foxhop

52 ms·

481.
by foxhop 6y ago
Water catchment for rain is important. Currently I use hugelkultur [1] (might not work in your context), swales of various widths/lengths/depths to hold extra rains from running off. I've modified my driveway to pull water of
482.
by foxhop 6y ago
It's not just for farmland folks. You can have you own mini food forest in your backyard in the span of 5 years. You just have to start. Check out my YouTube channel [1] if you find yourself wanting to learn more. I'm trying to ge
483.
by foxhop 6y ago
My guess is the actual sun has periods of less activity / heat.
484.
by foxhop 6y ago
Would you pay $15/mo or $100/yr for a new age forum? (I run Remarkbox and I'm trying to find product market fit)
485.
by foxhop 6y ago
This playlist should show land transformation and give some of the theory behind growing food in this way. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPqlh_ebFYDFE86vPFjEY...
486.
by foxhop 6y ago
Affirmative, use the best tools for your context, especially when those tools were used to destroy the natural system that used to be there. (My land was filled with stone and gravel with 4-6 inches of soil ontop using machines...) Use any
487.
by foxhop 6y ago
Don't do this. The suckers are removed with a couple swings of a machete...
488.
by foxhop 6y ago
About half of my food forest is dedicated to poplar a very fast growing semi hardwood. We cut a mother tree down and hundreds of Poplar clones sprouted from its roots. I selected to keep 30 of them and my idea is to pollard them every few y
489.
by foxhop 6y ago
The easy answer is to only sell locally, in this way you don't need to sterilize and it doesn't cost as much to transport fertility which can be made on site, around the globe!
490.
by foxhop 6y ago
I can finish compost in as little of 30 days in the right time of year, with the right inputs. Cold compost process takes a couple years, hot compost takes months. Hot compost is great for kitchen gardens, cold compost is great for food for
491.
by foxhop 6y ago
Same here, my garden with raised half-finished hugelkultur is teaming with life: moles, voles, and chipmunks. As soon as that happened the birds of prey started hanging out. Since my cat passed last year, a large 5 foot black snake has fill
492.
by foxhop 6y ago
Don't bury woodchips into hugelkultur, I found that to not work. Better to use woodchips after digging swales/garden paths on contour as fill for the swale. After 3-4 years dig the garden paths again as the woodchips are ready to
493.
by foxhop 6y ago
Depends on context but burring wood works just as well. I've done both but it's easier for me to build up the land then dig down because the contractors who built my house 20 year ago, ruined the natural forest and buried gravel a
494.
by foxhop 6y ago
Hills are amazing at collecting water. You need to build swales on contour with the land (typically I fill my swales with woodchips and they become walking paths. The dirt and turf that is removed from building the swale goes on the lower s
495.
by foxhop 6y ago
Thanks that, you would be surprised how hard it is to get subscribers in this space. I hope my videos current and future will help you!
496.
by foxhop 6y ago
I grow raspberries and strawberries on mine. Videos in my other comment. Potatoes on a 2nd year old hugelkultur are amazing! I live in zone 6b Connecticut
497.
by foxhop 6y ago
On a small scale you can try hugelkultur in a pot. Works great for nursery baby trees. The baby trees root I to the log and use it to regulate water and also form relationships with the fungi decomposing the wood. Use plenty of Compost.
498.
by foxhop 6y ago
I have a 5 year old food forest at my house. I take videos and upload to YouTube. Checkout my channel: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC1eySW_9TiI5wnvTnIIw2Nw I have 5 year old hugelkultur beds and 1 year old beds and e
499.
by foxhop 6y ago
Please let me follow people. Next let me see all the people I follow on a "pintrest" style page. I should be able to see only their latest subreply. Most recent subreply to oldest. I hit refresh when I'm ready for updates. If
500.
by foxhop 6y ago
The first time I saw Street Fighter was inside a Burger King. My parents didn't let me play but the intro screen was mesmerizing (Ryu throws a fireball!?) The next time was a in mall (which was torn down at least 25 years ago) just in
501.
by foxhop 6y ago
DDG mobile apps ~= Web Browser or == Web Browser I think that distinction needs to be made. I think DDG should treat this app as a web browser which means phoning home to this endpoint is unacceptable.
502.
by foxhop 6y ago
dig a small one up from the forest and plant it at your house, or just wait for it to show up. Dig up a 1-2 foot specimen. Take a few so you have a couple chances. I have 5 shrubs at my house and I'd identified at least 10 different st
503.
by foxhop 6y ago
Amazing idea!
504.
by foxhop 6y ago
Please consider un-gating the submission. I tried the password test123 which was too short and test1234 which wasn't accepted either. Please add my blog in my profile to the corpus is possible. : )
505.
by foxhop 6y ago
It's like a search engine proxy? I'm assuming flask?
506.
by foxhop 6y ago
I created the Remarkbox logo with Inkscape. Was a lot of fun to learn (watched a few hours of YouTube to get an acceptable amount of understanding)
507.
by foxhop 7y ago
The chainsaw will cut and pulverized a 1 cm thick band out of the leg, compounded by a variable depth means it's not a normal cut, you have two ends that have a gap that doesn't easily mend back together and goes septic often requ
508.
by foxhop 7y ago
I missed the original HN post, added my comment to the thread. Great work on the analysis.
509.
by foxhop 7y ago
https://russell.ballestrini.net I blog about tech, cloud, programming (mostly python). I practice devops and I also garden. I love to think about systems and how to make them operate better. Started blogging over 10 years ago on
510.
by foxhop 7y ago
I have a handful of apples and peaches bearing fruit. Yeilded 50 peaches and about 5 apples. The trees are 8 years old now, planted when they were 4. Also hundreds of raspberry canes and strawberry plants. About 7 grape vines at year 5. Top

More ›