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feraluncollective.bsky.social
Feral Uncollective
@feraluncollective.bsky.social
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I contain multitudes and sort of hope to gather my thoughts in a somewhat organized fashion to make/teach some stuff in the service of environmental activism and its intersections
Based in Champaign County, IL
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feraluncollective.bsky.social
Delighted to report I found my own batch of split gill mushrooms, Schizophyllum commune, so now I can hang with the fungis 🤣

#mushrooms #splitgill #fungihumor #badpuns
Bottom view of several split gill mushrooms on either side of a decaying branch. They are tan in color with ruffled edges Top view of split gill mushrooms on a decaying branch. They are white with tan ñ, ruffled edges.
March 21, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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irishrainforest.bsky.social
Costa Rica has massively rewilded over recent decades. Has this led to the collapse of farming, rural society, or national wellbeing?

Totally the opposite, and we in Ireland have SO much to learn from their example. My piece for the @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
Learning from an awe-inspiring immense ecosystem that has returned to life
Rewilding ecologist and author Eoghan Daltun visited Costa Rica to see first-hand how the country has managed over the last 30 years to reverse one of the worst deforestation rates in all Latin Americ...
www.irishexaminer.com
March 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
feraluncollective.bsky.social
Daily posting is currently beyond me, but I’ve managed to grow this very large bay leaf and it will be a delicious addition to my next batch of bean soup.
A bay laurel leaf held in the palm of my hand. Dried zinnias from last year’s garden are in the background
March 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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badasscrossstitch.bsky.social
April 6th from 2-4 at Meeting House Tavern is our next community crafternoon! Come hang with me and @chaiwolfman.bsky.social and 40 other rad makers. Make some new friends and have a laugh. Free. 21+

www.eventbrite.com/e/1278574513...
Screen shot of the eventbrite page. Community crafternoon. April 6th.
March 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
feraluncollective.bsky.social
What is the word for the very uncomfortable realization that what I can offer some of the people I care about is not what they want from me, and what I want from them is not what they can offer.
March 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
feraluncollective.bsky.social
Day 7:

Wood Nettle
Laportea canadensis
Nettle family (Urticaceae)

These will be popping up very soon!
Wood nettle just starting to come up amongst dry grass
March 4, 2025 at 12:51 AM
feraluncollective.bsky.social
Whoops - got sick & utterly filled with despair @ the state of (waves hands) things

Day 6: Serviceberry, Amelanchier spp, Rose family (Rosaceae)

I am growing seeds from a artsy friend @hooeybatiks.bsky.social. Today’s intersectionality is that instead of the other organisms that visit this plant.
Serviceberries - red and pink, about the size of blueberries, from our tree - planted about 30 years ago. The birds also love them. Tiny plants growing in a tray in my greenhouse. Yes, it’s plastic. I will use it as long as I can, have some chill please.
March 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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papawoof.bsky.social
March 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
feraluncollective.bsky.social
30 days of native plants

Day 5: Bloodroot
Sanguinaria canadensis
Poppy family (Papaveraceae)

Bloodroot is a common plant that occurs in most counties of Illinois

#nativegarden #plantnative #savethebees
Multi-petaled white flower with a yellow center, known as bloodroot. Green leaves barely peek out, and it’s growing in bare dirt with some dried grass in the background.
February 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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piperpottery.bsky.social
Endless days of pots.

Day 23: WIP owls getting their first layer of oxide wash “See Us”

#savetheowls #wippottery #potterysky #20days20pots but like forever
A row of textured owl slab pieces with “see us” stamped on mini slabs and attached to front, coated with iron oxide before getting more glazes and getting fired again
February 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
feraluncollective.bsky.social
30 days of native plants

Day 4: Prairie Violet, Viola pedatifida, Violet family (Violaceae)
Small purple flower with striped pubescent throat peeking out of a bed of leaves with deeply lobed green leaves in the background
February 24, 2025 at 2:32 AM
feraluncollective.bsky.social
There are such strange and wonderful connections sitting right at our feet, if only we stop to notice.
📷 : mine, from a hike a bit ago

#forestlife #circleoflife #bonestory
A section of jawbone with some teeth, likely white tail deer, with tooth marks along the bottom, likely from rodents gnawing on it as a source of calcium, laying on a bed of oak, chestnut, and hickory leaves.
February 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Fired Yosemite workers unfurl distress signal.

www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...
Photos: ‘Distress flag’ towers over Yosemite to protest cuts as crowds view firefall
Saturday’s protest sought to bring attention to the thousands of federal job cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration this month.
www.sfchronicle.com
February 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
feraluncollective.bsky.social
When everything else is terrible, I still garden.
February 23, 2025 at 4:20 AM
feraluncollective.bsky.social
30
Days of Native plants
Day 3
Wild Geranium, Geranium maculatum, Geranium family (Geraniaceae)

#nativeplants #forbs4evah #plantnative #nativegarden #springiscoming #shadeplants
Small pink and purple flowers on a plant with deeply lobed leaves (they make great impressions on pottery) in front of a brick wall
February 23, 2025 at 4:18 AM
feraluncollective.bsky.social
30 days of native plants

Day 2

Mayapple, Podophyllum peltatum, Barberry family (Berberidaceae)

#woodlandplant #nativeplants #nativegarden #shadeplant
Flower of the mayapple - a white 7 petal flower that faces down from the stem, with yellow and white center. Taken in the woods outside my studio
February 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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resistrebelrevolt.net
I love this! We all make thousands of decisions in a month. If everybody changes a few of those decisions in order to boycott some corporations, that makes a dent.

We don’t need to cut out everything. We just need to work together to collectively move the needle so that they feel the burn. ✊
heykeriyawn.bsky.social Keriyawn Pepper @heykeriyawn.bsky.social · Feb 21
It’s not about perfection.

It’s death by billions of paper cuts to the billionaires.

Find what you can change. Change that. Sustain as long as you safely can. You’ll often find as you adapt, you can change even more.

Target & Insta were easy for me. Amazon is harder so I cut a bit at a time.
February 21, 2025 at 1:02 AM
feraluncollective.bsky.social
30 days of native plants

Day 1
Virginia Bluebells, Mertensia virginica, Borage family (Boraginaceae)

#nativeplants #rewild #hnp #bluebells #youbelong among the #wildflowers
Pale blue Virginia bluebells with a few pink buds still to open, on a background of a field of bluebells
February 21, 2025 at 1:05 AM
feraluncollective.bsky.social
I’m going to start posting with 30 days of native plants. I did 20 days of pottery on my other account @piperpottery.bsky.social & it was a strangely comforting ritual for the past almost 3 weeks 💚
#30days #nativeplants #rewild #sharingjoy
February 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM