home.social

#hazel — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #hazel, aggregated by home.social.

fetched live
  1. #HashtagGames
    #TVShowProverbs

    It's true that money can't buy happiness but happiness can't buy popcorn at the movies.

    #Hazel

  2. ‘Doves and food and fun’: the fight to save a farming pioneer

    #Wakelyns needs £1.2m to save its diverse organic crops and ‘micro’ enterprises including a bakery and honeybee hives

    "It’s almost a political project about land use – maximising the #sustainable productivity of the land." - David Wolfe

    by Patrick Barkham
    Tue 30 Jun 2026 06.00 EDT

    "The aerial view of Wakelyns matches the experience of visiting it at ground level: in a region dominated by prairie fields of industrial agriculture, here lies a vivid green lung of land. Its sounds and sights in summer – the sleepy purr of the turtle dove, the vivid pink flash of a bullfinch – have vanished from most of the British countryside.

    "But Wakelyns is not a nature reserve – it is a thriving farm, a 'living laboratory' for #agroforestry and a hub for innovation and business. It is also under threat, and its owners must raise £1.2m to turn it into a charitable community benefit society.

    "The 56-acre former pig farm in Suffolk was bought by Martin and Ann Wolfe in 1992. Martin was a government plant pathologist who wanted to do more innovative research than his employers had allowed. Seeking to farm crops with fewer pesticides, herbicides and fertilisers, he created one of the first agroforestry schemes in Europe.

    "Turning productive cereal-growing fields into 56 narrow 'alleys' of farmed land between rows of planted trees had been 'widely regarded as mad', said their son, #DavidWolfe, an environmental lawyer who now runs Wakelyns with his wife, Amanda Illing. 'The farmer who sold the land to them said: ‘You’ve ruined a perfectly good wheat field’.'

    "Today, Wakelyns is an inspirational example of agroforestry, which has become official government policy. The government’s carbon delivery plan wants to turn 10% of arable land into agroforestry by 2050, with financial incentives to encourage more farmers to transition into something like Wakelyns.

    "The lush trees that divide the alleys are all crops. After more than 30 years, some are tall trees for timber, while others provide #apples, #cherries and #plums. The most lucrative tree crop is #hazel, which is coppiced on a seven-year cycle to produce high-quality hazel stakes for traditional hedgelayers. Each stake is sold for £1.40 and Wakelyns cannot grow enough.

    The farm’s motto is '#ResilienceThroughDiversity'. It pioneered the first commercial #lentil growing in the UK, and is still the country’s only commercial #BlackLentil grower. 'If Britain is serious about wanting to feed itself, we should stop growing oilseed rape for biodiesel and grow #pulses,' said Wolfe.

    "Wakelyns’ diversity encompasses a uniquely genetically diverse population of wheat and multiple varieties of apple tree. When big orchards, which typically grow a narrow range of apple varieties, complain of a terrible harvest, a mixed orchard such as Wakelyns’ is fine, because every year some varieties thrive. #Monocultural farmers, says Wolfe, 'put it all on red or black'.

    "Wolfe and Illing took over the farm in 2020 after Wolfe’s parents died. To the innovative farming principles, they added 'enterprise stacking', bringing people back to the land via a series of symbiotic relationships."

    Read more:
    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #SolarPunkSunday #Trees #UK #MutualAid #HempTextiles #FoodSecurity #FoodForests #CropRotation #CropDiversity #OrganicFarming #SupportUKFarms #SupportLocalFarmers
    #Polyculture not #Monoculture

  3. This includes tips for using #Hazel and #CleanMyLinks. Important to update to 7.0.2 which works around a bug in #Sparkle @hookmark

  4. even in the age of ai traditional automation apps like hazel matter. here's a walkthrough to convert those pesky webp and heic images to the standard jpg format

    cogmodo.com/webpandheictojpgwi

    #blog #writing #writingcommunity #iamwriting #automation #hazel #macos #webp #heic

  5. Przebiśniegi już są, ale to wciąż za mało, żeby ogłosić przedwiośnie. Pod względem fenologicznym brakuje choćby kwitnienia leszczyny. Co ciekawe, w tamtym roku leszczyna u mnie kwitła 27 stycznia (sic!). W tym roku wciąż się na to nie zapowiada. Zima da nam jeszcze popalić...
    ---
    Co do samych zdjęć, to jestem szczęśliwy. W mojej wieśniaczej fotografii brakowało mi właśnie takiego szkła makro jak Nikon Nikkor Z MC 105mm f/2.8 S VR, coś pięknego. Niestety nie kurier się nie spieszył, więc obiektyw odebrałem późno i te zdjęcia już przy słabym świetle, no i co najważniejsze - bez słońca. Wrzucam jednak trzy: dwa przebiśniegów i jedno leszczyny.
    Myślałem też, że mając to szkło, pozbędę się moje standardowej portretówki Nikkor 85/1.8G, ale nic z tego. Chociaż więcej testów zrobie jutro. Pytanie tylko czy dzieciaki będą na tyle cierpliwe? ;)
    #kochamwies #snowdrops #flowers #spring #photo #hazel #macro #NikonZ5 #NikkorZMC105mm

  6. Today, using Script Debugger and #ChatGPT, I wrote and debugged an #AppleScript for use as part of a #Hazel rule. I hooked the script to the AI chat for future reference. Another huge use case for #hookmark.

    Unfortunately, Hazel is not [link-friendly](hookproductivity.com/help/inte) so I couldn't hook these two resources to the Hazel rule.

  7. Oh I'm really enjoying my new #hazel rules which rename and move notes created by `Hook to New`. I will definitely blog about this this month. I should have been using Hazel since 2019, year Hookmark came out. I have update my licenses as many times as needed since then but had not really used it.

  8. apps macOS automatically opens at login for me: #CCC Dashboard.app
    #Cotypist.app
    #DefaultFolder X.app
    #Dropbox.app
    #Hazel.app
    #Timing Tracker.app

  9. I upgraded #hazel and am using it to automatically file many of my notes created via #Hookmark's `Hook to New` hookproductivity.com/help/hook

  10. I asked ChatGPT some questions about #Hazel Mac app, and I hooked that chat to /Applications/Hazel.app, which automatically bookmarked the chat.

  11. New blog post about my #Photography image ingestion workflow, using #Hazel to allow me to Airdrop images from an #iOS device, to my #Mac, and have any which are camera originals automatically sorted off into Y/M/D subfolders on my photo archive drive, without having to use any form of cloud service, or image ingestion application (like Image Capture).

    mattgodden.com/2025/12/24/refi

  12. So the updated #Hazel #Workflow on #macOS for getting #Photos off my #iPhone is:
    Airdrop from phone to #Mac ~/Downloads:

    ~/Downloads:
    -> New file an Image? -> ~/Pictures
    -> New file a Movie? -> ~/Movies

    ~/Pictures:
    -> New file device model (my phone)& is (HEIF Image) -> /PhotoDrive/Cameras/Phone

    ~/Movies:
    -> New file (WhereFrom) (my phone) & kind is Movie -> /PhotoDrive/Cameras/Phone

    /PhotoDrive/Cameras/Phone:
    -> New file move to folders (or create nested) YYYY / MM / DD… (1/2)