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It’s April, and that means there’s less than a month until Solarpunk Action Week 2021 (April 25th-May 1st)! 

Have you made your plans yet? Do you have plans for a veg garden? Are any groups near you planning May Day actions? Do you have an affinity group or a buddy? Are you connected to your local mutual aid group yet? Will you be doing any DIY projects or direct action? 

Let us know in the replies! We’ll be sharing your responses on this blog to inspire others, and of course sharing your actions too! If you need inspiration, scroll through our blog a bit to see the resources we’ve shared and all the actions from in previous years

A better world is possible! Let’s build it together!

I've been preparing for few things to do during the week

• tutorial on how I usually make pants
• silk paper sun catchers
• party decorations
• milk carton mini greenhouses
• something for my “pimp my tradition” folk costume project
• embroidered patches
• guerilla art
• take #2 on growing mushrooms
• clothing designing
• solarpunk picnic!

I don’t plan on doing all of these, I’ve (hopefully) learned my lesson on planning for more than I have spoons for, but these are options of what I could do and what I have done some preparations for.

Ooo, this’ll be my first SPAW! here‘s some things I’m planning:

- plant more things in my garden (I want to focus on attracting more butterflies as pollinators because someone that lives near my garden is deathly allergic to bees)

- mend some clothes (thrift store jeans and a cardigan)

- hem a corduroy skirt to be knee-length

- cinch the waist of most of my jeans

- try to make more teas w the stuff from my garden

- finally finish that book on environmental policy

- make a bee bath!

- try out that moss milkshake paint thing… that’s mainly for me, it just looks rlly neat

- try out different water saving techniques and see what works

and that’s about it! If anyone has any more suggestions for what I can do, I’d always appreciate hearing them!

I have some mending I plan to do on a blanket I like. I ordered some trees through the Arbor Day Foundation that I should be recieving/planting around that time. I am also hoping to be able to get my rain garden together with native plants from my the sale my local conservation center puts on annually ♡ I will also be cruising arpund my neighborhood on my bicycle to pick up some of the litter (it is constant because I live on a school road).

I was supposed to me at my place for the week but I’m gonna be with my mom who will be recovering from surgery instead, so no planting the garden for me unfortunately. But, it does mean I have a captive audience in my mother, who went to art school for fashion design, as I learn how to mend clothing.

Plus, it gives me some time to finish my book on ecosocialism AND have some conversations with my pretty conservative family.

Let’s see if I can get my ass in gear enough to put together some of those woodshop projects I’ve been keeping around since spaw last year… pallet bench; suburito; maybe fix up the shed ramp if I get real frisky

the bench is for donating to a bus stop near my house. plus I have some parts to give to the local bike co-op.

Start my own garden and help my great aunt with hers (she has a large on, but its getting to be too much for her alone)

Sew all of the buttons back on to clothing, which i have been avoiding

Stop by the community garden and get the schedule for events and probably sign up to help

Pick up trash along the road

Check-in with the local libraries and see if they need any volunteers

I’ll be mending clothes all that week. It’s the most I can do with chronic fatigue syndrome, but between that and relearning how to use my bread machine that’s collected dust for several years, it’s something I can make good progress in.

We do not make plans for specific times in this house cus were all ADHD, but we have just begun adding gardening to our home ed curriculum since the kid wants their diet to be more local and sustainable, and we are at some point going to add repairing and making clothes, recycling and repair, and as the weather gets better we will be helping the neighbour with his allotment. Were also going to start litter picking in the woods where we take our walks.

(We might also be planning to sneak some edible plants into the green areas around the village, should we end up with more than we need at home)

It’ll be food-focused for us! We’ll be right in the middle of our tomato Harvest, and we’ll be fixing up the sweet potato and planting some radishes and carrots. I’m also going to alter the face masks that I use for work so that they fit my face better! If I manage to finish all of that, I’ll go ahead and crochet some more donation items :)

I ordered some native wildflower seeds and they’re coming tomorrow (anticipated)! There’s a big ol flowerbed by my dorm that has nothing growing in it but a porterweed and something else I can’t identify yet, so I’m gonna rough up the soil a bit and scatter some wildflower seeds! I won’t be there to see the results but I’m still excited!

One of my neighbors is excited about getting into gardening so I’m also going to start some zucchini plants for her! If I start them this week they may be ready to give to her by that week! Also might start a handful of other things for her, like tomatoes and summer squash!

I’m a little ahead in that I’m building a raised vegetable garden this week, but next week I’ll be actually planting in it! Gonna be planting radishes, carrots, turnips, onions, garlic, basil, and tomato! Very excited to stop relying on the produce aisle :)

And I have clothes to mend, cleaning to do, donations to make to the local food drive, etc.

This is my first SPAW and im thrilled to be part of a community

• As with every SPAW, I’ll be running the blog and sharing everyone’s actions throughout the week
• As with every week, I’ll be volunteering with Birmingham Mutual Aid on Tuesday (and possibly more) and with the Birmingham Free Store, probably on Friday and Saturday
• I’m gonna try to organize some extra actions for that week, namely a workday for the People’s Park at the Free Store and a mutual aid supply drive for both BhamMA and the Free Store
• There will no doubt be gardening tasks at my house that week. Not solid on what those will be yet, we’ll see!
• And finally, I’ll be going on a distro run to 7 little free libraries around the city to drop off this fat stack of radical reading material taken from the Free Store’s abundance, including copies of Inhabit’s Instructions for Autonomy, the 2 most recent issues of Slingshot Magazine, CrimethInc’s guide to graffiti, flyers about local resources/organizations/causes, and more. While I’m out I’ll also be throwing up tons of stickers!

My plan so far for the week is:

• Mend clothes
• Make paper from yucca (maybe. depends on weather. Can’t do it if there’s a burn ban)
  
• Put up a clothesline and use it
  
• Continue doing whatever needs done in the garden, including possibly laying down a stone path in the little kitchen garden so it’s more accessible???
• Take my niblings on nature walks to see whatever is growing

Tentative plans:

• Repot sprouts and plant new seeds
• Mending
• Figure out something to do with salvaged fabric
• Rope friends into “pick up trash from the woods” walks
• Stickers!

I don’t have the skills to do much, but I might take some time to learn how to make bread and scones, take my friend on a plant walk, and work on the restoration site as usual. I have so much homework that not much else is feasible but my stretch goal is to try making soap for the house.