117 out of 150 spots have been filled, so let me know if you want in soon 🌱 #permaculture #regenerativeagriculture #re-ag #greensky #agroforestry #foodforest #antilawn #homestead #permie #berries #gardening #soil

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lwaznl7lhdx7v2oxjayx3d36/post/3laxgej45i225

#soil : a marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge

- French: terreau

- German: die Erde

- Italian: suolo

- Portuguese: solo

- Spanish: tierra

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See previous words @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/past

FROM: My article in this weekend's The Cultural Easton, a regenerative-minded community building magazine.

It's garden season! 🌱

"Spring has sprung — at least in the meadow outside the window. Even though we’ve been doing this ‘gardening’ thing for a while, there’s still a sense of worry about what may not have survived the winter.

As spring arrives, the native perennials come back slowly, then almost all at once. The winterberry, pin oak, and even the high bush blueberry shrubs have all burst forth in new life. With them comes relief from the cold and dark winter afternoons. All over town, magnolias, forsythia, azalea, red buds and cherry blossoms signal the arrival of spring. Electric blooms thrill the senses as one strolls through town. Neighbors reacquaint themselves after a long winter without the shared joy of gardening in the soil beneath the warm spring sun. It is a time of renewal.

Patterns alike but distinct, plants blooming offer the observer many points of view. For example, the oak leaf hydrangea blooms in a way that almost makes it appear to shoot leaves up and out of its stems. The first buds appear small but then grow ever larger as they erupt to greet the sun. The silverish-white of the underside of the leaves give way to the stunning green on top. This plant operates as a finely tuned system. Each of the leaves has a job to do, and it will grow to the exact size needed based on the available sunlight to the plant. An oak leaf hydrangea in the shade will have larger leaves than a comparable plant located in the sun. From each, according to need. In reciprocity with the surrounding environment. A wild idea, in a civilized world."

https://theculturaleaston.com/2025/05/03/spring-gardening-embracing-natures-renewal/

#garden #nature #NativePlants #BioDiversity #Soil #Stewardship #selfpublishing #writingcommunity

Really nice infographic of parasites of ground-nesting bees. #bees #soil #insects #parasites #entomology #hymenoptera #pollinators #beetles #flies #wasps https://www.instagram.com/p/DJKKYrmBUrS/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

#bloomscrolling My friend has this amazing yellow peony and it is peaking.
#illinois #southernillinois #SOIL

☠️ One-sixth of the planet’s cropland has toxic levels of one or more metals

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-04-17/one-sixth-of-the-planets-cropland-has-toxic-levels-of-one-or-more-metals.html

#agriculture #food #poison #toxic #soil

In north-west England, what a plan
To flood fields and grow crops as they can
With water's embrace
The farmers can grace
Their harvest, a win-win that began

#GuardianLimerick #Farming #Agriculture #Soil #England #Environment #Science #Europe #Lancashire #Food

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/02/win-win-farmers-how-rewetting-peatland-boost-crops-cut-co2

‘A win-win for farmers’: how flooding fields in north-west England could boost crops https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/02/win-win-farmers-how-rewetting-peatland-boost-crops-cut-co2 #Greenhousegasemissions #Carbonoffsetting #Agriculture #Environment #Lancashire #Farming #England #Science #UKnews #Europe #Soil #Food

Professor warns of carbon farming risk in 'unlikely' success areas
By Anna Cox

A carbon farming project developer is looking to sign up growers in WA's Mid West Wheatbelt region to $15,000-a-year contracts, leading one expert to ring alarm bells.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-01/soil-carbon-questions-mid-west-wheatbelt-western-australia/105207690

#AgriculturalTechnology #ClimateChange #Farmers #Soil #AnnaCox

Farms Fare Better With Less Intensive Soil Management, Study Finds https://www.ecowatch.com/soil-management-intensity.html

#environment #soil #farming #agriculture

Time to see if rain did any good to soils. When I recorded soil moisture 2 weeks ago, it was dramatically low. It ranged between 18 and 38% of 2022 level at that same time of year. 2022 was a heat dome here.

It is disturbing. 2024 sits in top 10 rainiest years on record. Where has all this water gone? The nearby water pumping station looks like a very plausible explanation to me, also for soils being 3 times drier downslope!

Let's hope 2025 won't be an other heat dome. The ecosystem is not healing from that one. Starting from such low moisture levels would lead to a definitively irrecoverable disaster.

#soil #SoilBiodiversity

Helpful website discussing pH of pine needle mulch. It does not make soil acidic. #mulch #gardening #weeds #allotment #garden #soil #dirt #blueberries #pine https://www.wineboxgardener.com/home/2016/5/29/pine-needle-mulch-for-blueberries

“Splendour in the Mud”:
Climate breakdown and car dependency put an end to commercial drive-in music activities

A “report found 85% of festivalgoers had been affected by either floods, storms, heatwaves or the threat of bushfires at an event they had attended in the past 12 months.”

The “Splendour in the Mud” festival left tens of thousands of motorists bogged and stranded in torrential rain. Extreme heat from greenhouse gas emission is also eliminating the ‘drive-in’ model for outdoor mass gatherings.
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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/apr/30/climate-crisis-could-kill-off-australian-music-festivals-report-warns

The end of the car dependent music festival? >>
https://news.griffith.edu.au/2024/08/26/train-in-vain-the-end-of-the-car-dependent-music-festival/
#ClimateBreakdown #GHG #cars #traffic #congestion #CarDependency #FossilFuels #harm #DriveIn #MassGatherings #industry #festivals #NoisePollution #EnvironmentalDamage #soil #RiskManagement #PublicHealth #PublicSafety #outdoor #ExternalisedCosts #TheGreatOutdoors #ExtremeHeatwaves #floods #storms #splendour

10 jours en nature en France cette Juillet …
#objectives-durable #sustainability #17SDGs #biodiversity #permaculture #renewableenergy #unesco #science #art #ecology #rewilding #restoration #soil #mycelium #microbes #entomologie #mycologie #agroforestry #agriculture

Landslide Susceptibility Assessment In The Marin Khola Watershed Of The Sub Himalaya, Central Nepal
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https://doi.org/10.3126/jist.v30i1.76264 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #geology #engineeringgeology #massmovement #landslides #Nepal #susceptibility #MarinKhola #watershed #InfoVal #Siwaliks #Himalayas #risk #hazard #cost #infrastructure #publicsafety #lossoflife #propertydamage #damage #geomorphology #water #hydrology #geomorphometry #casestudies #spatialanalysis #water #hydrology #factors #topography #geology #soil #landuse #landcover #model #modeling #accuracy

Inspired by @Wohlleben's book, Das geheime Leben der Bäume (Eng: The Hidden Life of Trees), I did this watercolour painting on New Year's Eve at the end of 2020, titled Freundschaften after the book's first chapter.

#Art #Artwork #Beech #Book #FediArt #Forest #Fox #Friendship #Handmade #MastoArt #Nature #Paint #Painting #Root #Soil #TraditionalArt #Tree #Trees #Underground #Watercolor #Watercolour #WatercolorPainting #Woods

Flower is Bush Vetch by the way - a particular favourite of ginger-haired Common Carder #bumblebees.

A legume - pea/clover family to you and me - Bush Vetch likes to have a bit of a scramble (up to a metre tall) whilst fixing nitrogen (so good for your #soil too!). Flowers spring to autumn.
#bushvetch
#bees #wildflowers
#nature #solutions

S-Oil reports Q1 operating loss of 21.5 billion won, citing weak refining and petrochemical sectors, while downplaying impact of US tariffs and highlighting progress on Shaheen project amid global economic uncertainties.
#YonhapInfomax #SOil #OperatingLoss #USTariffs #RefiningMargins #ShaheenProject #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=60692

S-Oil reports Q1 operating loss of 21.5 billion won, below market expectations, citing weak refining and petrochemical sectors amid U.S. tariff policy concerns and volatile market conditions.
#YonhapInfomax #SOil #OperatingLoss #RefiningMargins #PetrochemicalSector #TariffPolicy #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=60639