I Dont Know Anymore.

You do not understand

Most modern Ag operations don’t even have a proper A-Horizon. They’re too busy turning the earth every time they replant. The A-horizon is the Black Gold that makes Soil Soil. It’s a structurally complex soil horizon that must be built in place by the interactions of Plants and Fungi and Insects. It is The Thing that soaks up rain and holds onto it for plants. The A-Horizon is The Thing that builds up when you let a field sit fallow. The act of tilling creates fecundity by breaking up the A-horizon. On a really good Organic no-till farm you might find an A-horizon between 3-6 inches.

His A-horizon was 4 feet deep. 50 inches.

I-

I have no context. His farm was covered in a living skin thick enough for a child to stand in.

Gives me hope for what we could accomplish if we got our collective heads on straight, you know? Like. This was one guy. A brilliant man, who knew what he was up to, but. The thing about brilliant ideas is they can be shared.

Humus, or Humic Compounds, are a cryptic and poorly understood set of organic substances. As the final metabolic result of once-living things being digested first by macroscopic organisms, and then by microorganisms, they resist most forms of analysis, and have cryptic structures. A few that we have managed to isolate and study are the Humic & Fulvic Acids.

Humus has a number of remarkable tendencies. It is capable of retaining water far better than any raw mineral clay; it also retains electrically charged clay granules, which themselves retain mineral ions, all of which is essential to make a soil a high-quality resource for Plants to grow in.

A composter is a box that contains an environment that is conducive to the production of Humus, but the best way to produce it is in-place, by laying layers of organic material down over an unbroken earth and growing things out of that. The interaction of the plants rooting, the fungus weaving itself through everything, the bacteria and archaea metabolizing as they do, and inorganic weathering forces all combine to gradually build up the microscopic equivalent of a complex megastructure capable of retaining far more water, and containing far more nutrients, than any inorganic substrate.

This stuff is black gold. This is the stuff that determines whether or not a plot of land is going to be “productive.” The knowledge of how to make it, how to care for it, is an essential piece of wisdom that our civilization needs to remember.

Fortunately, folks seem to have the right response:

Farmers are more important to the continuity of civilization than administrators, no matter what the elitists say. This knowledge is important.

Archfey

Fiend

Celestial

Great Old One

her name was Marsha P Johnson, and we have her to thank for so much.

remember, the first Pride was a riot, and she was one of the brave souls who endured it to help carve the path which so many of us walk today. she helped found several activist groups regarding LGBT safety and wellbeing. and she was absolutely radiant, too.

One group went "Let's keep our values, but drop some of our weirder rituals."

Another group went "Let's keep our rituals, but drop some of our more alien values."

Another group went, "What if we walk a tightrope between the two and drop nothing?"

You know these groups as Reform, Orthodox, and Conservative/Masorti.

Each one has evolved significantly since these founding moments, but that's the base. Reform, especially, has readopted many of the rituals; while Haredim Orthodox individuals have adopted more and more values from the wider xtian goyische society.

Which is why you should be extremely skeptical whenever someone paints reform as "assimilated jews", or when they say that haredim have "original torah values". Because that's not the history, nor the evidence, and thus not the reality. If someone is claiming either, they have an agenda.

I can't leyn Torah. There's some rituals I didn't learn. I have never even attempted daf yomi, and I don't speak Yiddish.

But if you think that the things I haven't learned yet are more important to my character as a Jew? I dunno, chaverim, your approach to mitzvot is between you and your community. I know who I am.

Hineini.

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