Any fellow grass touchers? Would love to here about your time. I got to eat so many wild raspberries, they were so delicate but so flavorful.
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gah... its so hot and there's so much to do and I'm naturally a lazy person...
There's tons of black berries to be picked and the while cherries need to get in the freezer before the July heat/lack of rain makes them unusable.
Pear trees are loaded as fuck. If the crows aren't too greedy we're gonna be hard pressed to find freezer space for storage. I worry that the ancient dehydrator will give out, the fan motor makes some pretty angry noises these days.
Not sure if you have them where you are, but orgs like Food Not Bombs will usually take fresh produce off your hands if you have extra. All the houses around here have orchards, gardens, etc and I have duped my neighbors into donating to them too. Told them the truth sort of, just left out the details because they are probably all magats. They give me all their extra harvest and I drive it into the city and drop it off.
The people with FNB hand it out fresh and make preserves and stuff before it goes bad. Highly recommend this if you have extra.
Tricking magats into doing good things is based as hell
One of them wants to go with me to drop it off and she's actually been kind of turning around over the last couple of years. She's the only one I've been pretty open with about politics. She went from being a trump voter to at least living in reality, but it took her family getting deported (she's also an immigrant, but 40+ years ago and very much indoctrinated by her dead, weird prepper husband)
She's a very generous person, so I'm hoping that will come out even more around the FNB folks and maybe just being around people doing direct action will help her understand that leftist ideologies are genuinely about helping people. The country she's from has a history of anti-communism and CIA coups and shit like that, so it's a challenge to get around all that