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by roboben 6y ago
We made ~8500 plants available to you by importing the Plant For a Future dataset. You can use it now to create lists, guilds and help improving that data. Also don't forget to plan your next garden season with it!
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by roboben 6y ago
There is also ocsp-lb.apple.com.akadns.net which looks like does the same and should be blocked too!
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by roboben 6y ago
Yes chives are great, especially since they are perennial and once you grow them, you will have a endless supply! Can be combined well with Strawberries, which is another easy plant for containers and they are perennial too!
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How to get started with permaculture when all you have is a balcony(permapeople.org)
9 points by roboben 6y ago|5 comments
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by roboben 6y ago
Hey lovely HN people, While I saw many people are interested in growing their own plant and specifically in permaculture here, very few actually grow something. Let's change that! I am happy to answer any questions about how you can ge
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by roboben 6y ago
Look what I’ve found of a bit googling: https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf/products/iphone/iPhone... While it is made by Apple itself it gives a rough idea of how much an iPhone costs.
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by roboben 6y ago
Sure, you would grow 10 new plants every year since Tomatoes are mostly grown annually (while can be also grown perennial). I should have made that more clear in the blog post.
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by roboben 6y ago
That's a great idea for another calculation! You want to do this together? hello at permapeople org :)
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by roboben 6y ago
...also please send pics of your plants!!! :)
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by roboben 6y ago
Thanks for your comment. My calculation is simple and is there to get the discussion going. What's the reason of adding another 10 each year? When composting the tomatoes properly (even in place) you can grow the next years 10 in the d
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by roboben 6y ago
> Yes, we should definitely grow plants, but even more so, we need to consume way waaaay less. Wouldn't it be the best when these two are actually the same? When growing more enables you to consume less? I didn't account for th
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by roboben 6y ago
Why adding 10 every year? Assuming that emissions of countries will go down...!
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There are many reasons why everyone should grow a plant, but you need just one(permapeople.org)
22 points by roboben 6y ago|17 comments
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by roboben 6y ago
Hey HN community, Thank you for the great discussion we had last time[1]! A lot of people reached out and spawned some very interesting conversions. Happy to jump right back in, reading how you tear apart my numbers :) Ben https:/&#x2
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by roboben 6y ago
It doesn't work with emojis. Super sad smiley.
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by roboben 6y ago
Where are your numbers from?
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by roboben 6y ago
I wouldn’t be concerned about scale. If we convert every lawn to farm land, we would get three times the amount of current farm land on top. Say we replace it completely, we could still farm 3 times less efficient and would have the same am
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by roboben 6y ago
That sounds great and exactly what I want to see too! Combined with exact dates and you could "calculate" "real" growing times!
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by roboben 6y ago
I would love to chat to you more, if you are into it, please reach out at hello at permapeople org! Thanks again!
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by roboben 6y ago
I would love to chat more with you about this, if you're into it, please ping me at hello at permapeople org! thanks again!
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by roboben 6y ago
Wow, thank you so much for this list! It looks like you spend some time there and I would love to talk to you more! Please reach me at hello at permapeople.org if you want to chat more!
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by roboben 6y ago
not sharing purely anecdotes but getting it verified by many others is almost as good as scientific research for growing plants in my opinion. What do you think about Wikipedia? I think they did a great job of creating something which is no
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by roboben 6y ago
Thanks for this great comment! I agree with you and this is partly why I started this platform: We need to get away from anecdotal, someone famous said it works, so it works kind of thinking to socially verified approach: If many people in
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by roboben 6y ago
replace "industrialization" with "industrialization as it is now" and you can agree! :)
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by roboben 6y ago
With your help it is possible :)
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by roboben 6y ago
I can't find the sources but until 60-70 years ago almost every houshold in NY had either chicken or rabbits.
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by roboben 6y ago
Thank you so much for this comment! There is a lot of unpack in this topic and I hope to address this in later posts (this was my first one!). I think the most important thing now is to write about what you said last: stating goals!
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by roboben 6y ago
Also not to forget that nothing in this system focuses on some mildly important things like taste :)
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by roboben 6y ago
We should start questioning why everyone is living in (mostly more expensive) apartments in urban areas with no garden :)
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by roboben 6y ago
Thanks for that! I agree 100% Another thought: 60-70 years ago almost every household in the US had their own chicken or rabbits. I assume also way more people were growing their own food. I think it is really bad that all that vanished and

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