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#cultivation — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. An alternative to the conventional aboveground #greenhouse with fully transparent walls is the modern #Walipini, developed in #Bolivia 2002. The #concept enables #yearround vegetable #cultivation even in temperate climate zones, as the planting beds are situated #underground, where the temperature remains nearly constant regardless of the season above. Sunlight enters through a transparent roof.
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  2. Indigenous Tribes Engineered British Columbia’s Modern Hazelnut Forests More Than 7,000 Years Ago
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    science.org/content/article/in <-- shared technical article
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    doi.org/10.1073/pnas.240230412 <-- 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