Steve Adams

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Amazing footage.

@Bonks_n_Stonks That is some serious biomass volume.

This guy rented the rye crimper from the local county AG office. You fill it with water for weight. Do this every year with no till planting and you'll have your topsoil back within a decade. It's so sad seeing clay subsoil on tilled fields that should be black earth 😔

Elderberry looks great paired with white lily.

If anyone is in France on these dates, the preview screening of the new 10-episode docu-series about the megalithic structures of Peru, *Inka Enigma*, by @Bam_JayanFilms will take place on July 4 and 5 in Paris.

@machinehacklabs @CooperZurad Preferably a kiosk at the mall with an angry guy who has been fired from every IT position in the county.

@SteveAdamsSoil @CooperZurad lol if only the industrial machine tool industry had a shop you could drop equipment off at.

Any sufficiently advanced 3D printer is indistinguishable from a shitty 2005 Hyundai that's broken half the time

@machinehacklabs @CooperZurad Yup. And eventually my trouble free streak will end from something failing, and I'll probably just scrap and upgrade. But would suck to do that every 2 years. Would love a refurbishing option the same way you can send your car to a mechanic or dealership

Nothing here is incorrect it is just one dimension of several discussed in this thread that make up the overall issue. Your point does make me think of a dimension that we didn't discuss though and that is it even worth following the same design track that all the machine builders competing are currently following.

Isn't that the price range for new Bambu flagship models when you add all the upgrades? If it lets me print things I can sell over the next year and pay it off, then the price isn't a big deal. If it takes up all my time, then I don't like the price even if it is low. I think print resolution improvements with a secondary nozzle that allows you to put text and symbols on tools/widgets is a big value upgrade. And the people who make toys would also use that feature. I currently make tools and prototype on a P1S, and I'm pushing the resolution at 0.4. I've used 0.2 and like it for small text and tick-marks. 0.1 would be better for base layer text, then use a larger one to build the rest. Not sure if anyone of that is useful, but because of low resolution I'll probably migrate to metal parts that are laser etched to get better detail.

I have been working on this problem, I can solve most quality and enshitfication problems, but all that does is makes the machines non competitive for the commercial market. If the consumer was willing to pay $2500 to $5000 for a desktop machine that rivals most industrial FDMS it is doable. Unless the customer changes what they want or we find a way to manufacture the way chyna does (subsidies) it is a fruitless buisness endeavor.

Is there anyone on this website with a taller canna lily? Top of this flower is over 8ft, probably 9. Grown in Central Oklahoma, these were transplanted from my Mom's garden in Indiana 3 years ago.

Yeah, and they are popular in areas of South America too. I bet the sugars in them feed a lot of microbial activity too. The method I'm working on was initially developed for much larger parcels of land, and I've worked backwards to hand tools that would work on a wide range of soils. There are other benefits to our method compared to radishes, but there is also a lot of overlap. For example, our conduits are great for water infiltration, and act as island hosts for microbial life, and we can make specialized blends to supplement deficiencies soils might have because of erosion or their geology. We can blend higher nitrogen biomass, with biochar, and mineral dust (and I hope to do that soon). Which would give a lot of poor soils an instant upgrade in composition and texture.

@SteveAdamsSoil I only grow a few of them for food. But I know farmers in the deep south, possibly much wetter than your area, do seed them in mass in the winter. I guess sun hemp makes a lot more sense in the summer.

Instant soil upgrade with new tools. Soil is never a finished product, but this is a major upgrade from compacted poor ground to soil that can grow the plants you want the day you treat it. Repeat the process again next season and the gains compound. Three test beds set up today with the Bison Undergroun Soil Restoration Tools. Sorghum Sudan grass and Sunn Hemp for biomass, and heat-tolerant veg and flowers on no irrigation. The biomass gets mulched, pelletized, and injected back in with the same tools in either the fall or next spring. The plot grows its own amendment.

@PrairieGir87919 Thanks. I have a pair of jeans from Rawganique and really like them. They have some other good stuff too. Costs more than standard stuff, but lasts a couple years of hard use. They'd probably last longer if kept out of the dryer.

@SteveAdamsSoil Quince has sustainable non toxic jeans available & then a new to me company I just stumbled on is WiesMade! Their website says they’re American farmed, milled, & sewn👏🏼

What’s stopping you from hanging your organic cotton laundry out to dry in the sunshine? ☀️

@EcoLeilaH Well said. My goal is to create systems, with positive feedbacks, that improve the soil every year, rather than the opposite. And to keep the compounding going, I think we should be looking at how nature did it in the first place.

@SteveAdamsSoil I agree with this framing. Soil is never a finished product. Regeneration is cumulative, and systems that grow their own amendment can make degraded ground far more resilient.

Have you used daikon to improve highly compacted soil successfully? In many areas, the soil is just too poor for the classic deep tilling radishes. Also, they don't often work with timing, and the carbon and biomass they produce is low compared to other options. I've had some success with them as a fall/winter cover and amending crop in some gardens, but they are mostly water, and the tuber will rot down quickly, and doesn't hold the space as well as compost or biomass in my experience. If you have the time, they would be a great way to loosen the soil ahead of other improvement methods. They also need water. In non-irrigated dryer climates, with hot dry summers, they aren't going to do well (at least mine don't survive the summer). In a plot like the one in the video, I think, if one had the time, tossing radish seed in the fall and early spring could have made it easier to get my tools in. And the seeds are pretty economical. But you'd have to prep the soil considerably to allow them to compete with the grass and forbs. Overall I'm pro-daikon. And still toss seeds around my garden, along with chard for fall and winter/early spring fuel for the soil. Thanks for the question! Would love to know if you've used them with better success.

@SteveAdamsSoil Why not just grow daikon radishes and let them do the work?

@pnickdurham Selling fuel is much easier than selling clean water. I can clean water as it passes through soil, reducing hazardous runoff. This improves soil and water, but improved soil and water are difficult to market on their own. This post makes me wonder if we could generate fuel too.

SUPER excited to announce we co-led the pre-seed for Western Chemicals. They turn wastewater into the world's cheapest fuels. And they are going to do it at planetary scale. Shadow's LP base includes a deep bench of A/E and GC firms, and well before I met Jared, wastewater treatment specifically had moved into the foreground of those conversations. Every firm I talked to is betting that wastewater is its next big vertical after data centers. Our investment is a bet that Western solves a unique treatment problem for wastewater plants, dramatically cuts the cost of powering the plant, AND is strongly incentivized to do all of it because of the massive upside of producing biofuel at net-negative cost. How will they do it?

@BowTiedGarden Great photos. Always good to see flowers on the morning scroll.

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@StanglsEnviro Cool. I see, used as a top dressing. I think what I'll end up doing is making them on site with a pellet mill on a trailer or truck.

@SteveAdamsSoil Thanks for sharing n my bad for not responding sooner. I use minrocktechnologies.com/minrock-ultima…

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@KentuckyCrops @Ribeiro_RH Roots will go deep if they have the chance!

V7 corn w/ roots at least 16 inches deep. They likely travelled down root channels from last year. @Ribeiro_RH has the right touch w/ the shovel!

Amazing work and progress by this crew. And we get to see the work and progress from the comfort of our chairs. Also check out the boulder and cobble layer a couple meters down! This area is mapped as Pleistocene sediments, but what is below that? Is it the Neogene breccias of the Chincheros formation? or Paleogene sandstones and conglomerates? You have a massive fault running right through Cusco as well. I think the Paleogene sediments would make a better structural base, but stone cased Chincanas could probably handle either type. If anyone knows of well data for this area, with stratigraphic depths, please share. Imagine the work required to install a tunnel of significant length through these sediments and rock, and case it in stone. What was the climate like? How did they deal with the water?

@MelHomeschools @Cernovich Great style.

@Cernovich Yes. Create something 🤩

Banger.