Buckthorn Removal Singles Club is a club focused on environmental and community restoration. Group is open to…


Much as the capitalist landscape has lead to natural spaces which are polluted, non-diverse, eroding, and choked by invasive species; capitalist management of our social environment has resulted in an online dating scene which is toxic, transactional, and unrooted in community. With online dating accounting for over 50% of new relationships (2025) and all other methods of meeting people in quick decline, it can begin to feel taboo to get friends to set you up on a date or ask out a stranger in public. The aim of this group is to bring people together in community over shared values and provide an alternative to the monoculture of online dating, where friendships and relationships can grow rooted in the nourishing soil of community care.

A monolithic hedge. Note how at the edge of the mature hedge deep shadows form underneath preventing any other plants from taking hold, as well as the progression of the hedge with new buckthorn shoots already beginning to dominate the foreground.

Alternatively, a short walk away the forest looks like this:

Notice the diversity of plants, the variance in height, and the light penetration all the way to the forest floor.


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