Another way to help birds:
Stop spraying so many insecticides. Many birds eat insects.
I have an almost commercial sized orchard, and a very large garden. I do occasionally spray copper, sulphur, or neem to keep the fruit trees kinda sorta disease free, but I bag the fruit in little drawstring bags to keep insects from damaging the fruit. Yes, it's time consuming. I've been bagging apples after work for 2 weeks. But it works a lot better than sprays.
#permaculture #gardening #orchard

Link for registration:

https://www.eventbrite.de/e/advancing-agroecology-with-digital-tools-a-european-policy-dialogue-tickets-1362723876799

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO1FPGww0Dw&ab_channel=KeelaPermacultureFarm

What is a #foodforest. How to plan one, what to plant in it.
#Permaculture #organicgardening #gardening

#Naturebook challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature, environment and conservation books. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#Books #Nature #Naturewriting #conservation #Permaculture #Organicgardening #naturebookchallenge #bookMastodon #bookstodon

Truly an incredible, heroic story: Tiffany Slayton’s survival in California's Sierras. We found it well worth listening to the entire 43 mins.

And BTW, as she commented, “I had actually started my journey a while ago, attempting to bike the United States. I was very successful because I only have six states left.” https://youtu.be/6eAvrSge4z4?si=AYXtHMmZOxCpipLI

(Note: You may want to do as we do, i.e., make use of Duck Duck Go’s Duck Player. The Duck Player “lets you watch videos on YouTube without privacy-invading ads, and keeps what you watch from impacting your recommendations.‌” https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help)

Hi all, I've just setup my own #GoToSocial instance, so it's time for an updated #introduction

I'm very much into #yoga and #meditation and everything related to that. I'm trying to learn #Sanskrit because its a beautiful language and also in order to be able to read text like the #BhagavadGita #Upanishads #YogaSutras which greatly inspire me.

I'm from the #Netherlands and work in #science in the field of outdoor #AirQuality I may occasionally share something about that, but this is not a work account (and any opinions are my own).

I love #photography , mostly related to #nature #weather #clouds #trees
I love the #forest, I'm grateful to live at the edge of the beautiful #Veluwe nature area.

I love growing food in my #garden using #organic #permaculture and #RegenerativeAgriculture inspired methods, I'm dreaming of tending my own #FoodForest some day.

Unfortunately I'm operating at half power thanks to #LongCovid since Feb. '22, so most of my hobbies are in "maintenance mode".

I'll post in English, my Dutch account is @kedara_nl
I also have a personal website @ https://kedara.eu where I #blog, tend a #DigitalGarden / #wiki and try to contribute to the #Indieweb #smallweb communities.

I've done my fair share of instance hopping and had hoped to solve that by starting my own Akkoma instance, but found GoToSocial more suitable to my needs in the end. I hope to stay here now indefinitely.

Let me know if you have similar interests and I'll be happy to chat!

Looks like I'm gonna talk to a bunch of #permaculture people tomorrow about the #fediverse and show how to get started.

Starting point is not knowing anything. I'm gonna start with a general overview and will show mastodon, peertube and pixelfed and how to get started with mastodon.

Any suggested server for this? I thought about social.tchncs.de, any other bigger #ecofriendly instance suggestion?

Fascinating talk by Ken Thompson, "a renowned plant ecologist and author of several well-regarded books on gardening and popular science", about conservation, biodiversity, and the importance of gardening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSLbk38N7SM

https://witcheskitchen.com.au/2-hours-a-week/ #permaculture

Very much a hands off approach this year so far. We are having one of our (if not the) driest springs ever but the flowering perennials are doing great. #Allotment #GrowYourOwn #Permaculture #NoDig #PollinatorPlants #Mulch

Empowering Farmers with Digital Tools for Agroecology

How can digital innovation accelerate the agroecological transition?

Date: 8 May 2025
Time: 08:00 New York | 09:00 São Paulo | 14:00 Rome | 15:00 Nairobi
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When European explorers first saw the "new" world, they took it to be an "unspoiled" wilderness. In reality, many of these "natural" environments were actually highly advanced agricultural systems that were carefully tended by #indigenous people. The "natural" plenty that amazed Europeans was, in fact, the result of generations of careful tending. Europeans are only now, hundreds of years later, "rediscovering" these methods (and, in typical European fashion, naming it #permaculture , pretending they invented it, and profiting from it instead of sharing it). No only is it being rediscovered in the Americas and South Pacific, but European models are now being rediscovered.

Europeans could not believe the truth that indigenous people in the South Pacific and Americas had developed something so advanced that it took hundreds of years for colonizers to even recognize it as anything but "magic" (any sufficiently advanced technology, and all that).

What's interesting to me is that the Enlightenment thinkers that inspired #socialism and #anarchism, and many European inspired anarchists to this day, do exactly the same thing for the social technologies they observed in the Americas and argued to bring the same to Europe.

Rousseau thought that egalitarianism and liberty were just natural things, rather than things that had to be intentionally developed. The classical anarchist idea that "all we have to do is abolish the government" ignores generations of social evolution, of active development of social technology, by indigenous people. There continues to be an insurrectionary and adjacent trend within leftist thinking that still flows from this fallacy.

I've already talked about how the idea of a revolutionary as a man with a gun is patriarchal because it ignores the invisible labor of building and sustaining a revolutionary culture. This patriarchal element intertwines with Eurocentric/colonizer biases, in both cases I've mentioned. The European men who wrote about the thoughts of indigenous intellectuals in the Americas only recognized men as people in the societies they interacted with. Women who worked in agriculture were, therefore, invisible. Therefore, the entire systems they maintained *did not exist* to the colonizers. They, instead, happened naturally... Like laundry magically being folded and food magically being made.

As we figure out how to move forward from the failure of all elements of colonizer society (social, economic, technological), it's critical that we are aware of the omissions that have lead us to failure so many times in the past.

#Naturebook challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature, environment and conservation books. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#Books #Nature #Naturewriting #conservation #Permaculture #Organicgardening #naturebookchallenge #bookMastodon @bookstodon

https://agroecologymap.org/l/in-my-garden

The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicine to Life on Earth
Stephen Harrod Buhner, 2002

#Naturebook challenge.
#Books #Nature #NatureWriting #conservation #Permaculture #Organicgardening #NatureBookChallenge #bookMastodon

Is there any expert/enthusiast of wind turbines in the fediverse?
I really need to talk to someone to exchange ideas, experiences...

Hey #plant friends,

Does anyone have any knowledge of juniper species that are good for making gin/jenever that can be grown in hot summers (occasionally 100+F/ 37+C), very long growing season (March to November) and mild winters (no less than 20F / -7C and mostly above freezing throughout)?

The traditional European variety is too sensitive for our summers.

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Increasing farmer’s digital agency for agroecology
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