Two wheel tractor questions -- Anyone have experience comparing the turning radius, the headland needs generally, between the Tilmor Ox and the BCS walk-behinds?

other comparisons also useful

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What's a good use for cobbles? I'm going to be picking rounded cobbles out of vegetable fields. 6cm to 20cm, which make an uncomfortable path. Glacial till, so they are not workable, they have no flat shear planes (and few weak ones).

They don't even pile well, and piles are a weed reservoir & hard to hoe, anyway.

Gabions to make decorative gateposts? Held together with a minimum of concrete for whenever the gabion cages fail? Sinkaway?

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50 years of research for sustainable vegetable production! @igzleibniz.bsky.social Researchers publish data from the long-term fertilisation experiment in Großbeeren

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https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/03/19/long-term-experiment-grossbeeren-50-years-of-data-for-sustainable-open-field-vegetable-production

Tech-solutions like high-rise, soil-less greenhouses are expensive (although VC funds and governmental subsidies may give the impression that there is potential) and completely miss the issues of the food systems (resource and energy intensity, social and labor aspects, corporations as drivers of the unsustainability of the food system, the potential of appropriately managed agroecosystems to host biodiversity, biogeochemical nutrient cycling and carbon storage ...).

I had a professor at university that was fully engaged un hightech highrise farming.
He wasn't at all pleased when his students pointed out that his pet technology would be horribly fragile, depending on global logistic chains, electricity and inputs (fertilizers, and a lot of pesticides, since the system needs to be kept near-sterile).
Skyfarming has a low resilience in chaotic situations. Please let us not make our food production be even more dependent on a well-functioning modern society, especially when facing *this* future.

We need productive and sustainable smallholder systems. The solutions are out there and many people are working towards the transition to #agroecology.

(Not meant as an attack towards you, @maarteuh, I just want to argue against such tech-solutions in agriculture, because due to our current culture, "promising" technocratic solutions need to be viewed very critically)

@Sustainable2050

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If you want to know if a block of land in France is being farmed organically, now you can look it up online! Filters are provided for field crops, forage crops, vegetables, fruit, grapes, perfume/medicinals and finally, others (which includes olives).

I note that our vineyards are correctly identified as being organic... :-)

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https://www.agencebio.org/cartobio/

Finally a few more things coming in for the boxes... Escarola and spring onion this week, parsley next week.

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I promised to talk in a bit more detail about our garden setup, so here is a 🧵

We're using a mix of Ridgedale & Dowding approaches.

We've got 90 beds, each 10m x 0.75m, so 675m2 of cultivable surface. Attached picture shows the beginning of our first season in 2020.

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