• Tags below in comments🔽Repost from @agrowingculture • This does not even begin to cover an exhaustive list, but it’s a place to start. Support black-owned farms and food businesses (and black-owned businesses in general). Donate to the organizations doing antiracism work in the food system. Follow and elevate the voices of the courageous individuals doing this antiracism work, and support them if you can. Listen to them. Read their work. Buy their products. Amplify their voices, rather than your own. And look inwards, remembering that there is no sustainability without racial justice. .............. #amplifymelanatedvoices a campaign created by @blackandembodied and @jessicawilson.msrd
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    Tags below in comments🔽Repost from @agrowingculture • This does not even begin to cover an exhaustive list, but it’s a place to start. Support black-owned farms and food businesses (and black-owned businesses in general). Donate to the organizations doing antiracism work in the food system. Follow and elevate the voices of the courageous individuals doing this antiracism work, and support them if you can. Listen to them. Read their work. Buy their products. Amplify their voices, rather than your own. And look inwards, remembering that there is no sustainability without racial justice. .............. #amplifymelanatedvoices a campaign created by @blackandembodied and @jessicawilson.msrd
  • For the next week I am going to #amplifymelanatedvoices 📣 . This campaign was created Alishia McCullough @blackandembodied and Jessica Wilson @jessicawilson.msrd❤️ . In their words: “A lot of folks doing social justice related work do not pay black and brown people of our labor and continue to thrive off of the system and structures built on the back of our ancestors. They continue that legacy by profiting from our voices and experiences, expanding their work and social capital using our wisdom, and then gatekeeping who has access to their services/offerings. Hold folks accountable. Ask if they are paying black and brown folks for their labor.” . This means I am not going to post my own content, and as a white woman, I am not going to center myself in the narrative.❌ . Instead, I am going to listen and amplify the voices of BIPOC in my posts and stories here on IG.✊🏻 . To my predominantly white following, I encourage you to join in. It’s time to listen.👂🏼
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    For the next week I am going to #amplifymelanatedvoices 📣 . This campaign was created Alishia McCullough @blackandembodied and Jessica Wilson @jessicawilson.msrd❤️ . In their words: “A lot of folks doing social justice related work do not pay black and brown people of our labor and continue to thrive off of the system and structures built on the back of our ancestors. They continue that legacy by profiting from our voices and experiences, expanding their work and social capital using our wisdom, and then gatekeeping who has access to their services/offerings. Hold folks accountable. Ask if they are paying black and brown folks for their labor.” . This means I am not going to post my own content, and as a white woman, I am not going to center myself in the narrative.❌ . Instead, I am going to listen and amplify the voices of BIPOC in my posts and stories here on IG.✊🏻 . To my predominantly white following, I encourage you to join in. It’s time to listen.👂🏼
  • How To Make Comfrey Compost Tea For Your Garden🌿 . A tried and true addition to the fertilizing regimen for your garden is comfrey compost tea.🍵 . Comfrey compost tea is a fermented stinky juice (even smellier than fish emulsion!) that has tons of trace minerals, mainly calcium, for your plants.🌱 . Here’s how you brew it🍃 . INGREDIENTS + SUPPLIES: •1 five gallon bucket with a snap on lid •Heavy brick or rock •10 large comfrey leaves STEPS: 1️⃣Place your 10 large comfrey leaves at the bottom of the five-gallon bucket. 2️⃣Put the heavy brick or rock on top to keep them in place. 3️⃣Fill the bucket up with water and be sure the comfrey stays completely submerged and put the lid on to keep flies out. 4️⃣Wait 30 days (yes I said 30!). The liquid will turn a dark yellow to brown. 5️⃣It’s going to smell awful. Use the tea at a 50% dilution with water and either use it to water plants’ root zone or as a foliar spray. To get comfrey started in your own garden, I recommend a blocking variety of comfrey that won’t become invasive. If you want to know what brand I used, send me a DM.📬 . We planted all 18 roots in pots of compost in the early winter, and 16 came up in the spring. Pretty dang good results!🎊 . Do you use comfrey around the farm or homestead? Fill me in!📣 . #comfrey #homestead #homesteading #gardenideas #veggiegarden #gardeningtips #organicgardener #greenwillowhomestead #smallfarm #regenerativeagriculture
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    How To Make Comfrey Compost Tea For Your Garden🌿 . A tried and true addition to the fertilizing regimen for your garden is comfrey compost tea.🍵 . Comfrey compost tea is a fermented stinky juice (even smellier than fish emulsion!) that has tons of trace minerals, mainly calcium, for your plants.🌱 . Here’s how you brew it🍃 . INGREDIENTS + SUPPLIES: •1 five gallon bucket with a snap on lid •Heavy brick or rock •10 large comfrey leaves STEPS: 1️⃣Place your 10 large comfrey leaves at the bottom of the five-gallon bucket. 2️⃣Put the heavy brick or rock on top to keep them in place. 3️⃣Fill the bucket up with water and be sure the comfrey stays completely submerged and put the lid on to keep flies out. 4️⃣Wait 30 days (yes I said 30!). The liquid will turn a dark yellow to brown. 5️⃣It’s going to smell awful. Use the tea at a 50% dilution with water and either use it to water plants’ root zone or as a foliar spray. To get comfrey started in your own garden, I recommend a blocking variety of comfrey that won’t become invasive. If you want to know what brand I used, send me a DM.📬 . We planted all 18 roots in pots of compost in the early winter, and 16 came up in the spring. Pretty dang good results!🎊 . Do you use comfrey around the farm or homestead? Fill me in!📣 . #comfrey #homestead #homesteading #gardenideas #veggiegarden #gardeningtips #organicgardener #greenwillowhomestead #smallfarm #regenerativeagriculture
  • Last one in is a rotten egg!🐓 . The long weekend ahead has got Paul and I making long lists of things to get done.✅ . Painting, staining, planting, wiring - with a DIY home remodel and 12 raised garden beds - our plate is fulllllllll.🍽 . I constantly have remind myself to take a moment and reflect on how much we’ve accomplished over the last five years (these chicken tractors included!).🥳 . What’s on your to-do list this weekend? Am I the only one fantasizing about getting cucumbers in the ground?😂 . [And for all our chicken tractor customers- this is an OLD photo of our tractors. We replaced our front tires with airless 6” casters last spring...our chicken keeping lives are a bazillion percent better!]🐔 . #chickentractor #pasturedpoultry #pasturedeggs #homestead #homesteader #farmher #femalefarmer #crazychickenlady #greenwillowhomestead #chickencoop #chickencoops #chickencoopsofinstagram
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    Last one in is a rotten egg!🐓 . The long weekend ahead has got Paul and I making long lists of things to get done.✅ . Painting, staining, planting, wiring - with a DIY home remodel and 12 raised garden beds - our plate is fulllllllll.🍽 . I constantly have remind myself to take a moment and reflect on how much we’ve accomplished over the last five years (these chicken tractors included!).🥳 . What’s on your to-do list this weekend? Am I the only one fantasizing about getting cucumbers in the ground?😂 . [And for all our chicken tractor customers- this is an OLD photo of our tractors. We replaced our front tires with airless 6” casters last spring...our chicken keeping lives are a bazillion percent better!]🐔 . #chickentractor #pasturedpoultry #pasturedeggs #homestead #homesteader #farmher #femalefarmer #crazychickenlady #greenwillowhomestead #chickencoop #chickencoops #chickencoopsofinstagram