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Comment by jojocool0501

12 hours ago

My favorite Youtube channel.

Please watch the latest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDVcfSYcxc0. It's an interview with an old botanist, who shares his wisdom and philosophy, remains engaged after decades of witnessing first hand America's nature getting destroyed. 2 main points: - destroyed old-growth forests, grassland, remnant prairies takes millennia to be back to what they were, not decades. Insects and other pollinators don't just reappear - water availability for plants comes in many forms, all of which disappear with tillage.

Joey is an acquired taste, but if you look past the strong and odd personality (the persona?), his channel is a gold mine. But this time he was (rightfully) impressed by Gerry (Gerould) Wilhelm's wealth of knowledge.

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andai  7 hours ago

Brilliant, thanks for sharing.

I'm reminded of an article I read once, it seems to have gone offline, an interview with indie game dev Jason Rohrer. He said the city took him to court for not mowing his lawn. He ended up winning under the 1st amendment (the lawn was "free expression" or something...)[0]

I thought that was really interesting (and obviously wouldn't work in other countries).

The other day I walked around the neighborhood and found this massive patch of grass and weeds that had been mowed, and scorched by the sun, so it was just mostly dead. Barely 5 minutes away, the city had fenced out special plots and paid to have a bunch of weeds instlled, to help the bees. Comedy.

[0] Edit: Yeah it's deleted. I found backups though!

https://archive.ph/j9025

https://web.archive.org/web/20150315123808/https://www.esqui...

  • xnx  28 minutes ago

    A weed is just a plant growing where you don't want it. So everything/nothing is a weed depending on context.

  • badpun  7 hours ago

    > I thought that was really interesting (and obviously wouldn't work in other countries).

    I don't know about other countries, but in Poland you're just not required to cut down your lawn at all, unless it's a fire hazard (you have a lot of dead and dried up plants).

    • graemep  7 hours ago

      I think legal requirements are a US thing. I had only heard of it in HOA run places though.

      Here in the UK there are no usually legal requirements, but it might be a social problem as your neighbours will not like it.

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cowsandmilk  31 minutes ago

I had an interesting internal debate the other day about whether farm fields were more natural than fields of solar panels. (Ignore fields that have both for now). To me, a tilled field that is being chemically fertilized and tilled is at this point just as far removed from the former native state.

AHabe  10 hours ago

I love this guy, also my favourite Youtube channel and one of my favourite podcasts, he also guests on In Defence of Plants from time to time, I have the impression he's friends with the host.

Loved him ever since I randomly stumbled across his guerilla tree planting video in I want to say 2020?

Anyway, we all must support the train driver turned botanist.