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How important is it to focus on native vs non-invasive plants in a European context? I live in Scandinavia but come originally from North America and in NA there can be a pretty intense ideal of native plant gardening that I don’t experience the same way here. Ex, lavender is not native to Scandinavia and nobody seems to care.

If you have anything to say on the subject of drought tolerant plants and grasses suitable for Northern Europe I’d love to hear it.

I think it’s also important to have a diversity of aesthetics and cultural representations to gain a more universal appeal - and also that diversity needs to be understood very broadly. Movements like this seem to typecast themselves relatively quickly, as there are few role models available and people adopt an aesthetic, or mannerisms, or jargon as a sort of identifier that they belong to the group, which ends up being just as exclusionary as it is a marker of inclusion.

There will always be people who see the extreme version as wildly inspiring, and those who see it as ugly or frightening or wildly unrealistic. Ex: earthships - personally I think it’s awesome to have a self-sufficient space with indoor gardens, but they are huge and ugly af. But people renovating and retrofitting their century old houses with natural materials and respect for the original architecture? Yes please.

I guess I’m trying to say that the fantastic needs to have a place under the umbrella alongside the pragmatic, and the vegans alongside the people with turkeys in their backyard, and the DIY permies alongside people who would never ever use an old bathtub as a planter but are willing to xeriscape their front lawn with native perennials, and the people who make their own sandals out of bicycle tubes alongside the people who buy really expensive shoes for life etc etc.

This is my favorite of the lemming versions, at least so far. The visor looks nice and clean. No “sad furry” vibes (no offense to furries, but seems strangely restrictive in an app icon).

I like the dark one, it’s nice to see some submissions that are based on the fediverse and not just restricted to lemmings!

Thanks! It’s a young silver-laced Orpington rooster.

They would love to help you with about 90% of your kitchen waste. We don’t give ours fish or raw onions, and they apparently can’t eat avocado, chocolate or raw potatoes, and my husband is against cannibalism so they don’t get chicken meat. But everything else is received with joyous exclamations and squabbling over first dibs.

Mine like watermelon too, but they will do anything for cucumber.

Jeg synes, det er fint!

I think part of the problem is language. Sure I could post local climate news, but it’s not in English, so what’s the point?

Oh good, I’ve been missing this one, couldn’t subscribe fast enough.