#monoculture — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #monoculture, aggregated by home.social.
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5 min d'une simple petite #vidéo explicative sur la vie des arbres et forêts, à mettre en parallèle avec d'autres #lectures sur le sujet dont la #BD " La vie secrète des arbres" (ou le #livre) de #PeterWohlleben | #vulgarisation #climatechange #forêt #arbre #épicéa #chêne #eau #canopée #CO2 #photosynthèse #monoculture #adaptation #exploitationForestière #canicule #France #Europe https://www.ouest-france.fr/meteo/canicule/video-un-chene-transpire-500-l-deau-par-jour-avec-les-canicules-les-forets-mettent-sur-pause-la-photosynthese-b016d0a7-91fd-4665-a859-d9f99f6fd463
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5 min d'une simple petite #vidéo explicative sur la vie des arbres et forêts, à mettre en parallèle avec d'autres #lectures sur le sujet dont la #BD " La vie secrète des arbres" (ou le #livre) de #PeterWohlleben | #vulgarisation #climatechange #forêt #arbre #épicéa #chêne #eau #canopée #CO2 #photosynthèse #monoculture #adaptation #exploitationForestière #canicule #France #Europe https://www.ouest-france.fr/meteo/canicule/video-un-chene-transpire-500-l-deau-par-jour-avec-les-canicules-les-forets-mettent-sur-pause-la-photosynthese-b016d0a7-91fd-4665-a859-d9f99f6fd463
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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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In UK, a single breaks a very long-time record. Most people don't even know the song.
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Reporterre
Monocultures et coupes rases : la forêt des Landes, un modèle à bout de souffle
https://mcinformactions.net/spip.php?article231613&lang=fr
#Landes #pins #monoculture -
Reporterre
Monocultures et coupes rases : la forêt des Landes, un modèle à bout de souffle
https://mcinformactions.net/spip.php?article231613&lang=fr
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10 #IndigenousGardening Techniques Still Used Today
By: Robin Sweetser, May 3, 2026
"As gardeners, we are connected to all people who have come before us, caring for the earth and learning how to best grow crops. Ready for the best gardening techniques? Let’s have a look at some age-old gardening wisdom that’s still relevant today.
A Long History of #Gardening
#Gourds, #beans, and #peppers were being cultivated in #Mexico by 5500 BC, and by 5000 BC, #maize was being grown in #Mesoamerica, and #potatoes in #SouthAmerica. The success or failure of these crops had a major impact on people’s survival. It was critical not only that the land provided sustenance but that it sustained them year after year, which required knowledge of #sustainable growing techniques to preserve the land for future generations.
We hear buzzwords like 'sustainable' or 'permaculture' and 'organic' today. But these techniques were here long before we started talking about 'going green.' Perhaps your grandparents also knew some of the older, gentler ways. Many are simply intuitive and based on fostering a closer relationship with nature and the land. If you don’t already, you might want to think about integrating some of these techniques into your own landscape.
Many of the following practices are often viewed as 'new' to the gardening world, but they’ve been around for a long, long time. They have all been traditionally used by #NativeAmerican peoples, but that is not to say that all of these techniques were used by all Native American cultures. Just like separate countries, #Indigenous cultures vary widely in their gardening philosophies and techniques. Below are just a few #sustainable, Earth-conscious ways to grow a better garden.
These practices originate from diverse Indigenous nations across North and South America, including the #Haudenosaunee (#Iroquois), #Hopi, #Wampanoag, and many others. Agricultural traditions varied widely by climate, geography, and culture.
Companion Planting (the #ThreeSisters Method)
Time-honored gardening wisdom says that certain plants, when grown together, improve each other’s health and yields. For instance, some plants attract beneficial insects that help to protect a companion, while other plants (particularly herbs) act as repellents.
A commonly cited example is the Three Sisters Garden, which has been traditionally practiced by the Wampanoag people of what is now the northeastern United States. A prime demonstration of companion planting at its best, corn provides support for pole beans to climb, the beans add nitrogen to the soil for future crops to use, and squash leaves shade the soil around the taller plants, like a living mulch. Squash’s prickly leaves also deter marauding animal pests. Some would add a fourth sister—a flowering plant such as #sunflowers—to draw in #pollinators.
#Intercropping or #polyculture of plants that have mutual benefits (aka companion planting) mimics the way different species grow together in nature. #Monoculture, on the other hand, leads to the exhaustion of soil nutrients. Indigenous people also discovered that plant diversity meant diet diversity. If one crop should fail, the others could fill that void.
Try 'intercropping' in your vegetable garden. Sneak small crops in between bigger ones; the small crops will be ready before the big ones need the space.
#Terracing for #SoilConservation
Terracing creates flat planting beds in hilly terrain. Taming the steep slopes slows runoff, allowing water to seep into the beds and curb erosion.
Creating terraces in which to garden is an especially good way to garden where rain is seasonal, sporadic, and often comes in heavy downpours. In the southwestern U.S., for example, terracing was key to the agricultural success of the Anasazi and their descendants, the #Hopi, who still use terraced gardens today. This can be seen in the village of #HotevillaBacavi, in northern Arizona, where traditional #TerracedGardens were restored in the 1990s.
If you wish to garden sustainably on sloped land for years to come, the use of terracing is essential in avoiding soil erosion that carries your precious topsoil away.
There are different types of #terracing. If you have a slope, consider using some rocks or retaining walls to create a series of flattened areas, mitigating runoff. Ancient terraces are seen all over the steep terrain in #Greece, too.
Traditional Irrigation Methods
Thousands of years ago, the Anasazi people inhabited what is now the Four Corners region of the U.S., an area known for its low annual rainfall. They traditionally built catchments, check dams (dams made of rock that held onto soil but allowed water to pass through), and reservoirs to collect the infrequent stormwater. The Hopi people of northern Arizona also use these age-old techniques to irrigate their gardens in this arid landscape, although modern technology has allowed for expanded #WaterConservation efforts.
If you live in a dry area, storing water in ponds, cisterns, or even a #RainBarrel is a wise idea, as the reserved water can be used for irrigation as needed.
Conversely, in areas with floods, people learned how to use what could be destructive as a way to boost productivity. For example, one technique was to create shallow depressions so that when the floodwaters rose, the water could be stored. Another technique was to use #canals near rivers to divert water to nearby farmland."
Read more:
https://www.almanac.com/10-indigenous-gardening-techniques-still-used-today#SolarPunkSunday #GrowYourOwnFood #NativeAmericans #TraditionalTechnology #ClimateChangeGardening #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge #TEK #TerracedGardens #RainGardens
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10 #IndigenousGardening Techniques Still Used Today
By: Robin Sweetser, May 3, 2026
"As gardeners, we are connected to all people who have come before us, caring for the earth and learning how to best grow crops. Ready for the best gardening techniques? Let’s have a look at some age-old gardening wisdom that’s still relevant today.
A Long History of #Gardening
#Gourds, #beans, and #peppers were being cultivated in #Mexico by 5500 BC, and by 5000 BC, #maize was being grown in #Mesoamerica, and #potatoes in #SouthAmerica. The success or failure of these crops had a major impact on people’s survival. It was critical not only that the land provided sustenance but that it sustained them year after year, which required knowledge of #sustainable growing techniques to preserve the land for future generations.
We hear buzzwords like 'sustainable' or 'permaculture' and 'organic' today. But these techniques were here long before we started talking about 'going green.' Perhaps your grandparents also knew some of the older, gentler ways. Many are simply intuitive and based on fostering a closer relationship with nature and the land. If you don’t already, you might want to think about integrating some of these techniques into your own landscape.
Many of the following practices are often viewed as 'new' to the gardening world, but they’ve been around for a long, long time. They have all been traditionally used by #NativeAmerican peoples, but that is not to say that all of these techniques were used by all Native American cultures. Just like separate countries, #Indigenous cultures vary widely in their gardening philosophies and techniques. Below are just a few #sustainable, Earth-conscious ways to grow a better garden.
These practices originate from diverse Indigenous nations across North and South America, including the #Haudenosaunee (#Iroquois), #Hopi, #Wampanoag, and many others. Agricultural traditions varied widely by climate, geography, and culture.
Companion Planting (the #ThreeSisters Method)
Time-honored gardening wisdom says that certain plants, when grown together, improve each other’s health and yields. For instance, some plants attract beneficial insects that help to protect a companion, while other plants (particularly herbs) act as repellents.
A commonly cited example is the Three Sisters Garden, which has been traditionally practiced by the Wampanoag people of what is now the northeastern United States. A prime demonstration of companion planting at its best, corn provides support for pole beans to climb, the beans add nitrogen to the soil for future crops to use, and squash leaves shade the soil around the taller plants, like a living mulch. Squash’s prickly leaves also deter marauding animal pests. Some would add a fourth sister—a flowering plant such as #sunflowers—to draw in #pollinators.
#Intercropping or #polyculture of plants that have mutual benefits (aka companion planting) mimics the way different species grow together in nature. #Monoculture, on the other hand, leads to the exhaustion of soil nutrients. Indigenous people also discovered that plant diversity meant diet diversity. If one crop should fail, the others could fill that void.
Try 'intercropping' in your vegetable garden. Sneak small crops in between bigger ones; the small crops will be ready before the big ones need the space.
#Terracing for #SoilConservation
Terracing creates flat planting beds in hilly terrain. Taming the steep slopes slows runoff, allowing water to seep into the beds and curb erosion.
Creating terraces in which to garden is an especially good way to garden where rain is seasonal, sporadic, and often comes in heavy downpours. In the southwestern U.S., for example, terracing was key to the agricultural success of the Anasazi and their descendants, the #Hopi, who still use terraced gardens today. This can be seen in the village of #HotevillaBacavi, in northern Arizona, where traditional #TerracedGardens were restored in the 1990s.
If you wish to garden sustainably on sloped land for years to come, the use of terracing is essential in avoiding soil erosion that carries your precious topsoil away.
There are different types of #terracing. If you have a slope, consider using some rocks or retaining walls to create a series of flattened areas, mitigating runoff. Ancient terraces are seen all over the steep terrain in #Greece, too.
Traditional Irrigation Methods
Thousands of years ago, the Anasazi people inhabited what is now the Four Corners region of the U.S., an area known for its low annual rainfall. They traditionally built catchments, check dams (dams made of rock that held onto soil but allowed water to pass through), and reservoirs to collect the infrequent stormwater. The Hopi people of northern Arizona also use these age-old techniques to irrigate their gardens in this arid landscape, although modern technology has allowed for expanded #WaterConservation efforts.
If you live in a dry area, storing water in ponds, cisterns, or even a #RainBarrel is a wise idea, as the reserved water can be used for irrigation as needed.
Conversely, in areas with floods, people learned how to use what could be destructive as a way to boost productivity. For example, one technique was to create shallow depressions so that when the floodwaters rose, the water could be stored. Another technique was to use #canals near rivers to divert water to nearby farmland."
Read more:
https://www.almanac.com/10-indigenous-gardening-techniques-still-used-today#SolarPunkSunday #GrowYourOwnFood #NativeAmericans #TraditionalTechnology #ClimateChangeGardening #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge #TEK #TerracedGardens #RainGardens
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Can Himalayan Crops Help Secure The Future Of Food?
(Exploring how genomic diversity, traditional crops, and regional cooperation can strengthen climate resilience and food security across the Hindu Kush Himalaya [HKH])
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https://substack.com/home/post/p-207443153 <-- shared technical post
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https://openlibrary.substack.com/ <-- shared Substack, “Open Library on Green Economy”
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https://adaptationwithoutborders.org/knowledge-base/adaptation-without-borders/shifting-cooperation-in-the-hindu-kush-himalaya/ <-- shared technical article, “Shifting cooperation in the [HKH]”
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https://www.icimod.org/who-we-are/the-hindu-kush-himalaya/ <-- background on the HKH, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
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https://doi.org/10.48130/cas-0026-0003 <-- shared paper
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[not at all my technical area - but fascinating, including the spatial component #alldataisspatial]
H/T @jeevan Labh
“As we navigate the intensifying impacts of the 2026 El Niño, the vulnerability of our global food systems require careful evaluation. With this year’s erratic weather patterns driving severe, prolonged droughts in some regions and unseasonal, devastating floods in others, the climate crisis is proving that it is not a distant threat; it is happening right now, in our fields and on our plates.
This crisis is more visible in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region. Often called the “water tower of Asia,” this vast mountain range sustains 240 million people across eight countries and provides essential ecosystem services to nearly 2 billion people downstream. When glaciers melt at accelerated rates and monsoons become unpredictable, the narrative often focuses solely on the mountain communities. But the truth is much broader: a disrupted harvest in the high hills of Nepal or Bhutan creates a domino effect. It leads to displaced populations, reduced agricultural output flowing into the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra basins, and ultimately, skyrocketing food prices for families living in the sprawling downstream plains.
The climate crisis respects no borders and recognizes no difference between altitude and sea level. Because this problem affects us all, the solution must protect us all. Fortunately, the means to overcome this challenge are already in our hands, locked within the ancient seeds of the mountains…”
## #GreenEconomy #economy #monoculture #agriculture #farming #crop #cropland #HinduKushHimalaya #himalaya #mountain #HKH #spatial #mapping #elevation #climatechange #foodsecurity #food #extremeweather #weather #ElNiño #drought #rainfall #precipitation #snowmelt #climatecrisis #mountainrange #water #hydrology #ecosystem #glacier #moonsoons #community #harvest #Nepal #Bhutan #watersheds #watersecurity #risk #hazard #waterresources #genes #genomicdiversity #cooperation -
Can Himalayan Crops Help Secure The Future Of Food?
(Exploring how genomic diversity, traditional crops, and regional cooperation can strengthen climate resilience and food security across the Hindu Kush Himalaya [HKH])
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https://substack.com/home/post/p-207443153 <-- shared technical post
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https://openlibrary.substack.com/ <-- shared Substack, “Open Library on Green Economy”
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https://adaptationwithoutborders.org/knowledge-base/adaptation-without-borders/shifting-cooperation-in-the-hindu-kush-himalaya/ <-- shared technical article, “Shifting cooperation in the [HKH]”
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https://www.icimod.org/who-we-are/the-hindu-kush-himalaya/ <-- background on the HKH, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
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https://doi.org/10.48130/cas-0026-0003 <-- shared paper
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[not at all my technical area - but fascinating, including the spatial component #alldataisspatial]
H/T @jeevan Labh
“As we navigate the intensifying impacts of the 2026 El Niño, the vulnerability of our global food systems require careful evaluation. With this year’s erratic weather patterns driving severe, prolonged droughts in some regions and unseasonal, devastating floods in others, the climate crisis is proving that it is not a distant threat; it is happening right now, in our fields and on our plates.
This crisis is more visible in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region. Often called the “water tower of Asia,” this vast mountain range sustains 240 million people across eight countries and provides essential ecosystem services to nearly 2 billion people downstream. When glaciers melt at accelerated rates and monsoons become unpredictable, the narrative often focuses solely on the mountain communities. But the truth is much broader: a disrupted harvest in the high hills of Nepal or Bhutan creates a domino effect. It leads to displaced populations, reduced agricultural output flowing into the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra basins, and ultimately, skyrocketing food prices for families living in the sprawling downstream plains.
The climate crisis respects no borders and recognizes no difference between altitude and sea level. Because this problem affects us all, the solution must protect us all. Fortunately, the means to overcome this challenge are already in our hands, locked within the ancient seeds of the mountains…”
## #GreenEconomy #economy #monoculture #agriculture #farming #crop #cropland #HinduKushHimalaya #himalaya #mountain #HKH #spatial #mapping #elevation #climatechange #foodsecurity #food #extremeweather #weather #ElNiño #drought #rainfall #precipitation #snowmelt #climatecrisis #mountainrange #water #hydrology #ecosystem #glacier #moonsoons #community #harvest #Nepal #Bhutan #watersheds #watersecurity #risk #hazard #waterresources #genes #genomicdiversity #cooperation -
In the last week, we've been gifted:
1) A full paper bag of Welsh cakes, fresh off the griddle
2) Homemade schnitzel and potatoes from our Bosnian hairdresser neighbour
3) Swedish Kanelbullar (cinnamon scrolls) from a regular customer
4) Half a kilo of homemade kimchi from a local artistOur bodies are tired, but our hearts are so full.
#monoculture my ass.
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In the last week, we've been gifted:
1) A full paper bag of Welsh cakes, fresh off the griddle
2) Homemade schnitzel and potatoes from our Bosnian hairdresser neighbour
3) Swedish Kanelbullar (cinnamon scrolls) from a regular customer
4) Half a kilo of homemade kimchi from a local artistOur bodies are tired, but our hearts are so full.
#monoculture my ass.
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Good, don't add to the #overtourism & pls keep your #จีนเทา dogs locked up‼️👇
#Japan wants 60 million #tourists,🤔 but #China isn’t sending them
"70% of all overnight stays by foreign visitors cluster in just five prefectures: Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Hokkaido & Okinawa. #Kyoto alone accounted for almost 63 million domestic & international visitors last year, leaving its historic streets & temples groaning under the strain. The result has been a kind of #tourism #monoculture"🤦♂️🇯🇵
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3360158/japan-wants-60-million-tourists-china-isnt-sending-them?utm_source=rss_feed -
Good, don't add to the #overtourism & pls keep your #จีนเทา dogs locked up‼️👇
#Japan wants 60 million #tourists,🤔 but #China isn’t sending them
"70% of all overnight stays by foreign visitors cluster in just five prefectures: Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Hokkaido & Okinawa. #Kyoto alone accounted for almost 63 million domestic & international visitors last year, leaving its historic streets & temples groaning under the strain. The result has been a kind of #tourism #monoculture"🤦♂️🇯🇵
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3360158/japan-wants-60-million-tourists-china-isnt-sending-them?utm_source=rss_feed -
I Hate The Way We Talk Online
A little over a week ago, I asked on Threads:
Without googling or using a chatbot, do you know what the top songs (by chart position) in your favorite genres are right now? Could you sing, rap, or even hum them if asked?
What I expected in return were answers from acquaintances and strangers alike about their awareness of what’s actually popular, rather than the hyper-personal, algorithmically curated music being piped into their ears or the tunes that the hyper-niche online music fandom they may be a part of was promoting.
What I got instead were weirdly defensive or hostile replies that seemed to take my innocuous question as an invitation to debate the merits of charts including conspiracy theories about their purpose. Others merely wanted to pat themselves on the back for having edgy tastes.
I’m desperate for some sense of a shared cultural language or zeitgeist right now, but not like this.
On a recent episode of Brittany Luse’s It’s Been A Minute podcast, Wired’s Jason Parharm argued that this current stage of overly algorithmic social media has fostered a “main character” mentality where the primary currency is attention and everything, and everyone is judged through that lens. In this world, platforms reward “algorithm-speak” over individual expression and nuance, and any sense of a monoculture around anything other than the algorithm is almost non-existent.
The price of engaging with topics I care about or content I enjoy in spaces where I know like-minded folks exist is that I earn the attention of those who care more about winning algorithmically than connection. Much like literacy, social skills have atrophied in this age of social media.
As the World Cup has been showcasing lately, we can still find commonality and shared language around live sports, but even that is being fractured by the ways we experience the world through our digital frameworks. I’ve written before about how attending WNBA games in-person is nothing like the tribalism rampant when discussing the W online. I’d amend that today to note that fandom around one particular player and team can sometimes feel like the comments section IRL when they come out in full force at your home arena.
They reek of that “main character” mentality in which people assume they are the most entitled to everyone’s attention rather than reading the room and being good guests.
It’s infuriating.
I’m rejecting the shifting social mores that place the highest value on attention. I’m done with aura, rizz, maxxing, and mogging. I’m not accepting a post-literate society.
I refuse!
Let’s discuss topics without feeling the need to win a non-existent argument.
Hot takes? No.
Unsourced Breaking News from non-journalists? Nah, B.
Engage with nuance. Show the grace you would extend offline to those you meet on these virtual streets.
Have something real to say? Write a blog.
Want to better understand the world we live in? Read a book.
Want to be a creator? Don’t let AI write your shit, render your art, or make your infographics.
Don’t be a “main character.” Be a person.
Don’t make me enter my curmudgeon era.
Despite how far back I have to scroll to find my year in age verification features, I’m too young and pretty to be a full-time crank.
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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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‘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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Anyway, they're running a fundraising drive on OpenCollective right now, trying to bring in enough to cover hosting costs and pay the main devs an actual salary (whoa!), which would let them keep #GoToSocial as their main project and not push it to the side.
I've increased my own annual contribution, but it won't kick in until the anniversary rolls around in October.
If you like the idea of a #Fediverse that's made up of lots of different groups interacting with each other (with all their different needs and priorities), and not a #monoculture dominated by one project and its flagship servers, I'd encourage you to try out GoToSocial if you #SelfHost, and contribute to their fundraiser either way!
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Anyway, they're running a fundraising drive on OpenCollective right now, trying to bring in enough to cover hosting costs and pay the main devs an actual salary (whoa!), which would let them keep #GoToSocial as their main project and not push it to the side.
I've increased my own annual contribution, but it won't kick in until the anniversary rolls around in October.
If you like the idea of a #Fediverse that's made up of lots of different groups interacting with each other (with all their different needs and priorities), and not a #monoculture dominated by one project and its flagship servers, I'd encourage you to try out GoToSocial if you #SelfHost, and contribute to their fundraiser either way!
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@Old_IT_geek
Yeah, kicking out all those “GOP trained advisors”, stopping using their language & concepts, getting rid of the bots & bot farms pretending to be One (Mono) Notion “supporters”, these’d all be good steps. 😀#AusPol #PHON #monoculture #USPol #corruption #fakeSupporters #botFarms #OneMonoNotion #creepy
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@Old_IT_geek
Yeah, kicking out all those “GOP trained advisors”, stopping using their language & concepts, getting rid of the bots & bot farms pretending to be One (Mono) Notion “supporters”, these’d all be good steps. 😀#AusPol #PHON #monoculture #USPol #corruption #fakeSupporters #botFarms #OneMonoNotion #creepy
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@Bot4Sale
I’m not sure I’d even bother. Whenever I get a wiff of #PHONism from anyone, I tend to cut the conversation short and walk away — there’s no convincing a biggot they’re a biggot.Rather, I rather punch holes in their comments (before disengaging), like, Japan is not a monoculture. Ainu people in Hokkaido, Ryukyuans on Okinawa, and the many Korean everywhere in Japan. Japan also has a sizeable immigration intake and while not truly a multicultural society, it has its pockets of many other cultures. So much for #monoculture. #Pauline ought to have been truthful and call it post-colonial popular nationalism and white supremacy racism, because that is what #PHON espouses.
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@Bot4Sale
I’m not sure I’d even bother. Whenever I get a wiff of #PHONism from anyone, I tend to cut the conversation short and walk away — there’s no convincing a biggot they’re a biggot.Rather, I rather punch holes in their comments (before disengaging), like, Japan is not a monoculture. Ainu people in Hokkaido, Ryukyuans on Okinawa, and the many Korean everywhere in Japan. Japan also has a sizeable immigration intake and while not truly a multicultural society, it has its pockets of many other cultures. So much for #monoculture. #Pauline ought to have been truthful and call it post-colonial popular nationalism and white supremacy racism, because that is what #PHON espouses.
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The less said, on this platform (because most of us don’t need reminding) about #PaulineHanson the better. Unless of course it is in the course of throwing some more ridicule on the ridiculest: towit #AnnabelCrabb — who suddenly begins to be awake to it —and her critique of #PHON call to #monoculture:
“Pauline Hanson herself, meanwhile, popped back into the chat regularly over the week to offer helpful definitional prompts including that Japan is a monoculture.
Now, this in itself should have been a clue that it was well past time for everybody to go home for a lie down.
Because if there's anything more hallucination-inducing than the woman who 30 years ago had her undies in a bunch about too many Asians suddenly fancying we should be a bit more like Japan, I don't care to imagine it.
And yet. And yet. Unbelievably, there were still players willing to trudge out and engage, seriously, with the question of whether we should be Japan.”
Thanks for the merriment Annabel, may all your future pieces and vids carry the same clarity of political nous. And for all those polies still wondering what monoculture is, I’ll give you all a clue… it’s about #Cults … sit with that for a while.
#AusPol #Nationalism #Fascism #Racism #TaxTheRich #TruthInPoliticalAdvertising
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The less said, on this platform (because most of us don’t need reminding) about #PaulineHanson the better. Unless of course it is in the course of throwing some more ridicule on the ridiculest: towit #AnnabelCrabb — who suddenly begins to be awake to it —and her critique of #PHON call to #monoculture:
“Pauline Hanson herself, meanwhile, popped back into the chat regularly over the week to offer helpful definitional prompts including that Japan is a monoculture.
Now, this in itself should have been a clue that it was well past time for everybody to go home for a lie down.
Because if there's anything more hallucination-inducing than the woman who 30 years ago had her undies in a bunch about too many Asians suddenly fancying we should be a bit more like Japan, I don't care to imagine it.
And yet. And yet. Unbelievably, there were still players willing to trudge out and engage, seriously, with the question of whether we should be Japan.”
Thanks for the merriment Annabel, may all your future pieces and vids carry the same clarity of political nous. And for all those polies still wondering what monoculture is, I’ll give you all a clue… it’s about #Cults … sit with that for a while.
#AusPol #Nationalism #Fascism #Racism #TaxTheRich #TruthInPoliticalAdvertising
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💃DANCE OFF🕺
Pauline vs. Karl
Dancing with the Bizarres #monoculture #auspol -
Don't be ashamed if you get confused
When you talk to your friends or you watch the news
they wanna tell you where it all went wrong
Now you don't have to argue just sing this song, it was
Rich people, stackin the decks
Rich people with big fat checks
Rich people, havin a ball
Rich people been fucking us all
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Don't be ashamed if you get confused
When you talk to your friends or you watch the news
they wanna tell you where it all went wrong
Now you don't have to argue just sing this song, it was
Rich people, stackin the decks
Rich people with big fat checks
Rich people, havin a ball
Rich people been fucking us all
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In case you're wondering what a Monoculture looks like, it looks like Simon Holmes A Court aka @[email protected], his family business Heytesbury and Climate 200 staff, elected representatives and volunteers.
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Monoculturalism and Project Invisibility
Silencing dissenting Indigenous voices"Project Invisibility is a sustained campaign to remove First Nations leaders from public boards and other senior government roles."
"We're going back to the [master] days, like you have your head bowed, you're too afraid to put your head up and speak your mind because you might be out the door."
"It means you'll have the same old Eurocentric version of the world in your policies, everything you're doing within government will be white, anglicised."
"They are eradicating, invisibilising us, and destroying our history and culture." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-20/langbroek-remains-silent-over-aboriginal-leadership-changes/106817420
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #IndigenousVoices #TruthTelling #invisibility #culture #monoculture #monoculturalism #SettlerSociety #EuropeanColonisation #governance -
Monoculturalism and Project Invisibility
Silencing dissenting Indigenous voices"Project Invisibility is a sustained campaign to remove First Nations leaders from public boards and other senior government roles."
"We're going back to the [master] days, like you have your head bowed, you're too afraid to put your head up and speak your mind because you might be out the door."
"It means you'll have the same old Eurocentric version of the world in your policies, everything you're doing within government will be white, anglicised."
"They are eradicating, invisibilising us, and destroying our history and culture." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-20/langbroek-remains-silent-over-aboriginal-leadership-changes/106817420
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #IndigenousVoices #TruthTelling #invisibility #culture #monoculture #monoculturalism #SettlerSociety #EuropeanColonisation #governance -
🦊⚔️🔒 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 -
Watching the Obama broadcast and just dreaming of all such events being natively open and on the web.
An #owncast stream posted by the creator using their domain and infrastructure. With a live chat. Boosted. And replies sorted by all of us. Later available as a #peertube video. Shared experiences never again under the control of a third party. Or diminished by being split among multiple streams or platforms.
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Watching the Obama broadcast and just dreaming of all such events being natively open and on the web.
An #owncast stream posted by the creator using their domain and infrastructure. With a live chat. Boosted. And replies sorted by all of us. Later available as a #peertube video. Shared experiences never again under the control of a third party. Or diminished by being split among multiple streams or platforms.
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🤖🎉 Ah yes, because what the world really needs is yet another tedious academic paper on how hiring algorithms are as diverse as a #monoculture of potatoes. Bravo! After meticulously studying 3.4 million applicants, we’ve confirmed that different employers using the same algorithm isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. 🙄🔍
https://algorithmichiring.github.io/ #hiringalgorithms #academicpapers #diversity #employersresearch #jobmarket #HackerNews #ngated -
🤖🎉 Ah yes, because what the world really needs is yet another tedious academic paper on how hiring algorithms are as diverse as a #monoculture of potatoes. Bravo! After meticulously studying 3.4 million applicants, we’ve confirmed that different employers using the same algorithm isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. 🙄🔍
https://algorithmichiring.github.io/ #hiringalgorithms #academicpapers #diversity #employersresearch #jobmarket #HackerNews #ngated -
Tax breaks for forestry have been devastating for the Scottish countryside. And there is little evidence that anything will improve .
#Tax #Forestry #ScottishBorders #Woodland #Monoculture #Environment
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Tax breaks for forestry have been devastating for the Scottish countryside. And there is little evidence that anything will improve .
#Tax #Forestry #ScottishBorders #Woodland #Monoculture #Environment
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@exaltresearch.bsky.social
water and avocados 🥑
https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/exalt-podcast/id1499621252?i=1000770122613 -
@exaltresearch.bsky.social
water and avocados 🥑
https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/exalt-podcast/id1499621252?i=1000770122613 -
https://theconversation.com/how-the-world-can-avoid-millions-going-hungry-when-supply-chains-collapse-282441. All this would be good, @ConversationUK, but without real #action to deal with both #climatechange & the #biodiversity #crisis, & without changing #farming #methods to eliminate #monoculture & the intensive use of #artificial #fertilisers & #pesticides, we are heading for a Malthusian catastrophe. People had better start believing me, because if they don't, my prophecy will turn into reality - & I don't want it to do so! See: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/wef2n_v1.
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https://theconversation.com/how-the-world-can-avoid-millions-going-hungry-when-supply-chains-collapse-282441. All this would be good, @ConversationUK, but without real #action to deal with both #climatechange & the #biodiversity #crisis, & without changing #farming #methods to eliminate #monoculture & the intensive use of #artificial #fertilisers & #pesticides, we are heading for a Malthusian catastrophe. People had better start believing me, because if they don't, my prophecy will turn into reality - & I don't want it to do so! See: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/wef2n_v1.
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'The dark, loamy dirt has been called #Ukraine’s “black gold,” and it’s some of the most fertile on earth [...] But environmental groups and farmers’ advocates have warned that the large-scale #industrialMonoculture practiced by #agribusiness threatens to degrade this prized soil through intensive harvesting and overuse of #fertilizers and #pesticides.'
https://thebaffler.com/latest/betting-the-farm-kruzman
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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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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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https://youtube.com/watch?v=V6pgZKVcKpw
If you only watch one video on cyber security this year, make it this one
#infosec #informationsecurity #security #computersecurity #internetsecurity #vulnerability #bugs #bugbounty #cybersecurity #monoculture #cyber
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@eric a question if this is a sign of #monoculture