#vegan garden

[dulcey4]

The sacred geometry of dandelions is so beautiful 🥰🌼 I cannot wait for them to start popping up to make some detox teas and dandelion honey, and dry some for my bunnies! With of course leaving most for the bees to feast on 🐝💕

xoxo, Tina

[tea-withnofixinsplease]

Oh btdubs, if anyone has access to a vacant patch of grass, like a backyard perhaps, and want to make a garden dollar stretch, invest more in trees and shrubs than vegetables.

They're harder to kill,

Require less water after the first year,

you can usually buy/preorder them cheap when they're out of season (as I've stated before in another post),

You get more fruit per plant,

You don't have to replant/reseed.

Sure it takes longer to establish and bear fruit and you can do stuff while you wait, but if it's between investing in the necessary items for a 5 inch garden box or 4 potted fruit trees your first year, I'd choose the latter. Make one of those trees an apricot and you could have fruit your first year, thereby tricking ur brain into releasing enough dopamine not to quit gardening out of lack of patience.

If you really want a vegetable garden:

grow tomatoes

and a variety of herbs like basil, thyme, mint(IN A POT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD KEEP THAT CRIMINAL LOCKED UP), oregano, lavender, rosemary, etc.

these guys are usually really hard to kill.

For an unkillable berry that you can harvest first year, comes back, and thrives on neglect, try a ground cherry (which is also a cousin to the tomato apparently).

don't forget to mulch okay bye.

[samwisethewitch]

Mushroom Broth Recipe

There's a pretty simple backstory here: I wanted to make soup, but when I went to buy groceries the store was out of both vegetable broth and bouillon, but had mushrooms on sale. I did some Internet searching and learned that making your own broth is pretty simple and easy, so I decided to try making my own mushroom broth to use as a substitute for vegetable broth in my recipes.

In my Internet searching, I also learned the actual difference between a broth and a stock. Although most people use the words interchangeably, stock is traditionally made from bones, while broth is made with meat and/or vegetables. This is kind of fun, because it means that "bone broth" is actually, by definition, bone stock, and "vegetable stock" doesn't exist.

This recipe is my own creation but it's very, very flexible. You can swap out the vegetables and herbs to suit your own tastes. If you wanted to, you could switch the brown mushrooms for a trendier medicinal mushroom, like reishi or chaga, or for whatever your grocery store has. You could also use the same method to make other homemade broths, like vegetable broth or chicken broth.

Ingredients:

One carton of brown mushrooms (these are sometimes labeled baby bella mushrooms or crimini mushrooms)

One onion, roughly chopped

[optional] One cup of dry white wine (I used chardonnay)

8 cups water

Dried thyme, to taste

Salt and pepper, to taste

Garlic powder, to taste

Olive oil or another cooking oil

Recipe:

Saute the mushrooms in olive oil over medium heat for 10 minutes.

While the mushrooms are cooking, go ahead and chop the onion. I like to leave the skin on when I'm making broth (it adds a really nice color), but you can remove it if you want.

Add the onions to the pan, and saute for another 10 minutes (or 20 minutes if you decide to skip the next step).

Add your white wine, stir everything together and let it simmer for (you guessed it!) another 10 minutes to let the alcohol cook off.

Add 8 cups of water to the pot with your mushrooms. Add the thyme, garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Turn the heat up to high.

When the water comes to a boil, turn the heat down to low and cover the pot with a lid. Let simmer for at least 2 hours.

When your broth is done simmering, use a sieve to strain out the mushroom and onion chunks and transfer the liquid to a clean container. Store the container in the fridge and use it in the same ways you would use vegetable, chicken, or beef broth when cooking.

[vegan-nom-noms]

Vegan Lasagna Frittas (Olive Garden Copycat)

[fairiencarnate]

♡ Fruit tarts by the pond ♡

[butchniqabi]

its my mom's birthday today everyone say happy birthday to Mama Butchniqabi or ill blow this building up

[originalitysquared]

Plants don't even give you comparable nutrition to previous decades because we are over planting food crops.

Like y'all wanna prioritize the earth sooooo bad, stop drinking almond milk, stop importing your avocados from Mexico. Grow your own food or eat locally.

[dulcey4]

These be strange times in my garden that was dead, but somehow risen for one more sprinkle of summer color 🐝🌸🌼🧟‍♀️🪦

[werebutch]

So many times I’ve seen people on here be like wowww it’s so funny seeing ppl rage over vegans 😁!! ….. these people genuinely have no idea what they’re talking about. If you mention all their stuff being made of plastic they cover their ears and go lalala like they’re 5. I’m sorry but it DOES make me mad. I wish your passion for the environment could go somewhere actually useful and not to blissful ignorance and even environmental harm. -_-

[zinger-begonia]

How to collect & use kitchen grey water to conserve water and water your garden all at once!

1. Soap* up/scrub your dishes:

2. Put a big pot in your sink:

3. Start rinsing your dishes:

4. Mmmm, dirty dish water**:

5. Let cool a bit if you used very hot water, then water plants of your choice***:

Do look up the grey water regulations in your area, at least so you know them. Read up a bit more on greywater systems. This may or may not be legal in your area, but understanding why it is or isn't can help you decide how to safely incorporate water reuse into your life.

One of the common big ones is that your not allowed to just let the water sit there, or pool on the ground. A common tactic is to divert the water below the surface of the soil, which can be accomplished easily. Some people don't want you to use kitchen grey water because of concerns around bacterial contamination from raw meat, etc, so consider how you're going to deal with that.

* don't use chlorine or borax (I don't know anyone who does for dishes, but you can't be sure on the internet). If you're quite concerned about your soap, get one that's labeled environmentally friendly or whatever.

** I'm a vegan so I don't have to worry about this, but if you're not, make sure you don't use waste water from dishes that had contact with raw meat or eggs. Because of potential bacterial contamination.

*** soap is basic, so don't water acid-loving plants with this. Never allow the water to pool for any length of time. Here you can see that I'm watering a cucurbit, which are thirsty plants that appreciate extra nutrients.

[recipe-collector]

[vegan-nom-noms]

Vegan Zuppa Toscana

[halleehalfgallon]

if you look closely and squint through the ferns, you just might find a tomato.

[anpaintsthemoon]

the only reason why i'm already ready for summer ✨🌞🪲🐛✨

[tea-withnofixinsplease]

I ordered the heirloom parsnips that bleed crimson and taste like fish that was mentioned on tumblr a little while ago, Im so excited to try it this year in vegan fishcakes. I want my garden beds to be filled with weird and unique things i could never find in the grocery store.

At least One bed.

If anyone has any weird heirloom varieties that can grow in zone 7b, and/or under a plastic covered garden bed pls feel free to lemme know, maybe there's a catalog