22/ So let's look at the other half of the "why it's hippie nonensense" equation: optimizing one variable. [ I had a post on this back at http://tjic.com before my bantz got to spicy for the MA puritans! ]
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33/ You think it's genius to compost animal waste from your barn and fertilize your fields with it? The market provides tools for this, everything from low tech manure spreader carts to deep ground liquified manure injection.
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34/ A lot of permaculture fans, because they learn their stuff either in an academic (i.e. largely theoretical ) environment, or online, don't even KNOW about the world of professional farming.
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35/ Anyway: permaculture has some good stuff, some bad stuff, and some stuff that everyone already knew. 1) get out there and farm...if you want to. If not, don't. 2) consider buying a copy of my novel to subsidize my farming lulz https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6 /exeunt
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36/ First, there WAS MORE FARMING THAN IN MOST SF slight spoiler. Book 3 & 4 will have a minor farming thread For two reasons: 1) tribute to Heinlein's Farmer in the Sky 2) the acronym FFA (Future Farmers of Aristillus) is just too perfect to ignorehttps://twitter.com/ItsRobbAllen/status/967106733041770496 …
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37/ For anyone still reading, some pix of my farm... Icelandic sheep, some shorn, some notpic.twitter.com/WQsstDKu40
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40/ me, in front of firewood that I've cut, split, and stackedpic.twitter.com/QO45TN4sQD
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50/ ...and that's about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1XgFsitnQw …
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51/ Great question https://twitter.com/IcyTekla/status/967113882119663617 …
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