Wind yesterday blew the sugar pea vines off the trellis, so I harvested all the pods I could and strung the vines back up. Then used some of the pods for a stir fry, along with fresh garlic I recently harvested. 😋 #Gardening#GrowYourOwn#Organic
Our work begins in the dilapidated ornamental garden. First we create a “nursery” bank to temporarily place any plants we can save. Because our soil is so heavy in clay and we are no-till, we first lay down cardboard, then wood fines and finally some rich compost. As the cardboard breaks down over the years it will eventually meld with the soils ecosystem below. (I’m not explaining that very well 🤷♀️)
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Welcome back to another round of organic chemistry with MDMRN.
Once again, I've taken my molecular model kit to craft a new molecule. This one, frankly, I was able to craft using the pieces of the previous ones I presented before. While I didn't say it last time, the green represents a halogen, in this case specifically chlorine.
A hint is that the production of these types of compounds has been banned in numerous countries, including the United States. It was, historically, found in electrical transformers.
Can you guess what type of compound this is? Let me know in the comments!
In my research I asked farmers how they evaluated farming practices and increased biodiversity was one of their metrics. They were right!
"Changing How We Farm Might Protect Wild Mammals—and Fight Climate Change
Nearly a quarter of U.S. mammal species are on the endangered species list. Researchers say farming with biodiversity in mind may help stave off further decline."
So, we're going back to organic chemistry everyone!
After my first post with my molecular model kit showing an environmental contaminant, I decided to post up another.
This one is a semi-volatile organic environmental contaminant that is commonly found in coal tar, mothballs, and mixed into creosote for rail ties. That distinct "mothball odor" is this compound! Fun fact - a human nose can detect the mothball odor before most standard electronic detectors of organic odors / vapors.
Can you guess the compound? Let me know in the comments!
Tolle Unterkunft! Es hat alles reibungslos funktioniert. Gut gefallen hat mir auch, dass es #Bio Seife gab, dass das Haus eine #Wärmepumpe hat und die Eigentümer eine E-Ladesäule haben (wobei Konstanz recht viele Landemöglichkeiten bietet und es nicht weit von der Unterkunft öffentliche Landeplätze gibt). Von der Unterkunft kommt man ganz gut zum #Bahnhof und zur #Altstadt. #EAutos zum Mieten gibt es z.B. beim Carsharing von Stadt-Mobil Südbaden, welche Netzwerk von cambio und co sind. Renault Zoes gibt es z.B. in der Jakobsstr., Zähringer-Höfe oder bei der Alemannenstr.
Das Bett knarzt ein wenig. Mich hat es nicht gestört. Der Kühlschrank ist manchmal etwas laut, wobei der lässt sich für die Nacht bestimmt ausschalten.
Es gab Luftentfeuchter im Zimmer und im Bad, die empfand ich nicht als störend.
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Hidden Lotus Herbs is getting ready to move to our new #farm site and really ramp up our operations!
For some backstory,
I was the recipient of a fund from @coop to start a worker-owned #cooperative and decided to make it an herbal apothecary!
We've been operational for around six months and are now starting our regenerative agroecological farm and increasing the capacity of our free clinic.
However, the #renewableenergy systems we're building are more expensive than we budgeted for, and we could use some help getting the farm and clinic going financially.
We're really needing help from our community to make all this cool stuff happen!
If you can spare some $, please consider supporting our transition and future. If you can't, please share far and wide!
I don't talk about work here a whole lot, but I'm a chemical engineer by education and have been doing environmental engineering work for the past 17 years.
So, I have an organic chemistry molecular model kit that I have kept at work for years. I, periodically, make contaminants I've seen at various sites across my 17 year career cleaning up the environment.
Do you know what this chemical is supposed to be? Leave a comment below with your guess!
Just shipped these babies to the Clay Center of New Orleans. I'm super excited to be one of the artists chosen by juror Courtney Mattison to showcase my work in the "Ripple Effect" exhibit opening April 19th.
The two pieces I will be showing are sculpted out of white stoneware clay and glazed a lovely bronze color that changes depending on the lighting.
The blooms started in early spring. The internet says they bloom in the fall. (Lies, LIES!) Plant is not self-fertile so you need two. Currently hand-pollinating bc only two plants have opened flowers and the rest are still buds. No pests noticed. Needs protection from high winds.
Slug death trap. This tip comes from a limacologist. Slugs are more attracted to bread dough than any other scent. They are also attracted to beer and will die in the alcohol. I use this in my sunroom to protect growing fruit and seedlings.
Today is a beautiful day for a walk around the village where I work. Our land is still resting now, but we could plant and sow things today if we wanted. In the surrounding wooded areas, the spring plants are busy being fabulous, and underneath the leafless trees are carpets of spring greens.
Dave's Food Forest is a 15 year old, 0.5 acre permaculture backyard food forest on 0.7 acre suburban lot just north of the Columbia river in Washington state producing 200 varieties of edible perennials. 50 species of native plants to support native wildlife and insects, and healthy predator/prey relationship
Almost Heaven Farm is a permaculture training and development center that grows its own food, sells commercially, transforms crops into value-added food products, demonstrates agroecology, teaches permaculture and consults on projects throughout Nepal
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