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Native birds eating your figs? Feed them too! Native insects feasting on your dill? Let them! Generally speaking, if you wash your produce well and cut out the bug-eaten parts, you can eat the same leaves that a caterpillar was snacking on. 

Obviously, sometimes protection is needed. Maybe do put that layer of mesh over your cabbage to protect from worms, but don’t kill them. Don’t spray them, because you risk killing the beneficial and native insects along with the ones you consider to be pests. 

All that in mind, everyone needs a snack. Sometimes even a cardinal bird runs out of energy and needs a juicy peach.

Learn how to support your local ecosystem.

Pollinators

Who pollinates your garden?

What native species can you support through the things you grow?

What “weeds” are these little critters using as food?

How can you support the pollinators that naturally exist in your area?

Common Garden Plants

What grows well in your area?

Why does it grow well?

“Weeds”

What naturally grows well in your ecosystem?

What does each weed tell you about the soil quality? The soil’s level of compaction? Which micronutrients are available in abundance? Which micronutrients are missing? 

“Weeds” hold a lot of information.

Leave the Leaves Alone

Pollinators, especially butterflies and bees, need leaves to survive the winter. When you rake and bag your leaves, you are removing vital habitats. Eggs get planted in the leaves, bugs burrow under them, and even the dead stalks of flowers become homes and nurseries!

If the leaves in your yard really “bug” you and you insist on raking, at least rake them into a corner of your yard with some wind protection (Perhaps a spot you have already noticed leaves like to accumulate in). Do these in the fall, and leave them at least until the end of spring. You can use them as compost after that, or even mulch them into your soil, or just leave them be, and let the next fall add to your stack!

Leaves will naturally break down, adding vital nutrients to your soil. Plants, especially wildflowers that are native to forests, will easily push up past the leaves in the spring, and will benefit from their decomposing nutrients all year long. 

Climate

How will your typical seasons impact your ability to grow certain things?

Issue #2  PUNK GARDENING AND REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE.

PUNK GARDENING. 

What is punk gardening? 

To me, being punk is about community, about taking up space, and about being authentic to yourself. Finding ways to support each other while existing in spaces that are unwelcoming to you. Bringing a punk ethos to gardening helps us to live alongside nature instead of fighting it. 

Punk gardening is throwing wildflower seeds in places where pollinators could use a snack break (along highways for example, or in bare containers of soil found throughout cities). Plus, if you want to be a punk in a garden, all the rules go out the door. Do what brings you joy: arrange your plants without the use of rows, research traditional methods of cultivating the earth and apply the techniques you learn, whatever floats your boat friend. Rebellion isn’t just yelling in the streets, punk gardening is at the heart of feeding our communities while thriving in the compost of society’s bullshit. 

What is regenerative agriculture?

Regenerative agriculture is farming that stops trashing the land and starts giving something back. Instead of ripping up soil and dumping chemicals on it, you build it up—cover crops, compost, letting animals do their thing, keeping the ground alive instead of stripped bare.

They’re… soft…

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