Written information from Europeans goes back four centuries, like the account from the 1600s about cultivated food forests. The archeological finds about consumption in general are much older.

Mr. Trash Wheel is pretty cool:

https://www.mrtrashwheel.com/technology

I’ve read that in the southeastern states, Spanish moss was used like wool, also for thread and upholstery. But it doesn’t get nearly as cold down there 😆

I’ve seen folks online use Virginia creeper and pokeberry to dye fabrics, a soft green and vibrant purple respectively. I’d love to take a crack at them on cotton, maybe even a natural tie dye!

The US Forest Service has a chart with plants and their corresponding colors. I wonder if there’s a dye community on lemmy 🤔

Closing a herbarium during the sixth mass extinction 🤡

If nobody got me, I know Chesapeake Bay Watershed got me 🙏 Can I get an amen?

I listened to the audiobook and it felt bogged down at times. But the argument for claiming and using fictional stories to promote leftist ideas is interesting, especially framed around such a large pop culture phenomenon.

The blog posts condense Harris’ arguments pretty well. They joke around a lot in the TIR interview, which is how I was introduced to the book.

The above map doesn’t include fishing, it’s showing land use. This shows fishing:

Here is another one about land animals:

Interactive map