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elodieunderglass

I grow our own vegetables. Many hybrid and heirloom varieties are bred for flavor rather than for commercial appeal and travel. There are entire species on the allotment that you can’t easily buy in stores because of this - like salsify, a root vegetable that tastes of fish and shellfish. Our neighbours happily take it to make vegan latkes of alarming similarity to fishcakes. You cannot sell it in stores because - despite looking like a white parsnip - it turns brown when you pick it if you scrape/bruise/cut the white root in any way, or damage the delicate little hairs, for some reason, it BLEEDS RED and is very upsetting to look at.

There are whole classes of foods like this. Foods that just don’t ship well or look good on supermarket shelves. Forbidden fruits. Vegetables that bleed and taste like meat. Sorry about this

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disasterscenario

This website is one of my fav places to find interesting heirloom stuff! I ordered a bunch of seeds to try growing next year I’m really excited about! 

https://www.rareseeds.com/

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itsdetachable

I’ve gotten and plants seeds from that site, Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, and they grow fantastically well for me.

I’m really looking forward to next season

incremental-revolution

Baker Creek Heirloom has good seeds but bad politics. They were going to host Cliven Bundy of the Occupation of Malheur National Wildlife Reserve who’s also pro the Capitol Riots and has made a lot of racist nastiness, although backlash made them cancel their guest list (which included other racist folks)

Good sources of heirloom seeds:

Meet the Farmers
Each of the varieties offered through Truelove Seeds was grown by small-scale urban or rural farmers committed to sustainable agriculture, f
Truelove Seeds
Rare Non-GMO Heirloom Seeds | Alliance of Native Seedkeepers
Alliance of Native Seedkeepers is North Americas Top Native American Source for rare heirloom Non-GMO vegetable, flower and herb garden seed
AllianceofNativeSeed
Our Story
Native Seeds/SEARCH (NS/S) is a nonprofit seed conservation organization based in Tucson, Arizona. Our mission is to conserve and promote th
Native-Seeds-Search
elodieunderglass

^^^

plum-soup

Highly recommend Native Seed/Search and Truelove. Baker Creek has an amazingly large catalog and has some very cool and rare stuff, but they are also Mennonites and as you might expect, they do have terrible politics as listed above, although they do some decent work preserving heirloom seeds from threatened communities.

An organization that does really interesting work preserving seed from threatened communities (and larger companies like baker creek often piggyback off of some of the work done by orgs like this and NS/S) is the Experimental Farm Network. They are very explicit about their (left-leaning) political views and you don’t have to worry about them being Problematic. They have lots of interesting and rare varieties and species you really cannot find anywhere else.

Threatened Communities
An important part of our mission involves preserving and sharing seeds from communities under threat, and attempting, wherever possible, to
Experimental Farm Network Seed Store
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If you are looking for a wider selection of heirloom seed varieties, these two companies are very good resources as well, and carry many of the same things as Baker Creek. Afaik they are not expressly political beyond their general mission to preserve heirloom seeds (although southern exposure does a good job of preserving some very traditional african-American heirlooms from the Southeast US in particular).

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, Saving the Past for the Future
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, Saving the Past for the Future
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
Seed Savers Exchange Heirloom Seeds
Heirloom seeds from Seed Savers Exchange. Buy rare, organic seeds and support our nonprofit mission to preserve garden diversity. Free catal
seedsavers.org
neolithicsheep

Omg I hadn’t heard of the Experimental Farm Network and I am delighted! I am also completely thrilled to see people other than me remember that Baker Creek is a bunch of lying fash. They claimed they did not know about Cliven Bundy AFTER VISITING HIM IN JAIL. He was literally in jail for his anti-social bullshit when they first talked to him about the watermelons he and his mentor stole from Indigenous people and made their name on. They also take seeds from Indigenous communities globally and profit from them without sharing those profits with the communities they took the seeds from.

…I am blocked by them on Twitter after publicizing the Cliven Bundy crap, full disclosure, I have an actual feud with these people and their unethical practices.

tkingfisher

I was trying to get signal in the goddamn Himalayas to argue with them about Bundy. *grumble*

I also second Native Seed/SEARCH as a great org doing great work. Some of their stuff is so desert-adapted it won’t grow for me, but I’ve had great luck with some of their bean varieties.

briarpatch-kids
Snake River Seed Cooperative
Our seeds are sourced from over 50 family farmers around the Intermountain West. Adapting seeds to our region guarantees success in your gar
Snake River Seed Cooperative

Snake River Seed is a great seed co-op if you garden in the rocky mountains! You can see exactly which farm your seed came from and its weed seed and germination tested by the idaho department of agriculture the same way a lot of large professional companies do. They give a lot of seed in their packets ($4) and they’re all varieties that can grow in our gardening region.

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fagm77
flowercrowncrip

Today (July 19th) is Changing Places awareness day!

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[Image description: a photo of the changing places toilet with the features listed below /end ID]

What is a changing places toilet?

A changing places toilet is a toilet which can be used by disabled people like me who can’t use a standard accessible toilet. This may be because someone needs extra equipment, and/or room for carers to help them. The main features of the changing places toilet are:

  1. Lots of room! Changing places toilet must be at least 12 square metres. This means that there is plenty of room for a wheelchair user to turn around as well as room for up to 2 carers.
  2. A peninsular toilet! This is a toilet which has enough room on each side were wheelchair to be positioned for transferring. As with standard accessible toilet there are grab rails on each side.
  3. Accessible washbasin! The washbasin must have room underneath for a wheelchair user. An adjustable height washbasin is preferred.
  4. A ceiling hoist! This allows people who cannot transfer independently to be able to safely get out of their wheelchair. A person brings their own sling which is hooked onto the hoist allowing them to be lifted.
  5. An adult size changing table! This allows people need help with undressing to use the toilet, or help changing incontinence pads to have their needs met safely and with dignity. Without a changing table, many people have to resort to lying on the toilet floor to change their pads which is unsafe, undignified and unhygienic.

Why raise awareness?

The lack of changing places toilet means it’s hard for disabled people like me to leave the house. It’s limits our ability to socialise, access work/education, exercise, travel, and even attend hospital appointments. (In the UK there are only 93 hospitals with a registered changing places toilet).

I have to plan my entire life around the few changing places toilet that exist, which massively shrinks my world. It’s incredibly difficult for me to travel (less than 2% of train stations in the UK have a changing places toilet), go days out, visit the hospital, and otherwise experience the world outside my house. Hopefully one day every event like Pride or music festivals will have a mobile changing places toilet, and there will be public changing places toilet with 24/7 access in every town, as well as changing places toilets in public buildings like leisure centres, libraries, museums, cinemas, tourist attractions and shopping centres.


More info including what you can do to help the UK campaigns for more changing places toilets can be found at changing-places.org

wheelievampire

i was interested to learn more about changing places outside of the UK, and i found, from what looks like the same organization, this international map + this Florida/Georgia/Alabama project to install more, in case anyone is in the same area and would like to learn! we apparently only have one in my city, seven in my state, which is absolutely not enough to let people go about their days freely.

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water---damage

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this is the best tiktok i've ever seen in my life.

arroz-con-yolo

holy fuck

blatantescapism

[Video description: a normal apartment kitchen. Someone in the full costume of a Krampus, or possibly Perchten, enters: a frightening creature with goat horns, long teeth, eyes that actually glow, skulls and bells around their waist, shaggy dark hair, the works. They sing, in a surprisingly lovely feminine voice, a verse from ‘What’s going on’, as they sashay over to the kitchen fridge and grab a beer:

“So I wake up in the morning I’ve been crying all night and I go to the fridge, grab a beer from inside, and I scream... at the top of my lungs”

The next line of the song would normally be the well-known chorus “And I said HEY yay yaay yeah, Hey yay yayyy”

but instead they take a pause, and actually do scream at the top of their lungs, in a terrifying demonic screech.]