that dumb agronomy student

-Nothing, just me. a dumb, very agronomy a little student -I'm a punk mama, so I don't like labels, so call me however you want sweeatie.👽🎸👟 -i don't give a fuck about politics. -i bake cookies every Sunday so you're invited. ✊loser!

[astrathecoolsoil]

With was wrong with me in second grade smh.

[awkward-sultana]

Anamika Mishra / William Cullen Bryant / Unknown / East of Eden, John Steinbeck / Great Expectations, Charles Dickens / Unknown / Caroline May / Worm Moon, Mary Oliver / Odd and the Frost Giants, Neil Gaiman / Hopscotch (trans. Gregory Rabassa), Julio Cortázar / Victoria Erickson / The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab / Hal Borland

[solarpunks]

Tiny Off-grid Vertical Farm Shed

FEATURES

I’ve always been a bit into Grow Your Own and Self Sufficiency but like many I’m limited by space, time and funds. Also I’m concerned about our climate crisis and that motivated to reduce my CO2 footprint and don’t even get me started about single use plastics However my immediate selfish motivation was keeping my Coriander out of the reach of slugs and after three years of trying I ended up with a Tiny Off-Grid Vertical Farm.

The basic structure is a 2 meter cube (photo 1) built from 52 “Grown Up Building Blocks” and double wrapped in insulation and tarpaulin. Each block is like a large Lego brick with racking for 3 seed trays or 8 1.5 litre pots inside and which is just about portable when fully loaded. The whole shed has racking for up to 400 1.5 litre pots or 140 24 cell seed trays - so a maximum of 3400 seedlings.

OTHER INFO

1) Rainwater is harvested from the roof, stored and slowly dripped into the top of the plant pots so each rain drop passes through the roots of up to 11 vertically arranged plants before soaking away. (photo 10). In times of drought (or initial water loading) the tarpaulin sides can be turned into awnings for shade and to increase the rain capture area to 20 square meters. My next build is to collect and recirculate this water with a solar powered pump. Overflow water is stored internally in a 100 litre butt which also provides a little thermal mass.

2) Solar powered grow light LED strips boost natural light and provide 250 watts of warming for winter nighttime. To conserve heat, prevent light pollution and so as to not impact insects I have fitted thermal blackout blinds.

3) A cubic meter of leaf and grass Hot Composting sacks continuously provide a tiny bit more winter heat (photo 9 bottom). They also provide compost and liquid fertiliser as they rot down and they give off a high CO2 atmosphere inside the shed which captured by the plants and promotes growth.

This Off-grid Vertical Farm Shed is in the running for UK’s Shed of the Year 2022!

[aurorepeuffier]

more gardening journal pages !

[astrathecoolsoil]

So, I didn't understand why people where so rude at me on zoom classes.

I didn't did anything and mi PFP was just a image that I trougth was the icon of the slytherpuff (slytherinxhufflepuff)

Turns out

Is the libertarian flag.

Yiiiikes.

[astrathecoolsoil]

So, pretty long post.

I'm thinking on turning this page a secret diary since nobody around me knows English and strongly believe Tumblr is death so...

About uni, I must say I'm doing pretty good, I mean things are really fine lately, classes are lit, and teachers are awesome but...y'know at first I was really scared like you probably don't know what I mean, because I'm an special rare case...

So, almost all my life I had been overprotected by almost every person I know, they used to do almost mostly things for me outside my house (I mean, I defend myself, I know how to do a lot of house chores, I know how to repair most things inside the house, and I have not issue and also love cooking a lot) but when it comes to confront reality it's all pretty weird outside because I had always been feeling like an outsider, stranger creature who doesn't understand human minds.

But, it was fine, for first time I got on the bus, and I had to defend myself and I did it pretty well but...I can't stop thinking about this...I'm in the good path? I'm doing this right? What if I made a mistake? What if I get lost? Even if I'm relaxed my mind simply keep telling me this and that.

However...I always had this serie of troughs, that I don't mind if I have to travel by my own, I also daydreamed a lot with being an adventurer and going on long walks trough small villages and woods, finding friends and lovers on the way and collecting flowers in the pockets.

Finally I'm what I wished with all my hearth but deeply inside I'm worried that someday I'll get tyred of this.

Whenever something too good happens to me it's almost like my brain is preventing me of having so much fun and it's frustrating

Anyways, things are going wonderfully so...that's all.

Btw here a picture of Mormon that I found on Pinterest because who in the world don't like those sweet cheese balls.

[astrathecoolsoil]

6 month of pure disphoria and the next day wakind up with the biggest feminine urge of being a freaking flamingo.

I'm fine thank you!

[astrathecoolsoil]

Today in DNA class:

Water makes frogs gay!!!

[astrathecoolsoil]

Just a close up to this piece of art work I did the last year.

Sometimes idfk what's going on on my head

Shout out to the teacher that had to see this and didn't send me to therapy.

[astrathecoolsoil]

Just found those historic pictures...and I feel like, boi time is so beautiful, in certain way so natural and pure.

I'm getting all loopy hippie here but I was having a pretty boring day until I see these...so yeah I'm sharing with y'all these are not mine so yep.

[astrathecoolsoil]

So, apparently people really liked the last plushie I show, so I decided to show y'all my whole collection of: things I do for keep me chord during this quarantine.

First, this boi, I got the pattern on Pinterest and I also made a leaf so he can sit there watching me getting a breakdown during chemistry.

I keep stuff there, those small bags contain my most awful secret...I'm really bad with buttons.

Bird a, b and c, they're together but it was difficult to capture it all.

Those are my curtain decorations.

Shout out to toast-jake

So yep, I'm not good at this as you can see I'm just a begginer but I could say that I improved...also I'm thinking about uploading the giraffe pattern when i find a way to do it.

[astrathecoolsoil]

So I was sleeping.

And then the mf sleep paralysis demon got over me touching my freaking face.

And all I could think about while this was happening was "woah what more you can do with those cold dead hands boy" 😉

He was gone instantly hahaha.

[astrathecoolsoil]

When i was 13 I got really obsessed with adventure time, like you have no idea, so I started making ocs.

And I made this edgy cursed demon- vampire-witch who was a Marceline's cousin.

And now I'm thinking, what if I take my old cringy Mary sues ocs and make them into real good ocs (?).

Maybe, maybe one day, not today, not tomorrow, not Wednesday, but someday.

Btw time later I would turn her into a Stardew valley oc, who would marry Abigail giving Pierre a hearth attack.

Sorry not sorry!

[astrathecoolsoil]

I made this on my free time...so, that's how giving birth feels like :')

It doesn't have a name yet but it would be awesome believe me.

[astrathecoolsoil]

Ok, so lately I found those notes from an aviator student from the sovietic era.

And

Just

Look how cool and organized it looks, like...how? I-dont-fucking-know

But this is good, because I'm a huge bitch for aesthetic notes and journaling but my broken ass just allow me to buy black, blue and red pen so...

The only thing you need are some drawing skills and a rule.

Taking notes in this style is really comfy because I'm not longer afraid of wasting the expensive "brown dirt chocolate toffee cake" highlighter.

[astrathecoolsoil]

Me: I would like to study something that save me from sin, being a lawyer would make you lie soon so, I guess agronomy will be fine :).

Genetics Teacher on our first class: welp fellas here we play of being God.

[astrathecoolsoil]

When i was a kid I used to be scared of wind.

The feel I got in my ears.

Everything moving

Me not being in control

I was so scared that I would close my eyes and cover my ears and stop walking just hoping that it wouldn't be there the next time.

I was a really scared kid

Always thinking the worst

Always ruining the best...

And sometimes, just sometimes wish I could go back in time.

And give myself a hug and tell myself, it's ok, you'll learn.

And sometimes, just sometimes I feel I still being that kid.