That's what a biodiverse landscape does? I didn't say unmechanized - but there's a difference between running giant machines over 200ha of the same and running a small tractor over a 2ha field. For the landscape it makes all the difference: having 2ha of one thing, then a hedge (that can contain edible fruits and berries), then something else, maybe have pasture with nut and chestnut on it, instead of just pasture.
Even in a small vegetable garden planting different plants together is so much easier. Higher plants give shade to smaller ones, aromatic ones protect pest-endangered ones ... recreating an actual ecosystem is the real deal.
Todays' rural areas are empty of people. They were bought out by those people who consented to being enslaved by the machine and fuel complex. The ones who were forced to leave had to become wage slaves in the cities. The ones who run the system now don't even want to touch the soil anymore! They just send a fucking drone to analyze where to dump how much of their chemicals. It's not a sustainable way of managing soil and water.
While some of the feats of large scale agriculture seem impressive, the fossil fuel industry and those who sell the machinery seem to have inflated the numbers quite a lot.
Biodiverse landscapes grow a higher density of food with fewer pesticides and herbicides, and better soil health and water retention in the long term. The problem: you need those pesky people to maintain and harvest complex biodiverse systems, and they want livable wages! Best call them savages and uncivilized, drive them away in the name of progess and force everyone to use your machines, fertilizer, pesticides, machinery and fuels.
"bewertet das Battle" Geht es noch? Wen soll das kümmern?
Es ist immer wieder schockierend, wie weit die allgemeine Verdummung von und durch Werbekampagnen voranschreitet. Ich kaufe beim Libanesen, der versucht mir wenigstens keine App anzudrehen.
It sometimes is, although sometimes you can do miracles on younger animals.
Someone gave me an older chicken the other week, it was clearly genetically unsound to begin with (too many toes) and couldn't walk anymore. I made it into soup quickly. It just makes more sense for everyone involved to keep a healthy and robust flock. If we humans don't get involved with that ourselves the buzzards will.
Helfe einer Freundin aus, damit sie mit dem Kleinen vor Schulanfang einmal an den Strand fahren kann. Zwei Tage lang Ziegen versorgen und melken. Die Ziegen hassen jede Unterbrechung ihrer Routine, und ich fürchte, es wird langwierig und anstrengend. Aber ist ja für einen guten Zweck, und für 8 Liter Milch, wenn ich die aus den Ziegen rausbekomme. Ich habe sogar eine praktische Liste, welche Ziege von welcher Seite gemolken werden möchte. Bin motiviert, die entgegengenommene Anzahl an Ziegen lebendig wieder an die Besitzerin zu übergeben!
Die Eichen auf dem verbrannten Land treiben kräftig aus, es gibt neue Blätter und sogar einige Blüten. Seltsam ist es, aber die werden schon wissen, wie sie zurechtkommen. Ich freue mich über das herbstliche Frühlingsgrün auf Schwarz, das ist mal ganz was Neues.
Im Garten habe ich eine frühe Herbstsaat riskiert, obwohl die Sommerhitze nach wie vor brät. Kann sein, dass alles nochmal austrocknet. Bisher keimen Hafer, Rüben, Rote Bete, Rucula. Ich warte noch auf Koriander, Dill, Möhren.
Left, middle and right. There's a scroll wheel but that stopped working and it ended up being non-essential. The wheel itself turned out to be too flimsy. Next time a working scroll wheel would be cool!
When my nerves started acting up because my job forces me to use the same key combination a lot I built myself a 'mouse board'. I slaughtered a cheap computer mouse, transferred the buttons to a footrest made of plywood, reassigned some keys with X-mouse and could now survive hours of doing mouse clicks and 'Ctrl + C' by doing them with my feet!
While the commercial model has stupidly heavy foot pedals my version works on a toe tap. It's almost like dancing.
Yes, but first I have to build a few and test them - they are result of a few years experimenting and thinking about the problem from the perspectives of ease of building and using it, repairability, flexibility, price ... It has the option to stack frames as high as practical and cover a stack of frames with either mosquito/flynet or shading fabric or a combination of both, and add any heat source to the bottom of a stack. The current heat would be great for drying all sorts of stuff and put this to the test, but unfortunately the same heat is crap for any mental and physical activities, so this project has been progressing slowly. But it is one of the parts of my small gardening and processing cycle. Equally slow is my documentation of this cycle. I'll try to come up with a drawing of this idea!
That is true. Whenever I see these designs I feel like I would like to develop a hybrid model - to use with either solar heat or other heat sources when needed.
Or for a low low tech solution, a drying rack that can handle a fire under it. Things will be smoked rather than dried, but that's not necessarily a disadvantage.
You can build stackable wooden frames, staple a net curtain to them and put them in the sun, or use those plastic fruit boxes, always covered with a net on top against insects. Placing your frames or boxes on or between rocks provides extra heat after sunset. Or the extra lazy method: place your drying net under a fruit tree, wait for fruit to drop, drag into sun or halfshade as is convenient.
When energy is low and overwhelm is much the simplest solutions are often the best.
And for indoor drying in winter a repurposed shoe shelf (or yet more stackable boxes) placed near your radiator might do the trick.
Anne of Green Gables, Six Bullerby Children ... and there's probably a lot more of this kind of comfy children's literature with only mild excitement, but these are the only ones I remember. Likely to be available as audiobook.
That's what a biodiverse landscape does? I didn't say unmechanized - but there's a difference between running giant machines over 200ha of the same and running a small tractor over a 2ha field. For the landscape it makes all the difference: having 2ha of one thing, then a hedge (that can contain edible fruits and berries), then something else, maybe have pasture with nut and chestnut on it, instead of just pasture.
Even in a small vegetable garden planting different plants together is so much easier. Higher plants give shade to smaller ones, aromatic ones protect pest-endangered ones ... recreating an actual ecosystem is the real deal.
Todays' rural areas are empty of people. They were bought out by those people who consented to being enslaved by the machine and fuel complex. The ones who were forced to leave had to become wage slaves in the cities. The ones who run the system now don't even want to touch the soil anymore! They just send a fucking drone to analyze where to dump how much of their chemicals. It's not a sustainable way of managing soil and water.
While some of the feats of large scale agriculture seem impressive, the fossil fuel industry and those who sell the machinery seem to have inflated the numbers quite a lot.
Biodiverse landscapes grow a higher density of food with fewer pesticides and herbicides, and better soil health and water retention in the long term. The problem: you need those pesky people to maintain and harvest complex biodiverse systems, and they want livable wages! Best call them savages and uncivilized, drive them away in the name of progess and force everyone to use your machines, fertilizer, pesticides, machinery and fuels.
I hope this email finds the way to a more meaningful future
"bewertet das Battle" Geht es noch? Wen soll das kümmern?
Es ist immer wieder schockierend, wie weit die allgemeine Verdummung von und durch Werbekampagnen voranschreitet. Ich kaufe beim Libanesen, der versucht mir wenigstens keine App anzudrehen.
It sometimes is, although sometimes you can do miracles on younger animals.
Someone gave me an older chicken the other week, it was clearly genetically unsound to begin with (too many toes) and couldn't walk anymore. I made it into soup quickly. It just makes more sense for everyone involved to keep a healthy and robust flock. If we humans don't get involved with that ourselves the buzzards will.
Helfe einer Freundin aus, damit sie mit dem Kleinen vor Schulanfang einmal an den Strand fahren kann. Zwei Tage lang Ziegen versorgen und melken. Die Ziegen hassen jede Unterbrechung ihrer Routine, und ich fürchte, es wird langwierig und anstrengend. Aber ist ja für einen guten Zweck, und für 8 Liter Milch, wenn ich die aus den Ziegen rausbekomme. Ich habe sogar eine praktische Liste, welche Ziege von welcher Seite gemolken werden möchte. Bin motiviert, die entgegengenommene Anzahl an Ziegen lebendig wieder an die Besitzerin zu übergeben!
Die Eichen auf dem verbrannten Land treiben kräftig aus, es gibt neue Blätter und sogar einige Blüten. Seltsam ist es, aber die werden schon wissen, wie sie zurechtkommen. Ich freue mich über das herbstliche Frühlingsgrün auf Schwarz, das ist mal ganz was Neues.
Im Garten habe ich eine frühe Herbstsaat riskiert, obwohl die Sommerhitze nach wie vor brät. Kann sein, dass alles nochmal austrocknet. Bisher keimen Hafer, Rüben, Rote Bete, Rucula. Ich warte noch auf Koriander, Dill, Möhren.
Left, middle and right. There's a scroll wheel but that stopped working and it ended up being non-essential. The wheel itself turned out to be too flimsy. Next time a working scroll wheel would be cool!
Made a post about it, because it has been such a good gadget for me. Sorry the rotten photos, cellphone camera is kicking the bucket
When my nerves started acting up because my job forces me to use the same key combination a lot I built myself a 'mouse board'. I slaughtered a cheap computer mouse, transferred the buttons to a footrest made of plywood, reassigned some keys with X-mouse and could now survive hours of doing mouse clicks and 'Ctrl + C' by doing them with my feet!
While the commercial model has stupidly heavy foot pedals my version works on a toe tap. It's almost like dancing.
Yes, but first I have to build a few and test them - they are result of a few years experimenting and thinking about the problem from the perspectives of ease of building and using it, repairability, flexibility, price ... It has the option to stack frames as high as practical and cover a stack of frames with either mosquito/flynet or shading fabric or a combination of both, and add any heat source to the bottom of a stack. The current heat would be great for drying all sorts of stuff and put this to the test, but unfortunately the same heat is crap for any mental and physical activities, so this project has been progressing slowly. But it is one of the parts of my small gardening and processing cycle. Equally slow is my documentation of this cycle. I'll try to come up with a drawing of this idea!
That is true. Whenever I see these designs I feel like I would like to develop a hybrid model - to use with either solar heat or other heat sources when needed.
Or for a low low tech solution, a drying rack that can handle a fire under it. Things will be smoked rather than dried, but that's not necessarily a disadvantage.
Not bad. I counter with Almeida fortress
You can build stackable wooden frames, staple a net curtain to them and put them in the sun, or use those plastic fruit boxes, always covered with a net on top against insects. Placing your frames or boxes on or between rocks provides extra heat after sunset. Or the extra lazy method: place your drying net under a fruit tree, wait for fruit to drop, drag into sun or halfshade as is convenient.
When energy is low and overwhelm is much the simplest solutions are often the best.
And for indoor drying in winter a repurposed shoe shelf (or yet more stackable boxes) placed near your radiator might do the trick.
We need to study history so we can try to not repeat the bad parts. Life will not go on fine if we ignore what happened in the past.
Alternativkonzert veranstalten. Als junges Ding fand ich Alphaville scheiße, da zu poppig. Aber jetzt sind sie ja wohl cool.
Anne of Green Gables, Six Bullerby Children ... and there's probably a lot more of this kind of comfy children's literature with only mild excitement, but these are the only ones I remember. Likely to be available as audiobook.
Mine hasn't inflated enough yet. Must stay awake :(
Words have become too cheap. Too tired to read. Take your slop elsewhere.
The art style is wonderful! The meme disturbing. Quality content.
Nein, ich meine wirklich Marmelade, aus Tomaten, Zucker, Geliermittel, so wie mensch das sonst aus Obst macht.