mountaintimefrm

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by mountaintimefrm 3y ago
The most successful form of vertical farming is agroforestry, or tree-based agriculture. It provides habitat, shade, carbon sequestration, and water retention while raising per acre productivity over that of 2-D cropping. Agroforestry is a
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by mountaintimefrm 3y ago
For some reason they're called "bumpers" instead of "slicers" or "crushers" and frankly I just think that's just a failure of language not being able to keep up with the blazingly fast pace of transpo
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by mountaintimefrm 3y ago
The lady in the vid, Valer Austin Clark, has some great lectures and slideshow presentations on YT if you search for her name and sort for 20+ mins. She built some absolutely massive rock dams that survived some huge floods.
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by mountaintimefrm 3y ago
I've been cell phone free since 2012. Article is correct, it's not that hard to live without one.
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by mountaintimefrm 3y ago
BS'ing
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by mountaintimefrm 3y ago
https://soilandhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/01aglibrary/010... this is the way
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by mountaintimefrm 4y ago
What better time than now to start implementing on your farm an agroforestry system based on nitrogen-fixing trees and shrubs.
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by mountaintimefrm 4y ago
Since 2011 I've been calling it megalobamboozlementarianism.
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by mountaintimefrm 4y ago
I currently move a Salatin-style chicken tractor 12 feet every day, and I could totally see turning this thing into a chicken tractor that moves itself. Bonus points if it could spot sick or injured birds, or identify a problem bird that at
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by mountaintimefrm 4y ago
If you use water to compress the air as it goes down, you get isothermal compression. The trompe, which originated in the ancient Catalan forges, has been widely used over the centuries. Anecdotally, a trompe in a mine in Switzerland powere
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by mountaintimefrm 4y ago
of all lawns, yarrow lawns are by far the softest, and that silvery color makes everyone go wild.
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by mountaintimefrm 4y ago
Playwright is the bee knees. At my last tech job I did maintenance on about 400 wordpress sites, and I used playwright to automate a bunch of monotonous clicky tasks normally done via the wordpress backend gui. It was a lot of fun and towar
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by mountaintimefrm 4y ago
Interesting, I will look into that.
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by mountaintimefrm 4y ago
Too much calcium carbonate is really detrimental to a wide variety of plants, it causes a condition called iron chlorosis. Basically plants will readily absorb calcium instead of iron (they need iron to do their chemistry for photosynthesis
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by mountaintimefrm 4y ago
Even low grade geothermal is pretty awesome. Example: "Nebraska retiree uses earths's heat to grow oranges in snow" - https://youtu.be/ZD_3_gsgsnk
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by mountaintimefrm 4y ago
Thanks for posting that link. I took a look at their website and it's reassuring they way they succinctly pitch permaculture: "One collection of ideas and skills that’s already handily packaged and awaiting adoption is permacultur
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by mountaintimefrm 4y ago
I would love to hear what the authors of this paper think about permaculture; not the woo-woo hippie stereotype of permaculture that is so prevalent ("herb spirals", cob ovens, etc), but rather the specific principles and methods
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by mountaintimefrm 4y ago
I had a rocket mass heater for a few years and it was awesome - no smoke out the chimney, just steam. I burned sticks raked up out of my yard, pinecones, construction scraps, etc. There have been a lot of improvements in RMH design in recen
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by mountaintimefrm 4y ago
> "Cannabis has by far the highest conversion rate to schizophrenia of any substance" Quick, somebody call Deleuze and Guattari! /s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoanalysis
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by mountaintimefrm 4y ago
Alternative headline from a saner and more practical world: "Europe's drought might force acceptance of landscape-wide rainwater harvesting earthworks." The effectiveness of such earthworks is pretty shocking to witness: --
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by mountaintimefrm 4y ago
Can't recommend enough the song "Lovely Sky Boat"
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by mountaintimefrm 4y ago
Thanks for that explanation. I assume by "free living" you mean they can exist by themselves in soil apart from plant roots (or at least for part of their lifecycle)? I'm more familiar with the ones that are symbiotic with pl
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by mountaintimefrm 4y ago
So having read the article summary, then the research paper, then reading the article summary again... it seems that the summary isn't at all an accurate summary of the research paper, but rather a narrow focus on the suboptimal cases
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by mountaintimefrm 4y ago
No mention of nuts in the article, nor in the comments here, which is truly sad. It's like people have forgotten that nuts exist, as they are so often left out the discussion around meat vs plants vs fake meats WRT fats and proteins. N
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by mountaintimefrm 4y ago
> Water infiltration is measured by digging a small hole, filling it with water, and seeing how fast it drains. Informally yes, but the scientific way is to use a ring infiltrometer: https://www.fao.org/3/s8684e&#x2F
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by mountaintimefrm 4y ago
Gabe Brown's work is primarily on improving soil health, not on earthworks for flood prevention, aquifer recharge, etc. His gains in rainwater infiltration is a secondary effect of the steps he's taken to improve his soil. In term
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by mountaintimefrm 4y ago
Probably the best documented example of it working is in the Loess Plateau in China. John D Liu has a couple documentaries on it, here is one: https://youtu.be/IDgDWbQtlKI A good example of a similar project in India, as co
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by mountaintimefrm 4y ago
Maybe don't full on bring it on because it will be a disaster, but... if anyone wants to learn how to make this not be quite such a huge problem, they can familiarize themselves with the hydrology concepts covered in the youtube channe