You can still see fields in England and persumably in Ireland too where they have ploughed up and down the field creating what is called ridge and farrow lines which are off contour. They tend to be pasture fields now and sometimes people plant trees on the ridge and the excess water collects and drains in the farrow. If Seimi could plough in a load of biochar at the same time with a horse (to minimise compaction) he would be increasing the water holding capacity and forming the earth works at the same time.

You can use ecalyptus to help drain it along with willow and dogwood (cornus) will survive being flooded too. Pears and mulberry enjoy wet but not waterlogged soil so you might be able to include them in a drier patch or on a mound somewhere. If you can incoorperate as much carbon into the soil as possible especially (with using biochar) it will help with it's water holding capacity long term helping to buffer some of that wet into the drier months.

Being in Ireland though I hope it's not a literal bog that might be challenging!

I do practice no til but we need that carbon in there overwise it's going to take a very long time to work its way down. That's why I never found a use for that tool before.

It's getting a bit of disturbance and then it's going back to be mulched again and the biology will works its way from the biochar and undisturbed areas. Kind of like a boar working its way through the forest.

I would guess decentralisation people are getting bored of being banned ,censored or having the platforms they were using attacked.

Permaculture is decentralised and also similar to Nostr and Bitcoin in the sense most 'normal people' don't 'get it'. You tell everyone and most look at you with indifference or as if you are totally nuts. They also all provide solutions which is practically heretical in an age where outrage and expecting some centralised institution to fix the problem is far too common place. So I think most permaculture folks just get it straight away.

I am hoping with nostr going forward we will get more innovative ideas and clients and be able to offer people things they can't get from elsewhere because that is where the real growth and retainment will come from. Zaps are great but I want to see decentralised soil, plant sap analysis and other databases where we can collectively pool, arrange and analyse data we have collected as a community.

Had the same issue if I go to the relays page it seems to sort itself out though.

Never found a use case for the garden claw until today! It's amazing for incoorperating #biochar into the soil especially around established perrenials where roots can be damaged by mechanised machinery, trowels and spades.

People usually throw these things away or you can pick them up pretty cheap at carboot sales etc.

#grownostr

#gardening

#biochar

#permies

#permaculture

It really was, that was tip of the iceberg. Wish I bought my SLR camera!

#Shropshire is such a great place to visit nice people, lots of castles, shops that haven't been destroyed by cooperate juggernauts, beautiful countryside with amazing walks and views, every other pub seems to be from the 13th century. No congestion charge zones and even the parking is cheap.

Even went to forest garden pioneer Robert Hart's hometown of Much Wenlock will have to see if I can find his old house next time 🙂.

Probably the best county in #England.

#grownostr

#permies

Ikiru by Akira Kurosawa is definitely near the top in my opinion.

I miss the parasol mushrooms from my old house. What are the black coloured ones in the second picture?

Yeah I spend too much time doing everyone else's! Garden gnomes good idea I was contemplating making Totoro for my garden and I did make a customer a rune stone for his garden...that was good fun.

Not an article but there was a episode of the what bitcoin did podcast that covered it's successes and what ultimately went wrong. Should be fairly easy to track down.

I didn't realise he was a pilot too! I wonder if he has ever co piloted with Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden 😁

They are pretty much exclusive to sheep and horse pasture even if the animals have moved on years later they still come up. So yes take some back to your place and spread the spores around 🙂

Wasn't a huge fan of later stuff but this album is an absolute classic 👍

It's so much fun, one of my life's goals is retire from gardening and just do that 😆. 🤞

That's useful as you can always reuse them. Didn't even know you could get medical in Australia!

Boveda packs can really save a lot of heart ache when you are curing all sorts of herbs. Money well spent if you ask me.

#weedstr

#herbs

Looks great, I used to make crabapple chilli jam but some bastard cut the trees down so I guess I will have to give your recipe a go next season 👍

Unless you were Icelandic they arrested some people.