touched grass today
touched grass today
Any fellow grass touchers? Would love to here about your time. I got to eat so many wild raspberries, they were so delicate but so flavorful.
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Hell yeah
I went to the COAST and SAT on it and watched BIG WAVES break and got nervous for the ELDERLY COUPLE exploring the tide pools because the waves were so BIG AND PLENTIFUL!! I also went to a hippie crystal store in the coastal town and looked at GIANT ROCKS and bought my friend some crystals!!
I need to go where you are is that a swimmable body of water? Looks cold
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It looks swimmable but I am unsure as to how to get down there safely. Not sure how deep it is either. We were at eagle creek just east of Portland. It was a really cool hike with tons of wild berries. Steep cliffs too
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In the autumn I go for walks down the fields where there's a load of blackberry bushes. I pick them and my dog picks the ones on the low branches with her mouth and eats them. She's a weird dog but she likes the blackberries
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Good for her, I am glad she gets to enjoy them too
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I had a weird dog that would do that, she'd get the low ones, I'd pick the middle and birds would get the ones we couldn't reach, it was a lovely coming together of species.
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I have four thornless blackberry bushes in the little communal garden my neighbor and I are setting up in our yard.
We plan to add some garden plots and fruit trees too.
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Hell yeah, my partner is actually helping build a community garden in portland rn. She thinks she might try planting some thornless blackberries there now. She wants to build an area where its easy to just pick things and eat them immediately so people can have snacks while they are there.
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They're so fuckin good we just had our first batch of ripe ones, they are perfect right now, they practically fall off the vine and they are so fuckin sweet. Store bought ain't got shit on our bushes.
Plan is to grow the three sisters along the fence and then do raised beds punctuated by citrus trees. Gonna try to set aside a plot for each tenant in our apartments (about 30 units) to have a place to grow whatever they want and then set up a free bin for whoever comes through (we get a lot of homeless foot traffic). We figure if we have free food available people will be less inclined to steal folks stuff if left outside.
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- comrade, those grow on bushes, not grasses
- no...
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The other day it was miserably hot so my partner and I drove to the coast. We smoked weed on the beach and then again in the woods by the beach before eating some sandwiches. We went on a hike by the river and sat on the roots of a centuries old spruce tree while smoking more weed. We got fresh fruit smoothies from the Mexican place in town and then sat in the parking lot by the boat ramp watching birds for a while.
The back of our SUV is set up for camping so we took a nap by the bay before finally driving home. Temps at home were well over 90°F (32°C), but this part of the coast was blanketed in fog and never even got above 70°F (21°C). We got home just before dark and ended up moving our camping setup into our living room to sleep (no AC or even windows in the back of our cabin).
We live in the middle of nowhere so touching grass pretty much always happens, but that's the main reason we moved out this way. As an adult I always lived in cities, but I never quite realized how overwhelming it could be until I was pissed at my neighbors for always being loud af. I was looking for other places to rent and saw a dot on the map way the fuck out there with cheap rent and fiber internet. The house itself sucks, the well water is gross, but God damn I can see trees all around and there's a creek a few hundred feet from our door that's crystal clear and runs year round.
I miss being in a city sometimes. I miss organizing (but also I don't tbh) and I miss being able to walk to a store, but the older I get the worse my sensory issues get and burnout is creeping around every corner. I try to do some agitprop online (I want to dox myself so bad to see if anyone has seen any) because I feel like it makes up for my absence in normal society. It'll never be the same as in person organizing, especially in places that need it most like deeply conservative areas where I used to live, but I guess it's better than just ignoring everything completely.
Anyway, not entirely sure why I shared all of that, but I already typed it so yeah
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I am glad you shared comrade. That sounds like an amazing time. I have lived the rural life and the isolation is not for me, not now atleast. I miss the silence though
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gah... its so hot and there's so much to do and I'm naturally a lazy person...
There's tons of black berries to be picked and the while cherries need to get in the freezer before the July heat/lack of rain makes them unusable.
Pear trees are loaded as fuck. If the crows aren't too greedy we're gonna be hard pressed to find freezer space for storage. I worry that the ancient dehydrator will give out, the fan motor makes some pretty angry noises these days.
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Not sure if you have them where you are, but orgs like Food Not Bombs will usually take fresh produce off your hands if you have extra. All the houses around here have orchards, gardens, etc and I have duped my neighbors into donating to them too. Told them the truth sort of, just left out the details because they are probably all magats. They give me all their extra harvest and I drive it into the city and drop it off.
The people with FNB hand it out fresh and make preserves and stuff before it goes bad. Highly recommend this if you have extra.
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Raspberries come in black? I thought they were all red. Did they taste red?
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Ah I just realized I didn't mention the blackberries in the body text. I picked a lot of blackberries and razzberries. The wild razzberries were very fragile so I just ate them on the spot
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Where I grew up in the US blackberries like these would grow allll over, my family would pick them and get buckets full, and make pie and such with them. Sweeter, less tart than raspberries usually.
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hell yea my plan this weekend is to collect as many berries as physically possible, the season has arrived
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Berry picking is no joke one of my favourite things to do ever. I work in tech but I've always said my calling was in berry picking.
I picked some wild garlic this year and loved it, we got raspberries growing up here, european blueberries will fruit soon, and I'm gon' go get rowanberries again too. I want to know more things to pick, foraging rules.
I always make sure a good amount is left for birds, animals and even the bugs I GUESS. But even then most of it seems to rot on the plant, sadly.
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Get a foraging book for your area! There's usually free PDFs online. If you aren't sure what something is and you don't have cell service for an app like inaturalist, lick the berry (controversial but seems to work for me)! You probably won't die from licking a single berry
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that grass looks delicious
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That's not grass