SF, carbon storage, happy bees

Hello, Dreamwidth! Here are a few things I've enjoyed lately.

Via ladybusiness: Light, Like a Candle Flame by Iona Sharma is a lovely, wistful story about local government, rebuilding, and loss, featuring an established queer relationship and a generation ship who has outlived her journey. 3.3k words, also available as 24 minutes of audio; do heed the content notes.

A book review by boxofdelights led me to this fascinating excerpt of Growing Good Food: A Citizen's Guide to Climate Victory Farming by Acadia Tucker. The premise is that just as victory gardens helped mitigate food shortages during World Wars I and II, regenerative gardening can not only replenish depleted soil but actually store carbon that would otherwise contribute to climate change. I do very little gardening, but this makes me want to do more.

This is a wise tweet about the way a lot of us are feeling right now.

And this is a video of bees rolling ecstatically in pollen.