Mastodawn

Finally finished manually digging #swales for the #syntropicagroforestry system - these will not remain traditional swales for two reasons:

1. I don’t want the dogs to hurt themselves when playing, even if I don’t want them in the system to begin with. Better safe than sorry.

2. We don’t experience heavy rains often, so runoff isn’t my primary issue.

The solution? Filling them with rough compost and mulch to serve as a sponge - they will feed the #soil and retain moisture.

Shuruq Josting 22h ago

📚 With the limited amount of characters, how do folks share #bookreviews here? I don’t publish them in a blog (should I ?) and have enjoyed #upscrolled allowing longer texts but was personally never big on making/watching reviews as reels - do I just make my reviews super brief for this platform ? Or turn them into a thread old-timey Twitter style?
#readers and #reviewers please chime in!

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Shuruq Josting 1d ago

@pocketvj yesss, all of our neighbors farm so I just asked them directly - they said I can always go onto meadows and collect it outdoors but for our 1 acre field that seems like a lot 🥴

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Shuruq Josting 1d ago

@PhoenixSerenity just saw your bio and as a chronically ill person myself I see so much appeal in these systems - I’m more likely to have energy in bursts to care for a system and combine plants strategically than I would for a tillage system that needs weeding and irrigagation regularly, but idk if that was a factor for you as well

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Shuruq Josting 1d ago

@PhoenixSerenity that sounds amazing! I didn’t know that word before but what I’m doing here is a combination of that (I guess, I just really don’t want to irrigate all summer hahah) with Syntropic tree lines and mulch filled swales and act as a bit of a sponge (we’re on a hill but swales alone make no sense because we don’t get that much precipitation)

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Shuruq Josting 1d ago

@pocketvj that sounds like a pretty good challenge! Do the neighbors give it to you freely or do you have to go on the fields?
Where I am cows are rarely brought into stables for the winter so very few people have any manure to spare

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Shuruq Josting 1d ago

@chocobo13 sorry im super new here, could you explain what that means? What are solarpunk tags ?

Shuruq Josting 2d ago

Recently got hold of a lot of hay and got to mulch my tree lines in the driest part of our land in #auvergne

#permaculture #syntropicagroforestry

Shuruq Josting 2d ago

Would love to see if there is a bigger #permaculture community here - left #meta and co two months ago for #upscrolled and since it’s still a smaller platform I’d love to see what’s being discussed regarding #soilhealth, #syntropicagroforestry etc. Always happy to link up and talk about practices this growing season in this climate deteriorating through #war and #exploitation of resources.

Shuruq Josting 2d ago

I adore audiobooks but not Amazon - so here are my two favourite alternatives. Libby holds a special place here, making ebooks and audiobooks widely accessible for a very low budget. I also wanted to highlight @librofm, which allows for the support of individual bookshops (to my Berliners or anyone really, you can support @curiousfoxbooks on Libro FM)

#boycottamazon #librofm #supportyourlocallibrary #libby #books #bookreview