Liz Postlethwaite
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mudandculture.bsky.social
Liz Postlethwaite
@mudandculture.bsky.social
🎨Community artist and organiser.

🌱Permaculture educator and practitioner.

🌍 Exploring place, imagination, and ways to feel like we belong again.

#regenerative #permaculture #imagination

@smallthingscp.bsky.social
www.lizpostlethwaite.co.uk
Foraged bottles from the nature reserve. The kids are absolutely obsessed with searching for them at the moment.
March 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Zine pages in progress.
March 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Beautiful structures of decay.

A gift from the garden.

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March 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Why not join me on the 10th of March for this day of creativity and regenerative thinking hosted by Seed Sedgemoor in Bridgwater? Maybe see you there? #permaculture #artistdevelopment #community

seedsedgemoor.com/activities/c...
Cultivating Creativity - Seed Sedgemoor
seedsedgemoor.com
March 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Reposted by Liz Postlethwaite
Do you have expertise in UK land use? We want to hear from you!

The UK government is currently consulting on the future of land use in England. To ensure the voice of the ecological community is heard, we will be producing a response to this consultation.
February 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Wow. This looks amazing! 💚🌱💚
February 28, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Back with this beautiful book again. It's the unusual combination of being powerful and provoking but also brilliantly accessible. Have you read it?
February 28, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Phosphate levels on our stretch of the Irwell today. 0.1ppm is the recommended upper level. This is likely to signify a highly polluted river.

#pollution #river #irwell #sewage #observeandinteract
February 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"Catch and store energy" - what does this design principle mean to you? How might it inform you in the things you do? #designthinking #permacultureprinciples #permaculturedesign

open.substack.com/pub/mudandcu...
Catch and Store Energy
Looking to the energy of ecosytems
open.substack.com
February 26, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I basically just want to live in a world where there are still phones in this building and I walk out of my house to use one to call my friends. 💚☎️💚
February 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I love these conjoined trees in the nature reserve. Reaching out and holding on. 💚🌳💚 Has anybody ever seen trees doing this before? #forest #trees #nature
February 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social bending over backwards to appease tech billionaires whilst absolutely doing over artists and creatives. How is this a good or fair idea? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Don’t gift our work to AI billionaires: Mark Haddon, Michal Rosen and other creatives urge government
More than 2,000 cultural figures challenge Whitehall’s eagerness ‘to ­wrap our lives’ work in attractive paper for automated competitors’
www.theguardian.com
February 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Reposted by Liz Postlethwaite
The meanings of the word for a wren, from eight different languages...

8. Little walnut (Bulgarian)
7. Little bird in the ditch (Japanese)
6. Thumbling (Finnish)
5. Fence-skedaddler (Danish)
4. Fence-master (Hebrew)
3. Druid bird (Irish)
2. Mouse-brother (Faroese)
1. Little king of winter (Dutch)
December 5, 2024 at 2:44 PM
I wish I could share my home fermented, nut milk kefir with you. I can't believe how good it is. And the nut pulp from making the milk has been used to make a delicious "cream" cheese. 💚💚💚
February 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Absolutely obsessed by the way that these fungi in the nature reserve were following the root away from the tree. The wild world is incredible. #nature #fungi #mycellium
February 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Thinking about energy in ecosytems and how it may inform things that we do in our lives.

#permaculturedesign #systemsthinking #permaculture #designtools #community

mudandculture.substack.com/p/catch-and-...
Catch and Store Energy
Looking to the energy of ecosytems
mudandculture.substack.com
February 22, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Update on the blue Victorian poison bottle. When I cleaned it the powder in it (which I thought was soil) turned the water bright blue. What might it be? #localhistory #archaeology #industrialarchaeology
February 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Reposted by Liz Postlethwaite
Degrowth is more than just an academic discipline. It is a convivial movement with care at its centre, based on values such as solidarity and justice, and on a commitment to transforming the world in a way that respects people and nature. Yet like all communities, degrowth consists of people.
Harm in the degrowth movement: a call to action
While degrowth aims to be a convivial movement with care, justice and solidarity at its centre, it is not immune to conflicts and abuses. This article reflects on the different ways the degrowth movem...
degrowth.info
February 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Beautiful irises in our garden today. They are a fleeting feature, but whilst they are here they are pure perfection.
February 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Great bottles from the bottle dump today. 1950s Brylcreme pot and Georgian or Victorian poison bottle. The poison bottle was full of purple powder. Dread to think what that was. #localhistory #archaeology #naturereserve #postindustrial
February 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Reposted by Liz Postlethwaite
Reeves consulting "Abrdn, BlackRock, Citi, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and Schroders".

When will she talk to representatives of pensioners, children, "left behind" communities?

#democracy - it would be a good idea
news.sky.com/story/reeves...
Reeves' hunt for growth sparks summit with top investment bankers
Executives from companies including BlackRock, Goldman Sachs and Schroders will meet the chancellor on Wednesday as she seeks industry ideas to kickstart growth in Britain's economy, Sky News learns.
news.sky.com
February 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Working in the nature reserve today. Same way as we have done most Wednesdays for eight years. What a joy to connect to one place and build relationship over a long period of time.
February 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
If you have one book or story that you always pass on to other folk which one is it? This is mine at the moment. Have already "gifted" it to multiple people this week. And now to you. archive.org/details/the-...
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (Audio) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is an audio reading of The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K Le Guin, narrated by mycelia. This essay critiques the dominating stories of spears...
archive.org
February 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
February 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Times are bleak, it’s true. But people are still out here doing incredible work now, when it matters most.

Activists in KY bought land slated for a new prison, and will now fill it with native plants and use it as an intertribal gathering location.
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Eastern KY activists bought land where feds wanted to build a prison
Rep. Hal Rogers has wanted another prison in eastern Kentucky for years. Local and national activists say the new land owners have better plans for Letcher County.
www.lpm.org
February 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM