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"Women scatter seeds, restore forests in Guinea, the ‘water tower of West Africa’"
#Africa #Guinea #Environment

Women scatter seeds, restore forests in Guinea, the ‘water tower of West Africa’
For Mariame Condé, the seed-collecting work came at a critical time. In January 2022, she was pregnant and nearly out of food. Her husband had left their village to search for gold in Sigiri, a mining area, and their harvest was almost gone, she told Mongabay in a WhatsApp message. That year, Condé collected 20,000 […]

Did you know if you leave the pumpkin guts in the fridge until they get a little squishy you can just rinse all the guts off instead of picking out seeds one-by-one? Happy this experiment worked out. (Was actually intentional, btw. 🙂 I read about how farms that produce pumpkin seeds just leave the pumpkins out in the field for a bit and thought I'd try the fridge version.)

Lay dormant under
Banks of snow. In a few months,
Seeds will wake and grow.
#haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt - seed

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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Unclassified
Robin Richards:
🎵 Seeds
#RobinRichards
https://open.spotify.com/track/5vBl8ec3S4nwe8iV1dGbpv

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
The Miracle Seeds:
🎵 I Am the Sherpa
#TheMiracleSeeds
https://themiracleseeds.bandcamp.com/track/i-am-the-sherpa
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Pfq4WHAbYNd3u1Mb6dAuN

The seeds of the January 6, 2021, insurrection can be traced back to the early 1900s,
when industrialists concerned with the erosion of their wealth and power
attempted to control the currency and restrict government spending.
Later these forces, in alignment with America Firsters,
aggrieved veterans,
and antisemitic splinter groups that mirrored various features of European fascism,
including white supremacists,
rallied to oppose Roosevelt and the …

Paranoia on Parade | Washington Spectator
How reactionary grievances have helped bring America’s democracy to the brink of collapse

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds:
🎵 Into My Arms
#NowPlaying #NickCave #TheBadSeeds
https://killthemoose.bandcamp.com/track/into-my-arms-nick-cave-and-the-bad-seeds-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/39CFOvYse9fcMhIwyS73Fl

Fruit-eating animals are less diverse in body size, and thereby less well matched to the diversity of fruits they eat and seeds they disperse, in habitats with more human disruption
#science