#pawpaw — Public Fediverse posts

Did you know pawpaw (papaya) contains a powerful enzyme called papain? 🧬🍈 helps break down proteins in food, which is why pawpaw is sometimes used as a natural meat tenderizer 🍖✨ It also plays a role in digestion and is studied for its potential uses in medicine, skincare, and healing processes. Simple fruit; powerful chemistry inside 🌍🔬 Learn more 👇 https://www.britannica.com/science/papain #Science #Pawpaw #Papaya #Enzyme #Chemistry #DidYouKnow :::

I finally found my first Asimina Triloba (Paw Paw) flowers!

#pawpaw #nativeplants #foraging

#Agroforestry may be just what #Maine needs for agricultural growth

By Marina Schauffler
Published on: January 24, 2021

Excerpt: "Agroforestry, an age-old concept, could provide a path to Maine’s future. Part of the #RegenerativeAgriculture movement, it involves an integrated approach to cultivating #trees with #crops and – sometimes – #livestock. These diversified farm systems nourish #SoilHealth and #wildlife while offering more resilience in a warming world — locking up atmospheric carbon, absorbing floodwaters, and sheltering crops and animals from high winds and #ExtremeHeat.

" 'Diversity is really key to sustainability for small farms and the ecology of farms,' said vegetable farmer Max Boudreau of Winslow Farm in Falmouth. He sees many landowners and #homesteaders 'putting these principles into practice,' but said agroforestry is still 'a foreign concept' in farm service agencies.

"Being interdisciplinary, agroforestry challenges the siloed world of natural resource management. It is routinely ignored in college curricula and by technical service providers, said Meghan Giroux, an agroforestry researcher, technical service provider and practitioner in Vermont. Her nonprofit, #InterlaceCommons, seeks to fill that void by training farmers – including Boudreau – how to implement and maintain agroforestry practices.

"Boudreau was one of the 20 farmers selected among 92 applicants from around the Northeast for a free, agroforestry 'field consultancy' this year. Farmers are eager to learn about agroforestry’s potential to diversify income, and there’s growing consumer demand for its products – from nuts and uncommon fruits (like #honeyberry and #PawPaw) to #mushrooms and #MedicinalHerbs.

"Yet policymakers routinely tell Giroux there’s 'no interest in agroforestry,' she says. 'There’s no institutional will to move these practices forward primarily because people don’t understand them.'

"The U.S. Department of Agriculture has supported agroforestry since the 1990 Farm Bill and does exceptional research, Giroux feels, but “a knowledge-exchange issue” prevents guidance from reaching most landowners. A network of trained farmers could help support and train peers – a process that happens informally, Boudreau says, in the permaculture community, a related landscape design approach modeled after natural systems.

"Research has already demonstrated that #NoTill agriculture improves crop yields, reduces costs and improves soil health. Even more economic and environmental benefits could flow from cultivating crops in a layered, integrated mix of annuals and perennials more reminiscent of natural plant communities."

Full article:
https://themainemonitor.org/sea-change-agroforestry-may-be-just-what-maine-needs-for-agricultural-growth/

#SolarPunkSunday #NoMonoculture #Polyculture #AgroEcology #FoodForests

#Agroforestry may be just what #Maine needs for agricultural growth

By Marina Schauffler
Published on: January 24, 2021

Excerpt: "Agroforestry, an age-old concept, could provide a path to Maine’s future. Part of the #RegenerativeAgriculture movement, it involves an integrated approach to cultivating #trees with #crops and – sometimes – #livestock. These diversified farm systems nourish #SoilHealth and #wildlife while offering more resilience in a warming world — locking up atmospheric carbon, absorbing floodwaters, and sheltering crops and animals from high winds and #ExtremeHeat.

" 'Diversity is really key to sustainability for small farms and the ecology of farms,' said vegetable farmer Max Boudreau of Winslow Farm in Falmouth. He sees many landowners and #homesteaders 'putting these principles into practice,' but said agroforestry is still 'a foreign concept' in farm service agencies.

"Being interdisciplinary, agroforestry challenges the siloed world of natural resource management. It is routinely ignored in college curricula and by technical service providers, said Meghan Giroux, an agroforestry researcher, technical service provider and practitioner in Vermont. Her nonprofit, #InterlaceCommons, seeks to fill that void by training farmers – including Boudreau – how to implement and maintain agroforestry practices.

"Boudreau was one of the 20 farmers selected among 92 applicants from around the Northeast for a free, agroforestry 'field consultancy' this year. Farmers are eager to learn about agroforestry’s potential to diversify income, and there’s growing consumer demand for its products – from nuts and uncommon fruits (like #honeyberry and #PawPaw) to #mushrooms and #MedicinalHerbs.

"Yet policymakers routinely tell Giroux there’s 'no interest in agroforestry,' she says. 'There’s no institutional will to move these practices forward primarily because people don’t understand them.'

"The U.S. Department of Agriculture has supported agroforestry since the 1990 Farm Bill and does exceptional research, Giroux feels, but “a knowledge-exchange issue” prevents guidance from reaching most landowners. A network of trained farmers could help support and train peers – a process that happens informally, Boudreau says, in the permaculture community, a related landscape design approach modeled after natural systems.

"Research has already demonstrated that #NoTill agriculture improves crop yields, reduces costs and improves soil health. Even more economic and environmental benefits could flow from cultivating crops in a layered, integrated mix of annuals and perennials more reminiscent of natural plant communities."

Full article:
https://themainemonitor.org/sea-change-agroforestry-may-be-just-what-maine-needs-for-agricultural-growth/

#SolarPunkSunday #NoMonoculture #Polyculture #AgroEcology #FoodForests

#Agroforestry may be just what #Maine needs for agricultural growth

By Marina Schauffler
Published on: January 24, 2021

Excerpt: "Agroforestry, an age-old concept, could provide a path to Maine’s future. Part of the #RegenerativeAgriculture movement, it involves an integrated approach to cultivating #trees with #crops and – sometimes – #livestock. These diversified farm systems nourish #SoilHealth and #wildlife while offering more resilience in a warming world — locking up atmospheric carbon, absorbing floodwaters, and sheltering crops and animals from high winds and #ExtremeHeat.

" 'Diversity is really key to sustainability for small farms and the ecology of farms,' said vegetable farmer Max Boudreau of Winslow Farm in Falmouth. He sees many landowners and #homesteaders 'putting these principles into practice,' but said agroforestry is still 'a foreign concept' in farm service agencies.

"Being interdisciplinary, agroforestry challenges the siloed world of natural resource management. It is routinely ignored in college curricula and by technical service providers, said Meghan Giroux, an agroforestry researcher, technical service provider and practitioner in Vermont. Her nonprofit, #InterlaceCommons, seeks to fill that void by training farmers – including Boudreau – how to implement and maintain agroforestry practices.

"Boudreau was one of the 20 farmers selected among 92 applicants from around the Northeast for a free, agroforestry 'field consultancy' this year. Farmers are eager to learn about agroforestry’s potential to diversify income, and there’s growing consumer demand for its products – from nuts and uncommon fruits (like #honeyberry and #PawPaw) to #mushrooms and #MedicinalHerbs.

"Yet policymakers routinely tell Giroux there’s 'no interest in agroforestry,' she says. 'There’s no institutional will to move these practices forward primarily because people don’t understand them.'

"The U.S. Department of Agriculture has supported agroforestry since the 1990 Farm Bill and does exceptional research, Giroux feels, but “a knowledge-exchange issue” prevents guidance from reaching most landowners. A network of trained farmers could help support and train peers – a process that happens informally, Boudreau says, in the permaculture community, a related landscape design approach modeled after natural systems.

"Research has already demonstrated that #NoTill agriculture improves crop yields, reduces costs and improves soil health. Even more economic and environmental benefits could flow from cultivating crops in a layered, integrated mix of annuals and perennials more reminiscent of natural plant communities."

Full article:
https://themainemonitor.org/sea-change-agroforestry-may-be-just-what-maine-needs-for-agricultural-growth/

#SolarPunkSunday #NoMonoculture #Polyculture #AgroEcology #FoodForests

#Agroforestry may be just what #Maine needs for agricultural growth

By Marina Schauffler
Published on: January 24, 2021

Excerpt: "Agroforestry, an age-old concept, could provide a path to Maine’s future. Part of the #RegenerativeAgriculture movement, it involves an integrated approach to cultivating #trees with #crops and – sometimes – #livestock. These diversified farm systems nourish #SoilHealth and #wildlife while offering more resilience in a warming world — locking up atmospheric carbon, absorbing floodwaters, and sheltering crops and animals from high winds and #ExtremeHeat.

" 'Diversity is really key to sustainability for small farms and the ecology of farms,' said vegetable farmer Max Boudreau of Winslow Farm in Falmouth. He sees many landowners and #homesteaders 'putting these principles into practice,' but said agroforestry is still 'a foreign concept' in farm service agencies.

"Being interdisciplinary, agroforestry challenges the siloed world of natural resource management. It is routinely ignored in college curricula and by technical service providers, said Meghan Giroux, an agroforestry researcher, technical service provider and practitioner in Vermont. Her nonprofit, #InterlaceCommons, seeks to fill that void by training farmers – including Boudreau – how to implement and maintain agroforestry practices.

"Boudreau was one of the 20 farmers selected among 92 applicants from around the Northeast for a free, agroforestry 'field consultancy' this year. Farmers are eager to learn about agroforestry’s potential to diversify income, and there’s growing consumer demand for its products – from nuts and uncommon fruits (like #honeyberry and #PawPaw) to #mushrooms and #MedicinalHerbs.

"Yet policymakers routinely tell Giroux there’s 'no interest in agroforestry,' she says. 'There’s no institutional will to move these practices forward primarily because people don’t understand them.'

"The U.S. Department of Agriculture has supported agroforestry since the 1990 Farm Bill and does exceptional research, Giroux feels, but “a knowledge-exchange issue” prevents guidance from reaching most landowners. A network of trained farmers could help support and train peers – a process that happens informally, Boudreau says, in the permaculture community, a related landscape design approach modeled after natural systems.

"Research has already demonstrated that #NoTill agriculture improves crop yields, reduces costs and improves soil health. Even more economic and environmental benefits could flow from cultivating crops in a layered, integrated mix of annuals and perennials more reminiscent of natural plant communities."

Full article:
https://themainemonitor.org/sea-change-agroforestry-may-be-just-what-maine-needs-for-agricultural-growth/

#SolarPunkSunday #NoMonoculture #Polyculture #AgroEcology #FoodForests

#Agroforestry may be just what #Maine needs for agricultural growth

By Marina Schauffler
Published on: January 24, 2021

Excerpt: "Agroforestry, an age-old concept, could provide a path to Maine’s future. Part of the #RegenerativeAgriculture movement, it involves an integrated approach to cultivating #trees with #crops and – sometimes – #livestock. These diversified farm systems nourish #SoilHealth and #wildlife while offering more resilience in a warming world — locking up atmospheric carbon, absorbing floodwaters, and sheltering crops and animals from high winds and #ExtremeHeat.

" 'Diversity is really key to sustainability for small farms and the ecology of farms,' said vegetable farmer Max Boudreau of Winslow Farm in Falmouth. He sees many landowners and #homesteaders 'putting these principles into practice,' but said agroforestry is still 'a foreign concept' in farm service agencies.

"Being interdisciplinary, agroforestry challenges the siloed world of natural resource management. It is routinely ignored in college curricula and by technical service providers, said Meghan Giroux, an agroforestry researcher, technical service provider and practitioner in Vermont. Her nonprofit, #InterlaceCommons, seeks to fill that void by training farmers – including Boudreau – how to implement and maintain agroforestry practices.

"Boudreau was one of the 20 farmers selected among 92 applicants from around the Northeast for a free, agroforestry 'field consultancy' this year. Farmers are eager to learn about agroforestry’s potential to diversify income, and there’s growing consumer demand for its products – from nuts and uncommon fruits (like #honeyberry and #PawPaw) to #mushrooms and #MedicinalHerbs.

"Yet policymakers routinely tell Giroux there’s 'no interest in agroforestry,' she says. 'There’s no institutional will to move these practices forward primarily because people don’t understand them.'

"The U.S. Department of Agriculture has supported agroforestry since the 1990 Farm Bill and does exceptional research, Giroux feels, but “a knowledge-exchange issue” prevents guidance from reaching most landowners. A network of trained farmers could help support and train peers – a process that happens informally, Boudreau says, in the permaculture community, a related landscape design approach modeled after natural systems.

"Research has already demonstrated that #NoTill agriculture improves crop yields, reduces costs and improves soil health. Even more economic and environmental benefits could flow from cultivating crops in a layered, integrated mix of annuals and perennials more reminiscent of natural plant communities."

Full article:
https://themainemonitor.org/sea-change-agroforestry-may-be-just-what-maine-needs-for-agricultural-growth/

#SolarPunkSunday #NoMonoculture #Polyculture #AgroEcology #FoodForests

Hype for the Future 133K: Morgan County, West Virginia

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/hype-for-the-future-133k-morgan-county-west-virginia/

Hype for the Future 133K: Morgan County, West Virginia

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/hype-for-the-future-133k-morgan-county-west-virginia/

Hype for the Future 133K: Morgan County, West Virginia

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/hype-for-the-future-133k-morgan-county-west-virginia/

Hype for the Future 133K: Morgan County, West Virginia

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/hype-for-the-future-133k-morgan-county-west-virginia/

Hype for the Future 133K: Morgan County, West Virginia

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/hype-for-the-future-133k-morgan-county-west-virginia/

#NewZealand / #Aotearoa - The transformative power of urban #FoodForests

1 April 2025

"#IndustrialFarms depend on #FossilFuels – making them significant contributors to climate change, says University of #Auckland professional teaching fellow Daniel Kelly.

"He is researching ways to produce food without fuelling climate change, while helping grow a food forest at #PapatūānukuKōkiriMarae in #Mangere.

" 'Growing food has given me faith that humans can be a positive force for #ecological #restoration.

" 'There’s this narrative that being human means being an ecosystem destroyer, but that’s only a story about one type of human.

" 'Perhaps the biggest challenge facing us as a society is learning how to become another type of human, who cares for and enriches their place,' says Kelly, who teaches psychology and sustainability and is involved with the University’s Centre for #Climate, #Biodiversity and Society – #NgāAraWhetū.

"Kelly stumbled across gardening while flatting in his early twenties and became focussed on climate change while completing an environmental law degree.

"Now 36, he’s trying to refine the art of growing food while sequestering carbon – and tackling social inequities in the process.

"Five years ago, Kelly learned about #syntropic #agroforestry at a workshop at PermaDynamics in Northland. It’s a new technique for growing trees and food that is inspired by pre-modern farming in Europe and contemporary #Indigenous practices in #Brazil.

"#SyntropicAgroforestry is aligned with #agroecology, a political movement that aims to hand control of land and food production back into the hands of ordinary people.

Agroecology aims to address hunger, #FoodInsecurity and ultimately #Social Inequality.

"In #Aotearoa, food inequality disproportionately affects urban #Māori and Pacific people, who more often live in areas with poorer access to healthy food and are less likely to be able to afford fresh fruit and vegetables, says Kelly.

" 'That can be traced back to #colonisation and the large-scale dispossession of Māori land to support the establishment of European farms from the 1860s onwards.'

"In 2020, Kelly started experimenting with growing a syntropic food forest at Papatūānuku Kōkiri marae in Mangere.

"That food forest has become part of his PhD thesis on #FoodSystemChange - and from bare clay five years ago, it has grown 12-metre tall trees, berries, bananas, peaches, figs, #pawpaw, peppers, and many other crops.

"The bounty is distributed by Papatūānuku marae as part of its efforts to support people facing hunger in the community."

Read more:
https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2025/04/01/the-transformative-power-of-urban-forests.html

#SolarPunkSunday #FoodSovereignty #Decolonization #FoodSecurity

#NewZealand / #Aotearoa - The transformative power of urban #FoodForests

1 April 2025

"#IndustrialFarms depend on #FossilFuels – making them significant contributors to climate change, says University of #Auckland professional teaching fellow Daniel Kelly.

"He is researching ways to produce food without fuelling climate change, while helping grow a food forest at #PapatūānukuKōkiriMarae in #Mangere.

" 'Growing food has given me faith that humans can be a positive force for #ecological #restoration.

" 'There’s this narrative that being human means being an ecosystem destroyer, but that’s only a story about one type of human.

" 'Perhaps the biggest challenge facing us as a society is learning how to become another type of human, who cares for and enriches their place,' says Kelly, who teaches psychology and sustainability and is involved with the University’s Centre for #Climate, #Biodiversity and Society – #NgāAraWhetū.

"Kelly stumbled across gardening while flatting in his early twenties and became focussed on climate change while completing an environmental law degree.

"Now 36, he’s trying to refine the art of growing food while sequestering carbon – and tackling social inequities in the process.

"Five years ago, Kelly learned about #syntropic #agroforestry at a workshop at PermaDynamics in Northland. It’s a new technique for growing trees and food that is inspired by pre-modern farming in Europe and contemporary #Indigenous practices in #Brazil.

"#SyntropicAgroforestry is aligned with #agroecology, a political movement that aims to hand control of land and food production back into the hands of ordinary people.

Agroecology aims to address hunger, #FoodInsecurity and ultimately #Social Inequality.

"In #Aotearoa, food inequality disproportionately affects urban #Māori and Pacific people, who more often live in areas with poorer access to healthy food and are less likely to be able to afford fresh fruit and vegetables, says Kelly.

" 'That can be traced back to #colonisation and the large-scale dispossession of Māori land to support the establishment of European farms from the 1860s onwards.'

"In 2020, Kelly started experimenting with growing a syntropic food forest at Papatūānuku Kōkiri marae in Mangere.

"That food forest has become part of his PhD thesis on #FoodSystemChange - and from bare clay five years ago, it has grown 12-metre tall trees, berries, bananas, peaches, figs, #pawpaw, peppers, and many other crops.

"The bounty is distributed by Papatūānuku marae as part of its efforts to support people facing hunger in the community."

Read more:
https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2025/04/01/the-transformative-power-of-urban-forests.html

#SolarPunkSunday #FoodSovereignty #Decolonization #FoodSecurity

#NewZealand / #Aotearoa - The transformative power of urban #FoodForests

1 April 2025

"#IndustrialFarms depend on #FossilFuels – making them significant contributors to climate change, says University of #Auckland professional teaching fellow Daniel Kelly.

"He is researching ways to produce food without fuelling climate change, while helping grow a food forest at #PapatūānukuKōkiriMarae in #Mangere.

" 'Growing food has given me faith that humans can be a positive force for #ecological #restoration.

" 'There’s this narrative that being human means being an ecosystem destroyer, but that’s only a story about one type of human.

" 'Perhaps the biggest challenge facing us as a society is learning how to become another type of human, who cares for and enriches their place,' says Kelly, who teaches psychology and sustainability and is involved with the University’s Centre for #Climate, #Biodiversity and Society – #NgāAraWhetū.

"Kelly stumbled across gardening while flatting in his early twenties and became focussed on climate change while completing an environmental law degree.

"Now 36, he’s trying to refine the art of growing food while sequestering carbon – and tackling social inequities in the process.

"Five years ago, Kelly learned about #syntropic #agroforestry at a workshop at PermaDynamics in Northland. It’s a new technique for growing trees and food that is inspired by pre-modern farming in Europe and contemporary #Indigenous practices in #Brazil.

"#SyntropicAgroforestry is aligned with #agroecology, a political movement that aims to hand control of land and food production back into the hands of ordinary people.

Agroecology aims to address hunger, #FoodInsecurity and ultimately #Social Inequality.

"In #Aotearoa, food inequality disproportionately affects urban #Māori and Pacific people, who more often live in areas with poorer access to healthy food and are less likely to be able to afford fresh fruit and vegetables, says Kelly.

" 'That can be traced back to #colonisation and the large-scale dispossession of Māori land to support the establishment of European farms from the 1860s onwards.'

"In 2020, Kelly started experimenting with growing a syntropic food forest at Papatūānuku Kōkiri marae in Mangere.

"That food forest has become part of his PhD thesis on #FoodSystemChange - and from bare clay five years ago, it has grown 12-metre tall trees, berries, bananas, peaches, figs, #pawpaw, peppers, and many other crops.

"The bounty is distributed by Papatūānuku marae as part of its efforts to support people facing hunger in the community."

Read more:
https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2025/04/01/the-transformative-power-of-urban-forests.html

#SolarPunkSunday #FoodSovereignty #Decolonization #FoodSecurity

#NewZealand / #Aotearoa - The transformative power of urban #FoodForests

1 April 2025

"#IndustrialFarms depend on #FossilFuels – making them significant contributors to climate change, says University of #Auckland professional teaching fellow Daniel Kelly.

"He is researching ways to produce food without fuelling climate change, while helping grow a food forest at #PapatūānukuKōkiriMarae in #Mangere.

" 'Growing food has given me faith that humans can be a positive force for #ecological #restoration.

" 'There’s this narrative that being human means being an ecosystem destroyer, but that’s only a story about one type of human.

" 'Perhaps the biggest challenge facing us as a society is learning how to become another type of human, who cares for and enriches their place,' says Kelly, who teaches psychology and sustainability and is involved with the University’s Centre for #Climate, #Biodiversity and Society – #NgāAraWhetū.

"Kelly stumbled across gardening while flatting in his early twenties and became focussed on climate change while completing an environmental law degree.

"Now 36, he’s trying to refine the art of growing food while sequestering carbon – and tackling social inequities in the process.

"Five years ago, Kelly learned about #syntropic #agroforestry at a workshop at PermaDynamics in Northland. It’s a new technique for growing trees and food that is inspired by pre-modern farming in Europe and contemporary #Indigenous practices in #Brazil.

"#SyntropicAgroforestry is aligned with #agroecology, a political movement that aims to hand control of land and food production back into the hands of ordinary people.

Agroecology aims to address hunger, #FoodInsecurity and ultimately #Social Inequality.

"In #Aotearoa, food inequality disproportionately affects urban #Māori and Pacific people, who more often live in areas with poorer access to healthy food and are less likely to be able to afford fresh fruit and vegetables, says Kelly.

" 'That can be traced back to #colonisation and the large-scale dispossession of Māori land to support the establishment of European farms from the 1860s onwards.'

"In 2020, Kelly started experimenting with growing a syntropic food forest at Papatūānuku Kōkiri marae in Mangere.

"That food forest has become part of his PhD thesis on #FoodSystemChange - and from bare clay five years ago, it has grown 12-metre tall trees, berries, bananas, peaches, figs, #pawpaw, peppers, and many other crops.

"The bounty is distributed by Papatūānuku marae as part of its efforts to support people facing hunger in the community."

Read more:
https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2025/04/01/the-transformative-power-of-urban-forests.html

#SolarPunkSunday #FoodSovereignty #Decolonization #FoodSecurity

#NewZealand / #Aotearoa - The transformative power of urban #FoodForests

1 April 2025

"#IndustrialFarms depend on #FossilFuels – making them significant contributors to climate change, says University of #Auckland professional teaching fellow Daniel Kelly.

"He is researching ways to produce food without fuelling climate change, while helping grow a food forest at #PapatūānukuKōkiriMarae in #Mangere.

" 'Growing food has given me faith that humans can be a positive force for #ecological #restoration.

" 'There’s this narrative that being human means being an ecosystem destroyer, but that’s only a story about one type of human.

" 'Perhaps the biggest challenge facing us as a society is learning how to become another type of human, who cares for and enriches their place,' says Kelly, who teaches psychology and sustainability and is involved with the University’s Centre for #Climate, #Biodiversity and Society – #NgāAraWhetū.

"Kelly stumbled across gardening while flatting in his early twenties and became focussed on climate change while completing an environmental law degree.

"Now 36, he’s trying to refine the art of growing food while sequestering carbon – and tackling social inequities in the process.

"Five years ago, Kelly learned about #syntropic #agroforestry at a workshop at PermaDynamics in Northland. It’s a new technique for growing trees and food that is inspired by pre-modern farming in Europe and contemporary #Indigenous practices in #Brazil.

"#SyntropicAgroforestry is aligned with #agroecology, a political movement that aims to hand control of land and food production back into the hands of ordinary people.

Agroecology aims to address hunger, #FoodInsecurity and ultimately #Social Inequality.

"In #Aotearoa, food inequality disproportionately affects urban #Māori and Pacific people, who more often live in areas with poorer access to healthy food and are less likely to be able to afford fresh fruit and vegetables, says Kelly.

" 'That can be traced back to #colonisation and the large-scale dispossession of Māori land to support the establishment of European farms from the 1860s onwards.'

"In 2020, Kelly started experimenting with growing a syntropic food forest at Papatūānuku Kōkiri marae in Mangere.

"That food forest has become part of his PhD thesis on #FoodSystemChange - and from bare clay five years ago, it has grown 12-metre tall trees, berries, bananas, peaches, figs, #pawpaw, peppers, and many other crops.

"The bounty is distributed by Papatūānuku marae as part of its efforts to support people facing hunger in the community."

Read more:
https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2025/04/01/the-transformative-power-of-urban-forests.html

#SolarPunkSunday #FoodSovereignty #Decolonization #FoodSecurity

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/kitchen-dispatch-a-quest-to-create-the-perfect-pawpaw-ice-cream #icecream #pawpaw #pawpaws #fruit #foraging

Australian red-tipped bananas go viral as social media interest ramps up

Red-tipped bananas are not new to Australian consumers, but have gone viral on social media this month after an inquisitive post fr…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Cooking #CookingTopics #diannesciaccia #ecoganic #innisfail #instagram #melandphil #pawpaw #red-tippedbananas #socialmedia #tiktok #williamdarveniza
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2413332/australian-red-tipped-bananas-go-viral-as-social-media-interest-ramps-up/

Australian red-tipped bananas go viral as social media interest ramps up https://www.diningandcooking.com/2413332/australian-red-tipped-bananas-go-viral-as-social-media-interest-ramps-up/ #Cooking #CookingTopics #DianneSciaccia #ecoganic #innisfail #instagram #melandphil #pawpaw #RedTippedBananas #SocialMedia #tiktok #WilliamDarveniza

#SilentSunday
Pretty, yellow, #PawPaw #leaves in November.

#nature #WellandCommunityOrchard #FruitTree #foliage #yellow #Autumn #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland

@wohali If you buy a #pawpaw please post a review of it

#Pawpaw returns to #ParkSlope Food Co-op

All the more reason to bring back Mr. #ancient giant #sloth 🦥 to spread more #pawpaw in North America shouldn't be so haphazard to find this #fruit at #ParkSlope Food Co-op
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/animals-that-spread-seeds-are-critical-for-climate-solutions/ #cooperatives #climate #wildlife

@ColesStreetPothole #pawpaw

Finally found some! A couple got squished in my pocket, and I ate those in the field. Delicious! I'm taking these home, and hopefully I'll keep track of the seeds to try planting them.

#ProspectPark #powwow: try a #pawpaw or rather #mahchikpi from #Passamaquoddy tribe, as well as Indian #taco and fry #bread

Time for #Quebec #pawpaw #wine 🍷https://laidbackgardener.blog/2025/09/11/the-pawpaw-phenomenon-a-new-old-trend/

Time for #hillbilly #mango 🥭 https://lancasteronline.com/features/home_garden/its-pawpaw-season-in-pennsylvania-heres-how-to-find-identify-and-enjoy-this-native-fruit/article_1e0ac35e-5147-4ed9-9ae2-bb87770f0ce0.html #pawpaw #icecream #beer

Time for #pawpaw #beer, #wine 🍷 and #cookies https://triblive.com/local/regional/delicious-useful-and-indigenous-meet-the-pawpaw-the-unsung-hero-of-appalachian-fruits/

Lots of ants, flies, and beetles have been showing up in the pawpaw patch. Apparently highly attractive to scorpionflies (Mecoptera), too, though I've yet to see them. #annonaceae #pawpaw #tree #plants #flies #ants #pollinators #flowers #insects

Of het door de vlinders is, of toch door vleesvliegen en -kevers… het heeft er alle schijn van dat ik pawpaw-fruit ga krijgen dit jaar. De vruchtbeginsels beginnen te zwellen!
#tuin #fruit #pawpaw

Vlinder bij de bloemen van de pawpaw, Asimina triloba. Vreemd… volgens de literatuur zou deze bestoven worden door vleesvliegen die op de aaslucht afkomen.
#tuin #fruit #pawpaw #asimina

Als Waldgärtner von Welt hat man selbstverständlich mindestens eine "#Indianerbanane" rumstehen 🧐

Die Dreilappige Papau (Asimina triloba), in ihrer Heimat Nordamerika #Pawpaw genannt, blüht bei mir gerade.

Ein Obstbaum den man nicht schneiden muss und Früchte liefert, die es idR. im Laden nicht zu kaufen gibt.

#Waldgarten #Garten #Obstbau

Flower bud on one of my pawpaws (Asimina triloba). Blooms smell awful and are visited by flies and beetles. Fruit is amazing. #pawpaw #flower #bud #flowers #fruit #annonaceae #botany #tree

I'm back on my grind. Started 2 kinds of #sprouts. #sourdoughstarter & #homemadeyogurt.

Me & my family have severe #allergies, we'll be affected as regulations that protect food transparency are stripped.

Rebuilding the #chickencoop & adding more #urbangarden. We have #pawpaw #fig #beachplum #raspberry #blackberry #mulberry #blueberry #asparagus #horseradish #rhubarb #maple 1/8 acre space. We grow seasonal herbs/veggies. Plus loofah

Future: quail, rabbits, more trees. #leftisthomesteading

I'm back on my grind. Started 2 kinds of #sprouts. #sourdoughstarter & #homemadeyogurt.

Me & my family have severe #allergies, we'll be affected as regulations that protect food transparency are stripped.

Rebuilding the #chickencoop & adding more #urbangarden. We have #pawpaw #fig #beachplum #raspberry #blackberry #mulberry #blueberry #asparagus #horseradish #rhubarb #maple 1/8 acre space. We grow seasonal herbs/veggies. Plus loofah

Future: quail, rabbits, more trees. #leftisthomesteading

I'm back on my grind. Started 2 kinds of #sprouts. #sourdoughstarter & #homemadeyogurt.

Me & my family have severe #allergies, we'll be affected as regulations that protect food transparency are stripped.

Rebuilding the #chickencoop & adding more #urbangarden. We have #pawpaw #fig #beachplum #raspberry #blackberry #mulberry #blueberry #asparagus #horseradish #rhubarb #maple 1/8 acre space. We grow seasonal herbs/veggies. Plus loofah

Future: quail, rabbits, more trees. #leftisthomesteading

Time for #climate - friendly #NativeAmerican #pawpaw from #GreenwoodCemetery and south Slope, #chokeberry, #serviceberry and #beachplum
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/28/climate/pawpaws-native-fruits-extreme-weather/index.html #climatechange #fruit #fruits #thanksgiving

Open Access. "Comparison of Grafting and Budding Propagation Techniques for Cultivars of the North American Pawpaw " @plantscience

https://journals.ashs.org/horttech/view/journals/horttech/34/6/article-p653.xml #Horticulture #PawPaw #FruitToot #Gardening

I went for a walk today and found a pawpaw tree along the way. I picked two pawpaws and now they are ripening on my counter. I've never had pawpaw before, so I'm excited. #foraging #foraged #pawpaw #fruit

Vierter Versuch. #Asimina triloba. #Pawpaw oder #Indianerbanane. Die erste hatte ich ausgesät und zu früh gepflanzt. Die zweite, als Pflanze gekauft, überlebte einen Winter, erholte sich aber nicht mehr. Die Dritte, ausgesät und vergessen, erholt sich grade und kommt demnächst wieder rein. Die vierte und fünfte fand ich gestern im Baumarkt. Sie sollns besser haben. Zwei Jahre in der Wohnung überwintern, und dann, vielleicht, an eine geschützte Stelle ... zwei mal 15 € ...

Nice article in Undark on breeding pawpaw (Asimina triloba, Annonaceae), North America's largest native edible fruit. #pawpaw #fruit #tree #breeding #plants #ArtificialSelection https://undark.org/2024/08/12/pawpaw-uncertain-path-for-emerging-crops/

#PawPaw
#Persimmon
#Hazelnuts
#Quinces

All growing well at #WellandCommunityOrchard 🙂

#LifecyclesProject #ViewRoyal #volunteering #FoodSecurity #Wsanec #Saanich #Lekwungen #VictoriaBC #Grassroots #NonProfit #CommunityOrchard #CommunityFood #LegacyPark #CommunityBased #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #fruits #nuts #FruitTrees #orchard #FoodTrees #GrowingFood #GrowingFruits

Nach langen Jahren des Wartens hat meine "große" #DreilappigePapau (Asimina triloba), auch als #PawPaw oder #IndianerBanane bekannt, zwei erste Blütenknospen 😃

Die Pflanze dürfte jetzt ~8 Jahre alt sein.
Ich hatte beim Kauf des unveredelten Sämlings noch keine Ahnung wie lange es dauert bis PawPaws Früchte tragen.

Wenn ihr mit so einer Pflanze schnell Spaß haben wollt, kauft euch ein Exemplar das bereits Früchte trägt. 180..200€ müsst ihr dafür allerdings schon einplanen.

#Waldgarten #Garten

In a hurry, always in a hurry! Inktober day 4: Dodge

"Ruber, the strange bird, was very lucky! The Evil Hunters missed him... for the moment"

#inktober2023 #inktober #inktoberday4 #dodge #digitalpainting #wildhunting #pawpaw

Good morning :fediverse: ✨

In this morning's #ConnectionList, I'd like you to meet:

@NurseTonyF is a #Nurse who loves: #Pawpaw and #dogs #DogsOfMastodon - me too Tony! 🇺🇸 👋

@sugaroverflow is a #DevRel #DeveloperEvangelist at GitLab who is into #OpenSource #Intersectionality #NodeJS #Drupal and #Intersectionality 👋

Professor @rolaustral is a #professor #academic #researcher at Uni Canberra in the field of #AffectiveComputing #AI #ML #HCI 🇦🇺 👋

@scroeser is a #researcher #teacher and #activist living on #Noongar country 🇦🇺 👋

@Korny is an #agilista, working in #rust #rustlang #clojure #dataviz. He is an 🇦🇺 living in 🇬🇧 👋

@stilgherrian needs no introduction! But I will provide one anyway. Wordsmith potentate of the cybers. Feral goldfish. 🇦🇺 👋

@HelenCSullivan doesn't provide a bio on her Mastodon profile, so I don't want to share her interests without permission, but folks, you should follow her. 🇦🇺 👋

@HazelFerguson is a #SocialPolicy #policy and #PublicAdministration #researcher, #jogger and #BookNerd (ohai!). 🇦🇺 👋

@marc is a #SoftwareEngineer at Fastmail, a #cyclist and purveyor of fine #DadJokes 🇦🇺

@reneeotmar is an #Editor and #author #writer and #PublicHealth #researcher 👋

That's all for today, don't forget to curate your own #ConnectionList ❤️