#agriculture
How traditional pitchforks were made.
It took 6 years starting from orienting branches
I love this so much
I would very much like to have one of these.
Writers?
If you have a chance, help preserve this nearly forgotten knowledge in your stories somewhere!
Wooden pitchforks are a bit safer than metal ones (little fear of rust causing lockjaw/death if you get poked), and when they’re grown like this, they’re far sturdier in many ways than anything assembled that isn’t metal…and they’re often lighter / better balanced than metal, too!
Looks like he’s all ready for Dr. Frankenstein’s winter crafting results.
Now this is interesting! *Adding pitchfork tree orchard to possible dnd locations*
New comic up on the nib!
co-created by me (Madeleine Jubilee Saito) and amazing climate journalist / soil nerd Whitney Bauck
Blue corn and melons: meet the seed keepers reviving ancient, resilient crops
According to the United Nations, 75% of crop diversity has been lost over the past century as farmers abandoned numerous local varieties of crops for high yield monocultures that are often shoehorned into environments they are poorly adapted to.
The Hopi, a sovereign nation in north-eastern Arizona, have been practicing resilient methods of farming for years. “Hopi’s one of the only places I know that corn is made to fit the environment, and not the environment manipulated to fit the corn,” said Dr Michael Kotutwa Johnson, a Hopi dryland farmer and academic from Arizona who relies on passive rain harvesting and drought-resistant seeds to sustain crops. “In agriculture across the world, you could argue that the fundamental problem is remaking the environment to fit products.”
“The industrialized food system has failed us,” added Lowden. “We need to restore our food system and that ecological knowledge that has supported us since the beginning.”
That ecological knowledge stretches back millennia in the southwest, where farming began as early as 2000 BC.
For Lowden, Acoma – the oldest continually inhabited community in North America – is a model of resilience. A community with a holistic, reciprocal and self-sustaining food system, superbly adapted to the high desert and capable of weathering extreme drought, climate change, and violent intrusions by outsiders.
In Acoma, “farming is not a hobby”, Lowden said. “It is the basis of our culture and our survival.”
