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The Global Plant Council

Triggering parasitic plant ‘suicide’ to help farmers

Parasitic weeds devastate crops in food-insecure regions by hijacking plant signals. Scientists have found a way to trick these weeds into germinating when no host is present, causing them to die. Using engineered microbes, they’re producing key plant hormones to potentially turn this natural system into a powerful defense.

globalplantcouncil.org/trigger via UCRiverside #PlantScience #Science #Plants #Weeds #Food #foodsecurity

Image: UCR student Annalise Kane, co-first author of the study. Credit: Claudia Sepulveda/UCR
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Headlines Africa

Africa: Hooves Vs. Habitats - Striking a Sustainable Balance Between Livestock and the Environment Is Crucial to Africa's Future: [IPS] Dakar, Senegal -- In my country, Senegal, almost 70 percent of our land is used to graze livestock. Here and across Africa, pastoralists and livestock keepers sustain herding systems which are closely bound up with our landscapes and crucial to… newsfeed.facilit8.network/TKGy #SustainableAgriculture #LivestockManagement #FoodSecurity #EcologicalBalance #Pastoralism

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DoomsdaysCW

A '#PotagerGarden' Is Perfect for Anyone Who Wants to Start Growing Their Own Food

Calling all green-thumbed cooks!

By Laura Fenton, April 17, 2025

Excerpt (I LOVE this idea and have used it):

Incorporate Decorative Garden Structures

"Potager gardens often include decorative vertical elements like trellises and tuteurs. 'I replaced all my boring metal tomato cages with willow pyramids, and I love adding trellises for vertical climbers like sweet peas and cucumbers,' says Poshusta. Likewise, decorative cloches can add that vertical element and protect your crops from nibbling animals. Gardner has an arbor with climbing roses that defines the entry to her potager."

realsimple.com/potager-garden-

Real SimpleThis French-Style Gardening Method Makes It So Easy to Grow Your Own Food for CookingA potager garden, also called a kitchen garden, is a beautifully designed garden that features a mix of vegetables and herbs you can grab as ingredients for your cooking. Here, we asked experts how to create one at home.
#Gardening#SolarPunkSunday#FoodGardens
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Tinker ☀️

Oh shit. Gonna build a lettuce wall.

Can't stop. Won't stop.

Design Goals
- Low effort / passive / automated (After initial build, only requires 30 mins of work a week to maintain)
- "Inexpensive" (measured in how quickly it pays for itself compared to shopping at grocery store)
- Small footprint for indoor spaces (uses vertical space as opposed to horizontal space)
- ADHD friendly (you dont have to keep monitoring it. Set and forget)
- Provides entire personal need of leafy greens in continuous fashion
- Provides excess of personal needs in order to continuously share freely with neighbors

(Follow this thread in the coming months to watch the buildout. I'll post design theory and application along. It'll be vendor/brand agnostic. And I'll post up methods to tailor it to your space.)

(Photo below of prototype. It works! Time to scale it.)

Photo of leaf shelf with three bins hosting 15 plants. 5 each of butterhead, goldrush, and arugula). The heads of lettuce fill the space and fall over the sides of the bins showing bounty.
#solarPunk#indoorGardening#verticalFarming
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Miss Gayle

"Eco-localists argue that globalization is authoritarian by nature: increasingly, multinational corporations rule the world. Individuals and communities are powerless by comparison."

Or are we? Maybe the only winning move is not to play - to instead embrace relocalization and degrowth, not more and more surrender to predatory capitalism and profiteering off our food and other necessities of life.

Link: resilience.org/stories/2025-04

How Eco-Localism Differs from Tariff Terrorism Richard Heinberg, originally published by Resilience.org April 17, 2025 As soaring consumer prices, supply chain disruptions, and reductions in government-provided funding and services threaten communities, localists can help bolster local markets and inspire mutual aid efforts, helping mobilize folks to take more responsibility for their own collective resilience and well-being. Side by side images of a farmer's market on the left, vs an industrial silo pouring items into a train car, c/o Adobe Stock. "society and nature are losers when globalization worsens inequality while speeding up depletion and pollution. Global economic inequality declined during some decades of the 20th century, but it did so mainly because of the Great Depression and two World Wars. Otherwise, the last century saw a relentlessly widening gap between rich and poor—a trend that has accelerated in the past two decades, not just in the US, but in China, India, and elsewhere. Indigenous cultures in less-industrialized nations are hardest hit, as globalization uproots people from traditional village life, thrusting them into cities and factories. Meanwhile, forests disappear, carbon accumulates in the atmosphere, wild creatures vanish, and floods and fires devastate more communities."
#Community#Sustainability#Localization
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Mr.Pollution

What is the rubric of Global Warming? A tool to evaluate the environmental impact

Participate in Gringud.com to study the impact of climate change on global food systems and the importance of sustainable agricultural practices. ?? #FoodSecurity #SustainableAg

ibizaund.wordpress.com/2025/04

ECOBLOG · What is the rubric of Global Warming? A tool to evaluate the environmental impact
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Tinker ☀️

Massive Update on the Food Rescue front!!!

We worked out the contract issues with Food Rescue US (FRUS - foodrescue.us)and we just signed the contract!

We can now begin the rescue efforts in earnest!!!

This is MASSIVE!!!

This initiative started last November,, and while it's had a couple of obstacles, five months from conception to group formation to joining with a national org isn't that long.

We're also going to be joining Food Rescue Alliance (FRA - boulderfoodrescue.org/food-res). They're a US based national "mutual aid of mutual aids" sort of thing. So we can join other food rescue groups and learn from each other.

I'd like to see if there's a state group to join as well. If not, I'd like to start one up. A lot of laws and regulations are state based and learning from other groups in our state would be amazing.

Soooo!!!!

Expect some more updates in the coming weeks.

I'm so excited!!!!

Food Rescue US volunteers pose with boxes of produce in Washington, DC
Food Rescue US · Home | Food Rescue USFood Rescue US engages volunteers to transfer fresh food surpluses from local businesses to social service agencies serving the food insecure
#solarPunk#mutualAid#foodRescue
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