We are completely dedicated to transforming all land into food and beneficials growing areas, using Permaculture methods.
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Modern water planning has tended to privilege blue water because it is legible to institutions. It can be measured at intake points, regulated through permits, traded between users, and engineered through centralized infrastructure. Green water counts too
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Water is one of those things that hides in plain sight. It is everywhere in language and nowhere in attention. Money, resources, assets, inputs, allocations, offsets, credits, efficiency. Yet remove water from the equation and life itself collapses with astonishing speed.
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This is a composite with just two of our apple trees. A core drive of #ProjectLichen is to support all #pollinators, ongoing. We used legumes, alliums and brassicas grown over Winter to provide early pollination of bumble bees, Mason bees etc. We documented it all.
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Said well.
Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries
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And in the meantime the "news" is filled with the Gulf of Hormuz soap opera. Our climate-weather change is locked in for generations to come.
Jun 12
Antarctic surface melt could jump tenfold this century as warming spreads south
This will leave ice shelves much more vulnerable to rapid collapse and sea-level rise
phys.org/news/2026-06-antarc…
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Children raised on #farms often show lower rates of certain allergic conditions than #urban populations. The so-called "biodiversity hypothesis" suggests that contact with diverse natural environments may help maintain healthier microbial interactions via #ProjectLichen
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We started our #Permaculture work in the Eugene, Oregon area 12 years ago. This is from 2015 and shows some small greenhouse heaters in a Polytunnel we built. They are made from inverted terracotta plant pots using soy candles for the heat. Early #ProjectLichen work.
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We found it interesting that this appeared in Nature Cities rather than a traditional soil journal. That suggests urban planners are beginning to recognize soil as infrastructure, much like roads, water pipes, or storm drains. Healthy soil is key. �
nature.com/articles/s44284-0…
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Seeds and plants have played such a huge part in human evolution (sometimes devolution). In my case I grew up in a post-industrial time, both bananas and cotton seemed like they grew across the street when it was across the world. Both used slave labor. #ProjectLichen doesn't.
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The darkest "secret" about data centres is the gross inefficiency of almost all software programs running in there. WordPress was one of the worst examples of this until along came #AI to exacerbate this. This I have seen first-hand in data centres all around the world.
Jun 10
US citizens will go thirsty for billionaires
Most New US Data Centers Are Slated for Drought-Plagued Areas
More than 60% of the contiguous US is currently at varying stages of drought but AI data centers want whatever water remains
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One of the most extreme examples of honey bees as "livestock" is the annual trucking of millions of them into California for the pollination of almonds etc.
Yes! The other issue is that many think that bee keeping helps with the whole pollination story, when in fact, these bees are a domestic livestock that often pushes out the wild bee species in the area.
I have nothing against bee keepers (I have my own domestic livestock), but know that it is best approached carefully. I would never let my domestic ducks freely swim in a natural wetland.
Introducing bees to an agricultural area is wonderful; setting up hives with outsourced bees in a natural and untouched area is not so good.
We need all the pollinators, but when looking at bees specifically, it is not so much that the bee population is declining, but that bee diversity is decreasing.
Just a little something else to consider when thinking about our lovely pollinators.
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Biopore work is especially interesting in relation to our food forest results. Researchers found that greater plant diversity was associated with greater #soil #carbon accumulation. Even certain two-species combinations produced unusually strong effects
nature.com/articles/s43247-0…
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These are two different photographs combined of plants growing in " raised-beds" we created from food grade plastic grape bins given to us by a local vineyard. They are all damaged and would likely have been broken up and perhaps sent to a landfill. #ProjectLichen circles.
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More important # #pollinator information.
Jun 10
Bees aren’t the only pollinators keeping plants alive.
[✏️ Hashem Al-Ghaili]
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It's at times like this that I wish I had a great audio-visual set-up. My own ears picked up the busy buzzing of #bees. We have around 3/4 acre of flowering brassicas. If we have done nothing else this year, we have really supported our #pollinators. This is key, cats join in.
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Corporations can concentrate seed ownership, but resilience grows through diversity. Every #landrace, every #seed steward, strengthens the living fabric of our food systems. Futures belong not to fewer seeds, but to more seeds in more hands. #ProjectLichen
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One of the great enlightenments that has entered into our ongoing food-seed-food endeavors is a wonderful method called "3 Sisters". Planting #beans #corn and #squash in the same area. These are Mandan Bride corn seeds before planting and after soaking. #ProjectLichen onward.
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A lichen is not one organism but a living collaboration. Fungi, algae, yeasts, bacteria and other microscopic partners cooperate to create something greater than any one participant could achieve alone. With our #ProjectLichen systems we are going back to the future for #food.
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Here I am sitting next to one of our compost piles,which started from horse manure and sawdust from a nearby stables over Winter. We buried discarded Winter and Summer squash from 2025. They were well rotted and now are growing profusely. Rotted fruit and veggies are primed!
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