Watercolor painting artist from Russia Irina Pirogova

I was pleasantly surprised to discover wild blackberries growing along the road in the wooded area right next to my subdivision. My backyard connects to these woods. I was a bit skeptical about picking the berries that grow along the road, because of the toxic fumes that come from cars, but it isn’t a busy road, and there’s never any traffic on it. So I picked some, brought them home, washed and tried some. The berries were fairly sweet, but not too sweet. They were certainly not any worse than store-bought blackberries. Florida has many different variety of species of wild blackberries. This species doesn’t grow into a bush, but more like a wine. Very thorny, but produces lots of berries. I want to try to bring some of the plants into my backyard so that I could have my own wild blackberries without toxic car fumes

All animals deserve to enjoy life, and experience happiness, and comfort. All mothers deserve to keep their babies by their side, even farm animals. Once we started raising animals for business, for profit making, instead of just to sustain our own family’s needs, that’s when all of the problems started, or at least that’s my opinion. Urbanization, industrialization produced high demand in foods, and products, and that’s when everything started being mass-produced, including animals

Small scale and organic is better for humans, animals, and the planet.

Animal mothers love their babies no less than human moms love theirs