#cultivation — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #cultivation, aggregated by home.social.
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MARCUS: As a field, though fertile, cannot yield a harvest without cultivation, no more can the mind without learning.
[Ut ager quamvis fertilis sine cultura fructuosus esse non potest, sic sine doctrina animus.]Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 2, ch. 5 (2.5) / sec. 13 (2.13) (45 BC) [tr. Peabody (1886)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #tusculandisputations #accomplishment #cultivation #development #education #harvest #learning #mind #potential #productivity #soul
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Peaches Spread Across North America Through Indigenous Networks, Radiocarbon Dating And Document Analysis Show
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https://phys.org/news/2024-11-peaches-north-america-indigenous-networks.html <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52597-8 <-- shared paper
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https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2024/nov/27/meet-the-peach-that-traveled-the-trail-of-tears/ <-- shared media article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #FirstNation #cultivation #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #indigenous #forest #farming #sustenance #foodsecurity #traditional #deliberate #garden #ethnobiology #archaeology #anthropology #biology #forestgarden #transplanting #management #wildplant #biogeography #culture #ethnohistory #peach #peaches #fruit #tree #orchard #introduced #Spanish #indigenised #dates #dating #radiocarbondating #pits #peachpits #chronology #chronological #model #modeling #landmanagement #landuse #practices #socioecology #colonialisation #NorthAmerica #USA -
Indigenous Tribes Engineered British Columbia’s Modern Hazelnut Forests More Than 7,000 Years Ago
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https://www.science.org/content/article/indigenous-tribes-engineered-british-columbia-s-modern-hazelnut-forests-more-7000-years <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2402304121 <-- shared paper
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[not my usual ‘sort of thing’ to post - as broad as that is - but I found this fascinating; it reminds me, in a sense, of the Incas incrementally selecting corn stock that can handle higher and higher altitudes, in ‘research stations’, although those were a domesticated crop]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #hazelnut #nut #Canada #BritishColumbia #FirstNation #cultivation #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #indigenous #forest #farming #sustenance #foodsecurity #traditional #wildfire #prescribedburn #landrights #law #deliberate #garden #ethnobiology #archaeology #linguistics #name #connections #anthropology #biology #forestgarden #transplanting #management #wildplant #biogeography #culture -
#ClimateCatastrophe #Overshoot #PhantomCarryingCapacity
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"...anticipate the #GreenRevolution, which took off in the 1970s.
👉#Farmers began to use new chemical #fertilizers such as #phosphorous and #ammonia (which is derived from #NaturalGas), and #agrochemicals such as #pesticides and #herbicides [#oil derivatives]).👈
In addition, they began to use new types of #farming equipment that mechanized #cultivation and harvesting.But that’s not all. In the past, a #drought...