#agriculture notes

[moonchild033]

Agricultural Astrology 🌾❤

Agriculture is done according to the phases of the moon as it influences the growth of the crops/plants. 🌒

Seeds are generally planted during waxing moon phase, especially those plants which grow above the ground and is in need of water and light source. Due to the gravitational pull of the moon, the water flow is not that deep and is sufficient for plants that grow above the ground. There is constant light source both during day and night time from the sun and moon for the seeds to flourish.🌕

During waning moon phase, plants that grow below the ground like tubers can be planted as the gravitational pull of moon draws more water to the deepest of roots and edible parts under the ground flourishes.🌑

Destroying weeds or cutting plants/trees are usually done on the last quarter of lunar phase and planting anything new is avoided in this phase. 😌

Note: Your grandparents can tell you these details if they were in farming or someone doing traditional way of farming can also tell. This is not something new, it can also be present in internet if you want to learn more details, I just wanted to share this with y'all.😃

Now coming to the astrology part❤-

If you are someone who wants to do farming/gardening/agriculture as a main/leisure business, the first thing to note is presence of earth signs in your big three or a stellium, especially Taurus. 💚

Taurus Mars/Moon natives can naturally be inclined towards nature and greenery. Their hands are also lucky for any greenery related businesses.🤗

If you are a fire dominant, but still want to do something with lands, real estate can be your forte, especially if you are an Aries Mars or have a strong mars placement. Usually fire dominants have a pitta body type, their normal body temperature itself can be a little bit higher and plants can be more sensitive than we think. 😇

If you are an air dominant, growing flowering plants is more profitable. Libra venus or moon can be attracted to beautiful and colorful flowers. 🌸🌷

Water signs in big 3 or water dominant people can indulge in agriculture or horticulture, especially cancer. Even seeds are planted when the moon is in the zodiac sign of Cancer, Scorpio or Pisces for favorable and profitable results.🌴

Check for the strength of your 4H lord and his connection with your 10H and 11H lord if you want to do agriculture or planting as your major money making business. Also check for 7H lord if it is a business partnership. All of these house lords should not be afflicted, debilitated or in connection with malefic planets.🌾

Usually Leo ascendant and Capricorn ascendant do well in this sector, as their 4H is ruled by Mars who is the significator of lands. If Mars has beneficial aspects with Mercury, greenery based businesses can be beneficial for the native.🌱

Moon in 4H, especially in a water/earth sign can also be an indicator of being interested or feeling serene in nature and liking professions/leisure works related to lands you own. You can be a legal professional but still you may enjoy gardening or having a terrace garden/balcony plants at your home. It can be your comfort zone.🌻

Please feel free to comment down your questions or thoughts! 🤗

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[lost-estradiographer]

I

know that voting for the status quo sucks.

To say it "sucks" massively understates the exact amount of suffering that exists under the status quo, an amount that I acknowledge I am too privileged to ever fully grasp.

I cannot magically provide some viable third-party candidate just barely a month before the election. I cannot solve Israel/Palestine Conflict that has haunted the world for over 70 years. I am a 29-year old transgender woman working her way through her own mental illnesses, trauma, and an undergraduate degree. I was never going to be the one to solve anything here.

All I can tell you is that regardless of whether you vote or not, there will be a presidential election. It's going to be a shitshow, regardless. Whether you vote or not, there will be a different president in January. Voting for the status quo may not be directly in your interests.

We had four years of Trump and we are still trying to unfuck ourselves from that. The beginning of my antagonistic relationship with the government was protesting in the streets of DC under his administration. I've fled from the Metro PD. I've put on a change of clothes and slipped out the back door of a gay sports bar.

Fucking vote.

Fucking vote.

Fucking vote.

Honestly, I

I don't want to see this voter apathy shit anymore.

People are going to keep dying under any president. Any president can, and probably wil, be morally culpable for the deaths of innocent people, both in the country and abroad. Carter might be the last president we had that wasn't overtly a war criminal and we still had foreign civilians killed by U.S. military involvement under the Carter admin.

I'm torn between asking you to block me, or asking you to message me, if you're taking the route of voter apathy. I'll tell you right away, here and now, that I probably don't have a solution to whatever problem is keeping you from voting for Harris. I can't even solve my own problems right, tbh. The government isn't really here for me, either.

But there isn't going to be some sort of miraculous revolution that results in The Ending Where Everyone Lives. If there's a revolution, then supply chains will falter and children and the infirm will die of preventable diseases and infections and complications in hospitals that would have otherwise been able to easily deal with such things. That's what happens in a revolution. I'm after the long-term idea where Humanity as a species lives. I'm after the route where we don't have an ending, we keep going.

Fucking vote, because exactly one of the two leading presidential candidates believes climate change is real, and it is the single greatest threat to all life on earth. We have spent the past 250 years, not just playing God with the environment, but actively creating an ecological niche in which future generations of humanity must continue to play God with the environment, dragging it back to a healthy place drop by drop, inch by inch, a degree at a time.

Or, I mean, don't vote. Either way, we'll all die at some point. Perhaps some of us will be lucky enough to die standing by our principles.

Those lucky few will become soil one day, just like I will.

I am begging you on my hands and knees to fucking vote, though, because our options are The Status Quo vs. Worse. That's

That's it.

There is no door number three right now. Our system, our flawed and broken and imbalanced and unjust system, does not accommodate for a third door. Whether you vote or not, you will be dragged through either Door 1 or Door 2 with all of humanity, as we whirl through the cosmos upon our tiny little speck of dust. The only other legitimate option is to allow oneself to become trampled; to become soil early. I don't say legitimate to give this option legitimacy, but to make clear that again, there is no door three. Door three is a casket. A one-way bed.

I didn't vote in 2016, and I'm hoping that you'll vote for the status quo this time, because that's the route that gives me the best odds of having a long and healthy life to regret my failure through inaction.

Just please

Fucking vote.

Or again, if you're taking the apathy route, probably just save me the time of blocking you, because you're not going to magically pull a viable third-party candidate out of your pocket less than six weeks before the election.

[elftwink]

one thing thats so interesting about being a vegetarian is you get to hear all about everyones hypothetical activism that they care about very deeply when talking specifically about your diet and why it's stupid, but literally will never bring up ever again in any other context

[er-cryptid]

Selective Breeding of Brassicas

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[fairandfatalasfair]

I should honestly probably just block the deer population map / rat population map post, because every time I see it I end up scrolling through the notes, which every single time consist of equal parts:

people from Aotearoa and Australia pointing out that they do too have deer, they're just invasive and a huge problem

people from Alberta confirming that yes, Alberta really is rat free (in the sense of having no endemic breeding rat population.)

people not from Alberta acting like this is wildly implausible when four seconds on google could confirm it and/or crying about how mean it is, as though rats aren't the second most damaging invasive species worldwide, having driven literally thousands of native species to extinction.

I don't mind the first two groups, but the third I have to restrain myself from picking arguments with.

[rikastrology]

rohini + bordeaux, FR: light-dappled skin and silk sheets. wine tastings and vineyard weddings. cotton, linen, and lace. abundance through generational perseverance. old houses with even older traditions. names lost to time carved into tree bark. the scent of sun-dried laundry and green growing things.

nakshatras as cities

[shallpass13]

Dragon fruit cacti (Selenicereus) are fucking bitches. The ones I worked with when I worked on assorted farms were shaped like overgrown Scirpus or mangled hamantaschen:

These plants can get big. The spines are, or at least seem to be, only on the pointy parts that stick out. Should be real easy to avoid getting stabbed, right?

Wrong. No matter how carefully you touch only the sides of the plants, or even if you try not to touch them at all (if you are, say, pulling weeds), you will get stabbed. It is unavoidable.

And if the ground is covered in plastic sheeting (so you can’t, say, see the bases of the spiky plants you are weeding around), no one can save you.

[fitzrove]

Ahdhgjjf I do like this youtuber I'm vagueposting about so nobody Go For Him but...

it's kinda funny that he said that Tolkien "based [his elves, in part] on ancient Finnish culture"... and the youtuber showed this painting from 1893 as an illustration to accompany the statement (you know, here is some "Ancient Finnish Culture"):

like bestie that is just what my and so many other ppl's great great grandparents were doing in the 1890s. The painting itself is based on events and people that the artist witnessed in the summer of 1893 and is a commentary on the famine of 1892-1893. The guy painted it in open air while witnessing it happen lmao. It's not exactly ancient - Tolkien himself was born the year before it was painted ahhdhd

[bleachbleachbleach]

Having one of those weeks where I read an essay about swimming at a YMCA in New Jersey and my brain is like "which is RELATED TO BLEACH BECAUSE--" and then another about beekeeping "WHICH IS EVEN MORE RELATED TO BLEACH BECAUSE--"

[evesprettylittlediaryy]

If you're a biology student and doing your internship in agricultural engineering, it's being way more difficult than you expected.

Both garden plants and fungus/bacterium studies are followed in this laboratory. I have been seeding bacteria, purifying fungal strains, taking care of plants and doing more.

I have learnt so many things, I got new aspects to the biology. But the most important thing was to learn how to believe yourself.

I would like to talk about it in another post so soon.

Hope everyone is doing well.

I know I do not post regularly and frequently, but I'm doing my best.

Sorry for these delays.

I'll take care of everything so soon.

[ocdhuacheng]

Love us roasting the target city selection

KSDJFNSKDJFSKDJ some of those cities are like.. thats not a real place

[hallowedhearth]

not saying england's biodiversity situation is great but like......who are you making fun of exactly lol

they started clearing the forest for crops like 5000 years ago in neolithic times, then more from 500 BC when the celts came, more with the anglo-saxons from the 5th century AD, and most of the rest in the 16th and 17th centuries. then another big loss during the two world wars when stuff couldn't be imported in. efforts to replenish forests have been going on for the last century!

historians think the last wolf went extinct in the time of Henry VII, they think bears died out sometime in the first millenia AD, and wild boars in the 13th century.

i'm not saying all this is a good thing, but 'making fun of the english' is a weird response to events that largely occured before any living english person was born, sometimes centuries or millenia before they were born lol

(also i might be misunderstanding the paragraph that's in all caps, but the main crops grown in england are potatoes, as well as wheat, barley, and oats; the UK is basically self sufficient for grains. UK farms provide 60% of all food eaten in the country which is i think pretty good considering england is a relatively dense country (5 times more dense than america).)

Actually your society is the freaks for shooting everything that moves and burning half your "nature reserves" every year so that upperclass dandies can eat leaded pheasant. North Americans are the well adjusted ones here, your country has become a desolate suburban lawn in island form

[asegbolu]

Growing Crops: Exploring Propagation Methods for Future Farmers

Subject: Agricultural Science Class: JSS 2 Term: First Term Week: Specified Week Age: 12-14 years Topic: Crop Propagation Sub-topic: Methods of Crop Propagation Duration: 40 minutes Behavioral Objectives By the end of this lesson, students should be able to: Define crop propagation. Differentiate between sexual and asexual propagation. Describe the various methods of asexual…

[deliciouspolls]

*Basically anything that isn't a typical farm animal: cow, pig or sheep. Not including birds or fish- might include that in a different poll.

(Obligatory Note: I'm American and this is based on what's overall unconventional to eat in the USA.)

Edit: To clarify just in case, I meant to have "None of these" mean "I've never tried any four legged creature that wasn't cow, pig, or sheep".

Edit 2: I live in an agricultural area. It appears this may have skewed my view on how frequently anything else is eaten. We have the Store and the Farm and that's it.

[reasonsforhope]

"A century of gradual reforestation across the American East and Southeast has kept the region cooler than it otherwise would have become, a new study shows.

The pioneering study of progress shows how the last 25 years of accelerated reforestation around the world might significantly pay off in the second half of the 21st century.

Using a variety of calculative methods and estimations based on satellite and temperature data from weather stations, the authors determined that forests in the eastern United States cool the land surface by 1.8 – 3.6°F annually compared to nearby grasslands and croplands, with the strongest effect seen in summer, when cooling amounts to 3.6 – 9°F.

The younger the forest, the more this cooling effect was detected, with forest trees between 20 and 40 years old offering the coolest temperatures underneath.

“The reforestation has been remarkable and we have shown this has translated into the surrounding air temperature,” Mallory Barnes, an environmental scientist at Indiana University who led the research, told The Guardian.

“Moving forward, we need to think about tree planting not just as a way to absorb carbon dioxide but also the cooling effects in adapting for climate change, to help cities be resilient against these very hot temperatures.”

The cooling of the land surface affected the air near ground level as well, with a stepwise reduction in heat linked to reductions in near-surface air temps.

“Analyses of historical land cover and air temperature trends showed that the cooling benefits of reforestation extend across the landscape,” the authors write. “Locations surrounded by reforestation were up to 1.8°F cooler than neighboring locations that did not undergo land cover change, and areas dominated by regrowing forests were associated with cooling temperature trends in much of the Eastern United States.”

By the 1930s, forest cover loss in the eastern states like the Carolinas and Mississippi had stopped, as the descendants of European settlers moved in greater and greater numbers into cities and marginal agricultural land was abandoned.

The Civilian Conservation Corps undertook large replanting efforts of forests that had been cleared, and this is believed to be what is causing the lower average temperatures observed in the study data.

However, the authors note that other causes, like more sophisticated crop irrigation and increases in airborne pollutants that block incoming sunlight, may have also contributed to the lowering of temperatures over time. They also note that tree planting might not always produce this effect, such as in the boreal zone where increases in trees are linked with increases in humidity that way raise average temperatures."

-via Good News Network, February 20, 2024

[cherryblossomshadow]

Yeah, I also thought this post would end up talking about federal lands, a la CGP Grey's video:

Dune was a fun twist tho 😂

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Just because there's nothing Capitalistic there doesn't mean it's not beautiful. It doesn't mean the people there aren't worth knowing #agreeing with op #and add on #bc holy shit theyre right #okay so there arent any huge malls or amusement parks #okay??? #there are lakes #and mountains #yall montana is Gorgeous its one of the prettiest states ive ever visited #and the one state on my roadtrip i wasnt bored driving through #have yall ever looked up at a mountain at the base of a Valley #you find god #im going feral im beggin ppl to see the beauty and worth in the “flyover states” #if youve never looked at a sky Bursting with stars below the sky on a place untouched by light pollution then what are you doing (comment and tags courtesy of @radiantrakeem)

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'Nothing there' generally means we're ignoring the Indigenous people who still live in a place, and/or there were a lot more of them. Australians (I'm guilty of this) will say there's nothing in the desert when there are whole nations there. (comment courtesy of @v-as-in-victor)

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Hilarious, but also what people don't know about the Midwest and Western regions of the US is that prior to infrastructure development like dams, canals, water works, electricity, it was mostly very harsh and hardly habitable regions where only the Native people really knew how to properly make use of the resources out there. Early farms just out right failed or were barely scrapping by until the Government stepped in and subsidized improvements all over the place. So anytime some Republican talks about pulling yourself up by the bootstraps like their ancestors remember their ancestors would have died off without the Welfare of the federal government. (comment courtesy of @codex0fgigas)

always blows my mind as a european when people talk about states like “yeah theres nothing in ohio/montana/wyoming/etc” because i look at a map like but. but theyre so big. every state could qualify as its own country what do you mean theres nothing there. and then i ask people from those states and theyre like “yeah theres nothing here” what do you mean theres nothing there!!!