I always tell my friends that planting trees (and other perennials) in the garden is a "power move." That is because the best soil for growing annuals is forest soil, so planting a tree in your garden helps create a forest-like environment right in the vegetable bed. It's something our ancestors knew, but it was dismissed during the modernization of gardening and farming. Most people say it can't be done because a tree makes working the bed difficult, or even impossible. That's true if you follow conventional gardening and farming advice and hold a fossilized vision of what a garden should look like: tidy, orderly, and in straight lines.

Herd Replay from yesterday thanks to Nofence I adjusted the paddock size yesterday from two acres down to a little over an acre(approximately 3 pm) Fascinating to watch the animals adjust This is the ideal paddock size I believe for this size site. Now I start adjusting the live weight per acre up. The goal would be to move them every two days, which would take me around the whole site in around 6 weeks…which not coincidentally would be around the same cycle as a mowing crew and would be the equivalent of 6 mows a year. Problem is… I need more collars to really show this and more growing season… unfortunately I’m running out of both Maybe that’s a demonstration for next spring Today, my goal is to add 5 more goats, one of which being a buck… Over the next few months it will be interesting to observe this heat detection feature NoFence has added and my more old school method

Imagine Heinz demanding that people only get tomatoes from them. Growing tomatoes is a felony. Possessing tomatoes not produced by Heinz is forbidden. You can only buy tomatoes from Heinz, and don’t you dare make ketchup of tomato sauce, that would be a felony as well. That’s where we’re at with cannabis. Grow Your Own

From a regenerative agronomy perspective I think we cracked the code this year. Alleys were sown in wheat last fall. Clover was droned on in February 12 way cover was droned on when the wheat was in dough stage and pushed down with a cultipacker letting the wheat and clover live No tillage No chemistry Just sequencing of plants and the impact of livestock The science of @stockcropper is plants feeding animals and animals feeding plants… rotating crops and forage that turns biomass into fertilizer. Add the “edge effect” or overyielding of the edge rows of corn and this system is untouchable for acre profitability. It’s been proven and improved upon now for 6 years by me and @zebulousprime and backed up with 3rd party research from @PrecisionPlant What’s funny about #farmweird is that no matter how great it gets… it’s “not feasible” because it doesn’t scale across the corn belt… but most importantly (in the lens of industry) we’ve decoupled the need and reliance for farm inputs. I’ve always said “don’t study the ants, study the crumbs” Response tells the truth. So why continue to do it? Because happiness isn’t about how to get rich by selling products. Happiness is a math formula Quality of life + fulfillment - envy We’re going to ride around the sun hopefully another 40 or 50 years… and get better and better at designing systems… and every year we gain more people that want to stop being a manager of death and start creating more life with more life.

@SecRollins @americaunwon @caseymurph1 Keely, we went round and round a bit about current programs and you asked for solutions instead of just complaining. I've been pondering it quite a bit and I initially put a list on the table, but it wasn't really a program, more just principle. This one is a program. Secretary Rollins, you already have the office that can run it. Casey, this second half is written with your ground in mind because a temporary stay on an eviction is not a program. You need a program that keeps cattle on the grass and still puts power on the fence. Keely, critique away then once it meets with your approval, use that access to get it on a desk that can implement it. I've said it before and I'll say it again: I would rather nobody got federal aid at all. But, if checks are going to be written anyway, write them so the machine stays in the county and the land stays in production. Farm Aid That Stays on the Farm: Two Programs, One Office: Small farms and ranches are getting squeezed from two directions: equipment we cannot afford, and solar farms that eat up ag land. Both have a fix. Both can run through the FSA county office that is already sitting in your county. The equipment problem A no-till drill runs $60,000 and up. A baler, skid steer, or sprayer is the same story. Most small operators cannot carry that note for a machine that sits in the shed 340 days a year. At present I'd like a T100 drone setup, a pasture aerator, better feeders without holes that have to be resealed continually with concrete around them, about three more wells, and 200 acres of hay ground with a baler that doesn't need new straps. All totaled that's easily $300k (not including the land) that isn't in the present budget, so we make do. Now every rancher and farmer has tried lending to neighbors or borrowing. Inevitably what I borrow breaks before it hits the field and I eat a $5000 repair bill and never use it, or what I lend out comes back ungreased, run too hard, with something broken and nobody knowing how it happened or willing to pay for it. Do that a couple of times and you quit loaning AND quit borrowing. Repairs are what make sharing expensive. Abuse is what ends it. Commercial rental yards are built for construction, they are often an hour or more away, delivery is a nightmare and you can't get on a schedule. Most real ag equipment is not on the lot. The fix: Uber for farm equipment: Get a low-interest FSA loan to buy the equipment. Enroll it and post the dates it is available, payments are deferred until first rental hits. Other producers book it through an app at a below-market rate. FSA handles delivery and pickup and inspects it both ways. Rental income pays your note. If rentals fall short, the program covers the gap. GPS and hour meters track every hour. The program pays for wear from renters. You pay for your own use. Clear damage gets charged to whoever caused it. Renters get rated. Abuse the equipment and you lose access. Once the note is paid off, keep it enrolled and your rental earnings build credit toward your next machine and/or towards your rental of the neighbors bulldozer or excavator for pond work, etc. Drones and specialty equipment go out with a licensed operator, like a real Uber, unless the rancher has his own license. Owners get equipment that pays for itself without the repair fights. Young and small producers get machines they could never finance. Equipment that sits idle most of the year gets used across a whole county. The solar problem: Solar farms are taking productive ag land out of use, and rural communities are fighting them county by county. Casey’s family has run cattle on that Arizona ground since before it was a state. Once the panels go up in a solid block, the cattle and the operator are gone. The fix: fence-line solar: Vertical solar panels built into the fence lines. The rancher designs the paddock layout he actually wants and the solar company follows it to the T. The solar company builds the fences with panels in them, plus solar-powered wells, water points with shade structures, and maintenance lanes that double as cattle alleys and firebreaks. Cattle keep grazing. The land stays in production. Panels are built for cattle: heavy posts, panels mounted high or behind hot wire, armored cable. The developer gets comparable output spread over more ground. This is the compromise I have been saying out loud for months. Animals get cover and the company puts in and maintains real fence and the roads. Lines run the fence instead of cutting the pasture in half. The lease follows the land and everybody can live with it. Granted, it costs more to install because it is not one big mass of panels, which is the only honest objection, and it is solvable. Who gets paid: On private land, solar income is split between the landowner and the operator under a fixed formula set by the program. The operator’s share follows whoever is actually working the land. On state land, the full operator share goes to the operator running it. Making the numbers work: Spreading panels across miles of fence costs more than packing them into one field. The program covers that difference: Developers get federal cost-share on the added racking and cable, plus a production bonus for fence-line systems. Utilities get federally funded interconnection and substation upgrades, and fence-line projects get priority in the interconnection queue. That is the biggest bottleneck in solar right now. Neighboring operations can sign up together to share collection lines to the nearest substation. If USDA already finances rural renewable energy, stop financing the version that deletes the ranch. Pay the extra cost of the version that keeps the cattle. One office: Both programs run through the FSA county office. It already makes equipment loans. It is already in every farm county. It answers to county committees elected by local producers. USDA already finances rural renewable energy, so the money exists inside the same department. One door for the producer. A lot of farm aid ends up with the biggest operations. These programs put it into equipment that serves an entire county and into land that stays in the hands of the people working it. Keely, that is a solution. Secretary Rollins, you do not need a new agency to start a pilot. Casey, this is how you keep the herd on the grass instead of winning a month and losing the place. If we are going to rebuild the herd and keep small outfits alive, stop writing programs for the corporate ag managers in the office and start writing them for the people who still have a seat in the saddle and tractor.

Super cool feature of @Nofence_AS collars called Herd Replay Lets you watch how your animals moved throughout the day In this case I can see how they responded to me moving the boundry in

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Crazy to think that this was the post that started the shit storm… Just look at that picture and what do you see? Beautiful pasture that hasn’t had a single granule of nitrogen applied… Not a single drop of herbicide There are dual purpose heritage breed cattle Just beyond the lens there are 100 ewes and 20 Dairy goats Next year this site will have a few hundred egg laying hens and meat chickens and a dozen pigs 100% grass based system… 0 grain And it’s producing enough energy to power several hundred homes I farm several hundred acres just like this scattered out across Georgia, South Carolina and Florida. That is several hundred acres I would not have access to if not for solar This is how we have food, health and energy sovereignty But there are people on this app that tell me this isn’t real farming and we must stop all solar from being built @caseymurph1 @alex_fasulo @SecRollins @SecKennedy @RepThomasMassie @FmrRepMTG @RPierceWriter @GGunthorp @GrayFeist @poolcreekcattle @LewisFox91 @GeorgiaLAMBmgmt

Tile drainage has been under fire as of late… and it really shouldn’t If a field is saturated it can’t breathe. It becomes compacted and unproductive. Inputs like Nitrogen gas off or run off the field. It takes more ground of production to make up for unproduction of poorly drained soils. I think we have to look at agriculture with some nuance and say that it is more disruptive than a prairie or untouched forest…so maybe we should be as productive as possible on our disrupted space. With that said it’s still negligent to just dump 250lbs of Nitrogen in the fall in hopes that it’s still there come next summer when a crop needs it. Drainage allows one to farm more efficient, with less tillage, and less inputs, make timely relevant applications and build soil health… which lowers the overall disruption of the farmed acre.

Just a part of my slice of heaven. I can't wait to see this land transform into regenerative agriculture.

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I think we’re going to flirt with $1500/ac in this field with $200 in inputs. Agronomy’s next dimension is how we make crops play nice with one another. The wheat manages spring moisture like living pattern tile to allow earlier more fit planting, weed control. The soybeans grow well with a disciplined 80/20 wheat crop. The space allows for equity accrual 80-90 days gets us to 12-14 nodes with young pods at wheat harvest Harvest opens up sunlight for the beans acting like a turbo on a diesel engine… and the wheat also acts as a trellis to support expansive branching. Year #11 and we’re always learning… lots of people trying this out and making it work on their operation. If this is of interest come to my farm this Saturday and walk the fields yourself conference.eco-ag.com/farmwe… #farmweird

Some takeaways from @MWBTCSummit: 1. @AndrewTilmann and the team did an amazing job, excited for next year 2. There are only two Bitcoiners I'd want to spend 8 hours in a Cybertruck with, and it's @AdamSimecka and @leemurdock 3. @JStrick85 is as great and supportive IRL as he is online 4. @StacingSats and @BTCBlackSheep are one of the coolest couples in Bitcoin 5. @pastorcoin is the most based pastor in North America, and perhaps the world 6. @HodlTarantula is one of the Bitcoin GOATs 7. @michelleweekley is super based, but you already knew that 8. @Bcuz21 is awesome and has even less tolerance for fiat than I do 9. It is never a bad day when you get to see @PaulaBTCEdge 10. @ColeStuart177 is one of the top 5 nicest Bitcoiners I've met 11. @AdrianCercenia is positively not an 80 IQ pleb - super smart 12. There are few people I enjoy catching up with more than my friend @MattCutler21 13. @AmmousMD is as nice as he is great at what he does 14. @Andrew_J_Howard DGAF what anyone thinks and everyone should tune in when he talks 15. @benepling is just a great guy, period 16. @buckethatbtc is always on the move doing something cool to promote Bitcoin and Bitcoin art to the world I'm sure I'll think of more, but this is a pretty good start.

It’s really starting to sink in that we get to steward two acres of land. Right now, a lot of it is just a massive lawn. But it won’t stay that way for long!! We get to take this little piece of earth around our home and ask, “How can we leave this better than we found it?” That feeling is almost impossible to put into words. For years, we’ve been learning to grow, forage, preserve, compost and understand the natural world around us. We learned wherever we could, with whatever space we had. And we are realizing just how much all of that prepared us for this. We’re showing up with years of lessons, mistakes, experiments, skills and a much better understanding of what we want to create. There’s still SO much to learn, but we’re more prepared for these two acres because we started long before we had them. It’s such a good reminder that the best time to start learning something is now. You don’t need the perfect property, the big garden or the final destination first. Start where you are. Because one day, you might finally get the place to put all those lessons into the ground. And now we do. Not just for next summer. Not just for us. We get to build a little ecosystem that can become healthier, richer and more alive with every passing year. Something we can watch mature. Something that can outlive us. Something worth passing on. What an incredible privilege this is.

Movie and TV tropes can help us tell Bitcoin's story better. Here's my @MWBTCSummit keynote with 80 slides in under 16 minutes. (h/t @bensig for the video)