late summer flush and since it's the Bay Area, these tomatoes are JUST starting to take off. 😆🌱💚
This is a little garden brag or celebration day. Yesterday I decided to whip up this batch of raspberry/habanero jelly and used a batch of berries I grew this year, a cup from last year from my freezer stock, a cup of the homemade ACV I fermented last year, and store bought peppers + sugar.
Hello garden friends! It's been awhile but had to share this garden update. the butterflies have found my milkweed plant!!!! It's only the first year so I cannot be more excited. Looks like she's laying eggs. 🙌🏾💚🌱
Candied the peach this morning to make a topping for waffles and I know next year is gonna be great! This is such a good peach! 🌱
Kimberly Bryant aka 6gems@kimberlybryant.bsky.social · last mo.Here ye! Here ye my garden friends! I have harvested my FIRST peach from my newest tree. You can't tell me nothing right now..😆🙌🏾💚🌱
Here ye! Here ye my garden friends! I have harvested my FIRST peach from my newest tree. You can't tell me nothing right now..😆🙌🏾💚🌱
Watching the new Avatar movie on my flight and I'm not sure how I feel about them integrating a sacred Rapé ritual into this scene with the Ash People. This feels like Cameron did some fantastical cultural appropriation. 🤨
Heyyyyyy New Yorkers?? So I am feeling triggered. After ALL these years back and forth to NYC, today was the first time I took the LIRR from Penn Station to JFK and I know y'all been holding out. That was hella easy and dare I say faster and more convenient than a taxi or Lyft from Manhattan. 🤨😆🙌🏾
Things are going on in New York right that people may not understand for thousands of years
City was deep with Brazil and Morocco fans too! What a summer NYC!!!
I've said it MANY times how much I love NYC deep! So glad I was passing through the city today to experience just a little magic of this historic Knicks win! 🙌🏾
Happy Thursday garden friends! Well I decided to clean out my herb bed and pull up the "volunteer" potato plants and wouldn't you know it..I got more volunteers than the batch I intentionally grew in a grow bag. 🤨😂 A few other things blooming and growing too.
When I decided to write my own story, I made a deliberate choice not to hand it to a ghostwriter. I wanted to do the hard work myself. The first piece I wrote was "The Medicine". I'm deeply honored that The Medicine has been named a finalist for the 2026 Perkoff Prize by The Missouri Review.
My first mini harvest of this season was my grow bag of potatoes. Welp...I was was expecting more. 😭😆 But at least it is something. Everything else is just piddling along so far. Well except my roses as always.
Ok today is "supposed" to be a heavy writing day. But of course instead I chose to open a soil testing kit I've had for YEARS and do tests on all my indoor and outdoor potted plants. Procrastinating and blaming it on the plants! 😆🌱💚
Happy Saturday garden friends! We are having a rather mild start to the summer but the ground is clearly warming up slowly because the grass is growing and the few pepper plants I overwintered are producing. Picked a handful of peppers this morning on my garden walk. 🌱
Good morning garden friends! I'm just back home from a weeklong trip and this is what I'm staring at. A jungle-y mess! 😆😂😆 💚 I am promising myself that next year I'm hiring a garden professional to wrangle this space under control. But for now I'll be doing a little cutting and trimming myself. 🌱
Today, democracy is being lynched in Tennessee by removing the only Black Majority Congressional District in the State of Tennessee. Racism and wickedness a while may reign but People Power is still our strength! God is our light and our salvation. ❤️ - Justin J. Pearson
Why aren't more folks screaming about how the increase in oil prices is impacting airline fares? The flights are high as hell even weeks out. Maybe folks are feeling it abs I just missed it?!!?! 🤔
Happy Monday garden friends! This weekend I spent some time in somebody else's garden not mine. 😉 Well actually it was a farm and not a garden. Let's just say my first visit to EarthSeed Farm's Black to the Land Family Day in Sebastopol was AMAZING! Highly recommend a visit if you can! 🌱💚
Happy Monday garden friends! Today I literally ran to the garden after my morning meetings to get some sun and do a bit of watering and cleanup. Today's gifts were a handful of things (thyme, parsley, rosemary, etc) from my herb garden to trim them down. Of course snipped some rose blooms too.
The "interesting" thing about the latest incident at the WHCD is the notion that journalists seem to believe they have the public trust when in fact they do not. I find that fascinating.
I'm rewatching the Chernobyl series on HBO, and the opening voiceover from Legasov resonates: "What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all."