The only thing you get with feeding animals is more animals. A good source of food tells us(animals) to reproduce. It's the same with...
Coursera.org is running a MOOC(Massive open online course) about chicken behaviour and welfare. Fair warning, some of it does have to do with...
Sounds like you have a nice wetland/nutrient trap going instead of a pond. Being only 0.3-0.4 meters deep is not really deep enough for a pond...
Equipment attached to the water system may have it's own minimum requirement(mostly to do with heating water). But I also thought I read that...
https://www.extension.org/pages/71918/permaculture-on-organic-farms December 9th, 1 pm CST. You don't have to work in the cooperative extension...
Ah, the edge effect. It's even present in theoretical quantum physics.
Use an axe. This answers many environmental questions about cutting down trees including speed/volume of deforestation. It might seem glib, but...
Recent Lessons Learned: Put farm somewhere in the description/name of the property and you can increase the resale value x4(the same trick works...
I've been sort of following the Argentina story unfold over the past couple of months and the first thing that struck me as odd was when the...
From what I understand, any vegetable oil makes a good lubricant. I'm not sure how some would smell under that high friction scenario(I'm...
Rome's legacy sucks. Before Rome, Northern Europeans were very similar to any other indigenous culture(and according to this, Europeans may share...
Get a yield(since we have farms for this stuff, they're just called dumps or tips), share surplus(surplus methane), problems are...
Thanks for the weapon info. I'd rather shoot wildlife with a camera, but I've heard too many stories about feral hogs. If I can figure out a way...
Yep, but I'm also counting on rainfall collection. I'll also be putting in a large amount of ponds along with some dams by the end of everything....
While pouring over possible land, I came across something very interesting this morning. The USGS has geological map overlays for google earth(I...
I figured I'd go ahead and start making a diary of sorts. I've finally gotten some money, and I'm looking for that deforested piece of land. I...
These two images show a longer timeline of methane readings, top one from Canada, bottom one from Alaska. Just thought I'd add those since graphs...
From Wikipedia: As you can see, we share a lot in common with ecologists. You could even argue that we are ecologists. While we may not do it...
There's often one overlooked aspect of living more environmentally conscious. It will save you money, reduce your garbage stream to the municipal...
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