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@soph_sol @kittyc not a ton of variety but they do sell beans in reasonable direct to consumer portions! https://adagioacres.com/product-category/oats/

@soph_sol @kittyc this farm seems to sell lentil-containing soup mixes so maybe if you called them and asked they’d mail you Just The Lentils instead??? https://www.swallowtailfarmstead.ca/store/p552/Lentil_%26_Herb_Curry_Mix.html

downside: having to call and ask

@kittyc @soph_sol middle class liberals should learn to appreciate the humble bean imo

@soph_sol @kittyc i think usually its the storage issues that get smaller farms? for a small farm that only does fresh fruit/veg they often aren’t really equipped to store what they harvest for more than a few days whereas dried beans depend on an economy of harvesting all at once and then storing to sell thruout the year

they may still be amenable though to doing at least some quantities, esp if they can mark some portion of the crop down as guaranteed quick sales (thru putting it in CSAs or preorder or whatever) — a farm near my house recently acquired a dehydrator so they can sell dried fruit outside of the growing season and its so nice to get a cup of cranberries in with my fresh produce every week!

@kiesa i am continuously bemoaning the lack of such a shop within walking distance of my neighborhood

@greyor if you’re planning to keep any lawn, even in the short term, you could try overseeding it with more drought tolerant and pollinator friendly turf plants — MNU did a good study on plants for bee lawns that might be useful in that respect, which included not needing irrigation or fertilizer on their list of desired characteristics: https://extension.umn.edu/landscape-design/planting-and-maintaining-bee-lawn they link to some places you can buy bee lawn mixes that met their standards online as well as tips for how to establish, etc

@greyor happy to! your local university extension is definitely a goof starting point.

if you’re trying to keep costs down, your best bet is either seeds or landscape plugs. I used a mix of both for my garden — i got a set of 25 plugs from https://www.thepollennation.com when i moved into my apartment and had pretty good success, especially with the drought tolerant goldenrods.

I planted milkweed from seed (a friend collected some seeds from their plants and started them in an egg carton for me) as well as black eyed susans ( these i think? https://www.southernexposure.com/products/rudbeckia-cherokee-nf-ecotype/ ). the milkweed was doing pretty well until the bunny moved in and decided it was best thing ever lmao and i got soooo many plants from the black eyed susan packet even though i literally just planted them midwinter and hoped nature would do the job okay.

@greyor happy to offer some suggestions if you’d like! and you can definitely start small by just putting a few things in—my experience was that it was a lot easier and more rewarding than i’d worried it might be

@greyor time to replace the lawn with drought resistant plants?

@Betty are we talking disney little mermaid where she marries the prince or OG little mermaid where the prince marries another girl and then she dies?

@rigormorphis idk maybe its just that i’m not in a field that pulls high salaries but $400 is a LOT of money, i would definitely be uncomfortable receiving that much from someone i didn’t know very well, and wondering what kind of strings were attached especially since this is already a situation where as an intern vs an established employee i have a lot less institutional power than the gifter

@vaporeon_ both mammoths and mastodons are genuses, meaning they contain several distinct species. both genuses are in the same order, so they are distant relatives which accounts for some of their similarities (similar ecological niches also does a lot towards making them similar, they split off from eachother genetically at least 25 million years ago).

mammoths are closely related to the extant asian elephants (more closely so than asian elephants are with african elephants) but are distinguished from them by having large spiraling tusks and (on most species) cold adapted fur. the various mammoths ranged in size from modern elephant size to considerably larger.

mastodons are all decently closely related to each-other but not to anything else, living or extinct. the characteristic which first tipped us off that they were distinct from elephants & mammoths is that their teeth look like pairs of cones — mastodon literally means “boob teeth” (image from https://www.uky.edu/KGS/fossils/fossil-month-11-2021-mastodon-teeth.php )

@wallhackio this is why the taxonimists use fake latin so no one can tell when they’re failing at being snappy

@wallhackio is there a reason you can’t just use “usually visible”?