Peace is.. Gardens
Peace is.. Gardens
The tree of liberty - Comic about gardening (via)
Plants Can Secretly Send Underground Electrical Signals. Here’s How They Do It
A new study offers a better understanding of the hidden network of underground electrical signals being transmitted from plant to plant – a network that has previously been shown to use the Mycorrhizal fungi in soil as a sort of electrical circuit.
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Victor's way in County Wicklow, Ireland, is a privately owned meditation garden notable for its black granite sculptures. The the park is dedicated to cryptographer Alan Turing. The Fasting Buddha icon-cum-sculpture is a copy of a 1st century AD stone icon (called ‘the ascetic Bodhisattva’) robbed by British archaeologists in the 19th century from an ancient Buddhist pilgrimage site in Taxila, Pakistan. The original, created in the Gandhara Period in Greco-Roman style (note the dramatic, wholly un-Buddhist appearance + the Roman toga + the typically Roman hairdo and beard), is approx. 60 centimetres high and made of Schist stone. It’s on view in Lahore Museum.
Natural vs Agricultural
As seen in Berlin: "Community Garden 48. Participate :)"
Ag One: Recolonisation of Agriculture (PDF)
Bill Gates who became a billionaire through the deregulation of corporate globalisation is now leading the recolonization of Indian and African agriculture. Read our new report that unveils the real motives of Bill Gates.
Do you want it locally grown, water-saving and pesticide-free? Urban agriculture might suit you, with a little help from gene editing. Zachary Lippman’s team has already succeeded with Solanaceae fruit crops, optimizing tomatoes and ground-cherries for indoor production (see their paper in Nature Biotechnology).
By targeting three genes (SlER, SPG5, and SP), they made the plants display compact growth habit and early yield. The tomatoes produced were slightly smaller than the wild type, but each plant bore more fruit, and they tasted good.
Commenting the paper in the news and views section, Cathryn O’ Sullivan and colleagues foresee a whole CRISPR menu coming from urban agriculture in the future. It is unlikely that wheat or rice will ever be grown indoors, but urban farms will be interested in producing any plant that has high value and is eaten fresh.First of all fruits and vegetables that grow on bushes or vines, such as tomato, strawberry, raspberry, blueberry, cucumber, capsicum, grapes, kiwifruit. Specialist crops such as hops, vanilla, saffron, coffee, and also medicinal or cosmetic crops may come next.
They think that one day even small trees (chocolate, mango, almonds) may be grown indoors. However, “for indoor farming to be broadly adopted, the capital and operating costs of climate-controlled farms must be reduced, or they will benefit only the wealthiest communities.”
Australian Bushfires Reveal Hidden Sections of Ancient Aquaculture System
The eel-farming system of the Budj Bim Cultural Landscape is older than both Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids.
Illustration from "On Measuring Sustainability"
U.S. farm bankruptcies hit an eight-year high: court data (reuters)
U.S. Farm bankruptcies have increased every year for the past five years--with farmers retiring or selling their farms due to financial strains. This trend is changing the economics of Midwestern towns as land ownership concentrates into fewer hands.
Cancel Earthworms - The “crazy worms” remaking forests aren’t your friendly neighborhood garden worms. Then again, those aren’t so great either (The Atlantic) (Art by Myriam Wares)
The Polyculture Market Garden Study (2019)
The Polyculture Market Garden Study looks at the differences between growing annual vegetables and herbs in polycultures vs growing them in traditional blocks.