Onion or garlic or what?
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Land Use Rights in Moreno Valley, CA Call to Action
I’m having an issue that I know a lot of you might relate to/sympathise with. I’m not currently a permaculturist due to not having my own land, but I try and incorporate some of the founding ideas in the way I do garden my small plot of land and I’m heavily interested in progressing in the future. I know a lot of people online use chickens to help keep pests down and to create natural cycles that produce food healthy dirt, and this relates to chickens.
We’ve had chickens (and roosters) for years that are beloved pets. The chickens were legal until a bit ago, when the city suddenly changed our zoning to build houses “nearby”. We have an acre surrounded by 3 acres of unusable land (for building) and then surrounded by houses that genuinely don’t care about our animals being there and even like them. Half have chickens and roosters themselves.
My neighbor got reported for a bunch of stuff in a stupid spot with the landlord, and the city person saw our chickens from over the fence when I heard the neighbor chickens reacting to someone being in his yard. Nobody ever reported us or even cared.
We’re supposed to be grandfathered in since my grandfather owned the land before us and before the city was even a city (we pay his tax rate and everything), but he city says there is no such thing. I tried going to a lawyer but don’t have the money to pay out of pocket. I looked into a variance on land use. I looked into changing the zoning back, but don’t want to stop needed homes from being built by doing so and don’t want to get into a losing battle with the millionaires trying to make money off our area.
The ONLY fair solution I could come up with, is modeling the language used in the neighbor city’s regulations for number of chickens and how roosters must be kept quietly, etc., and trying to legalize chickens in all zones and roosters where reasonable. (Selfishly, legalizing roosters on land such as mine where they are not an issue).
I know this doesn’t fully change how Moreno Valley Residents can use their land, but it does progress rights slightly on this front and hopefully it is useful for the community as a whole and can inspire further change as well …
If anyone is in Moreno Valley or knows of people in Moreno Valley and would like to sign my petition or share it with others, I attached it and could REALLY REALLY use your help. I refuse to lose them but I can’t pay $700 a week to keep them and also risk losing the property and/or going to jail for not listening to code enforcement 🙃🙃🙃🙃
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Flies and maggots
What does it mean when you unearth a crop and it has maggots eating it from flies? Do you prevent flies from laying their eggs in the first place (Hot , humid summers in the northeast) , or is it an indication something is off with the soil? Curious to hear opinions
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Drosanthemum globosum
Drosanthemum globosum is an erect, much-branched, succulent shrublet with brown branches that bear spherical leaves densely covered with …
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Soil cropping selects for nutrient efficient but more costly indigenous mycorrhizal fungal communities
Abstract
Conventional agriculture has been suggested to promote less mutualistic arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). The main aim of this study was to test this assumption by a detailed functional analysis of the plant mycorrhizal benefits and costs. A cross-inoculation experiment was established with Plantago lanceolata as a host plant and inocula of AMF sourced from four pairs of conventionally managed arable fields and neighbouring grasslands. Mycorrhizal effects were determined for a range of plant parameters including fluxes of isotopically labelled phosphorus (P), nitrogen (N) and carbon (C), and related to root colonization and composition of the different AMF communities.
The association of P. lanceolata with arable-field inocula was less beneficial in terms of plant growth promotion and it also led to more pronounced P accumulation in plant biomass, as compared to grassland inocula. Furthermore, arable-field AMF increased 15N depletion in soil and 15N transfer to shoots, and induced higher 13C drain to soil. These differential functional parameters were related to consistent compositional differences between arable-soil and grassland AMF communities in the roots. Differential effects of the AMF inocula on N and C partitioning in the soil–plant system suggest faster foraging for nutrients by arable-soil AMF and higher demand for C, which are characteristics associated with ruderal AMF. This implies that arable-soil AMF may be less beneficial in conditions of plant growth limitation by C than the grassland AMF.
Caribou case study offers a new model to manage species at risk
Researchers are suggesting a more comprehensive approach for identifying at-risk wildlife populations — such as caribou — based on individual movement patterns. The article uses a long-term dataset of caribou wearing GPS collars across Western Canada. It identifies six distinct behavioral groups that would each deserve their own conservation actions.
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Caribou case study offers a new model to manage species at risk
Researchers are suggesting a more comprehensive approach for identifying at-risk wildlife populations — such as caribou — based on individual movement patterns. The article uses a long-term dataset of caribou wearing GPS collars across Western Canada. It identifies six distinct behavioral groups that would each deserve their own conservation actions.
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Bees avoid wildflowers experiencing drought
New research reveals drought-stressed wildflowers produce smaller flowers with less nectar, causing bees to avoid them.
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‘I’ve had a gutful’: Jacqui Lambie says salmon industry should get out of Macquarie Harbour
Tasmanian senator says she is ‘pro-salmon’ but the farms should move on to land or offshore
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Independent senator Jacqui Lambie has called on Tasmania’s salmon industry to stop farming in Macquarie Harbour on the state’s remote west coast, marking a dramatic intervention into a polarised debate with implications for the federal election.
“Macquarie Harbour has been a very hot, hot spud when it comes to the salmon industry for many, many years,” Senator Lambie told the Tasmanian Inquirer, “and it’s getting worse.”
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“Go and put them on land. Go and put your fish somewhere else. I’ve had a gutful. You’ve made more than enough money off the arse of Tasmania. Move it on.”
Senator Jacqui Lambie