Jason Snyder

Good morning, it's a perfect day to conquer any resentment in your heart with gratitude and to give your will to God

I work in a job where I manage and analyze a lot of data and work with various colleagues and external parters, and this is completely true. It is trivially easy to organize your files, prioritize your emails, and figure out your calendar. A solution looking for a problem

Dear @cognazor and @PamelaBies check out the St. Joseph the Worker school (wiki.p2pfoundation.net/College_of_St.…) as promoted by @newpolity . I'm not advocating a conversion here , but the model, of linking eminently practical skills, with a schooling in the highest possible forms of quality thought. We need a 'developmentally appropriate' layered education system, which links to the land, then to crafts, then to though, then to the digital, to create truly embodied human beings. Modestly, I would also advocate a basic knowledge of the new modes of production and exchange, that have become possible with trans-local tech, as expressed in the cosmo-local vision. All the material you need to organize in these new ways, is findable in the p2p foundation wiki, and the practical skillsets, are in the Appropedia. The Soil and Health Library is fully digitized and has all the pragmatic farming classics since the 1970s.

@leisetritt @mbauwens Indeed

@cognazor @mbauwens Sure, but there is no one side fits all. We will still need tradesmen, professionals, and factories.

A lot of people are giving her a hard time about this post, but I actually believe that a small farm renaissance is essential to a healthy future. Individual agency only goes so far, however, and as a society we need to figure out how to make this a viable option for young people

@RealJayJeffery That’s a nice sentiment but it’s not going to happen in sufficient numbers in this political economy, the deck is stacked against them

@cognazor Young people need to learn how to make this a viable option for themselves and that they should not depend on society to figure it out for them. The ones who deserve it are already digging out their paths to doing it, and dependency is not a part of the equation.

@RealCalebKitson For sure. I’m starting the business next year but I should have some extra bare root trees this Fall. I’ll hook you up

@cognazor Jason let me know when you have some for sale, I will absolutely buy some!

Very excited about growing Siberian peach for the property and propagating for sale. Very cold hardy, can grow where other peach varieties can’t

@zeroinputag I would call that appropriate tech

@cognazor To break out of a false dichotomy you need a dose of imagination. We domesticated a handful of species by accident and created civilisation 1.0 (the grassland agroecological package) What if we applied basic biology to domesticate everything else?

We can either have an appropriate tech-enabled agrarian future, or a hand-to-mouth agrarian future, there is no third option

@deberelli Very cool

By the way, I’ve been researching how to grow fruit trees in the colder zones. Alcove farming for fruit trees has been used successfully for centuries in harsh regions like the Alps and Mediterranean hillsides. Trees trained flat against stone walls •Walls act as: •heat collectors (day) •heat radiators (night) •wind barriers •Creates a warmer microclimate that can be significantly higher than ambient temps

@RealCalebKitson no more saw mill for you

@RealCalebKitson Biggest surprise ever

@HomoPedalius I'll be planting out several this Fall on my property that I grow from seed, will update

@cognazor Picture of peach seedling thrusting itself up through snow or crocus-level hardiness didn't happen.

@Schallskiiiiii Purportedly they can grow down to zone 3

@cognazor Will try them in zone 4a.

@Ponderingpeon True. I wouldn't have made a post like that, but I think most of the criticism are missing the point

@cognazor I think you are right that we need to encourage people but we also need to make sure they understand what it is to actually put in the work. There is reality and then there is idyllic post on X.

@Mountainma54205 6a/b, but these can purportedly grow down to zone 3

@cognazor What climate zone are you in?

@csmaje For (b), yes farming is hard, but the narrative is highly incomplete. Many people were forced off of the land via enclosure and other economic factors. And, farming can be made easier with the appropriate use of modern technology and new collaborative modes.

@csmaje For (a), yes, the current political economy is not conducive to that, but that can change. The current industrial ag system is not sustainable and it's making us sick, and many are going to be losing their office jobs anyway. It in fact must change

@Donaldtfoster I would have approached that post differently, but I stand by my response

@cognazor People are giving her shit for posting the Shire when we can only afford the outskirts of Mordor.

🥵 tens of millions of workers' livelihoods vaporized by AI, reduced to subsistence living while tech bros feast 😡 😁 tens of millions of artists and creators freed from the drudgery of office work to pursue their vision - they'll just have food and shelter somehow I guess? 🥰

@Audens6 Perfect Circle Farm out of Vermont

@cognazor Source of seeds?

@AnthropoceneMe1 I just planted 3 of those over my lunch break!

Haskaps are already leafing out