farming

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

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,...

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...

I had never actually heard of this plant before 🤯...

preferrably sustainable business ventures....

“The bacteria is fatal to citrus trees and has decimated citrus groves in Florida and Texas. Now, California growers are holding the line to keep producing the vital crops. As temperatures rise, that gets more difficult.”...

Gardeners of slrpnk! I would like to start growing some food in my apartment and I am trying to figure out what would be some good options to meaningfully provide food that I would regularly eat. I don’t mind adding some energy efficient grow lights if necessary, since I have limited light available. What are some of your...

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

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1443397...

To summarize: people have known that cows’ methane production can be reduced with an appropriate diet for quite some years. There has been a fair bit of searching for what that diet could be - tropical algae from high seas may produce the right outcome but aren’t readily available where the cows graze....

My flock of 11 ducks. Six are mature and usually give me six eggs a day. The other five are a few months old and not laying yet. Their eggs are sold at a farmers market. Ducks are fun to keep and IMHO better than chickens due to the ease of keeping and consistant laying.

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....