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Oct 17Liked by Amanda "Earth" Royal

I love the idea of you all dancing together and making the broccoli taste its best!

I've always been fascinated by the bees' waggle dance...

Thanks for mentioning my article, I should use Freecycle more to be honest.

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Oct 17·edited Oct 17Author

My friend has shared with me that some growers play music to their tomatoes. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Happy to find you here, Juliet!

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Oct 18Liked by Amanda "Earth" Royal

Your comment reminds me that I've read something about playing music to plants, I'll need to look that up.

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Oct 22Liked by Amanda "Earth" Royal

The difficulty here is - there is nothing, not dancing, not fertilizer, not fine herbs and spices, that can, in my very humble opinion … make broccoli (or cauliflower) taste good.

It’s fun to think something could … but it can’t! On that, George HW Bush and I were in total agreement.

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Oct 24·edited Oct 24Author

You've got to try it at this particular farm with this particular dance. Perhaps a conversion would happen.🤣

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Oct 24Liked by Amanda "Earth" Royal

Dear lady, I will try it yet again, in your presence, if given the opportunity.

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Oct 24Liked by Amanda "Earth" Royal

… my mother had a rule, you see. If we didn’t like something, we had to try it five friggen times until we could pass on it!

Can you imagine?

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Oct 18Liked by Amanda "Earth" Royal

Love this, all of it. Thank you.

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Good to hear 🐝

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Oct 18Liked by Amanda "Earth" Royal

Your essay makes me want to dance while eating organic broccoli. Nicely done! Off topic slightly, as a child my favorite food was broccoli. Didn’t make me popular, but I don’t think I cared…

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Funny, my kid loves broccoli, too. She could eat it every day.

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Oct 18Liked by Amanda "Earth" Royal

I like your kid!

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Oct 19Liked by Amanda "Earth" Royal

Thank you for poetically sharing valuable information. The photography is stunning.

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Thanks : )

Some of the photos were taken by my young daughter, who is already more familiar with my phone’s portrait and close-up modes than I am.

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Oct 19Liked by Amanda "Earth" Royal

Beautifully written, as always. I was dancing along with you and eating the broccoli and enjoying the bees! I love your comparison of humans to bees, we are all just storytellers in the end. So insightful.

How do you take science and turn it into optimism, weave it into a beautiful story, educate us, and promote other articles full of encouragement? You have a perfect formula here. And your pictures are pure happiness.

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Thanks dreary!

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Potatoes : sweet or russet can be easily organic grown in a backyard large pot and reap rewards of their nutritional benefits. Weeds are many that one should identify and learn to harvest their nutrients. Centuries ago they were consumed for food. Now poisons pumped on then.

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Potatoes grow pretty easily and abundantly that way, don't they? We've only tried in small amounts. They will grow in my compost, too!

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Love this joyful sharing of your organic farm visit.

I am quite passionate about organic farming and purchase organics exclusively. The included link is a group of organic farmers I support who are the original certifiers of the USDA's organic program. Disappointment about the government agency's favoritism toward big ag caused them to break and create their own certification. They are especially dismayed hydroponics has organic certification when it's not grown in soil.

Perhaps their group is of interest to you.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjP9dCE75WJAxWhv4kEHWVHKOYQFnoECAgQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Frealorganicproject.org%2F&usg=AOvVaw1dKk1A0V_UqperZgIuO847&opi=89978449

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Thanks for the link!

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yer welcome 🦋🥔

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who knew, there's a potato emoji 🤣

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