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Nurdles, Tire Dust, and a Baby Squirrel Visit

May 15, 2022May 15, 2022 Stefanie

Something new I learned this past week: nurdles and tire dust. Nurdles sound like some sort of 1970s sugar-laden gooey candy that sticks in your teeth. But nurdles are a completely unregulated source of plastic pollution. A nurdle is a tiny bead of pure plastic, the building block of most

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All Effed Up But Everything’s Fine

May 8, 2022May 8, 2022 Stefanie

This has been a really fucked up couple of weeks. There is the heatwave in India and Pakistan that no one in the mainstream media is talking about, and if they do, it’s mentioned like a verbal shrug, implying that it doesn’t really matter because it’s over there, and climate

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Chickens Climate Emergency Gardening

Earth Day

April 24, 2022April 24, 2022 Stefanie

Hello Friends. Happy belated Earth Day! Yeah, I know, every day is Earth Day, and it seems silly to have a designated day. But, I’m increasingly of the belief that special days are good to have for celebrations and to mark occasions or call attention to something. And since in

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Chickens Gardening

Bird Flu

April 10, 2022April 10, 2022 Stefanie

As if a human pandemic isn’t enough to worry about, now we have to worry about an outbreak of H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI). I’ve been getting regular updates from the Twin Cities chicken keeping list I am on since the outbreak began on the east coast a couple

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Gardening Seasons

Briefly

March 6, 2022March 6, 2022 Stefanie

It was a gloriously melty week and the snow in the garden was getting thin. I was hoping to see the ground soon. Yesterday it rained and we even had a thunderstorm. And then this morning I woke up to this: Close to five inches of wet, heavy snow. Most

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