News — rootwork education

Let the mint do its thing (part 377485 of “All-grass lawns are evil”) Americans spend $887 billion going camping and hiking and visiting national parks to view the beauty of nature, and then they go home and mow and spray and weed and fertilize and do everything they can to stop that nature from existing in their lawns and in their gardens.  Veronica Shukla. “For the Love of Mint in all its Spreading Glory.” The whole article at Think Outside the Lawn is worth reading for why to unlearn what you’ve been taught about the necessity of rigidly managing mint in your garden...

Don’t be a spiritual fuckboi. Chiron Armand

I have an entire category on this blog for “BS spotted on Pinterest,” under which I also post BS spotted on tumblr, Instagram, Facebook, etc.Tumblr has lots of BS. I’m especially (not) fond of the posts about hoodoo that copy/paste or screenshot or quote a portion of a book and then close with stuff like, “remember, kids, if you weren’t born into this culture/aren’t the right race or ethnicity/are trying to be a convert/whatever, it’s appropriation: Do Not Touch because it’s a closed practice” and similar such BS bits of racist, essentialist, historically ignorant, anthropologically blind, genealogically clueless posturing, gatekeeping,...