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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱
@kzgrant.bsky.social
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Retired from teaching but not from caring about all our kids’ futures. Hence still fighting battles I thought we won and trying to be less furious and more effective. Native gardening! Cheesehead.
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🌱 Blazingstar in fall
November 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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🌱 The “lasts” are precious
A few remaining blue-purple blossoms of Verbena Bonariensis atop a developing grape colored seedhead. Bright orange calendula visited by a tiny bee. Graceful yellow coneflowers amid browning foliage. Not done yet golden calendula!
November 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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🌱6:30 AM first snow!
Young child running out to play in the first snow of the year.
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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🌱 The last Zinnia blossoms in the glow of a fall evening
Fading Zinnia blossoms in shades of magenta, orange, yellow and light pink, atop the dark brown dirt of a cleared vegetable garden.
November 4, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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🌱 Way to go little dahlia!
The last Kelsey Joy Dahlia blossom, the color has shifted to a sunflower yellow and pink.
October 31, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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🌱 Veg finale🌱
The last of the vegetables: many green peppers surrounding one ripe orange pepper, a mix of orange and green cherry tomatoes, and a collection of curly green parsley, kale, chard- all drying on a kitchen towel.
October 31, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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🌱 Fall just beginning to glow.
Light pink zinnia fading to mauve in front of a wood chip path among a stand of zinnias and a spray of bright golden Little Bluestem. Glowing yellow Cutleaf Coneflower standing bright and tall amid the fading garden. One last Verbena Bonariensis showing its tiny lavender stars against pale green stalks of Blue Sage, dark green/purple Blazing Star and brown aster seedheads. Bright pink zinnia with golden starry flowerets surrounding a dark pink center fading to dusky pink.
October 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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wired.com
Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.
A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone
Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.
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October 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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🌱Bed and Breakfast every day! Courtesy Bumble Rumble Dahlia from Fleur Farms.
Bee safely resting behind petals of a pint and white dahlia with golden center. Two bees busily feeding on the golden center of a pink and white Bumble Rumble Dahlia.
October 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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🌱 Sun has not reached my cradle, therefore I do not have to get up
yet!
Bee sleeping in a fuchsia and white Dahlia Bumble Rumble.
October 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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🌱Tiny fall treats!
Orange cherry tomatoes, one red ripe tomato, two orange sweet peppers and a joyful lot of ground cherries in their pale gold jackets.
October 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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🌱 Sun has not reached my cradle, therefore I do not have to get up
yet!
Bee sleeping in a fuchsia and white Dahlia Bumble Rumble.
October 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass, is founding a new organization focused on conservation. 🌱

Sign up at plantbabyplant.com
We’re showered every day with the gifts of plants. They provide the food we eat, the air we breathe, and medicines for mind and body. Despite this unearned flow of green generosity, we find ourselves embedded in a political climate and an economic system that relentlessly asks, “What more can we take from the Earth?” This question and its answers have led us to the brink of disaster. And now we’re being buried in an avalanche of new threats to the lands we love as climate commitments are reversed, the EPA is dismantled, logging is accelerated in the National Forests, and other losses too numerous and painful to list. I’ve been feeling both drained and enraged by the attacks on our values and I bet you have, too. ”Drill, Baby, Drill”, that mantra of destruction and extraction, is an intentional slap in the face to people who value land, life, health, and justice over corporate profits. Well, let’s raise a garden-gloved middle finger in return. I invite you, my friends, my neighbors, my readers, my fellow citizens into a new movement called Plant, Baby, Plant. Youth and elders, urban and rural, Democrat and Republican, I think there’s one thing on which we can agree: It’s wrong to wreck the world. I think the question that we need is, ”What does the Earth ask of us?” How can we give back in return for everything we’ve been given, and for everything we’ve taken? With Plant, Baby, Plant, we will counter the forces of destruction with creative resistance in support of life. For generations, Indigenous communities, grassroots organizers, gardeners, scientists, artists, civil servants, foresters, food advocates, and others have championed the work of healing land and restoring our relationship with the Earth. Our goal is not to reinvent the wheel. It is to amplify, multiply, and carry forward these powerful efforts. Now is the time to help accelerate and expand that work with a groundswell of resistance. Together, we can spark a grassroots movement to heal land, build community, and transform love of land into social change. Not only will we plant trees and food and wildflower meadows, but we will plant our feet and say “no more destruction”. We will plant a flag, to claim that this is what good citizens do on behalf of Mother Earth. Are you ready to raise a garden and raise a ruckus? Join us. —Robin Wall Kimmerer
October 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration reut.rs/4mIfztt
Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration
Apple said on Thursday that it had removed ICEBlock, the most popular ICE-tracking app, and other similar apps from its App Store after it was contacted by President Donald Trump's administration.
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October 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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🌱 Step 1 of a no dig front yard native plant garden. Thanks to 🌱Erin Sherman for the motivation!
a wedge of lawn covered by damp newspaper The same wedge of lawn from opposite viewpoint. Damp newspaper covered by damp cardboard and mulch. Ran out of cardboard and mulch so waiting to restock.
October 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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🌱 Dahlias from (Fleur Farm in VT) and Helenium looking gorgeous and providing for pollinators. Trying to keep our butternut squash safe from chipmunks and squirrels.
Dahlia Teesbrook Audrey with a happy bee. Thanks to Fleur Farm! Dahlia Kelsey Annie Joy with a happy bee. Thanks to Fleur Farm! Helenium or sneezeweed, being nommed. Butternut squash, we hope, ripening safely.
October 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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🌱 2nd big harvest from this plant, 17 ripe and delicious tomatoes. Headed to the kitchen for ratatouille.
A basket of ripe red tomatoes, Rutgers Select variety. Bubbling pot of ratatouille- our tomatoes, butternut squash, peppers and herbs. Corn, zucchini and eggplant from the farmers market.
September 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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T is for… #Trees 💚🌱
Or maybe T is for Treasure? There has to be treasure buried here... Right?
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#Art #Nature #MobilePhotography #Photography #Plants #Tree
Photo of 2 tall, skinny birch trees. 1 is growing upright & the 2nd is growing at an angle, forming an X.
September 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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🌱 I feel like a hobbit in the Shire, a small person walking through a magical land.
A brown mulch path through a perennial garden with zingy yellow Fireworks Goldenrod, white Pearly Everlasting, purple New England Asters, golden Sunflowers, tall white False Asters and exuberant multicolored Zinnias. A brown mulch path through a perennial garden with yellow Blue Stemmed Goldenrod, Blue Wood and White Wood Aster, purple Mistflower spilling everywhere and of course a few Zinnias adding cheery color. Tall colorful native plants leaning over one another and framing a garden sign. Bright yellow Showy Goldenrod, light purple Northern Blazing Star and delicate light blue Blue Sage. A few bright Zinnias and tall Sawtooth Sunflower in the background. A brown mulch path through a perennial garden with browning Ironweed, light lavender Blue Wood Aster, tall white False Aster on the right and a glimpse of maroon Joe Pye Weed and Blue Stemmed Goldenrod in the back.
September 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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🌱 Button Blazing Star going to seed, Northern Blazing Star just opening, tomatoes safely ripening behind chicken wire and native garden eating the signage.
September 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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🌱 A very happy place. I will have to
do some dividing and plant sharing, everything got so big so quickly. A
good problem to have and in the meantime a wonderful kind of chaos.
Purple Verbena Bonariensis, coral colored Agastache, purple New England Aster and pale blue Blue Sage in the evening light purple Verbena Bonariensis lit up by the setting sun in front of a large plant of purple New England Aster blossoms Sky Blue Aster pink aster… transplanted and I have no idea what it’s called!
September 17, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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💙 BLOCK TRUMP’S ILLEGAL POCKET RESCISSIONS💙

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Block Trump’s Illegal “Pocket Rescission” Budget Cut ⭑ 5 Calls
On August 29th, the Trump administration moved to unilaterally cancel $4.9 billion in foreign aid funding through a so-called “pocket rescission.” A …
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September 14, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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🌱 We’ve lived here 22 years and this 4 month old rain garden has demonstrably changed our ecosystem for the better. We never had pollinators gather and swarm like this. Also approve of the sparkly green reflection or possibly little green alien in the foreground.
Garden in foreground with many tiny flying insects above. Background is street and neighbor’s home.
September 13, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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🌱 I don’t mean to minimize the importance of remembering those we lost on 9/11, or those lost to senseless gun violence every day. But perhaps we can use the strength that gardening gives to face our challenges and keep moving forward.
September 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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🌱 Peace
Bright magenta Purple Poppy Mallow in front of lavender New England Aster and a sea of green foliage.
September 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM