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The most successful form of vertical farming is agroforestry, or tree-based agriculture. It provides habitat, shade, carbon sequestration, and water retention while raising per acre productivity over that of 2-D cropping. Agroforestry is a well studied, widely implemented practice that big talking green tech "big thinkers" tend to ignore if not openly scoff at.

For some reason they're called "bumpers" instead of "slicers" or "crushers" and frankly I just think that's just a failure of language not being able to keep up with the blazingly fast pace of transportation technology over the decades and decades. /s but not really

The lady in the vid, Valer Austin Clark, has some great lectures and slideshow presentations on YT if you search for her name and sort for 20+ mins. She built some absolutely massive rock dams that survived some huge floods.

I've been cell phone free since 2012. Article is correct, it's not that hard to live without one.

BS'ing

What better time than now to start implementing on your farm an agroforestry system based on nitrogen-fixing trees and shrubs.

Since 2011 I've been calling it megalobamboozlementarianism.

I currently move a Salatin-style chicken tractor 12 feet every day, and I could totally see turning this thing into a chicken tractor that moves itself. Bonus points if it could spot sick or injured birds, or identify a problem bird that attacks the other chickens, etc. Or even predator detection/deterrence if a fox or raccoon starts trying to dig under the edge to get inside to the chickens.

of all lawns, yarrow lawns are by far the softest, and that silvery color makes everyone go wild.

Playwright is the bee knees. At my last tech job I did maintenance on about 400 wordpress sites, and I used playwright to automate a bunch of monotonous clicky tasks normally done via the wordpress backend gui. It was a lot of fun and toward the end I got playwright running on heroku and made a gui so that my not very tech coworkers could upload a csv of different sites and then and a select a dropdown list of different scrapers, tests, etc.

Interesting, I will look into that.

Too much calcium carbonate is really detrimental to a wide variety of plants, it causes a condition called iron chlorosis. Basically plants will readily absorb calcium instead of iron (they need iron to do their chemistry for photosynthesis), the result of which is yellowing leaves, poor production, plant death, etc. Spraying massive amounts of calcium carbonate in the atmosphere, if it makes it down to the plants on the ground, sounds like a great way to cause massive forest die offs. Much like sulfur creates acid rain, calcium in the atmosphere would create "basic rain" which is just as much of a problem if you're a plant that requires a fairly narrow range of soil pH.