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hafsuitableforwork: liberalsarecool: We need voting reform....

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 21:00:12 -0400

liberalsarecool:

We need voting reform. Expanded voting hours. Voting receipts. Expanded voting protections.

A national holiday for voting: a paid day off (or half day) because honoring our duty to vote can only make elections more truly representative.

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Sun, 24 Jun 2018 20:00:12 -0400

This concrete can trap CO2 emissions forever

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 19:00:12 -0400

This concrete can trap CO2 emissions forever:

we-make-haste:

“Concrete is the most abundant man-made material on earth. There’s a good chance you’re standing on it right now, and it’s holding up the buildings around you. But concrete has an emissions problem. Its essential ingredient, cement, has a huge carbon footprint. Cement is the glue that makes concrete strong, but the process of making cement requires superheating calcium carbonate, or limestone, and releases massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.”

biodiverseed: #Edible Forest Gardening 101: Plant a...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 18:00:12 -0400

biodiverseed:

#Edible Forest Gardening 101: Plant a Mini-Orchard, with Columnar and Cordon Trees

My partner’s aunt is something of a horticultural guru in my life, and one maxim she seems to live by is: “a tree only gets as large as you allow it to.”

I am something of a plant hoarder myself, and because I believe preserving biodiversity in the food system is extremely important, I find myself more inclined to want 10 small but different tree cultivars (or a tree grafted with 40 cultivars) than a single large tree.

Training trees to grow in a compact form, such as a columnar or cordon tree, is a way to pack a huge amount of species diversity into a small space. These forms of tree maintenance are suitable for species and cultivars that fruit on what are called “spurs.”

Spurs are short, stocky shoots with shortened internodes, which is the space between two nodes; nodes are the part of a stem where leaves, and sometimes flowers, are attached. They form on shoots that are two years of age or older and can be branched or unbranched. Both flowers and fruit can form on spurs.

- What is a Fruit Spur?

It takes a little bit of practice, and quite a few visual references, but fruit spurs are easy to identify once you know what you are looking for.

Viron, on The Home Orchard Society

This form of maintenance is best for certain cultivars of apples and pears, so research and observation is needed before choosing the right trees. Some cultivars can even be persuaded to fruit in pots when pruned properly, so a mini-orchard is even possible for an apartment gardener with a balcony.

In any case, when done right, it is a dense, attractive, and productive mode of cultivation. Species and cultivars can be chosen to cascade across a wide range of flowering and ripening times: an early-ripening ‘Clapp’s Favourite’ Pear, can be planted alongside a mid-season ‘Brandy,’ and a late-season ‘Bosc,’ so that pears are available over a period of months, instead of a period of weeks.

I use this high-diversity strategy with my blueberries and strawberries as well, so I have three months of harvest from the former, and five of the latter. It entails a bit of work in keeping plants artificially small, but the consistent, small harvests are much more practical than one-time, large harvests. I don’t worry about canning and preserving, so much as going out in the garden and finding something ripe for the picking.

Read more: Controlling Apple Tree Size by Horticultural Means

Related: Of Pears and Espaliers; Living Fences

Images: Pomona Fruits; htterina; The Meaning of the Columnar Apple Tree System (CATS) for the Market in Future by Helmut B. Jacob, The Geisenheim Research Institute, Department of Pomology
#pruning #fruit trees #forest gardening #edible landscaping 

I need that hat

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 17:01:13 -0400

I need that hat

asking-jude: Source

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 17:00:12 -0400

asking-jude:

Source

myveganuniversity:🐔❤ 🐮 ❤ 🐷

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 16:58:30 -0400

myveganuniversity:

🐔❤ 🐮 ❤ 🐷

thencra: he was a true here, so its said -O’S

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 16:42:52 -0400

thencra:

he was a true here, so its said

-O’S

fromacomrade: Free groceries von king park saturday at 3pm

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 16:32:07 -0400

fromacomrade:

Free groceries von king park saturday at 3pm

talestoenlighten: SEE NO EVIL, SPEAK NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL STOP!...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 16:19:18 -0400

talestoenlighten:

SEE NO EVIL, SPEAK NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL
STOP! LOOK! LISTEN!

crimethincdotcom: The border is not a wall—it’s a system of...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 15:17:54 -0400

crimethincdotcom:

The border is not a wall—it’s a system of control. It doesn’t protect people; it pits them against each other. It doesn’t foster togetherness; it breeds resentment. It doesn’t keep out predators; it gives them badges and guns.

The border does not divide one world from another. There is only one world, and the border is tearing it apart. https://crimethinc.com/stickers/immigrants-welcome

masked-up: Glasgow This GOVERNMENT IS ILLEGAL having broken so...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 15:15:17 -0400

masked-up:

Glasgow

This GOVERNMENT IS ILLEGAL having broken so many billions of laws with impunity. Start with the last ten illegal wars and every atrocity therein. Just following orders didn’t keep nazis from prosecution how does it work for the U.S.?