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Create a Little Farm Life That Fits Your Real Life https://littlefarmsummit.com/sign-up/?sc_ref=dOgd0q5w3P7X7xbC&sc_vis=To1z7pe289JZymftBVKs7u2S4qqFh7
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OMG!!! Yes!! Yay!! Signed up!! I learned about whispering willow farm recently and she’s teaching about her bread knowledge at the summit!!! Ty for sharing this, @Jim Flach !! I never would have known!
Roots Follow the Soil They Can Use
A plant may be capable of deep rooting, but roots can only grow through soil they can enter and function in. Compaction, dense clay, poor aeration, saturated soil, and restrictive layers can change where roots grow. Roots may turn sideways, concentrate above a dense layer, or follow cracks and old root channels instead of growing straight down. This means the root system we actually see is partly a response to the soil around it. When you expose roots, look at the soil too. Notice whether roots suddenly change direction, become concentrated near the surface, or follow visible openings. Permanent culture: A plant's root potential and its actual root occupation are not always the same. Have you ever uncovered roots that seemed to be following a crack, soil layer, or other pathway? A plant capable of deep rooting has most of its roots concentrated above a compacted layer. What is the strongest conclusion?
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@Jim Flach ahhh I like that better than intern. Same story with a bit more real life and a bit less corporate coldness. Grumpiness and big mistakes can still exist all around, and that’s good learning material all around xD. The more we go along, the better we get. Haha poor first apprentice if the more mature apprentice of life who is sharing with the much lesser one is having a bad day or week or whatever. Like if Morpheus was super grumpy and stressed because he was closer to the beginnings of people leaving the matrix rather than a few generations down the line xD. Definitely learning to find more joy as I go along but boy oh boy have I had some grumpy streaks to say the least! No apprentice here, mainly people being grumpy and saying shut up and get over myself so me being grumpy back and saying keep talking and get into yourself!! 🤪 haha
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@Jim Flach couldn’t have said it better myself! I see you digging into life, Jim!! You’re saying living words, my brotha!!
Keeping the Garden Producing, Part 4
Mayster Jon Gardener’s instructions from around 1440 were not limited to what people should grow. He also considered when plants should be started so the household could continue harvesting through the seasons. For the leafy vegetables then called “worts,” he described sowing at several times of the year rather than planting everything at once. Young plants could be moved into prepared ground as earlier plantings were harvested. Although the exact months he named belonged to his climate, crops, and growing conditions, the relationship is the useful part. When everything is planted at once, much of it may mature at once. That can leave us with a brief abundance followed by an empty bed. Spreading plantings over time can provide a steadier harvest and make better use of limited growing space. Today we often call this succession planting. We might sow another short row every few weeks, follow a harvested crop with another, or grow varieties that mature at different rates. Weather, day length, soil, and available space still affect the outcome today as it did in 1440 AD. A calendar plan gives us a starting point, but observation tells us when and where it needs to change. Mayster Jon could not control the season, just as we cannot today, although he could plan how the garden moved through it. That remains a useful distinction. Resilience does not depend on one large planting. It develops as we prepare the next stage while using the present one. That remains a useful distinction. Resilience does not depend on one large planting. It develops as we prepare the next stage as we use the present one. Where could one small second planting extend your harvest? Which approach would be easiest to try in your garden?
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@Jim Flach :O I haven’t even studied hydroponics!!! Or nursery stuff!! Well, sorta. Mostly I’ve studied apricot lane farm and singing frogs farm and whispering willow farm through YouTube, AI, websites etc. and like some of kiss the ground’s movies. I took a horticulture class and we watched 2 movies that I remember made a big impact on me that didn’t stick but I appreciate more at this point in my life. One about soil and one about water. I tried finding them and could BUT I FOUND THIS SHORT AND SWEET GEM!!! Whoa!! https://youtu.be/nvAoZ14cP7Q?is=Cr-XUoY-jOGUC-tS
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@Jim Flach the data is scary and sad - billions thirsty and hungry, tens of millions, maybe even hundreds of millions of people of all ages dying from it. 33% degraded level soil globally, slotted to be 90-95% by 2045-2050 due to horrible extractive practices with soil and water both leading to super depletion of aquifers, even the deepest most ancient aquifers! Now, if you take that soil story video - regenerative has a huge opportunity to spread and reform how we treat the earth sorta like manifest destiny in America back in the day except it’s global and it’s not colonialism it’s regeneration!! It’s an amazing time to be alive and I’m just worried not enough people are going to jump in fast enough to move the numbers back fast enough for there not to be huuuge major collapses in already suffering nations much less nations not yet feeling it who are ignorant! Water and land are all of life’s security much less any nation’s security!! I’m finding a lot of excitement in terms like triple bottom line accounting, Solarpunk movement, DBT, and peer ethics to name a few because it means it all actually is possible to get to know and work on these things as individuals and as a collective in a way that isn’t limiting in the boring sense but rather limits become seen as those things which grow!! And I think AI is actually a huge part of that especially because it’s so accessible AND it’s totally exciting and informative to use for personal exploration unlike our current boring classroom education models which mean well but leave much to be desired no matter how you look at it xD. I think the more people use AI the more they’ll see it less as a scary potential overlord and more like the apprentice it really is!! The universe and earth’s history as we know it is seriously expansive and as far as intelligence goes, AI is LITERALLY 100% NEW!! Totally a baby and an apprentice! By no means an overlord!!
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pretty sure I’m brainwashed…like 100% sure - if not I’d be totally surprised. Rest, imagine, participate. Exploring it all through those 3 lenses.

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