#monoculture — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #monoculture, aggregated by home.social.
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In UK, a single breaks a very long-time record. Most people don't even know the song.
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‘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."
#SolarPunkSunday #Trees #UK #MutualAid #HempTextiles #FoodSecurity #FoodForests #CropRotation #CropDiversity #OrganicFarming #SupportUKFarms #SupportLocalFarmers
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🦊⚔️🔒 Oh no, the mighty #Firefox is facing the ultimate existential crisis: a potential banishment from Google Workspace! 😱 Apparently, Google wants everyone to join their Chrome cult – because who needs browser diversity when you can have a monoculture? 🙄
https://tales.fromprod.com/2026/169/google-workspace-threatening-to-block-firefox.html #Crisis #GoogleWorkspace #BrowserDiversity #ChromeCult #Monoculture #HackerNews #ngated -
🦊⚔️🔒 Oh no, the mighty #Firefox is facing the ultimate existential crisis: a potential banishment from Google Workspace! 😱 Apparently, Google wants everyone to join their Chrome cult – because who needs browser diversity when you can have a monoculture? 🙄
https://tales.fromprod.com/2026/169/google-workspace-threatening-to-block-firefox.html #Crisis #GoogleWorkspace #BrowserDiversity #ChromeCult #Monoculture #HackerNews #ngated -
🦊⚔️🔒 Oh no, the mighty #Firefox is facing the ultimate existential crisis: a potential banishment from Google Workspace! 😱 Apparently, Google wants everyone to join their Chrome cult – because who needs browser diversity when you can have a monoculture? 🙄
https://tales.fromprod.com/2026/169/google-workspace-threatening-to-block-firefox.html #Crisis #GoogleWorkspace #BrowserDiversity #ChromeCult #Monoculture #HackerNews #ngated -
🦊⚔️🔒 Oh no, the mighty #Firefox is facing the ultimate existential crisis: a potential banishment from Google Workspace! 😱 Apparently, Google wants everyone to join their Chrome cult – because who needs browser diversity when you can have a monoculture? 🙄
https://tales.fromprod.com/2026/169/google-workspace-threatening-to-block-firefox.html #Crisis #GoogleWorkspace #BrowserDiversity #ChromeCult #Monoculture #HackerNews #ngated -
🦊⚔️🔒 Oh no, the mighty #Firefox is facing the ultimate existential crisis: a potential banishment from Google Workspace! 😱 Apparently, Google wants everyone to join their Chrome cult – because who needs browser diversity when you can have a monoculture? 🙄
https://tales.fromprod.com/2026/169/google-workspace-threatening-to-block-firefox.html #Crisis #GoogleWorkspace #BrowserDiversity #ChromeCult #Monoculture #HackerNews #ngated -
So, this is a timely topic! From the latest issue of #InTheseTimes! The connection between Amazon Deforestation and CEO land grabs in the Western United States -- bought with blood money!
Fortress Yellowstone
The #UltraRich are fortifying themselves inside one of America’s last intact #ecosystems—with money plundered from ecological #SacrificeZones around the world
by Joseph Bullington, April 6, 2026
Excerpt: "Some of these ultra-rich ranch owners celebrate the natural beauty of their land and are ardent conservationists when it comes to the Yellowstone ecosystem. In digging into their business dealings, however, I found that most of these landowners accumulated their wealth through industries that help drive the destruction of nature elsewhere. Their ranks include private equity investors, oil and gas billionaires and real estate developers. "[...]
"Now, instead of forests full of fruits and animals and mandioca clearings, industrial soy plantations press in on #Açaizal like a closing fist. There is no escape from the onslaught of #monoculture. Manoel shows me where rows of broken cornstalks run right up against the edge of the community’s soccer field, which the soy farmers also want to plow. The soybeans and corn, like those in the United States, are genetically engineered to withstand the #herbicides and #pesticides the farmers dump on them to beat back weeds and pests, but the chemicals drift, says Manoel, making it impossible to grow fruits and vegetables and #mandioca nearby. The streams run low and full of poison."
Read more:
https://inthesetimes.com/article/yellowstone-billionaires-conservation-montana-deforest-amazon#Billionaires #UberRich #CEOs #AmazonDeforestation #BigAg #SoybeanProduction #IndustralSoybeans #PoisoningTheAmazon #GMOs #Monoculture #Deforestation #Cargill #HomeDepot #SoyPlantations #SaveTheForest #SaveTheRainforest #Earth4All #DSA #DemocraticSocialism #ReadItBeforeItsBanned #TaxTheRich #NoTaxHavens #EatTheRich #YeetTheRich #BigCorporations
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Humans profoundly reshaped mammal communities on a global scale.
"After farming began, just a handful of livestock species spread with humans and scrambled those natural boundaries, reshaping mammal communities worldwide...Large ungulates like horses and cows are important because they monopolize food resources wherever they are in high numbers...At the same time, many wild mammals went extinct, in each case following human arrival—not during a particular worldwide climate change episode."
"Post-extinction ecosystems have not been truly natural for the last 10,000 years or more, so national parks in the hardest-hit regions, such as Australia and the Americas, lack over half of the native large mammal species that would have been present if not for humans. Over the last 10,000 years or so, humans have overseen the wholesale replacement of native mammal communities with a very limited set of domesticated species."
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How humans reshaped the animal world: Research traces 50,000 years of change
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-humans-reshaped-animal-world-years.html"These findings underscore how human-driven extinctions, agriculture and resource extraction profoundly reshaped mammal community structures. How we manage these interactions today will determine whether mammal communities become resilient or increasingly destabilized."
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Barry W. Brook et al, Late Pleistocene faunal community patterns disrupted by Holocene human impacts, Biology Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2025.0151
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0151
#ecosystems #biosphere #biodiversity #wildlife #nativespecies #mammals #holocene #extinctions #disruption #fauna #NovelAssemblages #NPs #nature #ungulates #livestock #HumanDriven #NicheModification #monoculture #Australia #extractivism -
@thearcanecomposer sure - it all started with a presidential candidate #RonaldReagan receiving a very large contribution from a company named #Microsoft producing an operating system. In return he enacted software #patents that caused widespread #monoculture known to be vulnerable to #SinglePointOfFailure. To protect the fragile system another company named #CrowdStrike #CRWD created monitoring software that was deployed to all endpoints across the world, running with administrative permission, collecting all signals to a centralized database.
One day said company made a silly mistake, that only affected this particular operating system's ability to boot. For a brief moment the western world shut down. Politicians across the world were appalled by the incompetence of people in #InformationTechnology but concluded there was nothing to do about it.