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Plant of the Day
Tuesday 2 January 2018
At the RHS Hyde Hall Garden the winter stem display of Salix daphnoides ‘Aglaia’ (violet willow) have been used to create some abstract ephemeral art for the winter garden. In the spring, prior to bud burst, the stems can be pruned and composted. The new growth has the strongest colouring for the next winter display.
Jill Raggett
Raffaele Monepaone, Hands
how much space do fungi need to grow? mush room.
original art: @studio-thomas-walsh
this looks like a sativa bud still on the plant
cryogenic weed, grows in the snow
how to make dry ice hashish
on the topic of bubble bags
雪とネギ Snow and Green Onions
©Juri
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The crops of corn, beans, and squash are known as the Three Sisters. For centuries these three crops have been the center of Native American agriculture and culinary traditions. It is for good reason as these three crops complement each other in the garden as well as nutritionally.
Corn provides tall stalks for the beans to climb so that they are not out-competed by sprawling squash vines. Beans provide nitrogen to fertilize the soil while also stabilizing the tall corn during heavy winds. Beans are nitrogen-fixers meaning they host rhizobia on their roots that can take nitrogen, a much needed plant nutrient, from the air and convert it into forms that can be absorbed by plant roots. The large leaves of squash plants shade the ground which helps retain soil moisture and prevent weeds.
southern exposure seeds
how to grow a three sisters garden
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Attention. Pussy Meow: the autobiography of a cat. 1901. Internet Archive
Wildcraft Print Shop
photo: David Castenson
Biogas is a mixture of different gases produced by the breakdown of organic matter in the absence of oxygen, called also anaerobic digestion. It is produced from biodegradable materials and more than half of the resulting gas is methane. You can run that through a propane burner or a stove, and worldwide, lots of subsisting people do. It’s about as close to free fuel as you can get.
Of course, if you source a self-renewing pest crop like kudzu to produce your fuel, it becomes even more cost-effective. Of course, nothing is truly free. There is some physical labor involved in maintenance and cleaning.
Cost of overhead is minimal, and a 55-gallon drum biodigester can be hacked together from found items and salvage with minimal skill. Unless it’s larger than that, a digester setup should take no longer than one afternoon.These DIY pages are pretty concise, with detailed shopping lists. If you want this to happen, it’s not hard.
Granada biogas project start to finish
https://youtu.be/mWefbc1spd0
Four free, hot-weather plans, perfect for the Southern United States:
https://www.completebiogas.com/digester-plans
The success story of the biogas digester in Merida, Mexico:
https://youtu.be/ApDq4I20ZfU
How-to in Hindi and Urdu:
https://youtu.be/pKZgnXQCp98
Community-sized biogas plant reportback from Richmondvale:
https://www.completebiogas.com/B_55Gal.html
Solar Cities plastic drum biogas plant plans
http://www.solarcities.eu/education/472
Milkweeds (Asclepias spp.) are the required host plants for caterpillars of the monarch butterfly and thus play a critical role in the monarch’s life cycle. The loss of milkweed plants in the monarch’s spring and summer breeding areas across the United States is believed to be a significant factor contributing to the reduced number of monarchs recorded in overwintering sites in California and Mexico. Agricultural intensification, development of rural lands, and the use of mowing and herbicides to control roadside vegetation have all reduced the abundance of milkweeds in the landscape.
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All souls are on a quest to connect.
‘There would be no galaxies, no suns, no planets, no life without collisions of heavenly bodies.
Back to our amoeba. It engulfs a bacterium with unique powers, and…voila. Earth’s first photosynthesis-enables organism. Maybe it was chance.
Maybe it was inevitable. This one changed amoeba becomes the ancestor of every living plant on Earth, which in turn floods the planet with oxygen…paving the way for every other form of life we know…leading to more souls, more connections, and therefore more new worlds branching outward from the first.
These forces of nature, when they converge, be they astronomical collisions, biological unions, demonstrate the infinite potential of our connections. This truth also extends to the human heart.’
-Maniac
Library of 100s of limited commons license downloadable justice-related posters here
The first of the 2020 harvest. Things looked like they would turn out differently, at that point