Dylanfm

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by Dylanfm 11mo ago
I also use it for tea regularly in Spring/Summer. Once they're seeding I use the seeds for tea. If I have enough time to collect them I'll store the seeds for a garnish over winter.
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by Dylanfm 1y ago
The firewood can be harvested as part of a coppice rotation too, e.g a woodland broken up into 8 coupes with one harvested selectively each year, then starting again at the beginning after regrowth is sufficient. Friends of mine do this and
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by Dylanfm 1y ago
It sounds like there have been some changes to the Guardian and Observer lately, such as the sale of the Observer to Tortoise Media. [0] Journalists were concerned enough to strike. [1] [0] https://broligarchy.substack.com/p
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by Dylanfm 2y ago
It's not as simple as just installing more wind turbines. The grid needs improvement and we need things like regional pricing. See https://wastedwind.energy for example.
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by Dylanfm 2y ago
There's a 3 part podcast series on good bread from the great UK-based regen farming podcast Farmerama https://farmerama.co/arable/good-bread-part-1-what-is-good-b... Dips into this and talks to people involved in
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by Dylanfm 2y ago
Another interview with Jon Moses: https://novaramedia.com/2023/07/13/novara-fm-revenge-of-the-... Putting the 'right to roam' movement in a greater context. Coming about after de-peopling of the lan
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by Dylanfm 2y ago
There's also a recent interview with the same title on the Debunking Economics podcast https://debunkingeconomics.com/episode/yanos-varoufakis-on-t...
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by Dylanfm 3y ago
I love growing (and eating) Frank Morton’s lettuces. If I recall correctly, a lettuce variety he bred was grown in space. Here’s a good podcast interviewing him, also touching on Open Source Seeds and patents: https://osseeds.org
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by Dylanfm 3y ago
I wonder if they knew they were coppicing the tree, rather than killing it. Thankfully the tree will continue to grow, I think the land managers have chosen to leave the tree there. Many of the oldest trees around (at least in the UK) have
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by Dylanfm 3y ago
I've been building a private app on the side for market gardens (veghub.co) to manage their knowledge, plan their growing season and manage their weekly tasks. It's a really interesting little space which I could ramble on about f
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by Dylanfm 3y ago
We have a similar invasive worm in Scotland and elsewhere in Europe: New Zealand Flatworm and Australian Flatworm. I've lost count of the number of NZ flatworms that I've killed in salty water over the past few months. I'm lo
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by Dylanfm 4y ago
I think the exterior insulation is kind of taking the place of the cladding or rain screen here. I suspect it also as an air gap. But I suppose you could affix a rain screen to it, although I am not sure if that's worthwhile. There&#x2
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by Dylanfm 4y ago
As others have said, circumstances have changed (Brexit). The handling of Covid was a reminder too. Consistently rules would (or would not) be made in the south, yet here in Scotland we'd have a firmer stance and/or clearer guidel
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by Dylanfm 4y ago
For anyone interested in the kind of timber framing used in these buildings, here are a couple of videos that I've been enjoying: Carl Rogers & family are restoring an old French farmhouse and have a series of very well made videos
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by Dylanfm 4y ago
The midges are definitely still here. Not sure how it compares to the past, but I haven't heard anyone say they're getting better.
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by Dylanfm 4y ago
North coast of Scotland, as far north as you can go on the mainland. Dark winters and long summer daylight. Didn't move here to start a farm (moved for the surf), but started a small market garden as a side-project a couple years ago.
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by Dylanfm 4y ago
There's a woodland on Hoy, Orkney's wildest looking island, which is a great snapshot of what a real native Orkney woodland would look like. There are no deer on Orkney, so the woodland gives a great impression of the different la
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by Dylanfm 5y ago
I recommend whathappenedlastweek.com for a thoughtful, curated weekly email summarising under-reported news. Helpful for resisting the urge to hunt news out.
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by Dylanfm 5y ago
Another good resource is https://www.neighbourhoodconstruction.org e.g their page on Thermal Envelope > Bio aggregate https://www.neighbourhoodconstruction.org/bio-aggregate/
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by Dylanfm 5y ago
This also occurs in Australia, resulting in mammalian meat allergy. Some more information here https://allergy.org.au/patients/insect-allergy-bites-and-sti...
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by Dylanfm 5y ago
I've started a small market garden here on the far north coast of Scotland ( https://www.instagram.com/burnlea.farm ). Growing veggies for the local community, trees from local seed stock and this year I'm growing s
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by Dylanfm 5y ago
Lovely project. Something that jumped out to me as I browsed around Edinburgh is the app highlighting Japanese Knotweed as a "very rare" tree. It's actually a very invasive species that's almost impossible to get rid of.
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by Dylanfm 5y ago
These days many new builds are using air source or ground source heat pumps. And existing dwellings are beginning to be retrofitted for them. I don't have numbers, but I expect that it will soon be the norm for new builds for places wi
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by Dylanfm 6y ago
Farms have continued to grow, echoing Earl Butz' (Nixon's Secretary of Ag) "get big or get out" philosophy. However, there are several studies out there showing that a greater portion of the world's population is fe
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by Dylanfm 6y ago
Also his latest book Regenerative Agriculture. Mostly composed of varied farm enterprises with financial details amd so on. Pick and choose the enterprises that appeal to you and work with your land... e.g. market garden, tree nursery, past
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by Dylanfm 6y ago
I prefer to aim for community sufficient, rather than self sufficient. You probably won't do a good job of being entirely self sufficient. A small healthy community could be, or almost.
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by Dylanfm 6y ago
You're going to design your farm according to your context and the needs of your crops. For example, a farm in the UK may follow the Wakelyns approach: https://vimeo.com/256082580 Alleys oriented to maximise the sun fo
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by Dylanfm 6y ago
I was planning to grow a small amount of bere this year through a seed sovereignty program here in Scotland. Lockdown disrupted that, and the seeds didn’t arrive. Hopefully next year.
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by Dylanfm 7y ago
So glad to see something from Toby Hemenway recommended on here. He has some other interesting presentations, such as: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_lJf46i9pI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0nzIMJGuEY
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by Dylanfm 8y ago
I really enjoyed the 12 Byzantine Rulers podcast too, along with the accompanying book Lost To The West https://12byzantinerulers.com

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