Permaculture Principles Crossword!
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Visiting Rolling Greens in Culver City, CA
Last month I visited the Culver City, CA, location of Rolling Greens for the second time, and it was just as fabulous as I remembered (first visit here). It was extra fun actually, since they had their holiday decor up—it felt a lot like a West Coast version of Terrain.
From their website: “3 levels, 6 greenhouses, over 1.5 acres of nursery overwhelm… Nestled on a hill overlooking Century City, this iconic location boasts the largest pottery + container collection in the Greater Los Angeles area.”
I wandered the indoor area first…
These candle sticks! Oh how I wanted to take them home, at least one (the dark one), preferably three. They were not cheap but the main obstacle was how thin the glass was. I might have gotten away with shipping them (or packing them really well and checking them?). But instead I decided I’d try and find them locally. No success thus far.
This were pretty fantastic too.
And I loved the paper trees. My mom did something vaguely similar once that involved spray paint and folding the pages of a Reader’s Digest magazine.
Naturally there were poinsettia…
And I lusted after that hourglass planter.
I’m outside now, where I admired this table with a planting pocket down the middle.
And a little moss to the side.
I walked the planter aisles…
And admired the view.
As well as the plants, of course.
Another table with a planting…
And more containers.
I don’t think I made it down to the lowest level (house plants) on my last visit, and I was tempted by a few of them. Instead my only purchase was the tote bag I shared in this post.
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Frederick Lubbe: survivability of herbs in the winter
In this blog post Frederick Lubbe, postdoc at Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, presents his work ‘New opportunities for grassland species in warming temperate winters’. He talks about the importance of winter for plants, shows how plants cope with winter conditions and shares how he enjoys working in unusual ecological topics. About the paper Climate change is happening everywhere and all …
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What makes a growing medium good?
With the thread about peat moss and alternatives like coconut coir, I got to thinking about the byproducts from things in my own gardening and kitchen. In particular, I’ve got a unique byproduct that I would love to suss out to see if it’s valuable or not, but I’ve got no clue how to actually measure the efficacy of it. I understand that it’s about moisture retention (or lack of), air/space, etc, but I’m curious how others have figured out if something you use is good or not.
The byproduct for me in particular is spent chaga, which has been ground into a coarse grind and steeped for over a day so no more colour is coming out of it. It really intrigues me because I think it might be a super-medium but I don’t know how to tell beyond just growing seeds in it and seeing
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⭐ Hi! 😊 I’m working on a gardening game inspired by permaculture! 🌿 Each plant has a dynamic watering, soil and neighbourhood value & each value has an ideal and worst zone per plant type 📜 Do you have any other permaculture or garden related ideas I could add to the game? 🤗
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Bird flu sweeps through zoos with ‘grave implications’ for endangered animals
Call for additional precautions as captive species including lions, tigers and cheetahs are killed by virus
Dozens of rare animals including tigers, lions and cheetahs are dying as bird flu infiltrates zoos, with potentially “grave implications” for endangered species, researchers have warned.
As a growing number of zoos report animal deaths, scientists are concerned that infected wild birds landing in enclosures could be spreading it among captive animals. In the US, a cheetah, mountain lion, Indian goose and kookaburra were among the animals that died in Wildlife World Zoo near Phoenix, according to local media reports last week. San Francisco Zoo temporarily closed its aviaries after a wild red-shouldered hawk was found dead on its grounds, and later tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAIV). A rare red-breasted goose died at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, causing aviaries to close and penguin feeding for visitors to be suspended in November. These cases follow the deaths of 47 tigers, three lions, and a panther in zoos across south Vietnam over the summer.
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Asking for any experiences on soil remediation using plants (tips on testing heavy metals in soil, especially using sunflower to remediate)
Hi everyone! My team and I are working on a prototype to use sunflowers and AMF fungi to clean up soil contaminated with heavy metals. But none of us come from agricultural backgrounds, we’re just passionate youth trying to help remediate soil in conflict-affected areas. So it’s been quite a challenge to work on this and looking for someone from this field. Recently, saw several posts about soil remediation on reddit, so we got some hopes to find practical insights here!
I’d love to hear from anyone with experience or advice on:
(1) How did you test whether concentration of heavy metals in the soil after planting hyperaccumulator plants is lower?
(2) Any useful tips on growing sunflowers for soil remediation?
My team and I will be super duper grateful for any of your insights!
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US: Tomato seeds in space
Bearden was one of several schools around the country chosen by NASA to conduct an experiment on space travel and germination. In 2016, NASA sent tomato seeds to space, while leaving a collection of seeds from the same plant as control seeds on Earth. The seeds sent to space were then brought back to earth and sent to high…
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