Green Infrastructure

 ... includes everything from rain gardens to food forests.  Benefits include:

* soaking up rainwater to reduce runoff, pollution, and floods
* attracting wildlife with native species
* supporting humans with edible landscaping
* promoting mental health with greenspace

While it takes government investment to do huge projects, anyone can do small things like planting a tree or a garden.  A modest group of citizens can buy an empty lot to make a community garden, rain garden, pocket park, and so on.

"Protect the Forests" is now complete!

Based on an audience poll, you can now read the rest of "Protect the Forests."  Kenzie explores a travois.

We are now down to one open epic, so if folks want to open a new one in the sale, go for it.

Birdfeeding

It's a beautiful fall day out, sunny and mild with just a little breeze.

I fed the birds.

I scooped ash out of the firepit.  This time it occurred to me to try pushing it into a bucket like I do with mulch, which was much more efficient than trying to shovel it.  I sprinkled the ash around the prairie garden as fertilizer.

Two different sunchokes are blooming.  I wasn't sure any had survived, but evidently some did. \o/  There's another yellow flower blooming amidst the big bluestem, which has its little turkey-feet open.  Over in the wildflower garden, a purple aster is blooming.  :D 

New verses in "The Best Understanding of Their Differences"

Thanks to an audience poll, there are 17 new verses in "The Best Understanding of Their Differences."  Calliope and Vagary try the first partner exercise.

Poem: "The War That Was Won"

This poem is spillover from the August 4, 2020 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from librarygeek. It also fills the "Unexpected Love" square in my 6-1-20 card for the Cottoncandy Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by Anthony & Shirley Barrette. It belongs to the Ocracies series.

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Poem: "A Link to the Handmade Past"

This poem came out of the August 4, 2020 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from dialecticdreamer, readera, and technoshaman. It also fills the "Youth" square in my 6-1-20 card for the Cottoncandy Bingo fest.

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