Why is it always Ohio.
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No one will look back and say there weren't signs when our planet dies. They'll finally realize we just ignored them.
Millions of people know and are trying to fight. The real truth is a small number of rich people are actively destroying things faster for profit and power. They are working to stop anyone getting in the the way of that. A good number of them are accelerationist psychopaths who should be removed from any position of power.
Personal responsibility is good and nice, sure. One private jet flight nulls years of work a single person does to right climate change. The target for why things are so bad is very clear and very obvious. Eat the rich
And it's all these agriculture heavy states that are fighting the hardest.
Ignored them and doubled down.
While we're on this subject... What exactly are the pawpaw and the prickly pear doing in the middle of the Indian jungle? For that matter, what's Cousin Louie doing there? How did he end up thousands of miles from Sumatra?
If Baloo was having his fruit imported from the Midwestern U.S., that's hardly the bare necessities, now is it?
The pawpaw in the Jungle Book is what's known in the US as papaya. It's been cultivated in India since at least the 18th century. Likewise prickly pears have been brought all over the world. By the time Kipling wrote The Jungle Book, both fruits were well established in India, just as many old world fruits have made it to the Americas.
You do know that song isn't in Kipling's novel, right? It was written by an American songwriter who very likely never even went to India.
I'm well aware. Are you aware that the Kipling novel specifically mentions pawpaw too?
Baloo does own a cargo plane.
Which, again, doesn't seem like a bare necessity.
Perhaps he was secretly rich, and thusly his esoteric definition was actually an eccentricity.
Look for the eccentricities, the simple eccentricities
Forget about your worries and your strife
I mean the eccentricities, old mother nature's recipes
That bring the eccentricities of life
Ha!
Love me some pawpaws and persimmons.
Just planted 2 trees I got at the Pawpaw festival a couple weeks ago. They appear to have survived the wind storm from Helene. Even if my lawn furniture was thrown 30 ft.
I’ve never had two pawpaws that tasted alike, and it’s the best part. Everything from banana through apple to peach and mango… so good.
I grow pawpaws on Long Island. They're delicious. It's sad to hear that climate change is affecting them, too. The tree looks tropical and the fruit tastes tropical because they evolved when the climate here was warmer and wetter. The flowers are meant for flies, beetles, and ants because bees didn't exist back then! Hopefully new varieties can be developed that will handle climate changes.
I have never heard of this fruit.
And I lived in Ohio for almost ten years. What is wrong with me?
You aren’t alone, I’ve never heard of it either. Though it sounds like something worth planting
I've only found them in farmers markets in the Midwest. They are DELICIOUS! The article is right, they taste kind like a combination of mango and banana. They have some large seeds you have to eat around, and the skin isn't super tasty, but the inside is great!
Pro-tip, the ones that look old and brown are the ones that are ripe and ready to eat, the ones that look yellow-green need another day or two to fully ripen.
They are not easy to grow. And they are male and female so you have to have both for fruits. I don't know the ratio, or much beyond that, I've never gotten a pod to sprout...
Guerrilla planting it it is. Why shouldn’t vacant lots have a few of them
It's wild seeing Washington Court House (yes that's the actual town name) in a general news byline. It's such a small and insignificant town.
Weird
There's probably a German word for this feeling
Way down yonder?
In the pawpaw patch‽‽‽
... in the the pawpaw patch. 🎶
I finally managed to try pawpaws this year. It was quite nice in Maryland and they're all over along riverbanks. They had nearly identical taste and texture to the sweetsops available throughout Asia, just with larger seeds. I have no idea why they're not widely available, the flavor is sweet and mild like most fruits that are popular in the US.
was it by the Potomac? are they done now?
Not sure, this was 2 weeks ago. Apparently the season was somewhat earlier than normal this year. The C&O Canal trail is the place to go though.
Apparently they aren't sold because they spoil fast. I've never heard of them personally