#foursisters — Public Fediverse posts
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I'm starting to feel that harvest/waning season energy. As I wandered through all the gardens today, I pulled out plants that weren't doing great, removed invasive vines from the budding food forest, uprooted cosmos plants that would never produce flowers (seeds were too old), thinned out the cornflower plants (the bees love them, but they can get out of control -- they are considered "naturalized" instead of "invasive" but still), and as I expand my wildflower garden, I'll be planting more #NativeWildflowers, not just the showy ones (I scattered some white and red clover seeds today). I'm quite pleased to see the #FourSisters garden thriving -- good soil (lots of compost), and leaving some groundcover (wild strawberries and clover) really helped to keep things together. A third corn stalk tasseled out today as well.
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One of my bumblebee friends was sampling the #HopiBlackDyeSunflower the other day. There is only one in bloom at the moment, but #Sunflowers can self-pollinate!
#SolarPunkSunday #HeirloomPlants #GardeningForPollinators #HomeGardens #FourSisters #Bumblebees #Bloomscrolling
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One of the corn stalks has tassels, and another one is just about to tassel out, so I'm hoping there's some pollination happening between the #HopiBlueCorn plants, some of which have #CaveBeans climbing them. One of the BlackDyeSunflowers is also about to bloom, and hopefully their neighbors will as well. And, there's an itty bitty summer squash that's forming! Yay!
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I want to say that this will be the weekend I finish planting the #FourSisters garden. The squash got a little beaten up from the rain (but I have more to plant), but the Hopi Blue corn is still there! The Sweet Potato plant might have to go though. We'll see...The container potatoes greening out, and I just picked up more seed onions for containers as well. The Community Gardeners are into doing a plant swap -- it will be nice to share with others. Our 3-season porch is pretty much a greenhouse, and I'd like to turn it back into a library again (with a few hanging plants).
'Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, deerit nihil."
"If you have a garden and a library, you will need nothing else." - Marcus Tullius #Cicero (my translation).
#SolarPunkSunday #CommunityGardens #LibraryGardens #AmGrowing #BuildingCommunity #GrowYourOwn
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Celebrating the small victories today, on this gorgeous #Beltaine. I heard ONE gunshot this week (and it might have been an echo from across the river), and that was it, which means the "No Hunting" sign is proving to be a deterrent. Also, the new fencing seems to be working around my home garden... Squash plants are still there!
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First two #HopiBlueCorn sprouties have appeared! (I started them in sterile medium to get a head start). Just planted four more today. A few #ButternutSquash and #Sunflower seedlings are almost ready to go outside. Working on sprouting some #CaveBeans as well. #FourSisters are happening this year!
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RE: https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/114490117957652083
So, I'm going with the #Hidatsa garden design for my vegetable garden. I have just the right amount of room to pull it off, and I have fencing that will support the squash.
#SolarPunkSunday #ThreeSisters #FourSisters #TraditionalGardening
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Sowing #Sovereignty: Reclaiming Indigenous Agriculture in #NorthDakota
By Tracy L. Barnett Posted in Agriculture, Indigenous Peoples, United States on June 10, 2024
"The #FourSisters: Nurturing a time of plenty
"For the #Mandan, #Hidatsa and #Arikara people, seeds are even more than miraculous kernels of life. They are relatives and storehouses of ancestral memory, linked back to a time of abundance connected to the land. That is why the seed sovereignty project generates so much excitement throughout the community. Last month, the program’s first Food and Seed Summit drew around 100 enthusiastic participants.
"The college’s food sovereignty effort aims to help reverse the cultural loss from the MHA Nation’s 1940s dislocation by flooding from the massive Garrison Dam. The seed sovereignty project engages faculty and community members, elders and USDA researchers to cultivate food security in the Three Affiliated Tribes.
"Like others from her community, Plenty Sweetgrass-She Kills grew up hearing the stories about a time of bounty, when the Three Affiliated Tribes farmed the rich bottomlands of the Missouri River. They grew nearly everything they needed in a tight-knit network of communities where work was shared and abundance existed for all.
"The stories were all that remained from those days – and the seeds.
" 'We had a lot of independence, even up to the 1940s,' Plenty Sweetgrass-She Kills told Buffalo’s Fire. 'Then, with the Garrison Dam, that had some devastating impacts in terms of our ability to grow our #TraditionalFoods.' "
#EsperanzaProject #SolarPunkSunday
#IndigenousFoodSovereignty
#TraditionalFoods #FoodSovereignty #Foodsecurity #IndigenousAgriculture -
The #FourSisters: Nurturing a time of plenty
"For the #Mandan, #Hidatsa and #Arikara people, seeds are even more than miraculous kernels of life. They are relatives and storehouses of ancestral memory, linked back to a time of abundance connected to the land. That is why the seed sovereignty project generates so much excitement throughout the community. Last month, the program’s first Food and Seed Summit drew around 100 enthusiastic participants.
"The college’s #FoodSovereignty effort aims to help reverse the cultural loss from the MHA Nation’s 1940s dislocation by flooding from the massive Garrison Dam. The seed sovereignty project engages faculty and community members, elders and USDA researchers to cultivate food security in the Three Affiliated Tribes.
Sowing #Sovereignty: Reclaiming #IndigenousAgriculture in #NorthDakota
By Tracy L. Barnett, June 10, 2024
Excerpt:
"Like others from her community, Plenty Sweetgrass-She Kills grew up hearing the stories about a time of bounty, when the Three Affiliated Tribes farmed the rich bottomlands of the Missouri River. They grew nearly everything they needed in a tight-knit network of communities where work was shared and abundance existed for all."The stories were all that remained from those days – and the seeds.
" 'We had a lot of independence, even up to the 1940s,' Plenty Sweetgrass-She Kills told Buffalo’s Fire. 'Then, with the Garrison Dam, that had some devastating impacts in terms of our ability to grow our #TraditionalFoods.' "
#SolarPunkSunday #FoodSecurity #FoodSovereignty #SeedSharing #NativeAmericanFoods #BuildingCommunity