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Maybe its missing bacteria, fungi and other important life, this is one of the biggest reason of the rise of vitamin b12 deficiency in the world, even cattle and sheep need to take shots in some places. But if we focus on build soil instead of the plant we end up working far less in the future and without any need to buy or import things to grow food

I think that the main reason people don't learn another language fast is the fear of making mistakes. Kids don't have this fear yet so they learn fast, so the more shameless you are the faster you will learn, besides consistently practicing and wanting to improve.

Only the banana peel is not that placebo since it offers really good protection even though if it don't have any healing property. The last time I used banana peel was when I accidentally got two toes's nails removed at once! I went to the hospital and they just made a bandage but when I got home and replaced them with banana peels, something like if my nails were the banana peels, the inside part of the peel touching my skin (or meat?) and i felt so much better than the hospital's bandage that I could even wear shoes, it was 5 months ago. I tried to search for some science I found only this: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0102-86502013000100006&... but they tested unriped and I just use the inside part of the peel of a ripe banana, I didn't find anything so specific yet, I need to dig deeper.

It wasn't my intention to be sarcastic, english is my second language so maybe it was that, but anyway my main source is that its a tradicional and indigenous use of banana peel (thanks for pointing out its not skin. I never tried to search for the science behind it, I found this: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0102-86502013000100006&...

I'm using banana skins to treat wounds, its great, makes the wounds heal much better and they also offer that good protection!! I don't know the science behind it, I heard a lot of women talking about using it on the breast when breast feeding to feel better so I started to experiment with myself and I'm very happy with it too.

I always dream of something that would make easier for foreigners to open an US bank account, I now people that went to the US as tourist and could open an account there, but there's no way to do that via internet without actually visiting a branch in person. Don't seems to be so difficult is it? Seems very much its just a internal political thing.

Have you ever felt sleepy after eating? I can't focus on that state, this feeling makes this claim very valid for me. Also, feeling an urge to eat and not do anything must be a good focus exercise.

almost 100% if you ship it to Brazil, it literally doubles the price, including the shipping costs.

Sure! When I started learning about agroforestry I looked for english books on the subject but didn't find good ones, Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemenway have really good info you could use. But in portuguese I've so a few good PDFs here, I guess that's because of the work of Ernst Gotsch here in Brazil, here's a good video that summarize his work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSPNRu4ZPvE

An agroforestry look like this: https://sitiocurupira.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/agroflores...

Take very special attention to the ground on the video I linked above. So the main thing is the soil, the work will basically be always improving it by pilling up organic matter, from regular pruning and your organic waste too, the school must have good source of organic waste, also the city gardens/grass pruning are a good place to look for organic matter you could use on this project.

Also, the more you plant together and at the same time the better. On the video you can see Bananas and Eucalyptus side by side, people think that Eucalyptus doesnt let anything grows near it, etc... but then I saw a lot of things fruiting just a few centimeters from Eucalyptus, because of the regular pruning.

I'll send you an email so we can continue to talk about this.

So much agreed! I've worked on a few agroforestry and biodiversity is the key. I've seen acid land full of ants transformed into a very productive forest in 5 years without any use of pesticides, GMO or NPK fertilizer. It seems more labor intensive at first but I know a farmer that literally only works 4 hours a day and can feed a family of 5 alone (a much more diverse diet which leads to more healthy too) and still sell a lot in the market. Agroforestry have much more wield per square meter than anything else because it also uses the vertical space instead of just the horizontal.

I would guess it is to hold/route rain water, like a swale.

The first time I read the word "serverless" I immediately related it to P2P

Are you thinking about supporting Relay too?

The battery would last so much more, cool idea!

This is awesome! Thanks for sharing.

I couldn't agree more.

Facebook is great but is really generic, I think each community has its own needs. On my project as an example if somebody post an image of a plant species asking people to help identify it, then the image would be indexed on the Plant's page increasing the number of images of that specie. Eventually when we have a great number of different images we can better train an algorithm to identify/suggest species automatically. The navigation and content organization will meet the community's needs.

Reminded me of this couple on their 60s that ran everyday for 366 days covering 10,000 miles, and they live on raw fruits and vegetables: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/couple-run-marathons-r...

Terra preta is formed naturally by falling fruits, leaves and branches that get composted on the soil. There's a agriculture method called agroforestry that make use of this concept, it's very promising for organic farms: https://vimeo.com/146953911

I know a couple of people here who have "dry bathrooms" (or banheiro seco) that is just a bucket to collect the poo, when you poo you cover it with dry leaves or grinded wood (they are the source of carbon, and stop the bad smell), when the bucket fills up they take it to an area outside far from the house where it will compost, naturally kill the pathogens (because of the heat it produces) and became terra-preta, much better solution than to send it down stream, easier to decentralize and the end result is the best product you could have.

Also big monoculture offers no environment to most beneficial insects to live on, I guess that's why some people are moving beehives across the states every year to pollinate trees

Agroforest on a intense farmed land: https://vimeo.com/136423275 How is it not sustainable? How can it not feed the world?

I'm just a beginner here, my agroforest yields nothing, I started just a few months ago. Anyway, from what I hear from people more experienced than me is quite the opposite, it yields much more, sure you would get less tomatos per hectare but you would get a lot of other products too. I'm very curious where can I find evidences agroforests couldn't feed the world? Or evidences it yields less then current farming methods?

Edit: a good view on the agroforests they're doing here https://vimeo.com/136423275 it is subtitled, this one is a good example of how a agroforest can recover destructed lands.

> But urban land is in short supply, expensive, often polluted, and unsuitable for horticulture.

We should stop focusing on the plants and focus more on the soil. Better soil = better water retention = less work with irrigation = healthy plants = healthy planet.

> The belief that only small-scale, non-mechanised agriculture without the use of chemicals respects biodiversity, and that tradition is key to the future, is illusory. In reality, small-scale unfertilised farming of annual crops or unregulated grazing in the tropics are major causes of destruction of soils and forests.

The only problem here is the "annual crops or unregulated grazing" because on a diverse agroforestry the trend is the opposite, the soil gets better and better as years goes on. More organic matter falling on the soil = better soil, as long as you don't remove the organic matter you're good to go! The main problem lives here, a lot of people clean the grass and burn it, the soil should never be uncovered, you can cut the grass no problem but leave it there to compost and improve your soil, just like happens in a forest.

> Chemical use is still, for the most part, equated with environmental destruction. This is a false image, one that leads people to turn away from science and technology. We cannot go back to the ill-designed agricultural systems of past centuries with their famines and harvest failures.

Sure, this so called "science and technology" is what made the land "often polluted, and unsuitable for horticulture" in the first place.

Grow food forests, build forest soil! The forest never needs any chemical added by humans, it doesn't have pest problems, why? It's diverse. Diversification guarantees your surviving, when you have only one source of food (or money, or anything) and it dries out you starve, but if you have multiple sources you can not only survive but have more colorful plate too.

Sure it's more laboring to do forest, but we can change our machines to work with forests instead of mono-cultures, that's the way to go, the more mature a forest gets the less human intervention it needs. Here in Brasil I'm seeing a few people starting to develop machines to work with agroforestry, that's the future of food IMHO: forests!

Well, maybe I'm biased, since I found out permaculture and agroforestry I'm in love, couldn't be happier :)

This stone circles are pretty interesting to me: https://www.google.com/maps/place/25%C2%B038'08.5%22S+30%C2%...

If you fly around this coordinates you can also find a lot of them:

  25 55′ 53.28″S, 30 16′ 13.13″E
  25 47′ 33.45″S, 30 40′ 38.76″E
  25 38′ 07.82″S, 30 21′ 18.79″E
  25 39′ 22.42″S, 30 17′ 03.25″E

This is awesome! Loved it. I'd love it even more if there was an android app with offline access.

I try to very a lot, bananas, mangos and papayas are the most frequent ones, also apples, pears, melons, oranges, lime and pineapple, or anything else I can find. Well seems like most fruits have protein, bananas seems like a good source, I'm no expert. I don't fell hungry at all, I fell a desire to satisfy my taste only, sugar and salt are kind of addictive I think

I'm not expert at all, but I can't understand how cooking could increase since we destroy/kill/change most things on the process, maybe something are better digestible when cooked but maybe we shouldn't be eating it in the first place, we have the habit of making things eatable, or digestible, my idea is that nature already has everything we need, just like any other life form here on earth have, why we should be exception?

I couldn't find any good source of information on it, I found this article [1] that couldn't get a clear conclusion because seems like there's a lot to be understood yet.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/raw-veggies-are-he...

I never liked cooking, so when I moved out I ate a lot on restaurants or ordered to deliver, then I re-discovered fruits.

I don't like the idea of processed foo because I think we need the bacterias and all the life on the food. Those kids who could not play on dirt or weren't feed on mother's milk are more likely to have allergies. Bacterias bring us health, when we cook food we kill most of it's life and lower it's nutritional value to our body.

Today I'm living on 90% fruits, fruits are the perfect food to me, seems like most people don't see what fruits can bring to their health. You don't have to cook, just grab and eat and I can grow my own which means that is not that difficult to be auto-sufficient, they're like the best fast food ever.

On first month I noticed I could smell things better, I could breath through my nose much more easily, my taste is better, it's much easier to poop too and the smell is also different, less 'harmful' to the nose. When I eat dairy or something cooked my poop goes bad on the next day, it's like our body is the best doctor around.

I'm getting a parser error, that's seems to explain why.

To me it looks like any living thing is somehow self-aware, it is what makes anything a live. Even plants take conscious actions, like specifically calling a pollinator among others, recognising members of the family and helping them.

If something doesn't show evidence of self-awareness it doesn't prove it isn't. It just proves it don't show up how you'd expect. Maybe it is self-aware but in a different way.

I think this is great! As a Brazilian developer I would love to be able to use european datacenters, today the latency makes it almost impossible, they're way cheaper than Brazilian ones and travel to EU is easier than to the US because of the visa.

This isn't the solution to privacy but solves a lot of other problems.