Jim East
I used to think that AMAB stood for “All Men Are Bastards” but recently I have discovered that this is generally not the intended meaning.
Taking out the trash!
Taking out the trash… at night!
I don’t grow blueberries, but I’ve seen videos of high-bush cultivars in the UK, and they certainly looked prolific and easy to manage. From what I’ve heard/read, I imagine that they would do well in poor, acidic, sandy soil like in pine forests. Is that the kind of soil that you have?
You are not the first to answer blackberries, and I just wonder, do blackberries not grow out of control in other places? Sure they’re easy to keep alive once established, but to actually keep them manageable, is there not a lot of pruning required?
(Asian pears are awesome, by the way. The fruit, anyway. Tried it once, and it puts the common pears to shame.)
Interesting read, though not really much of an indication of the origins of the grasses in question, only their early domestication. Or do we need to “read between the lines” and interpret these cleared areas as desecrated forest? Did the grass not exist outside of human-disturbed areas, even in the arid(?) environment of the Levant? I’ve long suspected that grass did not evolve by “natural” means, but I don’t think that this article constitutes anything close to sufficient evidence for that.
I’d be interested to know more of your perspective on humans’ betrayal of the forest though, especially in the historical context.
Climate change threatens the viability of commercial (monoculture) banana production, not the continued existence of banana plants. While some areas (such as parts of the Caribbean as this article mentions) will become too dry for part of the year to sustain banana plants without irrigation (which costs money), there will still be plenty of subsistence farmers growing bananas and plantains in the equatorial rainforest regions. The spread of Fusarium is mainly a threat to monoculture production, where it would spread rapidly throughout the plantations. For diverse food forests, it’s less of an issue. Extreme weather like hurricanes… kind of makes one question the choice to live in such a place to begin with.
I don’t know if anyone here has ever tried to kill a banana plant, but it isn’t so easy. Some farmers who want to switch from bananas to another crop actually sell their land and move elsewhere rather than attempt to remove their banana plants. Banana will remain a reliable staple crop throughout much of the world. For the regions experiencing climate change severe enough to be detrimental to banana production, there are plenty of other things to worry about.
Though I hear Mullvad has its own Firefox fork now
Mullvad Browser? It’s basically Tor Browser without the Tor, meant to be used with a VPN instead. It has integration with Mullvad VPN by default, but that add-on can be removed, and the browser doesn’t need Mullvad VPN in order to function. Since the browser is based on Firefox, someone might want to fund Firefox development by using it with Mozilla VPN instead.
