farming

Determinate vs Indeterminate Tomatoes - The Dos and Don'ts of Each (tomatogeek.com)

Permaculture Design Magazine (www.permaculturedesignmagazine.com)

Pesticide firms withheld brain toxicity studies from EU regulators, study finds (www.theguardian.com)

Venture Capital’s AI-Run Lettuce Farms Start to Go Bust (ghostarchive.org)

The pitch for vertical farming had all the promise of a modern venture capital dream: a new way to grow crops that would use robots and artificial intelligence to conserve water, combat food insecurity and save the environment....

Egg laying ducks

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.

Geographical origin of various agricultural crops. (sh.itjust.works)

Rearing nematodes: Do-it-yourself guide (www.canr.msu.edu)

Rearing nematodes in wax worms may be a cheaper source to provide fungus gnat and shore fly control in the greenhouse.

Quick and dirty guide to hover fly breeding (slrpnk.net)

what is a hover fly?...

Repurposing Japan's Glut of Empty Homes as Greenhouses (www.spoon-tamago.com)

New Lemmy instance for all things gardening (thegarden.land)

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/532435...

New Community - Cannabis Cultivation

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

can home-farmed meat be a part of solarpunk?

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....