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#Ōtepoti
#Aotearoa 💚🇳🇿
#seedsaving builds #resourced #community using #science
#art #meaning #purpose
Adapt #seed as #climate changes #seedlibraries
#occupationaltherapy trained
#Savesharegrow
CerebralPalsy
MECFS
Inclusive af
people who own homes, people who use wheelchairs, people who do ballet, gymnastics, who use permaculture, no dig, food forests, container gardening, indoor tomato/capsicum conservatories, and so many more, and it's just, we gotta shout out this cool stuff, right?
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people who own homes, people who use wheelchairs, people who do ballet, gymnastics, who use permaculture, no dig, food forests, container gardening, indoor tomato/capsicum conservatories, and so many more, and it's just, we gotta shout out this cool stuff, right?
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purposeful, meaningful wee bits here and there to network, to share, to resource our communities. We have people who use benefits, people who live off grid, people who work at uni, on council, in the library, people who rent,
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purposeful, meaningful wee bits here and there to network, to share, to resource our communities. We have people who use benefits, people who live off grid, people who work at uni, on council, in the library, people who rent,
Its Big Rock Primary Schools seed library being tied up with flax during the high winds to protect seed, and Bert's Artichoke Seeds being shared in the Waldronville seed library. And its no one persons effort, its just lots of us doing these little,
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Its Big Rock Primary Schools seed library being tied up with flax during the high winds to protect seed, and Bert's Artichoke Seeds being shared in the Waldronville seed library. And its no one persons effort, its just lots of us doing these little,
Its a wheelchair accessible garden being used to grow out silverbeet seed. It's Andrew and all his amazing musical theory knowledge, sharing bamboo to stake mine and others' heritage tomatoes. It's Steph loading my laundry up with bags of jars for bean storage.
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Its a wheelchair accessible garden being used to grow out silverbeet seed. It's Andrew and all his amazing musical theory knowledge, sharing bamboo to stake mine and others' heritage tomatoes. It's Steph loading my laundry up with bags of jars for bean storage.
there are too many things I wish I had capacity to support, theres so much needing to be said to fight for equity, access, democracy, honest representation.
But theres this, and it gives me so much optimism and hope. And its just this wee networking around the community.
But theres this, and it gives me so much optimism and hope. And its just this wee networking around the community.
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there are too many things I wish I had capacity to support, theres so much needing to be said to fight for equity, access, democracy, honest representation.
But theres this, and it gives me so much optimism and hope. And its just this wee networking around the community.
But theres this, and it gives me so much optimism and hope. And its just this wee networking around the community.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I do truly appreciate it. I have a picnic table full of plants that ive just been giving to whoever shows up with seeds or whathaveyou, but if i can stock the stall knowing it wont all just get taken for nothing, it means the picnic table can be cleared more frequently!
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I do truly appreciate it. I have a picnic table full of plants that ive just been giving to whoever shows up with seeds or whathaveyou, but if i can stock the stall knowing it wont all just get taken for nothing, it means the picnic table can be cleared more frequently!
If youre able to make a koha for seedlings and plants from the stall, please leave either in the letterbox, or inside the front door. Most stuff has been going lately for no koha, but it is quite a bit of work to maintain, so if you can afford a donation,
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
If youre able to make a koha for seedlings and plants from the stall, please leave either in the letterbox, or inside the front door. Most stuff has been going lately for no koha, but it is quite a bit of work to maintain, so if you can afford a donation,
have reported back that it is very high quality. (Sue is someone who's gardening knowledge I value immensely). Bags of this manure is on the stall are $5 and that money goes straight back to the team who are bagging this up as part of a their vocational program around skill development.
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
have reported back that it is very high quality. (Sue is someone who's gardening knowledge I value immensely). Bags of this manure is on the stall are $5 and that money goes straight back to the team who are bagging this up as part of a their vocational program around skill development.
There are still bags of manure and I spoke with both Caroline, who confirmed that the manure is actually horse AND donkey manure, and Sue from the Dunedin Veg Growers club and Musselburgh community garden, who assures me some 'highly regarded' local, seasoned gardeners
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
There are still bags of manure and I spoke with both Caroline, who confirmed that the manure is actually horse AND donkey manure, and Sue from the Dunedin Veg Growers club and Musselburgh community garden, who assures me some 'highly regarded' local, seasoned gardeners
this (and all artistic, creative, scientific knowledge). Andrew has shared a piece also, called the Radish and the Shoe. This is a really cool listen, I've shared it with the kids, and sharing it here, and i'll add a photo of the Tokinashi Daikon radish as an accompaniment for this wee story.
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
this (and all artistic, creative, scientific knowledge). Andrew has shared a piece also, called the Radish and the Shoe. This is a really cool listen, I've shared it with the kids, and sharing it here, and i'll add a photo of the Tokinashi Daikon radish as an accompaniment for this wee story.
For civilization to develop, to have knowledge, skill, time and resources to be able to devote to musical notation, is such a huge part of our shared story, and again, saving and sharing seeds contributed to enabling
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
For civilization to develop, to have knowledge, skill, time and resources to be able to devote to musical notation, is such a huge part of our shared story, and again, saving and sharing seeds contributed to enabling
I'm not suggesting this is where music began; music instruments made of bone date back as far as 60 000 years in Slovenia. Song would have been used to share ideas, to pass on knowledge, perhaps even when to sow, when to harvest, how to store.
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I'm not suggesting this is where music began; music instruments made of bone date back as far as 60 000 years in Slovenia. Song would have been used to share ideas, to pass on knowledge, perhaps even when to sow, when to harvest, how to store.
We did the same with wheat. And eventually all of our produce. Once we settled and less time was required to spend on hunting/gathering, this made time for the development of culture, of things that began to coalesce into what we now consider integral aspects of being human.
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
We did the same with wheat. And eventually all of our produce. Once we settled and less time was required to spend on hunting/gathering, this made time for the development of culture, of things that began to coalesce into what we now consider integral aspects of being human.
with the development of the skill of seedsaving, we humans began to settle permanently, we began to farm, adapt seed, select for advantageous traits. And this led us to select and adapt corn (as we know its today), from a much less familiar teosite, a grass.
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
with the development of the skill of seedsaving, we humans began to settle permanently, we began to farm, adapt seed, select for advantageous traits. And this led us to select and adapt corn (as we know its today), from a much less familiar teosite, a grass.
Whilst chattng with Andrew, a Fellow in the music dept at Otago Uni, mentioned one of the first things he introduces to students at the start of the course, is when some the earliest music notation developed. Of course, it had me thinking of how the advent of the agricultural revolution,
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Whilst chattng with Andrew, a Fellow in the music dept at Otago Uni, mentioned one of the first things he introduces to students at the start of the course, is when some the earliest music notation developed. Of course, it had me thinking of how the advent of the agricultural revolution,
This is where all individuals of specific species of bamboo across a large area, flower simultaneously, after a very prolonged period of non-flowering, perhaps even after 100, 130 years. A variant of a mast year specific to bamboo).
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This is where all individuals of specific species of bamboo across a large area, flower simultaneously, after a very prolonged period of non-flowering, perhaps even after 100, 130 years. A variant of a mast year specific to bamboo).
Thank you to Andrew, who I met today to pick up some bamboo stakes (and have spent some of the afternoon since learning about the gregarious flowering of bamboo.
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Thank you to Andrew, who I met today to pick up some bamboo stakes (and have spent some of the afternoon since learning about the gregarious flowering of bamboo.
A preemptive thank you to Karen, who messaged to say shes dropping over some tomatoes tomorrow, and these will be drip-fed onto the stall, so that everyone gets a chance at them.
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
A preemptive thank you to Karen, who messaged to say shes dropping over some tomatoes tomorrow, and these will be drip-fed onto the stall, so that everyone gets a chance at them.
that can have really meaningful consequences, in this care, theres going to be a heck of a lot of Fordhook silverbeet seed, alongside some Rainbow silverbeet seed thats growing out here, and then theres a few of us isolating some yellow silverbeet that will set seed at some point, too.
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
that can have really meaningful consequences, in this care, theres going to be a heck of a lot of Fordhook silverbeet seed, alongside some Rainbow silverbeet seed thats growing out here, and then theres a few of us isolating some yellow silverbeet that will set seed at some point, too.
This is what community seedsaving can look like and its just ... I find it really inspiring. With everything thats going on in the world at any one time, it is these little actions, (in some cases, actions of letting things go because we havent had time to get into the garden),
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This is what community seedsaving can look like and its just ... I find it really inspiring. With everything thats going on in the world at any one time, it is these little actions, (in some cases, actions of letting things go because we havent had time to get into the garden),
Silverbeet goes to seed in its second warm season, and 20 plants flowering together gives the opportunity for enough cross pollination to ensure enough genetic diversity is carried over into the next generation, providing strong g healthy plants.
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Silverbeet goes to seed in its second warm season, and 20 plants flowering together gives the opportunity for enough cross pollination to ensure enough genetic diversity is carried over into the next generation, providing strong g healthy plants.
Thank you to Alana, who has shared some Spaghetti squash, and watermelon seeds. She has also shared a photo of her Fordhook Silverbeet patch, which she allows to self seed to keep producing silverbeet.
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Thank you to Alana, who has shared some Spaghetti squash, and watermelon seeds. She has also shared a photo of her Fordhook Silverbeet patch, which she allows to self seed to keep producing silverbeet.