Turning invasive nut sedges into fibers for #weaving and #cordage mostly because my mower is broken and I can't mow them down. 😭 Lemons=Lemonade or whatever. The #fiber is lovely and strong, ngl.

Welcoming the double hull Hawaiian canoe, the Hokulea, to Hilo Bay. #sailing #voyaging #canoe #hawaii #wayfinding #ceremony #culture

@mk30 a mini "indoor" pond I built by the back door, utilizing azolla. It's so cute!

@mk30 this is so real 😭
Live it. LIVE IT. I believe that the only way you can have some of these experiences, make these connections, and have stories to tell, is through actual experience on the land, and the chronological passage of time. You can't just get more creative w storytelling; things have to actually occur to experience these changes in thinking and living.
Yes, it's definitely a sun bear. 🥰

perhaps this is poking the solarpunk bear (is the solarpunk bear a sunbear? please say yes), but i am confused by the idea of "lack of stories". do people really not know what they should do to live in balance with the land? it's kind of straightforward: you contribute and care for the land and the land cares for you. it's *not* easy. most of us in the west do not have the skills for it and don't have access to land (and even if we do get land, it may be poisoned or not able to support life very well..and part of the lack of skills is being unable to evaluate which land might be good for living with).

sometimes i get the feeling that "we need more stories" is a deflection from actually doing the things that need doing: building community, learning how to live with the land, learning how to set up solar and water and shelters, setting up solar and water and shelters, getting access to land, living with the land, helping others get access to land and live with the land, nurturing the land to the point where it can feed people, and on and on.

no one has a readymade story to help you, personally, get a little bit of freedom from capitalism. everyone has to figure that out on their own (or with their friends, because having other people do it with you makes it a lot easier!). but the story for how to live is the same: live in balance with the land.

to that end, the stories come from indigenous peoples and are very, very old.

anyway, i feel like i must be missing something in the "we need more stories" conversation, so feel free to let me know.

#solarpunk #offgrid #diy #stories

@mk30 @CuriousMagpie @sarahconner yesssssss ➿➿➿➿ the magnificent curly fry of life ➿➿➿

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@mk30 it did. 🤩

In these dark times, it’s great to come together and find something we can all take joy in.

Creamed collards with pakoras. OMG I'm glad I made extra. It's one of those dishes that doesn't really photograph well. Creamy green glop and fried fritter thingies. Just the right amount of 🔥 More delicious than it sounds. #cooking #food #homestead

#feminism #anarchism

I can't "clean" or organize my shack enough to make more room, but I can definitely hammer and nail my way into needing more Tylenol. 🥴

It's 4:20 p.m. in Kuliouou - Kalani Iki, Hawaii, United States 🇺🇸 (UTC−10) 🌎 #its420somewhere

A banyan tree growing on top of the ruins of an old sugar mill that shut down in the 1900s.

Located on the farm of @saltphoenix 's friend.

Here's a history of the mill and plantation it was a part of: https://www2.hawaii.edu/~speccoll/p_kauhut.html

It's in a very remote part of the island. It's hard to get to today, and I can't imagine how hard it was to get there back in the early 1900s. But that's how profitable it was to farm sugar.

Colonials established plantations in the middle of the Pacific ocean, on other people's land, growing a plant not from there, bringing in laborers from various other countries, and shipping the output to other places. All of this was vastly profitable, until it wasn't, and they shut everything down and left. That's extractivism. The banyan (another non-native plant) has the last laugh.

#hawaii #history #plants #sugar #colonialism #empire #labor #ecology #agriculture

@crinstamcamp ok. Just the usual homestead stuff. 🙂 How's things over there?

I have eggs. So. Many. Eggs.
#eggs #homestead #eatlocal

It's sunset, but if I didn't say it you might think it could be sunrise.
Good morning....

“In Hawaiian Hands: The Story of #Reggae in Hawaiʻi” traces the popularity and evolution of reggae in the Islands, from roots to the Jawaiian era, the precursor to today’s island music.

Part I, titled “Roots of Creation,” documents how the first local artists embraced and interpreted the new sound." #hawaii #music #history #documentary

https://youtu.be/TW20vbZt1xY?si=7H2pt_LtVTd84uBd

slogans at the Street Stitchers Mend in Public session :) @Edinburghstreetstitchers