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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱

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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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WIRED @wired.com · 1d

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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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 7d

Inspiring!

Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 11d

Love that happy pup face

Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 11d

V cool

Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 11d

Oh wow!

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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 11d

Gorgeous!

Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 14d

Agree!

Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 14d

🌱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.

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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 16d

🌱 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.

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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 14d

A lovely place to sit and absorb some goodness.

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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 14d

🌱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.

Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 16d

🌱 Sun has not reached my cradle, therefore I do not have to get up
yet!

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Quasi Hatrack @quasihatrack.bsky.social · 17d

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

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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 16d

Luminous !

Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 16d

Happy!

Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 16d

What a great picture!

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Reuters @reuters.com · 17d

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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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 17d

Wow, 10-12 in”! I have some work to do, thanks!

Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 17d

Thanks for the tip! I haven’t tried no dig before so any advice is helpful. It’s so much smarter not to disturb the soil ecosystem… still learning! Also had to dig 8” down for a rain garden I installed this spring on the opposite side of this. No dig very attractive idea after that job!

Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 17d

🌱 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.

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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 17d

🌱 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!

Butternut squash, we hope, ripening safely.

Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 17d

Oh no, so sorry. That’s a tough injury for a kid.

Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 23d

🌱 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.

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Karin Wanderer @karinwanderer.bsky.social · 23d

T is for… #Trees 💚🌱
Or maybe T is for Treasure? There has to be treasure buried here... Right?
Join us for #ArtABCs; No AI, Yes alt text, CW as needed

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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.

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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 23d

Looks so peaceful!

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