@laurenheywood@social.ds106.us

Multidisciplinary schemer. Artist. Fruit larcenist. I mostly post photos from my allotment garden but enjoy art, nature and ethical tech themed content too.   West Midlands, UK.

Alt: Header image is a screenshot of Google Streetview showing two adjacent shops, one with a sign reading “THE PET SHOP” and the other reading “BOYES”. Profile image is a photo of four sunflowers in a bunch set against a brick wall.

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@laurenheywood@social.ds106.us

Saved this image a long time ago. Recently I’ve been collecting and sorting heritage / heirloom seeds ready to give away, and “gardening is a revolutionary act” often comes to mind.

At the allotment we share and give away spare produce, use second-hand materials to build things, support and give time to each other for free, make spaces for wildlife and care for our environment. Which shouldn’t be radical but feels it in a world increasingly measured by profit and monetary mechanisms.

A hand drawn comic on dot paper entitled The Tree of Liberty. It has four windows each with an image accompanied by text. First window shows a green bell pepper cut in half with seeds shown, the text reads “This is a green pepper. It cost 75 cents at the grocery store.” Second window shows sun and clouds over a row of green pepper plants, the text reads “Inside the pepper are enough seeds to make hundreds of - maybe thousands more peppers.” Third image shows a computer screen displaying an FBI image and next to it a bookcase with a hand outstretched in front holding a phone screen displaying the message 2 plays left. The text reads “In a world where nothing comes for free and it’s profitable to control what people copy and create”. The fourth window reads “gardening is a revolutionary act” with an image of a garden with a garden gnome nestled between two tomato plants, a ground bed of root vegetables, a sign reading community garden and another reading FREE stood next to a container of produce. Complete with a picket fence and flowers. By Bell @disorganizedjoy