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The most successful form of vertical farming is agroforestry, or tree-based agriculture. It provides habitat, shade, carbon sequestration, and water retention while raising per acr…

For some reason they're called "bumpers" instead of "slicers" or "crushers" and frankly I just think that's just a failure of language not being able to keep up with the blazingly …

The lady in the vid, Valer Austin Clark, has some great lectures and slideshow presentations on YT if you search for her name and sort for 20+ mins. She built some absolutely massi…

I've been cell phone free since 2012. Article is correct, it's not that hard to live without one.

BS'ing

https://soilandhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/01aglibrary/010... this is the way

What better time than now to start implementing on your farm an agroforestry system based on nitrogen-fixing trees and shrubs.

Since 2011 I've been calling it megalobamboozlementarianism.

I currently move a Salatin-style chicken tractor 12 feet every day, and I could totally see turning this thing into a chicken tractor that moves itself. Bonus points if it could sp…

If you use water to compress the air as it goes down, you get isothermal compression. The trompe, which originated in the ancient Catalan forges, has been widely used over the cent…

of all lawns, yarrow lawns are by far the softest, and that silvery color makes everyone go wild.

Playwright is the bee knees. At my last tech job I did maintenance on about 400 wordpress sites, and I used playwright to automate a bunch of monotonous clicky tasks normally done …

Interesting, I will look into that.

Too much calcium carbonate is really detrimental to a wide variety of plants, it causes a condition called iron chlorosis. Basically plants will readily absorb calcium instead of i…

Even low grade geothermal is pretty awesome. Example: "Nebraska retiree uses earths's heat to grow oranges in snow" - https://youtu.be/ZD_3_gsgsnk

Thanks for posting that link. I took a look at their website and it's reassuring they way they succinctly pitch permaculture: "One collection of ideas and skills that’s already han…

I would love to hear what the authors of this paper think about permaculture; not the woo-woo hippie stereotype of permaculture that is so prevalent ("herb spirals", cob ovens, etc…

I had a rocket mass heater for a few years and it was awesome - no smoke out the chimney, just steam. I burned sticks raked up out of my yard, pinecones, construction scraps, etc. …

> "Cannabis has by far the highest conversion rate to schizophrenia of any substance" Quick, somebody call Deleuze and Guattari! /s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoanalysis

Alternative headline from a saner and more practical world: "Europe's drought might force acceptance of landscape-wide rainwater harvesting earthworks." The effectiveness of such e…

Can't recommend enough the song "Lovely Sky Boat"

Thanks for that explanation. I assume by "free living" you mean they can exist by themselves in soil apart from plant roots (or at least for part of their lifecycle)? I'm more fami…

So having read the article summary, then the research paper, then reading the article summary again... it seems that the summary isn't at all an accurate summary of the research pa…

No mention of nuts in the article, nor in the comments here, which is truly sad. It's like people have forgotten that nuts exist, as they are so often left out the discussion aroun…

> Water infiltration is measured by digging a small hole, filling it with water, and seeing how fast it drains. Informally yes, but the scientific way is to use a ring infiltromete…