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  • Well if you want to really help pollinators putting in a little more care than zero will pay big dividends.

    I’d say build or buy a planter, 4’ ish or smaller, lug some good dirt up, and use an ollas in the center. An ollas is an unglazed terracotta pot that you bury in the centerof the planter with the spout sticking above the dirt. then fill with water once or twice a week or so and the water slowly leeches out and waters the planter.

    Pick out any plant that flowers that you like thats labeled as a perrenial and full sun. Some will be labeled as pollinator friendly. But the bees in my area go nuts for anything, cucumber pepper I had a hummer go for bell pepper flowers once.

    Get like 4-6 plants for a 4’ planter, depending on how big they get. Plant em. Water em real good for two weeks to get the roots established. Like every day water em for two weeks. Then you can go to using just the ollas every so offen and some extra water in heat waves. After 4-6 months sprinkle in some fertilizer to help keep the nutrients in the soil good.

    Over winter, take the ollas out to avoid a freeze. Put back in spring. Probably a 2L ollas or small is all you need.

    If you really can’t be bothered, try hardy hens and chicks. They are small plants that come in lots of variety and make small baby plants. You can pinch off a baby plant and stick it in a random rockwall and it will probably survive. They aren’t gonna help a pollinator though, more ornamental. Or get into cactuses.









  • Yea ive run into this problem a lot. If there was some ethical and green EFT that are easy to ID I would buy them in a second.

    Ill invest in a stock only if its not tied to oil in any way that I can ascertain, isnt totally corrupt (facebook/nestle are out), and is American owned -since all my stuff is here and the last time I did out of country trades I fucked up my taxes and had extra fees because im too stupid to parse complicated tax law and too stubborn to pay someone to do that for me.

    EFTs are hard. Frequently I’ll get through a long list of the holdings and then, bam tesla, and im done with it. But Ill go in and buy small amounts of the direct stocks I like.

    I haven’t made any crazy gains. Covid wiped out my first year or so of gains and then I was doing great until Trump started up.