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Devine Lu Linvega

I wonder if there's such a thing as guerilla gardening geocaching.

Planted wheat, barley and mustard greens at 50°8.409'N 124°56.842'W

Planted lentils, mung beans and radishes at 50°8.527'N 124°40.195'W

#geogardens

39 comments
Duncan

@neauoire yes. You've just invented it. Brilliant.

Lerk :verified:

@neauoire someone needs to build a big centralized platform where we can all put our entries into :thonking:

wakest ⁂

@neauoire I would def add a bunch of geo coordinates to a merveilles list of places to harvest food! I sadly keep them all in google maps still and have been meaning to migrate them somewhere better

Devine Lu Linvega

@tty nice :) I will probably make 2-3 more on our way up, and check up on them again on our way down.

I might make a page on the 100r wiki about this, there's a few things to watch out for when doing this, and I'm not sure I like the idea of inspiring people to go plant invasive species all over, but I think if done well, this could be a pretty useful geocaching project.

jensu

@neauoire In Sweden there is a site called Fruktkartan (=the fruit map), an open database where you can add fruit trees on public land, fruktkartan.se/. This is obviously another step, but somewhat similar.

Wooden Pixel Games

@neauoire I think the sentiment is noble but I would encourage a bit of caution when introducing plants into the environment. This can wreck unintended havoc on local ecosystems

Devine Lu Linvega

@WoodPixel of course, that's why I chose these two islands which are already tempered by human activity.

smellsofbikes

@neauoire I don't know if this counts but local Craigslist has had GPS locations of apple and cherry trees that are bearing in excess.

bounding star

@neauoire love this idea! The fallingfruit.org/ map would be perfect for this!

Kermode

@neauoire
Your idea is fun and useful!
Different, but related, it reminded me of this guy who I think is great!

Went homeless. Done Guerrilla Grazing by choice ever since
youtube.com/watch?v=U54HRmglYE

Devine Lu Linvega

Turns out the emergency tiller is great at... tilling soil. 🥁 💥

Amazey

@neauoire I'm so glad it was deliberately put to that purpose, and not accidentally!

Devine Lu Linvega

@twistylittlepassages It makes these perfect holes and I can put the cylinder of removed soil right back on top, with its tuft of moss.

spooky blip 👻

@neauoire Tangential: after looking up that coord, I absolutely love the fact that the nearby towns are called "Squirrel Cove" and "Whaletown". And now you just planted Flavortown.

Devine Lu Linvega

@klardotsh It's a nice little nook, we're sharing it with just a handful of boats.

Devine Lu Linvega

Went to look over the soy and mung beans I've planted on a nearby island. They look healthy, they love it here.

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@neauoire I accidentally read that like, they live there [now]. 🙂

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@neauoire reminds me of Happy Gilmore as he yells at the golf ball: "go to your home!" except we don't yell at plants we sing to them.

Alessandro Melillo

@neauoire So are you trying to make them endemic?
I'm always attracted by the idea. I often grew tobacco, poppies, okra, beans, hemp, wisteria and many other plants, collecting seeds and tempted by plant them in the wild.
Is that an interference? Is it really important? Doesn't a bird do the same thing without being judged?

Devine Lu Linvega

@amelillo They have much less chance to survive than the plants naturally found in these parts, and they'll die in the winter. But since there's a short span between seed and pods, they're pretty ideal.

I've been planting them near logging camps where british loggers brought holly and all sorts of other things to plant around their cabins, I'll keep an eye out, but if they do too-well, I'll pull them out.

Devine Lu Linvega

Three weeks later, turns out the soy plants love it here!

Strypey

@neauoire If it isn't yet, it definitely needs to be. Would be really helpful in putting together those free food maps people make, by exploring their neighborhoods and noting public access fruit trees etc.

Devine Lu Linvega

Went back to check up on the lentils and fenugreek seeds I've thrown around.

I expected one or two seeds per mudball to sprout, not all of them.

spooky blip 👻

@neauoire ope you've proven that island is fertile growing ground now, I give it a week until some billionaire buys that island as "farmland"

(jokes aside, that's awesome that you're getting growth on what probably amounts to muskeg?)

Kolokoko Bird!

@neauoire What are you doing to keep the deer from eating everything you plant?

Devine Lu Linvega

@KolokokoBird they've got plenty of other better things to eat around.


@neauoire @KolokokoBird This question is one that haunts me. Alongside "how will you stop the boar from digging up everything you plant".

Devine Lu Linvega

@flatmountain @KolokokoBird the boar can have it if it wants it. So far nothing seems to be wandering in that portion of the island. I think it's a logging camp and it's all fenced up.

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