I’ve been fascinated by this fruit for a long time! I don’t think that I could grow it here, but if I lived in its native range, I would definitely go out in the forest and search for it every chance I got! I’ve even heard of a pawpaw that tasted like durian, but that may have been an exaggeration.

Long live the queen!

It will be years before I’m able to try the fruit of Diospyros blancoi, but I’ve heard only good things!

Do you mean Diospyros kaki? There are many species of persimmons, but I concur, many people don’t even seem to know what they are! I’m growing Diospyros blancoi since that’s what should do well in this climate.

Versatile too! Let it grow up big and strong for fruit production and overhead shade for other trees, or keep it small for chop-and-drop. Easy to guerrilla-plant it too, as seeds sprout readily in rainy weather, so you can simply load a sack of them on the bike and do some ride-by seed-bombing. Really an important plant.

Don’t think that I’ve ever tried that one. How would you describe it? I’ve tried another coffee, probably C. arabica, and it was okay, but not really a practical food source at all.

slrpnk.net already has its own XMPP chat option where one’s Lemmy username (e.g. [email protected]) is one’s XMPP address, and I imagine that other instances could do something similar if they wanted. XMPP is federated, so it doesn’t require any Lemmy-side coding for the federation aspect. For instance-wide chat (visible to all users of the instance), an implementation in XMPP would probably be easier as well, perhaps using some form of the group chat functionality. What does your proposal offer that cannot be done using XMPP?

The [email protected] yes, and I’ll wait a while before posting again. [email protected] is currently promoted in the monthly SLRPNK update post, so I’ll wait until next month to promote it elsewhere.

[email protected] is showing slow but steady subscriber growth. Would be great if others would start posting to it though.

Not “my” community, but [email protected] is more or less the same. Slow subscriber growth, and still not many people posting.

As poVoq suggested, start a tree nursery and plant trees around. Also grow your own food. These two things can be the same thing.

related to Wedderburn-Bisshop’s findings: A Critical Look at UN IPCC’s Emissions Accounting

According to Freep, police said the man was in stable condition after going to the hospital.

But is the cockroach okay?

I have even heard tell of a pawpaw that tasted like durian, but I cannot verify that claim.

No reason to stop at vacant lots. Parks, hiking trails, cleared areas in their native forests…

Climate change will affect the whole world, but some areas will be more affected than others. Higher elevations at the equator should remain relatively stable.

Deforestation is part of it. With continued climate change, such drought or flood events will only get more and more frequent outside of the equatorial region, with the most severe adverse weather events expected between 30°N and 60°N. The ocean will buffer the UK a bit from temperature extremes, but the inherent seasonality of the climate will still result in large variations in both temperature and precipitation. The temperature of the Atlantic Ocean is a major influence as well.

And let’s not forget those delicious ovaries! Sweet, juicy, engorged ovaries… Yum! 😋

I’d be interested in getting any updates on your efforts there! You’ll be setting a positive example for others around here.

Your plum woes call to mind horror stories of cherimoya in the tropics… We should all learn to eat what we can grow rather than stubbornly trying to grow everything that we’d like to eat.

Sourcehut also seems promising. There can be both.