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Jake's Dirt(y) Talk

@JakesDirtTalk

Dirt Farmer, Third Generation Organic Gardener, and Modern Day Naturalist. Too many hobbies to keep track of.

Appalachia, Usa. Katılım Aralık 2024
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Jake's Dirt(y) Talk@JakesDirtTalk·
Observation of the day! Happy mushrooms on a wild cherry tree. They sheltered quite a few fruit flies from the morning mists. A violent splash of color on a gray day. Again, I am a poor mycologist, so I would love an ID from you mushroom enthusiasts!
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Jake's Dirt(y) Talk@JakesDirtTalk·
Worms are the only livestock I've found that I can farm while still being open to "side quests," where I can focus my efforts elsewhere for a week or more. Even plants can be needy during a week of neglect if you're unlucky. Curious if anyone else has found a similar critter?
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lilyhops 💚🧃@lilyhops·
anti-wasp propaganda again nooooo...... my one wish is for people to understand that bees are a monophyletic group within wasps too and that wasps aren't evil.. the predatory ones are really important for pest control and they're all important pollinators!!! ecology doesn't have heroes and villains!! we cannot apply anthropocentric, moralistic frameworks to ecosystems, the metaphor doesn't work
Entomemeology@entomemeology

Natural selection be like that sometimes

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Nick Volpe@nvolpewild·
WHY does he need to look like this! 😩 Lunar Membracid from the Amazon! 🌿
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badbake@badbake_offgrid·
As I turn the faucet on to fill my kettle for coffee, I'm again struck by how amazing it is that after almost 4 years of hand carrying potable water out every 2-3 days, I can now just, turn on a tap. Little things should never be taken for granted 🚰
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David Stig Hansen
David Stig Hansen@stigemup·
@JakesDirtTalk @MoundLore since you don't see them overlapping (much) I feel like they are burial mounds. I say we dig one up and find out what's in there. if they overlapped I'd say they were mine tailings or overburden dumping. Again, dig one up and see what's in there.
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MoundLore
MoundLore@MoundLore·
One of the most fascinating things about LiDAR is how often similar landscapes emerge from completely different processes. The Pimple Mounds of Arkansas, the Mima Mounds of Washington, and the Prairie Mounds of Colorado all produce these strange fields of evenly spaced earth hummocks. They look related but geologists still debate parts of their formation. Archaeologists generally do not consider them human-built.
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Mound LiDAR

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SpaceCowgirl@Budrip1007·
from inside and outside
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Jake's Dirt(y) Talk@JakesDirtTalk·
I haven't tried it yet. The folks on youtube have massive sterile rooms, They pressure steam their medium, and keep their mushrooms in temperature controlled rooms. Just investing in one of those steps are too large of a barrier for me presently and if there is a low tech solution that would be a godsend.
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Briar Farm
Briar Farm@briar_farm·
@JakesDirtTalk Have you tried it before? It’s one of those daunting things but actually lots of methods and quite intuitive. Happy to run you through the basics
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Briar Farm@briar_farm·
We are getting more and more low tech when it comes to our approach to mushroom cultivation. Today we broke down our existing oyster mushroom columns to start a new batch. We mixed the mycelium with fresh deciduous woodchip, added to crates and wet down. Now it’s a waiting game
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Jake's Dirt(y) Talk@JakesDirtTalk·
@Brdycrdy That's similar to me, too. I'm just optimistic that industrial agriculture, which has a very chemistry dominated paradigm, still has signals that it is moving away from roundup. Fingers crossed 🤞
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Brdycrdy
Brdycrdy@Brdycrdy·
@JakesDirtTalk I grow fungus/microbes for my garden. I don't want to kill them. I just want balance. I use lactic acid bacteria to keep them all in check. Fungus can save us from our sins against the earth...aka aminopyrilids and such.
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Jake's Dirt(y) Talk@JakesDirtTalk·
This paired with that one A.I lazer that zaps weeds and a massive amount pollutants could be removed from the food system. However, life will adapt and we will have to address that. Insect shells darken to survive the light, for example.
Danny Bernstein 🍇🥬@bernsteind

autonomous robot driving through the field at night. no chemicals. no pesticides. just UV light killing pathogens and pests while everyone sleeps. this is @tricrobotics. this is what chemical-free pest control looks like at scale.

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Jake's Dirt(y) Talk@JakesDirtTalk·
@Brdycrdy Yeah, I believe that light is for insects and surface fungi, etc. The educated guess is there are adaptations that would allow critters to survive it. I'd be really surprised if plants evolved ani-lazer technology!
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Brdycrdy
Brdycrdy@Brdycrdy·
@JakesDirtTalk I would think the lazer method would be less impactful but I think that's just for weeding. This is for pests I think.
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Jake's Dirt(y) Talk@JakesDirtTalk·
Starting a small business is like trying to fool yourself into your own ponzi scheme.
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