This poem came out of the September 2024 Crowdfunding Creative Jam. It was inspired by a discussion with Jessica. It also fills the "Compensating for Each Other's Weaknesses" square in my 9-1-24 card for the People with Disabilities Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by Anthony Barrette. It begins the series Quadrilateral Equations.

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Almost everything in the Charleston Food Forest is something I'm growing, would like to grow, or at least recognize from edible plant studies. So I thought it would be fun to break that down, listed in approximate spatial order moving through the lists of pictures ...

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This concludes the tour of the Charleston Food Forest. (See Part 1: Right Front. Part 2: Right Back, Part 3: Left Back.)

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This continues the tour of the Charleston Food Forest. (See Part 1: Right Front. Part 2: Right Back.)

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This continues the tour of the Charleston Food Forest.  (See Part 1: Right Front.)

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My partner Doug spotted this place recently, and today we explored the Charleston Food Forest and its plants.  (See Part 2 Right Back, Part 3: Left Back, Part 4 Left Front, and What I'm Growing.)  It's a skinny rectangle, and not all that big.  If you cut it in half and lined the halves up as a square, then it would fit in a typical town yard ( Read more... )

These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:

Pollution
Memory
Strange Submarines
Birdfeeding
Review: The Plant Kitchen
Today's Adventures
Tool Use
Birdfeeding
Voices
Denisovans
Philosophical Questions: Legalities
Gopher Recovery Work
Follow Friday 11-8-24: Film
Birdfeeding
Idea for Activism
Penguin in Australia
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Our new garden shed arrived today!  :D 3q3q3q!!! I'm so excited.  It's made by Everlast, which has distributors in a bunch of places around central Illinois.

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These are the notes for Emergency Kittens."

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This poem is from today's fishbowl. It was inspired and opened for crowdfunding by Dreamwidth user Elicat, who wanted to sponsor the "cat" square in my 11-1-24 card for the Sleepytime Bear Bingo. it belongs to the series Polychrome Heroics. Purrtland House is introduced in "Nature, Houses, and Living Beings" so this will make more sense if you read ( Read more... )