ansuz @ansuz@social.cryptography.dog

I'm still thinking about this video I watched on youtube a week or two ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRPP4Ilpxso

In one section, the farmer that is being interviewed talks about how he deliberately kept a chestnut tree with "chestnut blight".

> Chestnut blight is ubiquitous in the eastern part of north america. If a tree is going to get chestnut blight here I want to know early on in its life...

random thought: parallel universe in which humans domesticated bears instead of wolves

canada: our population is aging and our birth rate is so low.. what ever will we do?
me: hire more people to process immigration applications? reduce the delay for citizenship?
canada: if only there was something we could do
me: but!
canada: anything at all 🤷

oh you like decentralization? my friend, what vegetables are growing in your garden? my brother, how is your soil produced? dearest comrade, how many worms live in your compost?

every time someone gets angry and vents at an open-source project, a senior developer who could have helped with the root problem decides to give up tech and move into the woods

my partner and I finally chopped up the pineapple fruit from the plant that has been growing for about two years. not very big, but very sweet and flavourful.

He describes the method as STUN; Sheer Total Utter Neglect.

> The ones that get diseases and die they're gone. I know that they're not any good for here.

My partner and I have struggled with certain kinds of pests eating our tomatoes, okra, and certain flowers. Meanwhile, plants that grew out of seeds in our compost are doing well, even when we thought they were weeds and tried to kill them. Our frangipani, guava, and hazelnut have gone weeks without any direct care.

> ...cause I don't want to waste my lifetime or a century or 4000 years raising a tree that's susceptible to a disease when we can get something next to it that doesn't have it.

By planting densely with high genetic diversity the presence of these diseases helps establish a forest that will grow without labour-intensive management, pesticides, fungicides, etc.

I'm still thinking about this video I watched on youtube a week or two ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRPP4Ilpxso

In one section, the farmer that is being interviewed talks about how he deliberately kept a chestnut tree with "chestnut blight".

> Chestnut blight is ubiquitous in the eastern part of north america. If a tree is going to get chestnut blight here I want to know early on in its life...

there are lap bears, herding bears, hunting bears, service bears, etc.

just like wolves and dogs, wild bears still exist but we have a domestic version which has a distinct name

random thought: parallel universe in which humans domesticated bears instead of wolves

oh you like decentralization? my friend, what vegetables are growing in your garden? my brother, how is your soil produced? dearest comrade, how many worms live in your compost?

the watermelon seeds I planted about a week ago have sprouted 😍