Yeah I just mean purely from the fire of making the biochar if you are arid. Those grasses are great but if you can grow maize, sorghum or sugar cane they draw even more carbon down into the soil. Guess you could char the stems too at the end of the season.

Perhaps if you have some good spots already you can do an IMO capture there and move those microorgnism elsewhere to the rest of the place. You could also make am IPMO by doing an IMO capture with either frass or ant bodies to capture microorganism that break down chitin that will kill the ants. Make it into a compost tea and pour into into the nest. Orange oil could also be an option if you have that.

Good luck perhaps go watch some of Geoff Lawton's videos for inspiration certainly dry and arid over in Jordan.

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I am in very different soil and climate but I assume your soil is rather alkaline and oxidised so you might want to inoculate things with a ferment to acidify things more. Bacillus in partilcular can be useful to help solubilise some of that Si in the sand. Then you might want to cover crop legumes with some c4 grasses to help build the soil and just crimp or chop and drop it. Its hard to think of a situation that doesn't want more biochar so try and make some of that if its not too dry and going to cause you issues.

Do you have rocks around? Perhaps stacked rocks or gabions like in the PDM could be good option along with the swales if the water is sudden sharp and intense

Poem of the day.

Words Are Windows (or They’re Walls) by Ruth Bebermeyer

That’s in Lanzarote, nearby the national park. Those stones have been put there to mark the pathway. So that way, tourists can easily walk around without messing up nature I guess.

I know, it should be common sense

Summer veg is all nice and dandy but basic survival food is perennial winter food, nuts and fruit.

At 8000 calories per litre, I just stashed about 1 million calories of extra virgen olive oil, 5kgs olivas muertas - that's about 600kgs of pressed olives and 20kgs of almonds.

Chickens need imported feed to lay at full speed but if it ever got ugly, they can get by on forage and keep us in eggs.

Meat is obviously another source of food :) but, here's an unpopular observation - if it's in the deep freeze, that doesn't count as secure food.

For a bit of food in reserve, think of food sources that require no tech to store.

Hope it never comes to be vital.

#selfsufficient #olives #Spain #homesteading

I'm getting a taste for what it's like being outside the system.

Yesterday I found out that if you aren't currently insured, car insurance rates in Spain start from point Xero, treated as a new teen driver.

Next step down from that, just been told I'm lucky to be able to pay astronomical rate because most insurers aren't even prepared to insure me.

For context I have had a full licence since 1982 in 3 different countries never had a serious accident, and according to official tables of accident rate demographics, Im in almost the safest age bracket for insurers. But I haven't had a car for 4 years...

I live off grid so you don't get post or courier service. A simple solution, you set up a drop off point with a local post office or courier agent in town. Nowadays try buying off of Amazon type sites, so many products are flagged not able to be sent to drop off addresses. Need a home address. So I'm what, knocking on someone's door asking if they will accept my packages?

A word to Nostr, the open solution to walled gardens. Try setting up a lightning wallet to work with some apps - limited drop down options are creeping in.

You can push back on Nostr. There's no point screaming at legacy insurance companies or e-commerce sites. But the sooner open minded companies move into every legacy space the better. Because this is developing into a road to nowhere, pay to play, massive exclusion and growing anger at faceless companies - and I still need to drive and I still need the products I can't get delivered.

The job of a scientist is to listen carefully to nature, not to tell nature how to behave. --Feynman

Looking for a name for my boat after bitcoin slang that only maxis would understand… Ideas?

It’s weird to think that all this used to be lava 🌋

Today's backyard #foraging

Deadnettle

Cleaver

Wood sorrel

Pennsylvania cucumber weed

Bastard cabbage

Plaintain

Hedge parsely

To think all these years I just mowed over all this natural abundance right beneath my feet.

Yeah!! We eat so much! Have you tried growing perennial kale yet?

The most inspiring or uplifting note, meme, video, etc that I see today on nostr will get a fat 50k sat zap.

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And we can build this dream together

Standing strong forever

Nothing's gonna stop us now

And if this world runs out of lovers

We'll still have each other

Nothing's gonna stop us

Nothing's gonna stop us now