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Tess of the D’Ubervilles. By Thomas Hardy.
You are an educated, pretty peasant girl with foolish parents and higher class suitors, unfortunately even the less evil of these seem to only consider their own relationship to the social order…yours, not so much.
3 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈.
CW: sexual assault
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Tess of the D’Ubervilles. By Thomas Hardy.
You are an educated, pretty peasant girl with foolish parents and higher class suitors, unfortunately even the less evil of these seem to only consider their own relationship to the social order…yours, not so much.
3 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈.
CW: sexual assault
@bookstodon #bookstodon #books #reading #marriage #farming #england #women
Beans are such a powerful food crop. Being nitrogen fixers, they do not require a soil rich in organic material like most vegetables, since they can get nitrogen from the air and enrich the soil for themselves and the plants around them. Well it is actually not them, but microorganisms that live in their roots. And nitrogen fixers are also more resistant to drought. Beans in general are anual plants, meaning that they need to be planted again every year. Not the guand beans though. Those grow big bushes and will keep producing for a few years. By the time they die, they will have produced offspring already. They can compete well with wild weeds and only require minimal care when they are being first established. They have some kind of resin in their leaves and specially in their seed pods which makes them more resistant to bugs. The leaf-cutter …
Beans are such a powerful food crop. Being nitrogen fixers, they do not require a soil rich in organic material like most vegetables, since they can get nitrogen from the air and enrich the soil for themselves and the plants around them. Well it is actually not them, but microorganisms that live in their roots. And nitrogen fixers are also more resistant to drought. Beans in general are anual plants, meaning that they need to be planted again every year. Not the guand beans though. Those grow big bushes and will keep producing for a few years. By the time they die, they will have produced offspring already. They can compete well with wild weeds and only require minimal care when they are being first established. They have some kind of resin in their leaves and specially in their seed pods which makes them more resistant to bugs. The leaf-cutter ants seem to love their flowers and leaves and still the guandu beans are able to keep producing regardless. By not being too bushy, the guandu also is great to make half shadow and protect other plants where the sun is scorching. Despite their round grains being small (a bit smaller than soy beans), they have a thick skin which requires you to soak them for at least 20 hours before cooking so that they are not too hard. Their flavor is sweet, even when you salt them well, and they remind me of the flavor of the japanese adzuki beans. We just planted some here to experiment, but after seeing the results, we will spread them far and wide in our property from now on!
#Gardening #Homesteading #Farming #NaturalFarming #Beans#
Question for gardeners: I want to create a blackberry bed that keeps the things *contained*. Am reading that digging a 2-3 foot deep trench and lining the sides with plastic or metal would keep them from taking over the way they currently are doing.
I do not like using plastic in the garden if I can avoid it.
So, was thinking galvanized steel roof panels. BUT, does anyone who actually works in agriculture or farming know if this would be safe? From what I'm reading online, leaching isn't a big deal for the raised galvanized steel beds, but would it be an issue if those steel panels are mostly in the ground?
Question for gardeners: I want to create a blackberry bed that keeps the things *contained*. Am reading that digging a 2-3 foot deep trench and lining the sides with plastic or metal would keep them from taking over the way they currently are doing.
I do not like using plastic in the garden if I can avoid it.
So, was thinking galvanized steel roof panels. BUT, does anyone who actually works in agriculture or farming know if this would be safe? From what I'm reading online, leaching isn't a big deal for the raised galvanized steel beds, but would it be an issue if those steel panels are mostly in the ground?
How California Olive Oil Producers Are Adopting Regenerative Agriculture
California Olive Ranch adopts regenerative certification with A Greene…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanFood #MediterraneanOliveOil #OliveOil #agriculture #california #eco-friendly #farming #Mediterranean #Olive #regenerative #regenerativeagriculture #sustainability
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2209556/how-california-olive-oil-producers-are-adopting-regenerative-agriculture/
Our next newsletter will discuss something that maybe you've been thinking about (but probably not): raising chickens in a dryland environment. What aspects of care are different? How do chickens fit into a regenerative project? What alternatives to chickens are there and what differences are there in the niche they fill?
If your land is not arid or dryland, but you are concerned about increasing temperatures and more frequent droughts, some of the care information in this post may be useful as your environment changes in the near future.
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And please consider subscribing at our supporter tier for fun gifts twice a year and access to additional information - this month I'll be releasing a delightful recipe for paid subscribers only. We could use your …
Our next newsletter will discuss something that maybe you've been thinking about (but probably not): raising chickens in a dryland environment. What aspects of care are different? How do chickens fit into a regenerative project? What alternatives to chickens are there and what differences are there in the niche they fill?
If your land is not arid or dryland, but you are concerned about increasing temperatures and more frequent droughts, some of the care information in this post may be useful as your environment changes in the near future.
I hope to release this early this week, but don't forget to subscribe so that you don't miss it in your inbox.
And please consider subscribing at our supporter tier for fun gifts twice a year and access to additional information - this month I'll be releasing a delightful recipe for paid subscribers only. We could use your support to keep this space going. Thank you!
#RegenerativeAg #Permaculture #DrylandPermaculture #ClimateChange #FoodSecurity #FoodSovereignty #Preparedness #Regeneration #Gardening #Farming #Chickens
I remember wondering approximately 15 years ago whether VT farmers could grow rice. Turns out, yes!
Question for the #farming and #gardening folks out here- who do you buy seeds from? Looking for new sources beyond Jelitto, Ball and Johnny's. US based, ideally flowering, herbs, cut, perennial or bedding. Small sellers are cool as long as you can give me solid experience. I work for a non-profit historic #garden and want to add some diversity to our plant shows, greenhouses and gardens. #BloomScrolling #plants #askFedi #flowers
Question for the #farming and #gardening folks out here- who do you buy seeds from? Looking for new sources beyond Jelitto, Ball and Johnny's. US based, ideally flowering, herbs, cut, perennial or bedding. Small sellers are cool as long as you can give me solid experience. I work for a non-profit historic #garden and want to add some diversity to our plant shows, greenhouses and gardens. #BloomScrolling #plants #askFedi #flowers
At its peak in the 1700s, the 25-square-mile Kōhala Field System on the northern tip of the Big Island of Hawai'i fed between 30,000 and 120,000 people. Then came the Europeans, bringing disease that decimated the Hawaiian population and destroyed the traditional knowledge of how to cultivate the 50 or 60 varieties of sugarcane and 50 types of sweet potato that once grew there. A non-profit, Ulu Mau Puanui, is now researching the system, guided by culturally centered science, with the goal of restoring that lost knowledge. Atlas Obscura's Sarah Lohman spoke to Ulu Mau Puanui's Kehaulani Marshall about the work she and her team are doing, and the question she wishes she could answer: What would the land have looked like without colonization? "We wonder, what the heck was coming up next in their plans. Because we know all ancestors plan for generations ahead,” she says.
…At its peak in the 1700s, the 25-square-mile Kōhala Field System on the northern tip of the Big Island of Hawai'i fed between 30,000 and 120,000 people. Then came the Europeans, bringing disease that decimated the Hawaiian population and destroyed the traditional knowledge of how to cultivate the 50 or 60 varieties of sugarcane and 50 types of sweet potato that once grew there. A non-profit, Ulu Mau Puanui, is now researching the system, guided by culturally centered science, with the goal of restoring that lost knowledge. Atlas Obscura's Sarah Lohman spoke to Ulu Mau Puanui's Kehaulani Marshall about the work she and her team are doing, and the question she wishes she could answer: What would the land have looked like without colonization? "We wonder, what the heck was coming up next in their plans. Because we know all ancestors plan for generations ahead,” she says.
#Hawaii #History @histodon #Colonization #Agriculture #Science #AANHPIHeritageMonth #Farming
The Netherlands delays its nitrogen emissions target, defying its own judges and the EU.
The Dutch government confirmed it will push back its deadline to halve nitrogen emissions from 2030 to 2035, defying a recent court order.
With its high-density farming, the Netherlands has long been ground zero for Europe’s nitrogen crisis. The country ranks among the EU's worst for nitrogen pollution per hectare.
#Netherlands #Politics #Nitrogen #Farming #Environment #Law #EU
The Netherlands delays its nitrogen emissions target, defying its own judges and the EU.
The Dutch government confirmed it will push back its deadline to halve nitrogen emissions from 2030 to 2035, defying a recent court order.
With its high-density farming, the Netherlands has long been ground zero for Europe’s nitrogen crisis. The country ranks among the EU's worst for nitrogen pollution per hectare.
#Netherlands #Politics #Nitrogen #Farming #Environment #Law #EU
Busy morning, and now nursing sore muscles. Picked up several hundred pounds of feed for the fowl, then went to a neighbor's house and shoveled up 2 yards of maple tree mulch that I ground up after last years hurricanes. I'll be using the mulch in the gardens. #farming
Busy morning, and now nursing sore muscles. Picked up several hundred pounds of feed for the fowl, then went to a neighbor's house and shoveled up 2 yards of maple tree mulch that I ground up after last years hurricanes. I'll be using the mulch in the gardens. #farming
Had the first litter of 2025! I raise pigs here in New York State. Feel free to ask me about it. I’m a small operation with 5 sows. #farming
Treats for sheeps!
