#pigweed

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Harvest Autumn (Poetry)

Gishigishi (sorrel)

I make my garden a "wild grass garden" Therefore, the number of wild grasses increased steadily, At this time of year, wild grass seeds It bears heavily.

Pigweed is similar to quinoa. INUBIYU is similar to Amaranthus, Millet is similar to rice Gishigishi is similar to buckwheat

For example, Even in an abandoned garden Many of them are a source of starch.

any narrow range the creator god a variety of nutritious plants It seems to be compounded.

various weeds, I ate a lot this year too.

Of course, they also eat barnyard millet.

(2008.09.28)

＠I am publishing a book called “Eating wild grasses and tastes (JIMI!!)”.

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Friday, 25th February, 2022 🌿

Plenty of people think it's messy and unkempt for plants to be growing between pavers but I've always really liked that nature takes over look.

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Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses. essay: My Saint is a Weed: Holy Pigweed (Sophie Strand/Make Me Good Soil) short photo essay: One of London’s most iconic brutalist buildings, the Barbican (Andrew Eberlin/A Photo And A Few Words A Day). 20-min video: Wrought (Aeon Video/Vimeo). The…

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[landwriter]

familiar faces of july, the wildflower seeds i sowed in late may edition!!!

[rabbitcruiser]

Green River Overlook, Canyonlands National Park (No. 4)

Drought Evaders

Drought evaders are a distinct group of plants that rely on location more than adaptation. These plants are only able to survive in wetter micro-climates, like riparian areas. Drought evaders include Fremont’s cottonwood (Populus fremontii), coyote willow (Salix exigua), and singleleaf ash (Fraxinus anomala).

How do we survive?

Humans also adapt to live in the desert. The ancestral Puebloans built villages around springs. Today, hikers carry water with them. Although we may not have spines like claret cup or burrow in mud like snails, we too are affected by the high desert’s constantly changing water supply. When visiting, your survival strategy should be to always carry water with you and two drink around one gallon (four liters) of water a day.

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New Animal And Plants!

Animal.

1. Pigweed Flea Beetle

Plants.

1. White Trillium

2. Common Periwinkle

3. Virginia Bluebells

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In me there are two wolves, one is a singular benedryl tablet and the other is an entire pot of coffee. They both hate me

[thebotanicalarcade]

n514_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: English botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants / London :R. Hardwicke,1863-1886. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12251030

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Even the Smallest of Flowers Can be Incredibly Colorful

Even the Smallest of Flowers Cab be Incredibly Colorful discusses the variety of summer wildflowers in Florida and then focuses on the pretty, bright fuchsia flowers of pink purslane.

Fuchsia Flower Summertime in Florida means, hot weather, afternoon rains, and an amazing variety of wildflowers. They literally come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. One of my favorites is pink purslane (Portulaca pilsoa), also known as hairy pigweed, kiss-me-quick, or shaggy portulaca. It’s a native to the southern United States, the Caribbean, Central America, and parts of South America. It…

[falseandrealultravival]

I'm in the north (poetry)

pigweed and cooking of it

overlooking the garden

calmness

The tip of the pigweed

flickering in the wind

time stops.

I am facing south

Certainly a king

私は北に陣取る

見渡す庭の

すずやかさ

アカザの穂先は

風にゆらめき

時間は止まる

南面したる我は

王者なりけり

In addition, there is an expression in the Chinese proverb, "The gentleman faces the south," which means that all affairs are ruled from the north. This poetry builds on that.

(2014.10.01)

[headspace-hotel]

Amaranth aka Pigweed: the USA's "worst" agricultural weed that also happens to be...edible...and was welcomed in the fields of Native American growers at the time European settlers first came because it was just extra food.

This article gives instructions on how to plant it, which is funny to me because in many cases, you don't even need to plant it. Just till some ground and wait, it'll show up.

In other news, I went outside to search for pigweed that was still standing, and the seed heads are still FULL of seeds.

[tulipscomeinallsortsofcolors]

to seelie, the idea of the Perfect American Lawn must be like. plant racism

more like they find it exceedingly creepy - to fae (in general, but especially seelie)a garden is meant to be an ecosystem, meant to provide a diverse pallet of food and medicine for your family group or business.

they do grow crops but never as monoculture - fiber plants are inter-planted with medicinal flowers, etc. everything is harvested by hand. humans can often walk right past or even through a fae garden and never clock it as anything other than another field of flowers or stretch of forest

so to see a "garden" composed of only one type of plant, enforced via caustic poisons that contaminate the earth and the groundwater, killing useful volunteer crops (pigweed, dandelion, violet, feverfew) just for the look of it, for no reason other than an artificial aesthetic of rigid conformity?

no one ever talks about the fact that fae have every reason to find humans just as unsettling and strange and unnatural as the other way around

[sotwk]

Food and Agriculture in Thranduil's Kingdom

It's unfortunate that Thorin's Company was welcomed as dinner guests in Rivendell but imprisoned as invaders in Mirkwood. Had Thorin just shown King Thranduil just a little bit more respect, they could have been fed a whole lot better by the Silvans. And there would most definitely have been meat!

While the Rivendell elves seem to lean vegetarian, and Lothlorien's culinary specialty is the "one bite" lembas, the elves of Greenwood know more than a thing or two about indulgent feasting. These elves consider themselves permanent residents of their land, and with that outlook comes an attitude of celebrating Middle-earth's bounties.

The Silvans of the Woodland Realm have always been fond of feasting, merry-making, and community and family traditions centered around food. Furthermore, they are ruled by a King and royal family who whole-heartedly support this culture, participate in it themselves, and encourage trade that allows the realm to access food from other lands.

When it comes to food, the Greenwood elves are actually more alike Dwarves and Hobbits than they are the lofty High Elves.

Below the cut are SotWK headcanons regarding Food and Agriculture in the Woodland Realm:

Food, Cuisine, and Agriculture in the Woodland Realm

Prior to the establishment of the Woodland Realm and in the early reign of King Oropher (c. SA 700), the Silvan Elves populating Greenwood lived in smaller communities spread throughout the vast forest, but predominantly in the southwest, closer to their kin in Lorinand. Limited subsistence farming was practiced by a few, but by far most food at this time was obtained through hunting and gathering. The rich and bountiful Greenwood had always provided more than enough resources for its dwellers.

GATHERING

Greenwood Elves happily spend most of their immortal lives within Eryn Galen and the lands of Rhovanion, so they are accustomed to living off solely what the forest produces, and their diet is influenced largely by it.

The most commonly foraged edibles are:

Nuts: hazelnut, pecan, walnut, hickory, beechnut, chestnut

Fruit: plum, apple, grape, persimmon

Berries: mulberry, blackberry, currant, elderberry, raspberry

Wild garlic and ramps

Fungi: mushrooms and truffles of many varieties

Eggs: from various wild birds

Herbs and Spices: fennel, corn mint, dandelions, ground elder, pigweed, cicely, sorrel, hogweed, stinging nettle, watercress, wild carrot, rowan, wood avens, sneezewort

Maple: sourced for sugar and syrup

There are also hundreds of plant species native only to Greenwood and Rhovanion that are valued for their uses in healing. However, the Silvan herbalists of Greenwood are usually the only ones able to effectively extract the curative properties of these plants, indicating a connection between Elves and homeland may be necessary for the healing to work.

Art from Fantasy Flight Games

HUNTING

Greenwood Elves are expert hunters and trackers, with unparalleled mastery within their forest and the lands that surround its borders. With careful consideration and instinctual knowledge of the forest ecosystem, they select their prey according to what's most populous, and rotate as necessary to balance out conservation levels.

Among the animals they hunt regularly for meat consumption are rabbit, squirrel, duck, turkey, quail, weasel, racoon, boar, deer, wild oxen, and elk. On rare or special occasions, they hunt less common game such as lion and bear. They also obtain fish and freshwater mussels, clams, and snails from the Forest River and various streams.

It is illegal in Greenwood to hunt or kill specific animals that are declared a protected species, including the King's Elk (the breed of Thranduil's war elk), the silverwolf, and all species of eagle or falcon.

Any fauna or fauna may also be temporarily decreed off-limits for hunting or gathering, by order of the Elvenking and his council.

Any animal taken in as an elf's pet or familiar may also not be killed, so long as it has been properly tamed and does not pose a risk to others.

Throughout the Second Age, the Woodland Realm's population steadily increased under the wise rule of King Oropher and his court. As the communities and villages that made up the kingdom grew larger and more numerous, the practice of agriculture became more widespread to bolster the realm's food supply.

In the Woodland Realm, farming would always remain secondary to hunting and gathering due to the preference of Silvans for wild game and native vegetation. Farmed products serve primarily to enhance cuisine, supplement large feasts, provide reserves in case of war or famine, and as goods for trade with other realms.

FARMING and LIVESTOCK

Tracts of community farmlands were gradually cultivated in the arable fields between Greenwood's western borders (near the capital of Amon Lanc) and the Anduin River.

In order of output, the food crops most commonly grown are: wheat, barley, oats, potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, lettuce, peppers, and peas.

Fiber crops grown for cloth, paper, and rope include: flax, hemp, and cotton.

Domesticated animals are raised in small numbers solely for their by-products and not their meat. In order of importance, livestock that are raised are:

Sheep: source of wool and milk

Chickens: source of eggs

Cows: source of milk and for birthing calves

Animals raised for labor include:

Horses: highly valued and raised exclusively for transport and mounted cavalry

Oxen: used as beasts of burden (large-scale/community work)

Donkeys: used as beasts of burden (small-scale/family work)

When Prince Thranduil built his own palace of Bar Lasgalen just south of the Old Forest Road (which would later become the new capital upon his ascension to the throne), he helped the Silvans residing in the valleys of the Emyn Duir to initiate small-scale agriculture, which encouraged further migration into that area and northward towards the Grey Mountains.

Elvish historians refer to the first millennium of the Third Age as the "Golden Age of the Woodland Realm". During these years, the kingdom enjoyed an unbroken peace under a wise King and Queen who also had five sons actively involved in the governance of the realm.

Departing from his father's more isolationist leanings, Thranduil encouraged trade with realms across Middle-earth. It included all the races except for Hobbits, since the Shire did not yet exist prior to the darkening of Greenwood.

Sadly, most trade came to a stop by the end of the Third Age, with the exception of the nearby Dale, due to the struggles with Dol Guldur. However, after Erebor was reestablished by King Thorin, trade gradually resumed with the Dwarves. After the War of the Ring and the Cleansing of Dol Guldur, Eryn Lasgalen once again thrived with renewed relations with their trade partners--finally including the Shire!

AGRICULTURAL TRADE

The Woodland Realm's three most valuable exported agricultural products are:

Rare spices

Mushrooms and truffles

Medicinal herbs (extremely valuable but highly controlled to prevent misuse)

Imported goods are considered luxuries and not necessities, and are brought in seasonally for community feasts and celebrations (of which there are many). Everything is meant for the consumption of all the kingdom's citizens, regardless of status; there is never anything reserved as "special" for the royals or nobles.

The top agricultural imports, usually from realms/communities of Men, are:

Wine

Textiles (silk, cotton)

Seafood

Sugar

Cheeses

ARTISAN COOKS and BAKERS

Exposure to outside realms and cultures also resulted in an expansion of the culinary arts within Thranduil's kingdom. Cooking and baking became full-blown, respected and sought-after professions instead of tasks done within individual households. With the King's support, talented Elves were sent to other realms to learn their culinary practices; chefs from other kingdoms were invited to Greenwood as royal guests to do the same.

A few culinary feats and innovations the Woodland Elves became known for:

Use of offal (innards) in recipes that actually taste fantastic, thanks to seasonings and skilled cookery

Using literally every single part of a butchered animal with zero waste

Aphrodisiacs in common food recipes, using plant ingredients (partly responsible for their marriage and birth rates and large families)

Salted game meat (jerky) that is highly nourishing and excellent for travel; essentially a meat version of lembas

The use of whipped egg whites to make essentially a type of meringue--which opened up an entire category of desserts that became staples at feasts

Bonus Fun Headcanons! (as a thank you for reading this far)

Mealtimes in Thranduil's Family

No one can beat Ada in drinking contests, ever; it has been attempted hundreds of times--usually with Dorwinion wine--and Thranduil has never been dethroned by his sons.

The King and every single one of the Princes are all heavy eaters, and everyone, including the Queen, eats meat.

While they all observe formal manners at the table, the Princes can get rowdy when not in the presence of their mother--especially when there's drinking involved. (Not quite as bad as Thorin's Company, but close.)

Breakfast: Taken individually in their own rooms, according to each one's schedule/leisure

Lunch: The most commonly skipped meal; usually taken "on the go", and oftentimes with people outside of the family (e.g. business lunches, lunch with friends)

Dinner: The family meal. Everyone is expected to sit down and eat dinner with the rest of the family, unless traveling or there is a prior commitment that takes precedence.

Random Fun Food Facts with the Thranduilions

The Princes regularly compete to see who can eat the most exotic/"disgusting" food items. Turhir remains champion at this (able and willing to eat literally everything), with Legolas frequently trying (and constantly failing) to unseat him.

They have also competed to see who can eat the riskiest (aka poisonous) food items. Arvellas has somehow proven to be the most impervious to natural poisons, much to Gelir's frustration.

Legolas can go the longest without eating food, but no one really cares to try to beat his record.

Mirion is the heaviest eater, but is also the fastest, and because he has flawless table manners no one really notices.

Gelir can find truffles just using his sense of smell--yes, like a truffle pig. He has successfully trained other similarly gifted Elves to do the same.

For more Thranduil/Mirkwood headcanons: SotWK HC Masterlist

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[crazysodomite]

One hit of pigweed and you'll be digging in the ground for truffles