“Spring is right around the corner. Don't be a nihilist."
-John Zerzan, quoted on their radio show “Anarchy Radio”
Here in this part of the world, spring has almost arrived. Outside, the sun is hiding behind some clouds as it has for most of the winter and the snow on the ground continues to accumulate. This week we’re digging up the earth to talk about growing plants and hear about your upcoming plans or how the garden was over the year.
What are you planting and growing this year? If you find yourself in a different season outside of Spring, share some favorite / least favorite experiences in the past tense. Have you planted things in previous years that are close to or just now coming up and around to providing their fruits? Do you have foraging stories or other anarchist DIY gardening experiments to share? What are some of your favorite anarchist things related to the topic of horticulture? What relationship do your anarchist ideas have to the practice of growing things? What annoys you most about this topic?
See also:
TOTW: Gardens (March 6, 2022)
https://anarchistnews.org/content/totw-gardens
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More like Topic of the Weak
Anarchy Spring (not verified) Sun, 03/09/2025 - 22:27
We anarchists know what's at stake.
The spring will thaw our frozen inaction.
We do not make gardens,
We make war.
Be ready.
There's a few reasons why…
Tezcatlipoca Mon, 03/10/2025 - 12:35
In reply to More like Topic of the Weak by Anarchy Spring (not verified)
There's a few reasons why conquering hordes have been successful at attacking and collapsing civilizations historically: highly mobile fighting units and control/destruction of food supplies. You need to posture less and listen and absorb more of what each conversation has to offer you instead of just getting emotional. I understand the frustration but you really just sound socially isolated and out of touch, not tough.
BEEP
anon (not verified) Mon, 03/10/2025 - 12:44
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Imagine using (and…
anon (not verified) Mon, 03/10/2025 - 12:48
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Imagine using (and culturally appropriating!) the name of a god! On anews! AND then trying to give wisdom vibes. LOL
imagine being a know-it-all…
anon (not verified) Tue, 03/11/2025 - 08:33
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imagine being a know-it-all scold in online comment sections, oh wait nevermind
No ur... a know-it-all…
anon (not verified) Tue, 03/11/2025 - 10:55
In reply to imagine being a know-it-all… by anon (not verified)
No ur... a know-it-all scold (???)
Cultural appropriation isnt…
EmmaAintDead Tue, 03/11/2025 - 10:44
In reply to Imagine using (and… by anon (not verified)
Cultural appropriation isnt something that can be done by an individual in a comments section. stop regurgitating bluesky socialist buzzwords. you look ridiculous.
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anon (not verified) Tue, 03/11/2025 - 10:54
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regurgitating bluesky…
anon (not verified) Tue, 03/11/2025 - 13:26
In reply to Cultural appropriation isnt… by EmmaAintDead
regurgitating bluesky socialist buzzwords isn't something that can be done as an anon on anews when gurgitation never occurred in the first place. stop making nonsense up because your feelings are hurt that your sockpuppet's sockpuppet got blasted for larping. you look ridiculous.
I hope you realize that…
anon (not verified) Thu, 03/13/2025 - 06:37
In reply to Cultural appropriation isnt… by EmmaAintDead
I hope you realize that being The Friend Who's Too Woke is just a way to flamebait people on here.
you know who else has been…
anon (not verified) Tue, 03/11/2025 - 08:31
In reply to There's a few reasons why… by Tezcatlipoca
you know who else has been great at conquering via destruction of food supplies & land bases?? that is correct - civilization.
Boooo hisssss **throws…
anon (not verified) Tue, 03/11/2025 - 10:09
In reply to you know who else has been… by anon (not verified)
Boooo hisssss **throws heirloom tomatoes**
**picks up tomatoes. adds…
anon (not verified) Tue, 03/11/2025 - 10:19
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**picks up tomatoes. adds fresh mozzarella. enjoys a nice salad.**
gardens are war, if you want…
anon (not verified) Tue, 03/11/2025 - 08:28
In reply to More like Topic of the Weak by Anarchy Spring (not verified)
gardens are war, if you want to use such language.
you can't fight if you can't eat.
i constantly battle weeds…
anon (not verified) Tue, 03/11/2025 - 10:08
In reply to gardens are war, if you want… by anon (not verified)
i constantly battle weeds who are very militant
they don't even use comment sections
Leech weeds like "couch…
anon (not verified) Tue, 03/11/2025 - 22:46
In reply to i constantly battle weeds… by anon (not verified)
Leech weeds like "couch grass" (ugh... those manbaby terms developed by rural pop Muhrikan "culture") are quite literally anarchist plants. Just spreading like water and being impossible to eradicate completely.
Gardeneders from that angle are speciesist cops... constantly attempting to crush lives that are in the way of their civilized, psycbotic forms of life, then to be callled "gardening" and "work"... wishing that one day they'll reach food autonomy outta some stupid piece of land they formatted in such ugly manner.
A.G.A.B.!
Fire to the greenhouses!!!
Invasives are a huge problem…
anon (not verified) Wed, 03/12/2025 - 00:23
In reply to Leech weeds like "couch… by anon (not verified)
Invasives are a huge problem. I really am done with arguing this point, I do it all the time IRL with Gia-Theory permies (no huge disrespect to permaculture in general, just some of it's adherents who push non-sense like that), but at least the permies somewhat understand botanical "speciation & it's consequences" (a book I recommend, btw) & what an ecosystem is; I mean you have to in order to set up a space. I just hate this "whatever grows is good" & "what's good for humans is good" nonsense, it's childish & derives from an idea that the creatures who assemble themselves into ecosystems & bioregions are only groovy mysterious green scenery to vibe with, or that plants exist solely for anthropocentric utility. "Keep the Himalayan Blackberries because you can sometimes eat them in the late summer". I hate it, your point shows a lack of interaction with & appreciation of wild spaces & the creatures who live there.
Where are those blackberries - who choked out an understory of Snow Berry or Highbush Cranberry - in the winter when the birds need them most?
If your argument is something more ridiculous like, "spreading like water and being impossible to eradicate completely [is anarchy]", then you just described forever chemicals & plastic pollutants as being anarchist, because they resist any attempts to control them. Short-sighted cultures of domination introducing random things into the wild & just letting it play out isn't anarchy
But of course you think like this, to you: land=stupid
the most invasive and…
anon (not verified) Wed, 03/12/2025 - 08:13
In reply to Invasives are a huge problem… by anon (not verified)
the most invasive and noxious species?
yup, humans.
so when do we eradicate them?
not advocating, just putting into perspective.
Fungi consumption might have…
anon (not verified) Wed, 03/12/2025 - 08:31
In reply to Invasives are a huge problem… by anon (not verified)
Fungi consumption might have affected your discursive logic skillz... Or perhaps you just didn't get my "point".
- My more serious point I was alluding to lies in how gardening amounts to a kind of formatting of an environment -which in the case of a wasteland or urban lands can be a great idea- by seeking to forever transform the soil within a bubble-world view of the environment often due to the definitions enforced by land property. The garden you're growing is not detached from the ecosystem, therefore it is a way of civilizing a compartmented piece of this ecosystem, so to suit whatever's your grand vision of a garden.
- Speaking of gardens as civilizing... can you get me a garden that wasn't the fancy product of an agriculture-based civilization?
- I don't
- What are these "berries" things? They are wild fruits.
- Also *elymus repens* is a vegetal living organism, which feeds on soil, moisture and especially sunlight like other plants. Regardless if it's an "anarchist weed", you can't compare it to lifeless industrial-consumer pollution. Duh. It's not good or bad... it's a plant, that also like other plants lives by its basic drive to just grow and thrive like it can. Yes, many types of invasive species are a problem, not only to anthropocentric gardens but to other plant life.
- Plants like the rest of life in nature lives beyond good & evil. That admission doesn't support the first-level hippie Gaia Theory view. They are only part of an infinitely more complex universe that is inherently anarchistic. Unless you can prove me they are under God's command or some other metaphysical laws. Paracelsus for instance had an answer to this, but still that was mostly just a poetic view of the world.
thanks anon 00:23. excellent…
anon (not verified) Wed, 03/12/2025 - 08:34
In reply to Invasives are a huge problem… by anon (not verified)
thanks anon 00:23. excellent points. great to see a thoughtful comment on here.
i might add that not all non-native plants are invasive. like plantain, which is also known as white man's footsteps. so called because it came to Turtle Island with europeans. but the natives found it quite useful so they made it part of their apothecary. but that is the exception that proves the rule really.
Cosmic pessimism
Tezcatlipoca Wed, 03/12/2025 - 08:54
In reply to thanks anon 00:23. excellent… by anon (not verified)
In the history of the planet at a cosmic scale the destructive capacity of Homo sapiens is not exceptional. There have been numerous devastating species that totally dominated the biosphere and led to mass extinctions. One example is algae and there's not much we'd recognize as consciousness or better yet, ego/super-ego driven. That being said, we clearly have the ability as individuals to recognize the ethical dilemmas of our existence and consumption. In sum, invasives destroy pristine systems, but so do humans. It's a bore to continually litigate either side. The interesting stuff to contend is in the gray areas. Are we going to do anything artful with our "special" (for some commenters very special) talents? Better yet, do we even have control of ourselves?
Yet with your tOotally…
anon (not verified) Wed, 03/12/2025 - 09:06
In reply to Cosmic pessimism by Tezcatlipoca
Yet with your tOotally comprehensive understanding of cosmic pessimism and the insignificance of all calling it 'boring to continually litigate' either side, yet here you are, unasked yet so eager to share your vEry significAnt opinions in your many many incarnations! BEEPing up the room like a fetid cheese.
well the economic and…
lumpy (not verified) Wed, 03/12/2025 - 10:58
In reply to Cosmic pessimism by Tezcatlipoca
well the economic and political systems are obviously subject to the apocalyptic determinism but i like to think humans can individually escape it, usually in short bursts of beautiful idea
We will feast upon the food…
Anarchy Spring (not verified) Tue, 03/11/2025 - 12:10
In reply to gardens are war, if you want… by anon (not verified)
We will feast upon the food horded in the mansions of the enemies of anarchy!
*hoarded
Anarchy Typo (not verified) Tue, 03/11/2025 - 12:44
In reply to We will feast upon the food… by Anarchy Spring (not verified)
*hoarded
Gardening just like the rest…
anon (not verified) Mon, 03/10/2025 - 09:09
Gardening just like the rest of *farming* means sedentary living. Unless you're being a kind of wwoofer, you'll likely to get stuck with one hyperlocalized project, that at best can welcome guests and helpers.
Often that means:
- batshit complicated logistics,
- dealing with machinery and other stupid industrially-produced hardware,
- long work shifts with much less people than you'd like,
- on top of that, the land property hell (a.k.a. capitalist heaven).
Not saying it's a no-go, but before getting too starry-eyed about garden-worship as the ultimate anarchist living, I strongly recommend to look at the downsides.
Using anarchist gatherings to trade seeds would be a great thing, tho. Anarchist country fairs should be a thing, or a bigger one.
on the contrary
anon (not verified) Mon, 03/10/2025 - 11:24
In reply to Gardening just like the rest… by anon (not verified)
Traveling just like the rest of *Evasion* means sedentary living out of your car. Unless you're being a kind of Summit Hopper, you'll likely to get stuck with one hyperlocalized mindset, that at best can welcome undercovers and Oogles.
Often that means:
- catshit complicated logistics and cat litter smelling houses
- dealing with train machinery and other stupid industrially-produced hardware like cars,
- long train rides with ppl you don't like
- on top of that, the king of the road hellscape (a.k.a. capitalist heaven).
It's all true except that…
anon (not verified) Mon, 03/10/2025 - 12:20
In reply to on the contrary by anon (not verified)
It's all true except that living out of your car isn't sedentary living. Who's Evasion btw?
Being comfortably …
Tezcatlipoca Mon, 03/10/2025 - 12:31
In reply to It's all true except that… by anon (not verified)
Being comfortably "hyperlocalized" in a bioregion you know well, on and off-grid, is a great way to live. So is traveling van nomad/RV/boondocking. You can even combine the strategies. I've seen nomads with herb gardens and succulents in their vans!
so, what is your problem…
anon (not verified) Wed, 03/12/2025 - 08:40
In reply to Gardening just like the rest… by anon (not verified)
so, what is your problem with "hyperlocalized"?
you can't get a more anarchistic dynamic than that.
"u can't get a more…
anon (not verified) Wed, 03/12/2025 - 09:14
In reply to so, what is your problem… by anon (not verified)
"u can't get a more anarchistic dynamic than [hyperlocalized]"
This is an incredibly narrow perspective on 'anarchistic' that you're trying to pass off as an absolute truth. In fact one might say this perspective only grows xenophobia.
Have you ever heard that: none are free until all are free?
Think about what you've done.
"Have you ever heard that:…
anon (not verified) Wed, 03/12/2025 - 12:37
In reply to "u can't get a more… by anon (not verified)
"Have you ever heard that: none are free until all are free?"
only as hyperbolic rhetoric from commies and liberals.
i never said it was "an absolute truth" you idiot, and the only people who say "this perspective only grows xenophobia." are globalists and people who are anti-indigenous and anti-autonomy.
Think about what a moron you u r.
For you to claim that…
anon (not verified) Wed, 03/12/2025 - 13:15
In reply to "Have you ever heard that:… by anon (not verified)
For you to claim that Indigenous autonomy equals xenophobia is ridiculous and racist. Touch grass, loser. Oh right, you can go outside because you might run into other people from different places with different views. OooOooh nOooo!
*can't
anon (not verified) Wed, 03/12/2025 - 13:16
In reply to For you to claim that… by anon (not verified)
*can't
The garden I started a few…
anon (not verified) Mon, 03/10/2025 - 12:31
The garden I started a few years ago at my apartment complex is going well! And I'm expanding this year! The free woodchips I got from chipdrop have been inoculated with Psilocybe cyanescens (Wavy Caps), Stropharia rugosoannulata (Garden Giants) & a type of Morel that does well in woodships (Morchella importuna). I trimmed all my raspberry canes back a month & a half ago & they're already budding out. The mints & lemon balms are so voracious they've taken over a lot of space but I'm definitely not mad about it, I especially love seeing the hundreds of Golden Digger Wasps spending the summer pollinating them. Thinned out my strawberries so they don't grow over each other like they did last year. Blueberries are doing great, so are all my perennial herbs. Going to add a few new raised beds, thanks to a neighbor who's donating some money, gonna grow garlic & chamomile. Introduced a species of Chicken of the Woods (L. gilbertsonii) to a a few dead cherries & Oysters to a few Red Alders that line the hillside between the garden & the train tracks.
Most of the garden isn't in my apartment complex's property, I just took over a city easement & no one stopped me, so I kept expanding. Now people from all over the neighborhood come there to smoke & talk. One neighbor uses the space for their Marxist bookclub. Last year a neighbor who worked at a liquor store gave me a few bottles of rum & I made everyone fresh Raspberry Mojitos with our mints & raspberries, for a week or so a few of us drank & discussed Letters of Insurgents (which I was rereading).
A downside is my property manager uses the garden as a selling point to the apartments & has raised the rent. I'm not sure if the increase is just par for the course or has something to do with me.
That's so fucked about the…
Tezcatlipoca Mon, 03/10/2025 - 12:38
In reply to The garden I started a few… by anon (not verified)
That's so fucked about the landlord. The morel cultivation sounds cool!
I'm preparing for planting a bunch of trees this year. The older I get the lazier grower I become!
Yeah, I'm not sure how well…
anon (not verified) Mon, 03/10/2025 - 14:15
In reply to That's so fucked about the… by Tezcatlipoca
Yeah, I'm not sure how well the morels will do, they're pretty finicky from what I understand & I might have waited too long to introduce them. What happened was last spring I kept finding huge flushes of them in pretty polluted sites, near drive-thrus & busy roads, etc., & I know morels bioaccumulate that stuff so I didn't eat any but instead collected them & got a ton of their spores on a few pieces of tinfoil, fed them & kept them in the fridge. I introduced them to the chips in the fall, along with some stronger Stropharia mycelium that a friend gave me. Also, last year was a great year for cyanescens, so I introduced them as well. Those two are tenacious, hungry little guys so they might outcompete the morels.
I feel you on the lazy with age, that's why I do a lot of perennials & annual flowers that self-seed pretty well. I don't have any trees but, I do tend to the Oso Berry, Cherries & Plums that were already here. I could probably easily grow some apples but I don't want to cut down the lodgepole pines & alders that shade us in the summer & umbrella us in the winter.
Besides garden stuff, (the topic prompt talked about foraging, too) I'm gearing up for the Morel season. Gonna hit some burn sites & see if I can't make some money & some amazing meals. From what I understand about the cuts to the Forest Service, I might not get harassed by them at all. I'm also looking forward to finding the Spring Coccora (Amanita Vernicoccora), I've heard it's better than it's fall counterpart & I finally feel like I know enough to not confuse it with the deadly Amanitas that look incredibly similar.
MmmMmm, when it warms the…
anon (not verified) Mon, 03/10/2025 - 17:02
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MmmMmm, when it warms the shrooms will bloom, mmmm, shrooms, pushing up through the moist wood chips, shroommmMmms blooOooming and the seasons turn, autumn, and the red and white soma shrooOoommmms, mmmm, higher and higher, mmmm, I float over the shrooOoom garden, ,,,,,,,
Just had a crazy thought,…
anon (not verified) Sun, 03/16/2025 - 10:49
In reply to MmmMmm, when it warms the… by anon (not verified)
Just had a crazy thought, What if pacifists sneaked some shrooms into Trump's, Putin's and Elon's poutine, scary mindboggling huh? The daaAaanciNg and huuUuugging,,,,,War and Peace,,,,,
That was actually the former…
anon (not verified) Sun, 03/16/2025 - 15:49
In reply to Just had a crazy thought,… by anon (not verified)
That was actually the former agenda of the great Captain Trips... before Leary and the other sloppy fools went on a quest to democratize LSD & shrooms.
How crazy is that!? I was…
anon (not verified) Wed, 03/12/2025 - 18:38
In reply to The garden I started a few… by anon (not verified)
How crazy is that!? I was too involved in a gardening project where you had the exact same rent hike gimmick feeding on the eco-gardening niche appeal. This might show how both property and gardening as capital valuation scheme are widespread in North America... also some of Latin America as well.
Not a fan of gardening after going through this... There's such a thing as anarchist gardening but how can it really be a thing if it doesn't avoid the property trap set up by society?
Yeah, I hear you. For me the…
anon (not verified) Wed, 03/12/2025 - 23:01
In reply to How crazy is that!? I was… by anon (not verified)
Yeah, I hear you. For me the bright side is that people have a space to meet each other or to just relax & smoke. And people get to eat free berries & cut fresh herbs for their meals. One tenant told me that they've never eaten a berry that they've just picked, which is nuts but understandable in this day & age. I'm glad I was able to give them that experience. It's a low income apartment, so to see some of these struggling moms pick raspberries with their toddlers is a heartwarming sight. Seeing their delight in eating something that they've picked for themselves is really cool & human.
And like I mentioned before, people are actually talking to each other. I just had a conversation about people burning Teslas in Seattle & France with some fairly normie, recently radicalized, goth neighbors that I used to just talk about black metal with. I just got my copy of "The Many Headed Hydra" back from a different neighbor who walks down here from a different building just to smoke & socialize. We talked about the golden age of piracy & the antinomians among other things & I lent him Dot Matrix's "What have we done for us lately" & my copy of "Discipline & punish" (his bookclub just watched the Chomsky debate). Last fall I lent my copy of "All that the rain promises & more" to one of those mom's I mentioned earlier (because I'm the mushroom guy & give all my neighbors who know me free chanterelles & educate them about mushrooms, probably annoyingly so) & her daughter loved it & they went out foraging together. But I met her because she smokes blunts & watches Anime in the garden after she puts her daughter to sleep. Yet another guy returned "Player piano" & I talked him into reading "Ishmael". Sorry if I tend to speak in examples!
Regardless of the price-gouging practices of my landlord & my property manager using it as an attraction to entice new tenants, it's made lots of peoples lives a little better & has generated some real (perhaps small) changes.
Plus, there are more birds, insects & other wildlife around here then there was before I started it. And the soil is healthier too!
Gardens are plant prisons! Disperse your seeds!
Johnny Poutine (not verified) Wed, 03/12/2025 - 09:02
I am an nomadic anarch traveler unshackled by domestication and, like my uncivilized ancestors, disperse the nutritious dumpster poutine seeds from my bare bottom as I walk the bountiful Earth!
Here is my song:
Oh, poutine is good to me,
And so I thank poutine,
For giving me the things I need;
The sun and the rain and the poutine seed.
Poutine is good to me,
Johnny Poutine!
Oh, and every seed I sow,
Will grow into poutines.
And someday there'll be poutines there,
For everyone in the world to share.
Oh, poutine is good to me,
Johnny Poutine!
Oh, the Earth is good to me,
And so I thank the Earth,
For giving me the things I need:
The sun and the rain and the poutine seed.
The earth is good to me,
Johnny Poutine!
From his debut LP Poutine…
anon (not verified) Wed, 03/12/2025 - 09:28
In reply to Gardens are plant prisons! Disperse your seeds! by Johnny Poutine (not verified)
From his debut LP Poutine Chittin'
That's an actual poutine…
anon (not verified) Wed, 03/12/2025 - 12:29
In reply to Gardens are plant prisons! Disperse your seeds! by Johnny Poutine (not verified)
That's an actual poutine diner in... Ottawa. Run by some mustachoed dude. Yuck.
what's the problem with…
lumpy (not verified) Wed, 03/12/2025 - 12:33
In reply to That's an actual poutine… by anon (not verified)
what's the problem with mustaches
they are white supremacist,…
anon (not verified) Wed, 03/12/2025 - 12:40
In reply to what's the problem with… by lumpy (not verified)
they are white supremacist, duh.
No they are not.
Cordederoi (not verified) Wed, 03/12/2025 - 15:54
In reply to they are white supremacist,… by anon (not verified)
Stop trying to force everyone to conform to your image.
That's right Lumpy: STOMP…
Mrs. Milgraham (not verified) Sat, 03/15/2025 - 13:36
In reply to what's the problem with… by lumpy (not verified)
That's right Lumpy: STOMP the motherfucker!
> That's WHAT'S?
anon (not verified) Wed, 03/12/2025 - 13:12
In reply to That's an actual poutine… by anon (not verified)
> That's
WHAT'S?
"WHAT'S?"
anon (not verified) Wed, 03/12/2025 - 17:39
In reply to > That's WHAT'S? by anon (not verified)
Johnny Poutine
Oh Johnny, I am the wild…
anon (not verified) Wed, 03/12/2025 - 16:08
In reply to Gardens are plant prisons! Disperse your seeds! by Johnny Poutine (not verified)
Oh Johnny, I am the wild dandelion nomadic hunter/gatherer radical within this capitalist domestic bubble, not your bourgie genteel version! Have you ever cut the head off a tabby and drunk thirstly from its neck? OooOoo, did you just dry reach reading this? I will meet you one night you dancing prancing poutine and shroom engorged fantasist and show you the glory of cannibalism, the darkness is approaching, we do not tolerate weakness nor white supremacists who first dragged us away from our wildernesses and put chains upon use. Bon appetité my little Johnny Poutine!
> dry reach
Darth Zerzan (not verified) Wed, 03/12/2025 - 18:33
In reply to Oh Johnny, I am the wild… by anon (not verified)
Don't quit your day job, Hemminbrow.
Look, just because some creative brahs grace these anews comments from time to time with funny and creative content does not mean you all need to attempt it. This goes double for the "poet" below. Look, some brahs just don't have the talent or skill for creative writing and that's okay. The world needs all kinds of brahs.
Now go chop some wood.
The garden is dark, it ain't…
anon (not verified) Wed, 03/12/2025 - 16:43
The garden is dark, it ain't no party,
You can manicure it if you want,
If you're rich or a smarty,
But when it comes down to feeding,
Bark and leaves ain't gonna do it,
And if you're a vegan and it's freezing,
There's only fur coats that'll fit,
And unfortunately, yep, you're gonna have to kill it.
plant anarchy
Wellamy Saint … (not verified) Thu, 03/13/2025 - 18:16
Who has the hook up on the blight resistant American Chestnut tree from Cornell? The other side is it’s genetically modified, which is something anarchists critique, but where do you draw the line? WWBFD? (What would Bellamy Fitzpatrick do?) Do they have secret Cornell connection to jump the years long American Chestnut waiting list?
[shakes 8ball… **all signs point to yes**]
There are actually some old American Chestnut around here, so I’ve heard - but I can’t tell you where because I don’t know either, although someone knows (and won’t tell me either, so maybe it’s a ruse).
I have to check the records, but almost 8+ years back my friends and I replanted an old sheep pasture full of a few different kind of nut trees. Very grid, very pasture, very not doing so well now, but there are some growing. Lesson learned is that the deer have constantly been eating the young tree sprouts and really stunting their growth, so I wish we used a little more sapling projection against those marauders. I’ve been in some apple orchards where they lay down human hair in a bag to help keep the deer away, but not sure how effective that is. Obviously the pasture protector doggo is not guarding the trees and just doing who knows what all day while the real anarchists have day jobs. I still love them though and when we get a chance we chase away the deer and their ticks. My gardening pro-tip is if you live in tick country, use some kind of protection if you’re out working in the forest garden and always check yourself after coming back inside.
Growing weed smokes within a certain number of plants is legal here now, so definitely going to get those in the ground and let the outdoors do their magic. When the harvest moon comes and the marijuanas are ready, there is always way more than one could possibly use, so it makes for nice gifts for your friends. Before weed was legal, they used to get the army forest cops up in the chopper and use infrared to try and find the grow ops because apparently marijuanas give off a specific color that few other common plants in the area do (poison sumac being a similar infrared, so I’ve heard). I once watched a cop chopper almost do a touch down in a suspect field, dog was not sleeping and we watched together pretty weirded out (we weren’t growing), but apparently they thought we were and wanted to investigate.
My last gardening tip, is also related to the intoxicating variety of plant. We used to have a small anarchist vineyard, but the invader beetles destroyed most of it years back when dog was asleep and not on guard duty. These days, it’s much easier to take a truck full of carboys to the local vineyard during the fall harvest and buy whatever type grape juice you want and then lug that back to your anarchist wine cellar. Years ago I did the quick maths and a bottle of chardonnay (white wine) that we made cost us like $3 USD, compared to like a crappy $15+ bottle of wine from the store. Although, the trick is actually making good tasting wine because if it sucks your stuck drinking like a lot of bad wine and it’s not as fun as it sounds + plus you can’t even give it to your friends because it’s that bad. The process is fun though, you stock up on wine bottles and come bottling, spend the day cleaning all the old bottles while sampling the new batch and trying not to get stung by the wasps and bees that smell the delicious wine.
Oh wait, one last gardening story, just because I'm on an intoxicating plant rant. You used to be able to find Jimeson weed at the local mall. It was used as a decorative plant, but you could go and harvest the bulbs and the rest is magic, but not really fun or something I would ever recommend to anyone. Use caution, as with all things. Okay, peace out.
- Wellamy Saint Dadtrick
You ridiculous chumps... why…
anon (not verified) Thu, 03/13/2025 - 21:18
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You ridiculous chumps... why to you work and suffer so much to create MORE shit, while actual anarchy can just provide you with all the luxuries and abundance you'd like, and for free?
My previous comment about once commenting on this site while drinking outta some 93$ bottle of fine cellar wine that I got for free was removed, but that was a true, LIVED EXPERIENCE you Salami Fits Sadtrick. And you though dumpster poutines are the only frivolities anarchy provides me?
Damn. How dimwitted these numbfucks are... still speaking of money issues when all you can do is just overcome your own stupid (but very useful) moral limitations to get what you want out of life.
"Why work when you can get…
anon (not verified) Thu, 03/13/2025 - 21:32
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"Why work when you can get someone else to work for you" is what I'm hearing. there is a name for that.
See? THAT'S what I'm talking…
anon (not verified) Fri, 03/14/2025 - 06:09
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See? THAT'S what I'm talking about! People being so deeply indoctrinated (or just dumb) as to believe there's no way to have abundance and quality for FREE without becoming a capitalist... having their hands shaking the moment they consider stealing a bit juicy piece of duck meat at the grocery store, because "think of the Workers!" (or any other spook around the table).
See? dubious ethics…
anon (not verified) Fri, 03/14/2025 - 09:05
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See? dubious ethics masquerading as anarchy yet again.
I'm not against stealing. but do you really believe stealing is anti capitalist?? Theft, dumpster diving, all that, relies on the excesses of capitalism, not the absence of capitalism.
it still seems to me that your "for free" relies on someone else's labor.
that duck is still free if you are the one to hunt, kill & dress it, that is the "work" I mean.
" Theft, dumpster diving…
anon (not verified) Fri, 03/14/2025 - 11:46
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" Theft, dumpster diving relies on the excesses of capitalism, not the absence of capitalism. "
No they are entirely different practices. The latter does rely on excess production, not really illegalist, and is a better, urban version of *gleaning* in farming areas.
The other is at the very basis of capitalism, but not limited to it as there was always some kind of thievery existing through history. You take the resources from a town after raiding them? You exploit labor through surplus value? You're an Ancient Greek band of bandits invading an island to claim it your own and then proclaim yourself king? Or maybe you go simpler and more anarcho-individualist and lift, or scam, for your own interests and that of your buddies? All of this is thievery, with different sets of values and goals.
...but you don't steal from the Holy Workers by just lifting shit around. That's not how the production process works.
^this is simply correct, the…
lumpy (not verified) Fri, 03/14/2025 - 16:03
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^this is simply correct, the only workers who think theft affects them have internalized their bosses bullshit. not to mention the insurance companies literally tell these lil' bootlickers not to think this way because it makes them do crazy bullshit just increases liability for the company
Anarchist Individualist is…
anon (not verified) Sat, 03/15/2025 - 11:00
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Anarchist Individualist is ideological reification-speak for United States of 'Murika-brand individualist.
you're a total prick and you…
lumpy (not verified) Thu, 03/13/2025 - 21:57
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you're a total prick and you'll probably get shot to death soon by some roided out, mentally unstable rent-a-cop BUT i tend to agree with your pirate swagger! best of luck dodging those fascist bullets! srsly, even the most sanctimonious illegalists! more power to'em, i say
unless you're a fukin poser liar, typing about a fantasy, which is likely but i hope not!
Even if I wouldn't have guns…
anon (not verified) Fri, 03/14/2025 - 11:51
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Even if I wouldn't have guns myself to shoot the fascists in the worst unexpected situations they can't imagine... how good are bullets if they are blinded by pepper an lasers?
like i said, hope it works…
lumpy (not verified) Fri, 03/14/2025 - 15:57
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like i said, hope it works out for you! may the ghost of renzo guide your hand!
BEEP
anon (not verified) Thu, 03/13/2025 - 22:18
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BEEP
wrong, again
anon (not verified) Fri, 03/14/2025 - 03:41
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wrong, again
Clearly not
anon (not verified) Fri, 03/14/2025 - 08:40
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Clearly not
? clarify? please? what does…
anon (not verified) Sat, 03/15/2025 - 09:49
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? clarify? please? what does beep even mean
SIGH... it's a dog whistle…
lumpy (not verified) Sun, 03/16/2025 - 09:37
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SIGH... it's a dog whistle about dead batteries in smoke detectors ... srsly
yep! fraid so...
9V are really sweet. They…
anon (not verified) Sun, 03/16/2025 - 10:03
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9V are really sweet. They shouldn't be neglected
yes, neglect does a lot of…
lumpy (not verified) Sun, 03/16/2025 - 10:11
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yes, neglect does a lot of damage, some of which we can see in online behaviour!
That program failed, sadly…
anon (not verified) Sat, 03/15/2025 - 14:25
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That program failed, sadly. After 30 years they got almost no results
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