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Lord Gid
@gidlord.bsky.social
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At work in the ruins. Permaculturer. Land worker. Forest denizen. BSc Ecology.
👉🏼Grow food, repair soil, smash capitalism.
Also party creator & disc jockier. Probably not a lord.
🌱 earthedup.com
🥒 pingleproduce.co.uk
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Autumn perennial veg action... This row of Taunton Deane kale was only planted from cuttings in spring & it's already kicking out crates of food. Meanwhile a first go with nashua creates a mound of edible vines & now flowers as well, with the tuber harvest still to come...
#permaculture
Close up of a curled, fleshy green Taunton Deane perennial kaie leaf cradling two large drops of rain that glow with refracted light under a grey autumn sky. A double row of thickly leafed, bushy Taunton Deane perennial kale plants about one metre tall stretches 25 metres from the left of the shot into the distance. Bare autumnal trees and shrubs, Derbyshire Dales hills and grey misty sky lie beyond. A small, vibrant red trumpet flower edged with orange contrasts with lobed, dish shaped deep green leaves on a mashua vine. A person in a yellow hi vis jacket stands next to a great tumbling mound of mashua with its layers of oval lobed leaves. A small white and grey whippet runs out of the right of the shot. Two poly tunnels with high bare hedge behind form the backdrop.
November 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Borrowed some winter reading. Time to go deep...
- titles and authors are all in the alt text -
#permaculture
#forestgardening
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Photo of seven books: Introduction to PERMACULTURE Bill Mollison with Reny Mia Slay How To Make A FOREST GARDEN Patrick Whitefield GAIA'S GARDEN - A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture Toby Hemenway The Vegan Book of Permaculture Graham Burnett WILL BONSALL ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening A Food Forest in your Garden Plan it - Grow it - Cook it Alan Carter The garden of equal delights - the practice and principles of forest gardening Anni Kelsey
November 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Lotta people feel comfortable mouthing off about those committing or suffering genocide without ever systematically obliterating an entire people or being starved, shot and blown to literal pieces...
Screenshot of a post by Eric Michael Garcia which reads: Lotta people feel comfortable mouthing off about Israelis or Palestinians without ever meeting either one of them, sharing a meal with them or talking about their daily experiences.
October 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Even (excellent) climate collapse rabble rousers & warning shouters @weareyellowdot.bsky.social have done it, and then shown a distinct failure to understand the ethical issues at stake in their replies to the many negative comments.
Screenshot of an Instagram post from Yellow Dot Studios of an AI generated action figure of "Evil CEO" Darren Woods, CEO of ExxobMobil.
May 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Fight for your rights (to fuck it all off and stay in bed).

#restisresistance
My hand holding a small blue booklet in front of plants growing over a wall. In very light blue the cover reads: THE ABOLITION OF WORK by Bob Black with an image of someone asleep in bed.
May 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Not had much time to post. Meanwhile, in the propagation tunnel...

(This is at the Earthed Up! nursery and these are all perennial vegetables & other useful plants. If you want to see this craziness irl then we're open Fri & Sat, 10 til 2. Link in reply below.)

#permaculture
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A view inside the small propagation poly tunnel at Earthed Up agroecological nursery. It is absolutely packed with seedlings and plants on potting benches and blue crates filling most of the spare floor space.
April 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Time for a cup of tea and a spot of Biocentric Anarchy!

#permaculture
#anarchism
My hand holds a small, slim book entitled "Biocentric Anarchy" in the sun with plants and pots out of focus behind. The cover is matte black with an ornate white engraving of what may be a sea urchin below the title.
April 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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This week's new species sighting at The Pingle #organic smallholding: lots of these #dragonfly nymphs. Will be a common UK one - not sure which! The pond is teaming tho. Need to do a proper species count. Bonus water measurer at the end (easy to miss surface walker).
#britshwildlife
A dragonfly nymph sitting on black rubber. It is chunky, with stuff legs, a dark olive green with an oval, blade shaped abdomen and an angular head. A zoomed out version of the previous photo showing the nymph to scale with my finger - it is about 3 centimetres long. The nymph on my hand in bright sunlight. A close up of the pond surface. Individual circular leaves of duckweed dot the surface. Looking closely a long thin, sex legged insect is standing on the top of the water.
April 3, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Managed to catch the weekend when the last of the swathes of native daffodils cross over with the first bluebells which was pretty special. One for #wildflowerhour (with apologies to @wildflowerhour.bsky.social for the lack of sepals 🙂)
A native daffodil flower in bright sunshine. Sux light yellow petals ring a bright yellow central trumpet. The backdrop of bluebells and green foliage is focus behind it. A wide are of open woodland floor in bright sunshine is covered in a mass of long thin leaves and dotted with yellow native daffodil flowers. Looking along a wide open path through open, spring woodland. A black, grey and white border collie is on the path looking into the distance. Between the bare tree trunks is low green foliage dotted with yellow flowers. Another version of the first shot. The native daffodil flower in front is out of focus, the stem of deep purple-tinged bluebells behind it is now highlighted.
March 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Our biochar kiln just after quenching (we're in a client's garden using waste wood from their trees etc).
A man in a blue t-shirt and light blue cap is turning over charcoal in a large square metal bowl on a stand. He is surrounded by lawn and hedges.
March 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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In the woods, hanging with my best buds.

#britishwildlife
#botany
#wildflowerhour
Golden brown, pointed leaf buds on the end of an English Oak branch contrast with the grey bark. Close up of a just bursting hazel bud. The luminous green, drooping leaves are just breaking through the red-brown protective layer. Woodland and blue sky are visible behind. The end of an ash branch in full flower. The solid closed flowers are burnt orange and purple with some opening into fronds of pale green. It looks more like a coral than a plant. A hawthorn bud just caught in the moment of bursting. The delicate emerging leaves are the brightest, most vibrant green as they catch the sun.
March 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Maybe you need a quick look at the Earthed Up! agroecological plant nursery in the spring sunshine?
This is my first spring here & I am finally in the right place.

Alt for info.
earthedup.com if you're curious.

🌱 #permaculture
A close up of plants with rosettes of bright green, lightly serrated leaves. A hand written sign in one of the says Buck's horn plantain £5. A view from the top of the Earthed Up nursery. It is a narrow cottage garden with dry stone walls, hills of Derbyshire and fluffy clouds in blue sky beyond. In the foreground the stock plant garden is a square of four triangular beds filled with edible and useful plants. Two small poly tunnels are behind. A view up the nursery from between the two poly tunnels. Bright blue sky. Plants for sale are in pots on pallets wtf fresh woodchip paths between, a row of compost bins are against the left hand wall. Looking down on plants in pots in the sunshine. They are 'Profusion' sorrel with oval, fleshy leaves. A handwritten sign stuck in a pot says NO PEAT in all caps.
March 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Project: Kale Forest is GO. A year ago I wasn't a horticulturist or land worker. Now I can say: let's go BIG on perennial kale, take the cuttings (last Nov), pot them & now here are beds cleared & mulched by volunteers & 50 plants in the ground. I like this kind of "progress".
#permaculture
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Two Taunton Dean perennial kale plants about a foot tall and with large leaves are silhouetted under fine transparent mesh. Beyond are trees and a bright, sunny sky. A view looking down the white mesh tunnel. Several of the perennial kale plants are visible in a row surrounded by composted manure from an organic farm. Looking at two long rows covered in white mesh tunnels about 2 feet high. These are to protect the young kale plants from pheasants and pigeons. Beyond more of the Pingle smallholding is visible - willow coppice just showing bright green shoots, rows of plants, a poly tunnel and the Derbyshire Dales beyond.
March 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Poly tunnel newt!
A first sighting for a smooth newt up at The Pingle organic smallholding - it was very happy under a clump of Claytonia in a salad bed in the tunnel. Seeing such clear (& such cute) proof of increasing biodiversity here makes all the hard work all worthwhile 🙂
#permaculture
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A young as smooth newt sits on a black rubber glove. It is maybe 3 inches long, golden brown with a darker lateral stripe and a dark brown eye. A zoomed out view of the newt showing how small it is in relation to the glove.
March 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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You get an idea of how ignorant & privileged the decision to end Agroforestry Research Trust's lease is from the fact that Dartington posted a shot of their head gardener literally planting a tree on Instagram 4 days ago 😒

Anyway, I fixed it for them...

#agroforestry
#permaculture
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A man stands looking pleased by a tree sapling he's just planted in a barren grass paddock. The photo has been edited so he's now leaning on a tombstone that says Agroforestry Research Trust on it. The original version of the previous photo.
March 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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You get an idea of how ignorant & privileged the decision is from the fact that they posted a shot of their head gardener literally planting a tree 4 days ago 😒

Anyway, I fixed it for them...
A middle-aged white man stands by a tree sapling he's just planted in a barren grass paddock. The photo has been edited so he's now leaning on a tombstone that says Agroforestry Research Trust on it. The original version of the previous photo.
March 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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#signsofspring but also... signs of breakfast! 😋😋
#foraging
#foodforfree
Morning sun through the translucent light green fresh leaves and buds of hawthorn.
March 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Because I'm hip & know where it's at I hang out with keystone species!

I've mapped most of the wood ant nests in our local woods. They're just waking up but this one is already a frenzy of activity thanks to the particularly sunny location.
"Seething" seems appropriate.

#britishwildlife
March 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Work outdoors they said! It'll be nice they said!
While continuing the refurbishment of the top tunnel at The Pingle yesterday we had, at various points:
sleet
warm sunshine
snow
hail
heavy rain
😬

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#permaculture
A large poly tunnel with no plastic skin on it so the frame is visible. It contains partially planted rows of plants. The sky above is grey and moody and although it's hard to see, it's actually hailing. My hand in a red work glove is giving an ironic thumbs up.
March 13, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Also made a flyer for our next night at the Feather Star in Wirksworth. I say "made" but actually I just shoddily added new info to the flyer I recycled last time we did a Pub of Dub. Saving energy by being lazy af 😋. Anyway, if you like #dub & you're in the Midlands you should come.
Alt for info.
A club flyer with cartoon speaker cone. Text reads: Stranger Tractor Presents PUB OF DUB The Return Again Saturday 22 Mar 7 til late The Feather Star, Wirksworth
March 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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First day not in a garden for a week. On the train re-reading & making notes on this vital book from @rupertread.bsky.social @mandascott.bsky.social & co. If you're ready to face what's coming, leave behind old assumptions & beliefs, & roll up your sleeves, then this may well help 💚
#permaculture
My hand holding a book with an orange cover. Text reads: Transformative Adaptation Another world is just possible. Rupert Read and Morgan Phillips with Manda Scott
March 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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First day not in a garden for a week. Re-reading & making notes on this vital book from @rupertread.bsky.social @mandascott.bsky.social & co. If you're ready to face what's coming, leave behind old assumptions & beliefs, & roll up your sleeves & crack on, then this may well help 💚
#permaculture
March 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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This is NOT a gratuitous photo of my lunch. Well, maybe it is, but the point is that I've been thinking a lot about why the limited, reductionist view that small scale food growing isn't "productive" enough to be worthwhile is so wrong, & how that feeds into how science can't save us. 1/2
My lunch outdoors in the sun while working at The Pingle organic smallholding this week. It's a bowl of thick vegetable as soup, homemade bread and the salad we'd just been picking. Also on the table are two fermented pickles that are also made here.
March 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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I feel seen.

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March 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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When working on a garden it is important to consult with ALL stakeholders.
#permaculture
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Looking down through green leaves at a corner of a pond. Among with foliage a common frog is resting in the water. A close up of the frog's head showing above the water. Skin that initially appeared to be brown, drab camouflage is revealed to be finely mottled with iridescent patterns.
March 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM