Perhaps you miss the point of what The Conversation is about.

Our mission is to share knowledge and inform decisions.

Inform decisions, not make decisions.

Typically, the stories are written by Academics not Journo’s, and often they are written to just present some detail/facts, it is up to the reader to come to their own conclusion. I pretty much always find them informative, though sometimes, as in this one, much of the detail can be found in the papers/details that the story links to.

I think you’ll find the point/conclusion in the title.

Where are you getting the logs from?

About half our property (~2 ha) is native bush - they tell me it has never been harvested, so it is as it was before whoever came here first. Actually, it was Europeans that stripped most of the bush for sheep/beef/dairy and some crops around here. I’ll either limb a couple of Southland Beech and try them, or there is a Gum overhanging our fence line that needs to go. Need to find out which is likely to be best - I’d prefer to use the Southland Beech as it’s native, and I can continually trim a few without any impact.

A slow process, but I’m happy to post in 6-12-24 months, or however long it takes, how things progress. I was considering growing some in bags, but the idea of growing in logs means so much less input in time and $'s. I’ll probably have a play with some wood chip beds in the meantime.

Pretty much. I think crop rotation is a bit overstated personally. If I find a spot that a particular veg. grows well in, why would I not keep growing it there. If you’ve got healthy soil and don’t introduce infected soil, all should be good, though some diseases can blow in with the wind, but here, where I am, due to geography, it’s not known to be an issue.

Some plants can build up bugs like nematodes in the soil if continually cropped in the same spot. However, that can be managed, either by planting companion plants that repel the pest, or growing a crop that inhibits it in the off season. I don’t go overboard on this type of thing, but it can be helpful in some cases.

With potatoes, the issue is spreading the disease - I’m not intending to sell or give-away potatoes as seed, so that’s not a problem. I’m more likely to bring in disease if I buy in seed potatoes, but certified seed potato should be okay.

Probably both since I collected a heap of seeds. If I find a spud that we like I’ll try to build up the numbers. We are in a particularly good spot for spuds as we don’t get any diseases carried in here.

Which part of the country are you?

About as far South and West as you can get. Have a good sized hot house, so can get things started early. The weather says 0C or maybe -1C tonight but day temps get above 18 behind glass/polycarbonate.

Which mushroom kit did you get?

Shiitake Mushroom Grow Kit - Splash & Grow Block

I’ll likely buy 1000 dowels when we decide which we prefer.

Many locals shut shop in the garden here over winter, but I manage some reasonable growth with the right plants.

First time planting potato seeds. It’s supposed to be a bit hit and miss on what you get, but it leads to you to creating your own potato i.e. not a clone like when you plant seed potatoes.

I’m trying to get to a point where I don’t have to buy in much each year. Produce my own everything including seeds. Just something to have a go at, no doubt some things won’t go to plan. But that’s the fun.

In the last couple of days I’ve planted some Butternut Pumpkin, Zucchini and Yams, into pots to get a start for when it warms up.

Potato seeds (yes seeds, not seed potatoes) I planted a little while ago have sprouted. First time I’ve planted potato seeds. I’m interested in how they grow and what the results are like. I collected the seeds last year.

The Grey Oyster mushrooms I bought last weekend have come on strong, and I’ve ordered some Shiitake mushrooms to try as well. Testing which ones the boss likes the best before inoculating some logs.

Setting aside the Te Reo argument, in my opinion the OP is guilty of much of what they accuse others of and appears to taunt others into further participation (again, my opinion). If lemmy.nz is going to become a closed community, it will simply become an echo chamber of that closed community - this is the biggest failure of social media - is that what users want lemmy.nz to become?

Keep it open. If it becomes a closed community, I’ll probably wander off.

I suspect Lemmy will grow (or die) to allow those that create continual problems to be banned or similar - perhaps we just need to wait a little longer for those features? Defederation seems far too coarse/broad brush to me for what I perceive to be, at this point in time, just a nuisance that can be ignored.

I don’t know how they are tracking now, but this comapny made some waves with their seaweed approach back in 2021

Terribly! They promised 80-90% reduction of methane back then, but recent trials in Aus show it having less than 30% reduction and the cow looses considerable weight. So the end result is more like 10% reduction and long term effects on the cow are still to come in.

There is another one available now that claims 30% reduction (forgot its name) but I’ve not seen any real trial results yet.

Spent an hour or two replacing a battery into a ~7 year old Chromebook - ASUS C302CA. This has been my daily interface to the Internet and has done, and is still doing, such a great job that a $75 upgrade to a new battery seemed like a good bet.

Have gone from 2 to 3 hrs of battery life back to around 8 hrs. Awesome.

Can highly rate thinking about keeping ageing tech alive if it’s still fit for purpose. Better than just chucking it out and replacing.