#fallow fields

[zarinthelwrites]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/49266838/chapters/203658226

fallow fields chapter 27 up now!

[goingtiny]

Could the Ancient Jewish Practice of Shmita Be a New Tool for Sustainable Ag? | Civil Eats

The practice of letting the land lie fallow after every six years of farming requires a complete reset in sustainable practices—and could gain traction as a way to combat climate change.

In light of new research on carbon sequestration, allowing soil to go fallow poses an age-old, no-maintenance way to regenerate soil at any scale. Industrial agriculture and desertification have together depleted global grasslands and prairies to the extent that, according to Rattan Lal, director of Ohio State University’s Carbon Management and Sequestration Center; the world’s cultivated soils have lost between 50 and 70 percent of the carbon in the soil as it has entered the air as atmospheric CO2.

In addition to reducing carbon outputs like burnt fossil fuels, humans can draw carbon back into the ground by restoring organic soil matter as a “natural sink.” Through photosynthesis, plants intake carbon from the air and feed it to deep soil organisms, and the healthier the soil, the greater its holding capacity for carbon. Shmita could complement other land conservation and carbon sequestration techniques—including agroforestry, holistic planned grazing, and regenerative low- and no-till agriculture—by that simply letting land rest can alone increase soil fertility and thus sequester carbon.

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Hi! I don’t have the time to leave an in-deprh analysis about everything I adore about fallow fields and the scorpion and the frog rn but i just wanted to thank you for writing these beautiful fics. March was A Month Of Horrors for me and binging and rereading those fics got me thru it with much better mental health than i otherwise wld have!!! I’m not even in the naruto fandom! I read those fics on a whim bc your bleach fics were so amazingly well-characterized, and I’m so glad i found them :D. The dynamic btwn ensui and seiko charms me to bits and well i just love everything about seiko and her approach to life. Thank you so much for writing!!!!!!!!

thanks for reading <3 im glad you enjoyed them.

[falseandrealultravival]

Today's Haiku with Picture 219

Fallow fields

Few Bidenwort

a little unexpected

休耕田

センダン少なし

ちと意外

Or rather, because it is abandoned, it is probable that the Bidenworts did not enter the area either.

(2022.10.30)

[moonunveiled]

fallow fields

The fields east of the Reach were brittle and dry, dead and devoid of even the smallest insects. Lyrenn hadn’t even been able to find so much as a worm when he’d dug through the soil. Something was certainly poisoning the land then.  He’d been as unsurprised as Valera when the shaman’s spell pushed back against the winds blowing from the Aldmarsh. He’d been perhaps a bit more relieved. He had no way of directing wind like that. While he could call on nature in fits and bursts a consistent plea to the elements like that was far beyond his ken. He’d simply watched from afar as the draenei went about her work, before moving to the opposite end of the fields to assist with his own. Rejuvenating the land was something he could help with. Sticking his staff into the dirt until it stood on it’s own, the druid settled onto his knees beside it. While one hand held the staff the other curled fingers into the loose soil in front of him. Lyrenn leaned forward, bowing his head and closing his eyes. His own pleas were wordless, more feelings than thoughts. He could see, in his minds’s eye, how these fields had looked before. Like the memory of nature itself giving a glimpse into the past. He exhaled softly and  focused on that picture. On the life he felt in that frozen moment of time. Nature wanted it too, he could feel it. And slowly, it responded to his call. 

[ghost-nettle]

Wassail! wassail! all over the town, Our toast it is white and our ale it is brown; Our bowl it is made of the white maple tree; With the wassailing bowl , we'll drink to thee.

The Gloucester Wassail