Stefan Sobkowiak

We're starting a NEW PODCAST: Permaculture Orchard Podcast (POP). Episode 1 features Billy @permapastures and Michelle Bond. Video, shorts extracts are out on YouTube. Just search Permaculture Orchard Podcast.

May I suggest an improvement? I have 3 tabs at the top. Elon is one of them, I read his feed first. Then I read follow. BUT I get Elon’s feed in there again. Can you add a toggle to NOT SEE those I follow in a tab repeat in the follow? Same for the for you tab? I end up with a lot of redundancy in my follow and for you tabs. Thank you.

As a user, it's simple. I open the @X app. Here's what I hope to see — and I suspect many of you do too: 1. Great, informative, useful, or entertaining content (by humans, machines, or companies) 2. Real, authentic — even “boring” — posts from the people and networks I actually care about 3. No spam, bad bots, or reply farming As an X employee who uses it every day, I believe we’re actively building toward exactly this. Does this match what you want when you open X?

@TeslaCharging @elonmusk I wonder if the petrol companies will do the same? What’s your guess Yes or No?

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@elonmusk Here’s one, I have @elon in a separate tab at the top, it would be nice if I DIDNT HAVE his posts AGAIN in following. Or at least a toggle to choose to have his feed in following also. Please because I read Elons feed first then those I’m following.

Critical feedback is appreciated

@MattPowersSoil Enjoy we’re still walking on crusted snow with 2’ of snow under.

Spring has sprung!!

Hmm let me see, we use insecticides in agriculture and forestry to kill insects, we use insecticides and fungicides to treat seeds, we use herbicides to kill “weeds” (oh yeah they don’t affect insects). Then we wonder why birds are declining. I farm without any of these on just 12 acres and amazingly the insects return and the birds return. Imagine if we used this across countries.

This may not seem like a big deal, but it is. The rapid decline happening to our natural world is a big problem for humanity itself.

@permapastures Absolutely, this kind of scene in every country, for every food. Imagine no need for overseeing bureaucracy. People voting with their dollars while protecting and supporting those who lovingly provide their foods.

One of the most beautiful things I witness every single day in El Salvador,… The fishermen pull into shore. Boats heavy. Nets full. Faces tired but proud. And within minutes, people are gathered — buying the catch of the day straight from the hands that pulled it from the sea. No middleman. No barcode. No mystery meat from 1,500 miles away. Just honest work… feeding a community in real time. There’s something about watching that exchange that reminds you how food is supposed to move.

Nuts provide all the high quality starch and fats, fruits provide all the natural sugars with fiber, herbivores all the meat proteins and healthy fats. We need to throw in pigs for bacon, am I missing anything? Oh the runoff from the land will no longer kill the waterways of ocean inlets so wild fish and crustaceans will be so abundant and inexpensive. Hmm sounds idillic.

@JasonHanson2028 Millions of hectares of silvopasture and agroforestry that provide the nation’s needs while rebuilding soil and water ecological infrastructure.

Has anyone actually ever asked what the ideal end product of agriculture is in America? I wonder if the USDA has ever asked themselves that? I asked this to a group in Hawaii once, and when I gave my response the attendees said my statement was profound - their words not mine - but I don’t remember quite what I said… …so what’s your answer? Because mine went something like this: To produce the highest quality nutrient-dense foods and fibers by means that can be replicated in perpetuity. That’s it. Good food, produced now, and as long as America survives. Might need work. That’s a total of 18 words. Too wordy? Not enough? Can you sum up the ideal end product of American agriculture in 18 words? And the weight of each individual word - especially if it determines policy (and it absolutely should) - are incalculable and they must be the absolute truth of what American agriculture needs to be. But how would you change it? And would you change it? What is the ultimate end product of American agriculture? If we can define that - then I think we can work backwards to find out how to best achieve it. 🇺🇸 Godspeed.

@wideawake_media Fantastic

"Here's one to think about..." "Instead of organic carrots having to be called organic carrots, maybe they could just be called carrots, and carrots grown with chemicals could be called chemical carrots?" "And maybe those that grow with chemicals have to demonstrate and show the chemicals that were used in the production?" "If that was on the supermarket packs, I wonder how our behaviour would change." Credit: @greenearthorgan

@Johnkempf That’s the best way you’ve stated it yet.

‘Regenerative’ agronomy is about carefully managing an off ramp for electrolyte nutrition while building an on ramp for biological nutrition that has an immediate positive impact on yield and quality. Many soils are in a state of dependency. Managing the withdrawal without causing yield loss is a foundational skill. Yield loss during transition is a result of poor agronomic management. Not an inherent result of regenerative’.

@Johnkempf @JasonSchley Life follows a pattern, why exclude plants.

A key distinction between your analogy and plants is the stressors I am referring to are externally imposed vs self imposed. That said, you are making me wonder if plants ever shut down photosynthesis (fast) in the absence of external stressors or senescence. We know they sleep, get high, get dopey, and many other reactions we used to only assign to animals.

Stress in my opinion impacts nutrient uptake > then ppm levels do. I’ll take it a step further, you can pour the fertilizer on and if your plants don’t have extra energy to drive the exudation it won’t matter, as the plant still can’t eat efficiently. I personally believe plant nutrition & stress management are tied together and need to be when creating a fertilizer plan/budget.

Brilliant

If we consider plant stress to be similar to human or animal fasting it may be easier to understand. Fasting can be self imposed or situationally imposed and the benefits happen nonetheless. Consider livestock, a good husbandman will know quickly if an animal is sick or injured mostly because it’s fasting. Why not consider that plants do the same. Maybe in cases where stress is beneficial in plants we should call it plant fasting.

I partially agree. I have learned that different stressors have very different impacts though. There are some types of stress at specific growth stages which increase yield and/or pest resistance. Somehow, we need to define stress into more useful categories. There can be nutritional stress, oxidative stress, anoxic stress, mechanic stress, heat stress, water stress, and more. I used to think stress is universally detrimental, and should be avoided as much as possible. I now think we should deliberately use the right type of stress at specific stages on top of a solid foundation to create the greatest responses. What are your thoughts?

@MarkJCarney I’m all for electric vehicles, have a Tesla for almost 3 years. Allow SHOULD NOT MEAN ALL KINDS OF GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES.

To make Canada a leader in electric vehicle manufacturing, we’re working to attract significant new joint-venture Chinese investments. And as our domestic sector builds up, we’ll allow a limited number of EVs from China into the Canadian market — less than 50,000 next year — providing more affordable, energy-efficient options for Canadians.

@AdvancingEcoAg Fantastic episode worth listening to.

#ThrowbackThursday to the wild grapefruit tree Benny McLean told @realJohnKempf about on the podcast in 2024. This tree grew from a seed tossed into the yard in 1952. "It is a perfect looking grapefruit tree. It has the biggest, darkest green leaves you've ever seen. It's never been fertilized, it's never been herbicided, it's never been topped, it's never been hedged, it's never been irrigated. . . and it's an absolutely gorgeous grapefruit tree," Benny said. 🦠 The tree actually tested positive for Greening, but it shows no symptoms. "The immune system is working at 100%," said Benny. ❄️ It also survived numerous freezes below 10°F that killed off whole groves. John hypothesized that its success may be due to the complete microbiome contained within the original seed. ❓What do you think? Benny McLean is Director of Grove Operations at @UncleMatts Organic ("Uncle Matt" is actually Benny's son, Matt McLean). 🎧 Listen: loom.ly/ZE4tIIg (Benny describes the tree at 57:10, but the whole episode is worthwhile.)

@kohima_io Yup here’s my 4 million view dandelion story: youtu.be/bpEy-Mpm6AI

The Dandelion Lesson We Keep Ignoring A farmer asked me why dandelions were taking over his field. Simple answer: because the soil asked them to. If Calcium is missing from the topsoil, dandelions step in. If there is too much Calcium at the surface, they will not grow. Their seeds are everywhere, yet they only sprout where the system needs them. In our greenhouse, we ran an experiment. We hid a pocket of Calcium deep in a plexiglass soil profile. A dandelion seedling sent down a thin, thread-like taproot and then it stopped. Right on the Calcium. Not coincidence. Not magic. Just nature doing its job. The root thickened from a thread, to a pencil, to something larger, pure white and full of life. It never left the Calcium zone. And at the end of the season, it died. Not because anything went wrong, but because it had already done everything right. It lifted the Calcium. It spread it. It prepared the soil for the next season. If you let it, next year would be one of the best you have ever had. So yes, Mother Nature has a plan. The real question is whether we are willing to pay attention. 🌱 Regeneration starts with noticing the intelligence already woven into the land.

@Johnkempf You can hear the rush to phones by CEOs and PR directors to their media contacts to remind them of their ad spend in the last year and demanding articles, tv reports and social media posts to depunk this new pyramid info. It’s MAGA, it’s RFK Jr…

Updated food pyramid? More like an inversion from the previous pyramid. What are your thoughts on this? realfood.gov

Nothing beats having young in spring on green grass. We would just find them feeding vigorously. They would grow like weeds as mothers could eat and milk all they wanted with abundant grass. I’ve also had them lamb on snow in pasture and decided to keep sires away from ewes to prevent winter births. If no ruminants have young in winter snow we should learn from them.

Yesterday morning after church, we found a calf in the snow. Our boys were still in their Sunday clothes. Longhorn standing over the little one like a guardian. That’s how life starts out here at AcmeAcres.us — cold, messy, and worth fighting for. And meanwhile? JBS is fighting lawsuits for trafficking Haitians into U.S. slaughterhouses — luring them with TikTok ads, cramming them twenty to a room, and forcing them to work in slave-like conditions. It’s happening right now, inside our borders. Same country. Two food systems. One is built by families. Animals raised on pasture. Fed by stewards. Respected. The other is run by debt, data, and corporate collusion. Built on exploitation. Hidden in plain sight. They say we’re not “sustainable” enough. But let’s talk about what that word really means. It decides whether you get a loan. Whether your kid’s 4-H project qualifies. Whether your land gets access to programs or your butcher stays open. All based on unelected agency guidance — with no vote, no threshold, no definition. Just floating language that can be twisted at will. We’re not chasing labels. We’re feeding families. And we’ve decided to speak louder. Thanks for being with us here in 2026. @beefinitiative @modernTman

@beefinitiative @idahobeef @modernTman Why calve in the middle of winter? Insane, I’ve never seen fawns in January in a snow climate.

Acme Acres is looking for the public’s help in naming their new calf— born only an hour ago or so! @idahobeef @moderntman

🚨MAHA WE DID IT! Section 453 granting pesticide companies immunity from harm has been removed from the upcoming House spending bill! The Senate version of the bill also does NOT contain Section 453. Once again MAHA has proven just how powerful our voice is when we come together on an issue.

Wow sneaky x.com/beefinitiative…