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#ClimateDiary Wishing everyone here all the very best for 2025.
2024 has been a terrifying combination of catastrophic climate events on a level somehow not quite anticipated yet (by me at least); more and more science showing that past models may have been too cautious; and what feels political deprioritising of climate action across the world.
Not too optmistic right now that
2025 will be different; NYE itself part of this climate impacted reality! BUT 1/2
2/2 But I AM optimistic about community and strength in the growing realisation that #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateCollapse is happening right now and that this is where we need to act from; that we still have each other, and this is not nothing.
I love the community we have here on #ClimateDiary. And I will be doing the #SurvivingTheFuture module with @DarkOptimism
this spring. Very much looking forward to it!
@pvonhellermannn @DarkOptimism hi Pauline,
I am trying to expand my food security project. https://mastodon.world/@jblue/113687402204283339
I hope to create a network of ppl who spread info, seeds and rooted cuttings of climate change resistant plants.
This year I want to send out red hybrid jaboticaba seeds, rooted cuttings of sissoo spinach and Physalis grisea seeds (in native range).
I’m having trouble with engagement. Do you have suggestions?
Garden @jblue @pvonhellermannn @DarkOptimism
An issue that would affect me is that I doubt it would be possible to send any plant materials between the EU and USA without extensive bureaucracy, mainly due to the EUs phytosanitary regulations. Packets WILL be opened, and plant materials disposed of. If you're a big commercial org, of course this could be taken care of but I dont know for this scale of idea.
Recommendations for stuff to source within the EU, are of course a different matter,and I'm looking out for them.
An unrelated issue: I've been on the look out for those with experience and interest in /experimental/ food growing since I've been on Masto, searching hastags etc., and there doesn't seem to be a great number of us. Plenty of photographers of plants but not so many growers, and those spread around the continents and climates, and tending towards urban and balcony.
I'll make a post or do another article about what I'm up to on the land when I feel I've got something more to show. I've only been at the site I'm on now since spring 2023, when it was a tangle of 6 metre high bramble, gorse, broom and burned and fallen tree-trunks from the mega wild-fires of 2017.