• MidwestSolarpunk@slrpnk.net
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    17 days ago

    Could make everything within ~3ft of the road non-edible natives, either companion plants for the food or native cultivars to help pollinators (which in turn, will help the edibles closer to the house). So there’s still a way to make this work!

    • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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      16 days ago

      Not much besides crab grass will grow within 3 feet of our roads anyway because they literally salt the earth all winter with insane amounts of road de-icer in our part of the country. The only places that get a slight reprieve are homes near reservoirs or when it gets too cold for the melt temp and they switch to sand.

      It’s also why cars don’t last much more than 10 years unless undercoated and carefully maintained and cleaned all winter.

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        17 days ago

        Do you know what dirt is? Do you know what a honey-wagon is? Do you know where birds shit?

        Obligatory rinse your produce remider here.

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          17 days ago

          People here are pretty delusional about how food gets to the table and being overly concerned with some micro possibility of them actually noticing because they saw a study online.

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          16 days ago

          TIL what a honeywagon is! Never heard them called that. Mostly know them as a sucker truck or vac truck but I’m in Aussie so…