farming

I’ve been working on the photobash I posted about apparently two months ago (jeez) and I think I’m getting close to being able to stop working on layout and start working on details. The problem is that the scope of this scene involves a lot of stuff, like agroforestry, that I only read about for making this picture, so I...

Glyphosate has proved divisive since the World Health Organization’s cancer research agency concluded in 2015 that it was probably carcinogenic to humans. Other agencies around the world, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and EU agencies, have classified it as non-carcinogenic....

Some midwestern fields are still bordered by hedgerows, but most US farmers don’t plant hedgerows and are skeptical of their benefits, worrying that they might introduce pests or predators to their farmland....

I’d read you could transplant them in the fall, after they’ve died back a bit but before the ground freezes. I finally dug a few out of two local groves and it turns out they’re different varieties! My neighbor gave me the okay to plant them (I’ve been helping him replace his lawn with local plants, and we’re...

I’m mostly asking because I posted a photobash of an airship yard I did to the solarpunk subreddit and someone brought up combining airship mooring masts and screw conveyors like grain silos use (though we might be closer to concrete-industry-scale once you lift stuff to mooring-mast-height). A combined mooring mast and silo...

Lots to unpack in this somewhat ranty article, but also some food for thought.

I use Fish Emulsion Fertilizer a lot in my own garden. It’s organic, and most importantly WORKS. You typically use it for plants bearing fruit (such as tomatoes, watermelon, squash) and not leafy vegetables (spinach, Swiss Chard, etc). It makes the fruits a lot tastier from my experience. I typically buy it from my local...

I love seeing this sort of thing in Farming. Are there any other places where dungbeetles are used as an input to a farm?...

Hi, recently I’ve been making these pictures/photobashes of different places in a solarpunk world, trying to demonstrate technologies or other possibilities, or values like reuse that I consider to be solarpunk. I’m working on some cityscapes but I’ve been thinking a lot about rural places since that’s where I’m from,...