LINK Bridging the Food-or-Energy Gap - Yes! Magazine
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"Sheep, of course, aren’t the only livestock that graze ... Experiments are also being done with row crops so they’re partially shaded by panels and thus use less water ... Where sheep are involved, yet another food can be made on the same land: honey ...In the same way that solar grazing can meet human needs for food, warmth, energy, and economic activity, it can also feed the Earth ... pollinator patches [are] feeding a whole ecosystem."
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Finding success with ducks and geese with solar ,tiny houses and urban farming. Bird mature is the best. They are great for the grass and debugging. Ducks can also make good pets.
Castlepaloma
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May 25, 2020
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Also delicious!
Just don't name them.
One comment' we do not "feed the Earth.' We feed people who take from the Earth.
Here was have a land trust community with such a long array of solar panels. Underneath the panesl is a chicken wire fence which houses, chickens.
JackPedigo
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May 25, 2020
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As a gardener, if find some of this odd....less sun = less water, yes, but also slower growth, and would not the longer time in-ground negate any savings, and further deplete the soil?
And what have sheep to do with honey? Since sheep eat the roots as well as top growth, there would be way less or no flowers for bees to "graze"....how does that help honey production?
AnneWimsey
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May 25, 2020
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This type of scenario involves "Systems Thinking" (ecology & ecosystems). The strategies used are called "Multi-Solving." [climateinteractive.org]. I believe the sheep and honeybees are not in the same locations at the same times, so the crops remain sustainable. Farmers can plant alternating crops to not diminish the soil nutrients. The sheep would fertilize the ground, and the bees fertilize the flowers. They also are near a river, so some irrigation and the shade would keep the plants growing for the sheep and the bees. I think the idea also is to alternate grazers (sheep and bees) to keep the plants growing.
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