A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
Although RFKjr has some crazy ideas, not adding food colouring to the balanced diet pyramid is not one of them, and one that any other GOP fascist loyalist, given the job, would gladly do it if given a dollar for it. Energy secretary as an example is full oligarchist energy protectionism.
I live in a subtropical climate and it seems like most typical garden plants are not really good for our weather, it's too hot for some and too wet for many who like hot.
Our winners are:
Trees- starfruit, longan, mango, papaya all do well.
Garden -
summer, wet season - Okra mostly. Hong Tsoi, Eggplant (little ones) Watermelon (little ones) sweet potato (Stokes Purple), tomatoes, basil.
winter, dry season- Collards, peppers, broccoli (Green Magic) cauliflower, arugula, fennel, lettuce, radishes. Cilantro, or dill. A lot of the typical northern summer plants can be started in December or January to grow in the "spring" that runs from January to April ish.
In between - peppers, fennel, mustard greens, eggplant, pumpkin type squash (but bugs always eat it) tomatoes.
It isn't all industrial agriculture. There is also the enclosure of the commons meaning that foraging is illegal in a lot of places.
Do people (in general) really only eat 100 different plants? I feel like that number must be too low. Surely if you listed out all the plant foods that people consider "normal", there would easily be more than 100.
Might be considering all Brassica as one.
The staple foods we've chosen to cultivate are all energy dense. Overheard a client talking to another guy he hadn't seen in years, "Yeah, got diabetes. Can't eat any white foods. :("
That really got me thinking. Rice, potatoes, wheat and corn. The core desirability is energy.
Add something like beans to fix nitrogen and add missing nutrients, you're all set.
Add something like beans to fix nitrogen and add missing nutrients, you’re all set.
Here I go thinking about the three sisters again.
If you can't kill it or fuck it then eat it. It's that easy.
Why can't I have 1 thing where all 3 are possible?
You can if you're a spider
SEX! AND VIOLENCE!
If the word "prefer" is in this meme, we might need another pass for tone.
Can anyone recommend anything to watch out for in BCs lower mainland? (Climate similar to Seattle)
A lot of Lebanese shops sell sorrel. Sorrel is just clovers. 50% of people setting this meme are 100 meters or less from sorrel right now.
Sorrel is not clovers. Sorrel are commonly used in cooking here in Europe while clovers, not so much. That being said, both are hardy and easy to cultivate.
my grandmother picks sorrels on the way home and makes sorrel soup. When I was a kid, i remember we would eat them when we we're playing outside. We knew where all the crunchy ones had grown and not share with anyone that was unworthy