10 Things I Don’t Know (About plants, farming, and the soil) – JP028

I thought it would be a good idea, to mark it a place in time, to be able to say, here are 10 things I don’t know about plants, farming, and the soil (and the soul). Join me in learning what I don’t know, won’t you?

* The Ten Things I Don’t Know are* Succulents* Bonsai and other manicured plants* Growing for yield and enough to survive* Reading agriculture books cover-to-cover, following exact directions* Most things about trees* Breeding plants* Following through with people I’ve made botanical promises to.* What other people want to know* Where my idea(l)s fail* Making my own value added product

* Works Referenced* Introductions* Resources* All of Carver’s Bulletins* JADAM* Silver Sprung

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* Where have you been??!

* Dr. Isaac Zama – Amba Farmer’s Voice Part 3

* Dr. Isaac Zama – Amba Farmer’s Voice pt 2

* Dr. Isaac Zama – Amba Farmer’s Voice pt 1

* Urban Agriculture and Climate Change: “The New Normal”

Transcript

Peace,

I am Mason Olonade and this is Jìgìjìgì: Africulture Podcast. Here we believe building a healthy soil builds a healthy soul, so we share strategies for how to do both. To do both we ask two questions: How do you grow while you grow Kale, Collards, Tomatoes, and Melons. And why, do you think, the healthiest soils are Black?

Ten Things I Don’t Know About plants, farming, and the soil

I was inspired to do this because, in a round about way, I ended up watching a lot of videos on programming recently. One instructor, who makes very good content had a similarly titled video. I thought it would be a good idea to do my own version of it, to keep myself honest, and to benchmark my understandings. It will be cool to look on to this later.

1. Succulents

In the way, wayback days of Tumblr I started my green thumb with a succulent I purchased from the now closed Behnke’s Nursery in Beltsville, MD. I saw a lot of these Lithops succulents online and I just had to have it. It was just one “stone” when I purchased it but eventually it began its first great division. This was very exciting up until the point where nothing happened. So, naturally, I began watering it and it would rehydrate and look like it was going to do something and then it didn’t and it would shrivel up again and this cycle repeated and repeated until it eventually did almost complete its division. As I was growing the second round of my Thai peppers in 2015 I knoc...