farming

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 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...

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,...

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...

preferrably sustainable business ventures....

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.

I’m getting the ball rolling on a cannabis growing community....

Hi, I escaped from r/solarpunk. Content Warning, this post is about raising animals for their meat, so may be upsetting to some. I'm putting this under farming because I couldn't identify a better community (maybe food?) but I'd be happy to move this topic into a new, specific community if that can be done....