Blackforager 🌼 Alexis Nikole

lol

like the Endangered Species Act, the Migratory Bird Act, the Clean Air Act, I can like, idk, conceptualize at least. sucks shit but like, okay

But then I got my grubby little paws on it, and I immediately stopped fertilizing, spraying, and bagging up grass clippings and leaves. I ripped up sod and put in flowers and vegetables. I put down nice thick blankets of mulch around the flowers and vegetables. 

When I first was sweating my way through stripping sod, I saw a grand total of 1 worm and 0 ladybugs. The ground was compacted into something that would bend shovel blades. 

Now, six years later, I can’t dig a planting hole without turning up fourteen earthworms, and there are so many ladybugs here. Not the invasive asian lady beetles; native ladybugs. They winter over in the mulch and in the brush pile. I see thousands of them. 

The soil is soft and rich. There are birds that come to eat, and bees of many sorts.

I spend like, a lot of my life thinking about, talking about, researching about, and digging around lawn. Like, a lot

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i am indeed deep in the pawpaw sauce right now. they're a great plant to talk about for my topic of settlement, plant harvest, and perenial food ecosystems and I love them