#plant farming

[sunsetcorvid]

dear mojang

add more crops in minecraft im begging you im on my hands and knees give us tomatoes give us onions give us strawberries give us peppers

add more food recipes please give us sandwiches give us more pastries give us pudding or some shit

sincerely, the farmer of every minecraft server

[lovehina019]

[froggyforest]

[lionfloss]

Tulip Fields in the Netherlands by arden_nl

[snekdood]

so I found this really cool website that sells native seeds- and you might be asking me "snekdood, haven't you posted an entire list of websites that sell native wildflower seeds that you're going to add on to soon?" and yes that's true, but that's not the kind of native seed im talking about rn.

see, on my quest to find websites that sell native wildflowers, I came across this dope ass website that sells seeds that have been farmed and harvested by ntv people traditionally, i'll let the website do the talking:

so anyways this is the coolest website ever. you can find the wild relatives of chiles on here called chiltepines, you can find different colors of corn and cool squash's, and every seed from whichever farm has it's own lil origin story written about it. you can also find other veggies here that are already commercially available to help fund and support this organization. as well as there being a cool gift shop with a lot of art made by different native folk from all around as well as cookbooks, jewelry, pottery, weavings, and clearly plenty more:

as well as a pantry?? with premade soup mixes??? and i really want to try them now??????

anyways I think its worth snoopin' around bc I'm almost positive you'll see something you think is cool (oh also if you happen to have some seeds passed down from ur family too and ur also native they seem like they would gladly help produce more)

[firesidecottage]

Interiors

[beingjellybeans]

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[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

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traditional knife 石镰shilian specially used to harvest glutinous rice

[reasonsforhope]

"Marginal improvements to agricultural soils around the world would store enough carbon to keep the world within 1.5C of global heating, new research suggests.

Farming techniques that improve long-term fertility and yields can also help to store more carbon in soils but are often ignored in favor of intensive techniques using large amounts of artificial fertilizer, much of it wasted, that can increase greenhouse gas emissions.

Using better farming techniques to store 1 percent more carbon in about half of the world’s agricultural soils would be enough to absorb about 31 gigatons of carbon dioxide a year, according to new data. That amount is not far off the 32 gigaton gap between current planned emissions reduction globally per year and the amount of carbon that must be cut by 2030 to stay within 1.5C.

The estimates were carried out by Jacqueline McGlade, the former chief scientist at the UN environment program and former executive director of the European Environment Agency. She found that storing more carbon in the top 30 centimeters of agricultural soils would be feasible in many regions where soils are currently degraded.

McGlade now leads a commercial organization that sells soil data to farmers. Downforce Technologies uses publicly available global data, satellite images, and lidar to assess in detail how much carbon is stored in soils, which can now be done down to the level of individual fields.

“Outside the farming sector, people do not understand how important soils are to the climate,” said McGlade. “Changing farming could make soils carbon negative, making them absorb carbon, and reducing the cost of farming.”

She said farmers could face a short-term cost while they changed their methods, away from the overuse of artificial fertilizer, but after a transition period of two to three years their yields would improve and their soils would be much healthier...

Arable farmers could sequester more carbon within their soils by changing their crop rotation, planting cover crops such as clover, or using direct drilling, which allows crops to be planted without the need for ploughing. Livestock farmers could improve their soils by growing more native grasses.

Hedgerows also help to sequester carbon in the soil, because they have large underground networks of mycorrhizal fungi and microbes that can extend meters into the field. Farmers have spent decades removing hedgerows to make intensive farming easier, but restoring them, and maintaining existing hedgerows, would improve biodiversity, reduce the erosion of topsoil, and help to stop harmful agricultural runoff, which is a key polluter of rivers."

-via The Grist, July 8, 2023

[carsonjonesfiance]

Every single one of y'all fuckers who talks like this would die after a week on a farm in the modern day let alone doing pre industrial farming. Apologize to every farmer right fucking now.

[headspace-hotel]

I've been researching how to unfuck our food system in the USA, and its so frustrating to learn about how we are locked into this deeply inefficient, destructive system that is running itself into the ground because everything is controlled by enormous corporations.

I agree that we need to switch to more plant-based diets

BUT i think this is something that will, to some extent, naturally happen if we fix the horrible homogenization of our food system

The USA is full of highly productive, edible plants that are already part of the natural ecosystem that we don't eat

example 1: Acorns. Once you cook the tannins out, acorns are edible. They were once a staple food for humans. You can make them into flour and all sorts of things, and oak trees are incredibly productive

example 2: Amaranth. It's more productive, easier to grow, and healthier than wheat and corn, very high in protein. It also was once a staple crop.

However, farmers need money or they will lose everything, so they plant crops based on what the big companies they sell to will buy.

Big companies only want to buy crops that have the highest chance of making a profit.

Unfamiliar foods don't make as much profit because people are not sure about trying them.

This means that farmers are mostly stuck planting the same, like, 3 things that big companies feel most comfy about.

I hate this so much. I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it

it's absolutely infuriating how incredibly solvable our food system problems are, and how it's all going to hell because companies are like "okay but 5.5% more profits go brrrrrrrr"

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by Sergiy Barchuk

[lovehina019]

[lionfloss]

by Ewski Images

[inkclover]

can’t deny them green fingers🪴

Also bickering family drama lets go—

[hodiedodie]

I love talking with people about Stardew Valley and Harvest Moon because we sound like when humanity found out that agriculture exists