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We're a massive sunny country As bright as bright can be We all enjoy our sunshine and sustainability Our pollies say, "Renewables? Impossibility!" But it's a MASSIVE sunny country, bloody HUGE sunny country Let's put solar in every street!!! #FundOurFutureNotGas #schoolstrike4climate #frackoff #nogasledrecovery #morejobsinrenewables #schoolstrikesolidarity
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🌚 New moon greetings 💨 There's usually a quiet and simple inspiration for each moon greeting that arrives when I slow down and pay attention to the moments going on. Looking, nothing. Looking, nothing. Where was it? Invisibly all around me as it turned out. The seasonal spring winds of change are here, blustering through every afternoon. Stand out in the wind and feel blown clean of what you don't need, or annoyed by it's insistence at removing things. #moongreetings #newmoon #artforsale #inkandwatercolor #wind #seasonalwind #windsofchange #windy #bellingen #cleansing #natureinspiredart #pauseandreflect
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New chooks did indeed arrive. 1. Copy-paste chooks! 2. Flame chook, look at that red! Once there were six, which were slowly whittled down by old age to one. As spring arrived, so did the time to top up the flock. These are pullets, about 20 weeks old and almost ready to lay. Chooks are brutal with each other. This is probably where hen-pecked came from. They do not welcome newcomers and can peck the bottom of their pecking order to death. This includes a smaller, younger or sick chook. Community note, don't be like chickens! However, the last chook standing only gave one of the new chooks one firm peck and then they were all off scratching together. I think she appreciated the company. If she hadn't, at least the chook yard is plenty big enough for keeping a distance. #springchicken #pullets #layinghens #chooks #chickens #australorp #backyardfarm #backyardchickens #bellingen #homelaideggs
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So I ended up being interviewed for @ilovebelloshire 😍 “If you are not concerned with the state of the planet, you’re not paying attention. To stop and do nothing means the worst-case scenario is inevitable. The only way to find a way out of our current mess is to step up in whatever way you can. You just have to pick where you fit in and what you can do.” More: https://ilovebelloshire.com/fi-morgan-the-face-behind-the-garden/ #bellingen #foodgarden #climateactivist #climateemergency #seedsavers #communityresilience #stopandsmelltheroses #wereallinthistogether
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🌕 Full moon greetings from the beginning of spring 🐣 Time to acquire some more egg layers. Off I went to the local rural supplies store to collect the pullets I'd put in an order for the other week. It was kinda odd though because when I turned up the place was deserted. Usually for these pre-ordered chickens there is a barely-organised line-up of people with boxes and cages and a semi trailer full of live chooks to be dispensed, all shuffling and squawking. The chooks are quiet in comparison to the people. But nothing. Checking in the store raised a giggle from everyone, myself included; I was a week early. It's not like me to be muddle-headed like that, but hey, it's life and it happens. So I am ready with my cash and box and starter feed. I see you sitting there in next week chookies! #fullmoon #lunarcycle #moon #moonart #moongreetings #artforsale #chooks #springchicken #muddleheaded #calendarfail #welcometospring #inkandwatercolour
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For the bees When I first arrived in Bellingen I had the strange experience of watching my zucchinis flower and wither, flower and wither and if they began to set fruit, it would rot. This was strange as zucchinis in my experience were prolific and looked after themselves. Eventually I figured out I was watching a pollination problem and out I went each morning with a small dry paintbrush to collect pollen from one zucchini flower and transfer it to another. That got old really quickly. For the following season I made sure I had bees. Honey bees, sugar bag bees, solitary bees, night moths and good bugs. Help out your garden helpers by planting food for them. Full article via link in profile under Bello Food Gardening. #artforsale #gardenpollinators #springgardening #seasonalflowers #kitchengarden #beefriendly #forthebees #goodbugs #homegrownfood #nospray #bellingen #gardenharvest
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Can't recommend watching this highly enough Goosebumps. Clearly I needed to hear this as only yesterday I was saying to a friend how angry I feel at my ancestors for leaving such a worldwide epic mess to clean up. Reposted from @ainetyrrellmusic Link to full vid from her bio *language warning* 🔥 WE CALL YOU NOW VIDEO is out on YOUTUBE 🔥 Is Mise Áine Tyrrell. I am an Irish woman living on stolen land and pay my respects to the Bundjalung Ancestors past present and emerging of where this track was recorded and released. I acknowledge sovereignty was never ceded. 🔥 This is a Song About Solidarity. We Call You Now. Remember Who you Are. Your Ancestors They Dreamt it. 🔥 Featuring @emilywurramara on vocals and @dhinawandreaming on Yidaki Video created by @onetimeproductionz an Indigenous film production crew in a collaborative cultural exchange. Our spirits and those of mine and their ancestors met in the middle and exchanged photos and stories and through this medium of modern storytelling, what we have produced is an Irish and Indigenous cultural exchange. May the fire of this be with you too. 🔥 Link to vid in bio #wecallyounow
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New Moon greetings Current mood - blossoming with new ideas . After a health enforced stop, it feels like the time is here to grow and move again. There's a reshuffling of projects going on and I'll be shifting focus from what I had planned (2020's most useless word) to be creating. It will be good. Big. Bold. Better. . Art available. Message for details. #modernbotanicals #originalart #inkandwatercolor #jasmine #newmoon #artforsale #moongreetings #welcometospring #itsabeautifullife #newmoonritual
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Save our koalas from extinction. Don't let them become the next Tassie Tiger. 🌿 Koalas need trees. Old trees, they can live in. These take at least 30 years to get to the stage they are large enough. Quit cutting them down in koala habitat. Demand real surveys for koalas before approving logging. Reassess an area after bushfire!! Common sense please. 🚙 Koalas need their habitat uncrossed by roads. Cars and koalas are a fatal mix. 🐕 Koalas need domestic dogs kept away. New housing estates backing onto koala habitat means dead koalas. 🛑 Death by a thousand cuts. Every decision, "it's just this one ... logging coupe / area of land cleared / one extra road" is a choice, a vote, for extinction of our national icon. Koala habitat needs to prioritise koalas. Unless you're ok with being part of making them the next thylacine? By the time people in power woke up to how serious the problem was, it was waaaay too late. @GladysB @Matt_KeanMP @RobStokesMP @SussanLeyMP @melindapaveyMP @GreatKoalaNP #SaveOurKoalasGladys #StopExtinction #savethekoalas #saveourspecies #Thylacine #TassieTiger #koala
