i just think they're neat

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• solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I just found my solution to bringing water to a concert without using a shitty plastic bottle.

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• Duranie@leminal.space ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My mom used to do arts and crafts things with gourds. When she passed there were easily over a dozen laying around the house plus a giant one she had started prepping, but never finished.

  She was cremated, and the plans were to bury her in the plot she already had next to my dad. State or county requirements, however, that works, allowed us to be the ones to dig the hole to actually place her urn in the ground. When the time came, her five children, their spouses and many grandchildren gathered to dig a great big hole in the ground. We ended up taking the big gourd that she had been working on and placed it in the ground, then as we filled that with dirt we placed her urn inside the gourd. In the end everyone took shovelfuls and handfuls of earth and covered her up.

  I can never look at a gourd without thinking of my mom.

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  • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    What a delightful way to go!

    Love the whole thing. How big was the gourd? (I gather it held the ashes?)

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  • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Someday in the distant future, there is going to be a very confused archeologist.

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    • Duranie@leminal.space ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lol when it was discussed with the funeral home folks (who gave us the shovel to dig with - left it leaning against the back door of the funeral home the morning of) they just said to let them know when we were done so they could document what was left there for the records.

      Yes. This happened in a very, very rural area lol.

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    • chaogomu@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Depending on how far along the prep work on the gourd was, it may have decomposed.

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  • CobblerScholar@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thats really sweet, thanks for sharing

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  • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My dad grew gourdes. One of the happiest pictures I have of him late in life is him standing on the porch, surrounded by gourdes hanging to dry. I have three of his goudes. I also have one of his loufas.

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• Broadfern@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Emotional support water bottles are human nature confirmed

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• mavu@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  more durable and lighter than pottery.
  gourd does the job better.

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  • janus2@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    also carries water much better than a basket

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• Zephorah@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Consider the luffa next. It’s a squash of sorts that grows on a vine. The inner matrix of the large zucchini looking fruits is the luffa sponge. Zone 10.

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• carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  holy shit is that why a common word for reusable water bottles in french is gourde??? whoa

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  • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You have an accent aggue on your name, so I’m inclined to believe you, but so do I. I do I don’t know how much authority it really imbues. Can you be trusted?

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    • carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      i am to be trusted, in my opinion (which you can trust because i am to be trusted) ☺️

      /j

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• Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They are edible tho

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  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Among other things

    The gourd is used traditionally to administer enemas. Along the upper Congo River an enema apparatus is made by making a hole in one end of the gourd for filling it, and using a resin to attach a hollow cane to the gourd’s neck.[52]

    which sounds… splintery…

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    • Randomgal@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ok now you got my attention

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    • chtk@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If only we had told this to Aleksey Tartarov sooner.

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• Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There could be some sense figuring first out using plant as water bottle. Old saying is that human survives few minutes without oxygen, few days without water and few weeks without food. Water > Food, and as hunter gatherer, food is around you (berries, roots, game) and you can carry them with you. Drinking water is more scarce and it’s storage is not so easy.

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• ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They probably just made really good bongs

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  • ruuster13@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why do you think we say “stoned off his gourd”?

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Just going to sit here and stare at this comment for a while.

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  • wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And in a pinch, dongs.

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    • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Image

      Checks out

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    • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Image

      Checks out

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• Contramuffin@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It probably has to do with weight. Pottery is pretty heavy and I assume this gourd, when hollowed out, isn’t

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  • Ashiette@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And resistance. Pottery tends to break easily, organic material is more resistant to most types of mechanical stress.

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• a_little_red_rat@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This reminds me of Ursula Le Guin’s “bag theory”: that the first tool humans developed, was not a weapon which is usually taught, like a spear, but rather, a bag, to carry things: for example for berries we picked. A nice reframe from the violent status quo.

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• ImWaitingForRetcons@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Bottle gourds are still eaten pretty regularly in India, and I suspect, other parts of the world too.

  Yep, I just checked Wikipedia, and yes, tons of purple around the world still eat it.

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  • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    tons of purple around the world still eat it.

    I wonder what the other colors eat.

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    • humorlessrepost@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The blues eat away at my life.

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  • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I was surprised to see them called inedible. The young gourds are tender and taste like squash.

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• dumples@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  At the art fair by my house is a lady who makes gourd earrings, birdhouses and instruments. She even wears a gourd hat. She grows them all herself. I tried to grow a luffa this year inspired by her. It failed because they are hard to germinate. Next year I’m doing a bottle gourd

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  • darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Never wear a hat you haven’t grown yourself.

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    • logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “As you can see, this hat is felted from my own body hair, and the decorative bits? My toenails.”

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    • dumples@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Real baller move. Time to get some sheep so I can make my own wool hats I guess. The gourd hat is more decorative than functional in the winter

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m growing bird houses and luffa! Get another pack of luffa seeds. Mine are 2 or 3 years old and almost every one has sprouted. This year I just stuck ‘em in the ground.

    Be aware! Once they get rolling they can grow nearly 1’ a day!

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• quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They were also used as personal flotation devices and floats for fishing nets.

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• Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They make great marlin houses

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• BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The large number of recipes on the internet seems to suggest that they are actually edible, though?

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