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Muddy road. Traffic jam. Permaculture.

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#leafcutterants #ants #hormigas #insects
#wildlifephotography #naturephotography
#Amazon #Amazonia #AmazonRainforest
#conservation #reforestation #TreesNotGrass

Leaf-cutter ants are carrying fragments of green and pale-gold leaves through muddy terrain, and they have dropped many of the pieces. The ground is muddy brownish clay with a few small stones visible. A piece of wood lies in the centre of the image, creating a bridge across a small puddle of water. This bridge seems to form a "T" intersection with another line along which the ants have been transporting leaves, but the there is no clear direction to the ants' movement discernible in the photo. Most of the ants seem to have congregated at one end of the piece of wood, but few of them are still carrying their leaves.

#SilentSunday #SolarpunkSunday
#BloomScrolling #flowers
#FruitTrees #homestead #garden
#FoodForest #FruitForest #sunrise
#Amazon #Amazonia #AmazonRainforest
#reforestation #TreesNotGrass

A photograph of the view from one of the houses at Finca Del Soul looking east at sunrise. The photo contains a diverse array of lush vegetation. In the foreground are smaller herbaceous plants including some with showy purple flowers. Behind them are some small trees and ginger-like plants growing up out of a carpet of pinto peanut. Farther back are coffee trees with badea vines climbing them, larger native trees, and a hill in the distance over which the sunrise is cresting and illuminating a sky streaked with wispy white clouds.

#SilentSunday #BloomScrolling
#flowers #fruit #reforestation
#FruitTrees #FruitForest
#FoodForest #FoodFreedom
#Amazon #rainforest #Amazonia
#AmazonRainforest #TreesNotGrass

A pale yellow Rollinia mucosa fruit held is held in someone's left hand above a ground-cover of pinto peanut from which two clusters of blue-ish flowers are emerging.

Not a "Silent Sunday" post this time.

"I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees."

#ForestFriday

These photos show only a small sample of what we must protect.

There are people in this world who want to see these trees cut down.

There are people in this world who want to see these rivers dredged.

There are people in this world who want to see these mountains mined.

There are people in this world who eat triple-cheese pizzas without thinking of the #deforestation and slavery and death that their meal requires.

Be a part of the solution. There are many ways to contribute. (We don't want your money.)

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#forest #jungle #trees
#NaturePhotography #vegan
#conservation #reforestation
#Amazon #rainforest #Amazonia
#AmazonRainforest #river
#volcano #mountain #sunset
#LandForSale #TreesNotGrass

A photo looking up into the Amazon Rainforest canopy. The strong afternoon sunlight illuminates the browns and greens and yellows against a bright blue sky.

A photo looking across a small river flowing through the Amazon Rainforest. The river rounds a bend in the centre-right of the photo and flows leftward where the shallow water rushes over the rocks. In the background, the afternoon sunlight illuminates the lush rainforest vegetation. In the foreground some grass-looking plants are sprouting up from the sediment between the rocks at the water's edge. At the right and top of the photo is a small tree leaning toward the river and casting some shade over the edge of the water.

A photo looking westward across the Amazon Rainforest from a high vantage point surrounded by dense vegetation including trees, ferns, and grass. The sun is setting behind the Gran Sumaco volcano, illuminating the sky from behind the dark sillouette of the mountain. A few wispy clouds are visible above and around the mountain. The yellow of the sunset makes the mountain appear almost blue in comparison.

Are you a badass #fruiterrarist at heart but unable to battle the grass due to distance or disability?

Do you feel more comfortable with agitprop and HTML than with machetes and shovels?

Would locating and retrieving valuable plants and supplies from across the world be your kind of adventure?

Is your fiat cash about to become worthless if you don't use it to buy a large tract of threatened #rainforest ?

Does your spirit yearn for a world free of oppression even as you find yourself too oppressed to travel?

Afraid of banana? No problem! The #AmazonRainforest doesn't discriminate, and it needs all the help it can get.

We welcome all who share our Core Values to contribute in whatever way they can toward saving the Amazon.

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If you feel drawn to participate in this movement, don't hesitate to contact us about getting involved!

All skills are needed. All (peaceful) animals are comrades. All clams are bivalves.

#conservation #reforestation
#vegan #anarchist #veganarchist
#Amazon #Amazonia #jungle
#fruiterrarism #TreesNotGrass

$A greyscale graphic of many objects with different labels as well as a title over a gun saying \"for every fighter, there are 10+ support roles, find you role today!\". The other labels are \"propaganda\" next to an open can of spray paint. The word \"security\" alone\". The word \"safe houses\" alone. Then the word \"medics\" next to a medical bag with a strap. The next says \"communications\" and is next to a walkie-talkie. The next is the word \"transport\" next to some hanging car keys. The next is \"logistics\" next to some papers with unreadable words. The next is a laptop with the word \"intelligence\" written on the screen. The next line has the words \"espionage\" \"recon\" and \"Scouting\" next to some binoculars. The next is repairs and maintenance next to some tape. The word supply next to some cans of food. The last is \"smuggler\" next to some bullets."$

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#SilentSunday #deforestation #moo
#landscapephotography
#reforestation #LandForSale
#fruiterrarism #fruiterrarist
#Amazon #rainforest #Amazonia
#AmazonRainforest #TreesNotGrass

A view from a high vantage point of a cow pasture with a few scattered trees and other native plants. Behind the pasture there is a vast expanse of rainforest stretching to the horizon under a clouded sky.

A view from the road of a cow pasture behind a barbed-wire fence. There are a few scattered trees and other native plants in what is otherwise a monoculture of grass. Several cows are visible at medium distance. Far in the rear of the image, the rainforest is visible under a white sky.

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#SilentSunday #banana #reforestation
#veganic #FoodForest #FruitForest
#fruiterrarism #fruiterrarist
#Amazon #rainforest #Amazonia
#AmazonRainforest #TreesNotGrass

$A photo of a young red banana plant, about 1 metre tall. The pseudostem is streaked with bright red, and the parts of the \"real\" leaves that attach to the pseudostem are almost completely red above. The non-red parts are silvery-green below. There are six leaves in three tiers along the height of the pseudostem. The upper surfaces of the leaves are medium-green except for the midveins which start red at the base and turn yellowish-green toward the tips. One of the two uppermost leaves is newly emerged and pointing mostly upward and is a lighter yellowish-green than the other leaves. The banana plant is surrounded by light brownish mulch composed of miscellaneous plant matter. Outside the mulch ring, the grass stands ready to invade (but has been exterminated since this photo was taken). In the background at the upper right of the image are the horizontal boards of a wooden structure, and at the upper left, a small wild banana plant and the foliage of a Citrus tree. In the far background, upper centre of the image, more trees and other vegetation are visible.$

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#SilentSunday #moo #deforestation
#Amazon #rainforest #Amazonia
#AmazonRainforest #TreesNotGrass

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#SilentSunday #trees #conservation
#Amazon #rainforest #Amazonia
#AmazonRainforest #TreesNotGrass

At just two years old, they are much too young to be having babies of their own!

#Artocarpus integer × heterophyllus

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#nangcem #cempejack #chempejack
#fruiterrarist #fruiterrarism
#veganarchist #veganarchism
#veganic #rainforest #gardening
#FoodForest #FruitForest #FoodFreedom
#Amazon #Amazonia
#BloomScrolling #SolarpunkSunday
#GrowYourOwn #TreesNotGrass
#FincaDelSoul

Rollinia mucosa, formerly Rollinia deliciosa and still muy deliciosa for us, is a native #Amazon #rainforest #fruit tree that is widely adapted and (unlike many of its cultivated congeners) grows well in areas with a high water table. It sprouts up like a weed at #FincaDelSoul as the birds scatter seeds across the the landscape and aid us in the #reforestation effort and the stewardship of an abundant #FoodForest ecosystem. The fruit is more goopy than most of its Annona relatives, without well-defined carpels, and it has a very pleasant custardy texture with a sweet and slightly tangy flavour that is maybe something between cherimoya and caimito. Here our new friend and valued #volunteer is harvesting the last fruit of the season, about to enjoy a small sample of the deliciousness that is possible when we grow together with the forest and plant #TreesNotGrass.

Great fruit, great friends, great aspirations. Finca Del Soul is accepting volunteers to co-create a new paradigm of #SustainableLiving and #FoodFreedom here in the #AmazonRainforest and set a positive example that others can emulate.

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#Rollinia #Annona #Annonaceae #biriba
#fruiterrarist #fruiterrarism
#veganarchist #veganarchism
#veganic #FruitForest #gardening #Amazonia
#ecuador #VeganTravel #TravelWithPride
#GrowYourOwn #SolarpunkSunday

Not everything growing here in Badass Fruiterrarist Land is food, but the #AmazonRainforest is full of very interesting trees! Couroupita guianensis, the cannonball tree, has big and showy #flowers that are produced on stalks that emerge directly from the trunk. Each flower is open for just one day before falling to the ground below and breaking apart into a beautiful mess of pinkish-red petals. The fruits are allegedly edible if harvested at exactly the right stage, but we did not dare to partake. The #fruit pulp also has supposed medicinal value as a topical wound treatment to prevent infections, but we have not tried using it for that purpose. The hard shell of the fruit, properly cleaned and dried, can be used as a bowl-shaped container, and though it deforms a bit when dried, it holds up pretty well! We've started using it as the "cannonbowl" to hold our near-daily harvests of ají and naranjilla.

(Apparently mice don't like the smell of the ripe fruit. They stayed out of the house once we brought this thing inside!)

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#Amazon #rainforest #jungle #Amazonia
#GrowYourOwn #TreesNotGrass
#BloomScrolling #SolarpunkSunday

Theobroma cacao is an understory tree native to the #Amazon #rainforest where it grows and fruits in the dappled shade cast by ice-cream beans and other canopy trees. The cacao's showy pink flowers feed bees and other native pollinators, and the #cacao fruit is sweet and sour with a very pleasant and refreshing flavour. Any #FoodForest in #Amazonia could get a boost of biodiversity benefits by including some cacao.

However, in #ecuador and many places throughout the tropics, commercial farms slash and burn the #jungle and plant huge monocultures of cacao in order to maximise profits. These monocultures open up the landscape to invasion by grass and other noxious weeds and leave the cacao trees highly susceptible to infections — problems that the growers control with toxic chemical fumigants that poison the soil and water, so the plantations are almost completely devoid of animal life.

Immediately after destroying the rainforest, people often grow maize first and sell it locally, then "convert existing agricultural land" to cacao plantation or cattle pasture and market their product as "deforestation-free" or other labels that command a premium in foreign markets. Do not fall for it. If you do not #GrowYourOwn then the #chocolate bar or hot #cocoa that you consume is most likely a product of #deforestation in the #AmazonRainforest or elsewhere.

Badass Fruiterrarist Land is a #reforestation effort reclaiming the lands cleared for cacao plantations and cattle pasture and transforming them into diverse and abundant #FruitForest in order to restore a functional ecosystem while also securing #FoodFreedom for the badass fruiterrarists who live here and protecting the habitat of the native animals from further destruction.

(In the meantime, we have a lot of cacao available to eat.)

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#veganarchist #veganarchism
#fruiterrarist #fruiterrarism
#vegantravel #volunteer #LandForSale
#SolarpunkSunday #TreesNotGrass

A photo of a burnt area of land. Some branches remain on the ground, and some mandarin trees and banana plants have survived with some singed leaves. The ground is a mix of black and brown. In the foreground and the background, some ugly brown grass still stands, having recently gone to seed. In the far back of the image, at the top of the hill, the last patch of original rainforest remains, its dark green contrasting with the brown and burnt landscape below and the white overcast sky above.

A photo of an area of land recently cleared and used to grow maize. The maize has been harvestd, and the straight rows of dry and brown stalks are visible in the background. In the centre of the photo is a single banana plant with one of its pseudostems broken and bent down to the ground. The foreground of the image contains a large blackened patch of ground where the refuse from the maize harvest was piled and burnt. Some green pasture grass is already colonising the area. In the far back of the image, at the top of the hill, the last patch of original rainforest remains, its dark green contrasting with the brown and burnt landscape below and the white overcast sky above.

A photo of a cacao tree growing in a monoculture plantation tinted slightly yellow by the late afternoon sun. Other than a small clump of taro visible near the bottom of the photo, the entire plantation consists of only cacao trees and invasive grasses (visible going to seed in the foreground). Any patch of ground not covered by cacao leaves is grass. No birds, insects, or other animals are visible. At the left of the image, far in the background, is what remains of the original rainforest, appearing almost blue in contrast to the vegetation in front of it.

A photo of a ripe red cacao fruit held in someone's left hand. The deep red appears almost purple in the holder's shadow and contrasts with the small amount of yellow between the ridges. The ground is visible behind the fruit and consists of the holder's shadow on a gravel road in the right of the photo and the invasive demon grass growing alongside the road in the left of the photo.

Finca Del Soul is the home of a developing #FoodForest with several trees producing fruit now and many more growing and starting to flower and fruit. We're watching the #Amazon #rainforest being destroyed all around us while we're planting and restoring this land, and we invite people who are conscious about the #deforestation (and environmental devastation in general) to #volunteer here and help with the #reforestation efforts.

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#veganarchist #veganarchism #vegantravel
#fruiterrarist #fruiterrarism
#gardening #FruitForest #GrowYourOwn
#ecuador #Amazonia #AmazonRainforest #jungle
#SolarpunkSunday #TreesNotGrass

The view from the side window of the loft facing northwest looks past a coconut palm and over a patch of ananás mixed with small ornamental plants with colourful leaves. Young fruit trees line the trail into the background leading to the other house.

The view from the side window of the loft facing north looks past a coconut palm and out over the metal roof that covers the well with small fruit trees and many native trees growing up behind. In the distance, the grass hill and the neighbour's cacao monoculture are visible.

The view from the rear of the loft facing north overlooks a diverse assortment of vegetation in the developing food forest, from a papaya plant up against the house to some naranjilla bushes emerging from the grass below to a mandarin tree a short distance away to the recovering native forest at the top of the hill. The neighbour's monoculture plantation of cacao is visible at the upper left of the image.

The front room of the loft in the rustic wooden house features excellent airflow due to being open on the northwest side. Ornamental plants grow up against the lower part of the roof, and the other house is visible in the distance. The walls and floor of the room are adorned with hand- and foot-painted art including a large sunflower mural. A hammock hangs in the right of the photo.

Would anyone like to help us stop this #deforestation ?

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#Amazon #Amazonia #AmazonRainforest
#ecuador #reforestation #conservation
#LandForSale #TreesNotGrass
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Flowers from the Finca

At Finca Del Soul, we're tearing up the tools of tyranny and turning inhospitable invasives into beautiful blooming #biodiversity one plant at a time.

From cattle pasture and grass-infested coffee plantation, we re-beautify this land into a functional ecosystem with the end goal of meeting the needs of all who inhabit it. As our neighbours continue to destroy this amazing #Amazon #rainforest landscape around us, #bees #butterflies #hummingbirds and other #pollinators find refuge among the #flowers and fruits of our labour.

These flowers not only provide for the animals who are displaced by the expansion of grassland and monoculture plantations; their vibrant colours brighten our days and remind us that what we do here is making a difference, however small it may seem at times.

In an age when nature is increasingly under siege, protecting wild and free places is the ultimate form of disobedience. Cultivating beauty has become an act of protest. For us, flowers are just the beginning, a sign of what is to come: a thriving #FoodForest and a radical abundance of fruit.

We welcome you to visit our website for more information about what we do here and how to join us here as a #volunteer or start your own #reforestation project as our newest neighbour.

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#fruiterrarist #fruiterrarism
#GrowYourOwn #gardening #fruitforest
#naturephotography #orchid #heliconia
#passiflora #plumeria #lantana
#BloomScrolling #SolarpunkSunday #TreesNotGrass

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