This Intuitive community's PITTSBURGH PERMACULTURE PROJECT continues a-pace!
Just north of Pittsburgh and in many more places we are cultivating locational resourcing to support severely disabled survivors of human trafficking and related violence. In several of our Pennsylvania locations, we are beginning to discover the nourishments growing right here in front of us — and at Mack's location near Fox Chapel, we are delving in the tall grass, watching the weeds wield their wiley wealth and teach us the life-honoring learnings we'd previously been missing.
This work saves lives. Nowhere else have we found evolving infrastructures that truly embrace and include our most severely affected community members. Many have been wastefully excluded from community activities that can rapidly strengthen all our positions, all our collaborations.
If this is you, reach out to us. We're building for you.
When people discover this resourcing, it changes their lives. Our Intuitive friends who facilitate our Flow Fund (visit & contribute via https://paypal.me/IntuitiveInvisibles) have a front row seat and powerful place in witnessing and benefitting from the resource structures survivors themselves are co-creating.
You, too, are invited.
Is this the best game we've ever played? It is full of life energy. It makes us resilient. It heals our physical bodies. And it repairs our communities — increasingly stabilized and stabilizing, our work on this project literally -prevents- human trafficking pathways.
To all those who have been involved and growing with us, we are so deep in gratitude — rooting, rooted. And more and more — getting to eat the most wonderful healthy, restorative, nutrient-rich food.
Thank you so much for all this that is so good.
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I’m glad to talk more about wild grapes and whether to encourage them
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Stem

Lemon balm has a square stem if you want to compare what they look and feel like

Aromatic means it has essential oils and is smelly. Like the smell will cling to your fingers if you touch it a bit

I’m so curious what this plant is


Heee this is so fun

Serrated might be a good descriptor for these leaves

This bottom pic looks a bit like echinacea

Which has tougher thicker leaves than a lot of plants,

like chickweed has thin leaves that are easy to bruise

Blackberry is green underside the leaf and raspberry is white

Oh the young leaves are fuzzy and crinkly mmmmm

Blackberry thorns are owy
Up there with rose thorns which hurt a lot

raspberries have thorns and-or finer hair-like spikes and the cultivars are less thorny I think and black cap raspberries have thorns but not fuzz.

Raspberry stems are a good place to see an example of plants producing wax, they are purple underneath the white wax and you can scape a bit off to see. I think blackberries might get wax on their stems too, not sure rn.

Yay

You could gently investigate if they have runners between them on the surface or underground, like with a pick or a butter knife or something. But I agree we don’t need to dig them up, we can just wait for them to flower.

Leaves not opposite

alternate?
Seeming to spiral 🌀