Treevan 🇦🇺

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  • I like the name and it’s memorable but I dont believe FPS were intended for “boomers”, weren’t they aimed at Gen X/maybe early millennials who were the young adults/children in these timeframes? Games weren’t an adulting pastime back then, it was child’s play.

    I bet there were a few boomers playing but Gen X would have been the dominant gaming generation.

    I can’t believe Gen X have been forgotten again.









  • There is an excellent video on YouTube on the hedge laying process. There is a old guy, I think in WWII assisted by a young person (young lady if I can assume gender) and it runs through the whole traditional technique. He smokes the entire time while working.

    If you read about hedgerow loss through England and Europe, you can see what a negative effect that has had on ecological outcomes. Sprout Lands goes into how cycling trees for product, rather than clearfelling improved areas over time, animals and plants adapting to the changes over thousands of years. Fire is also a coppice technique and in Australia, indigenous people did it for so long, animals evolved with the changes.

    I’ll have a look for video now and edit it in if I find it.

    Here it is. Throw it into your frontend of choice:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoprVhpOKIk




  • An ancient technique that fell out of favour in the past 400 years. If you really get into the historical side of it, there are archaeological records of coppice timber being used thousands of years ago. It’s very solarpunk.

    As for videos, I have no idea. I’m a qualified arborist so my knowledge of them started by figuring out tree physiological response to pruning and then working out the techniques from there. In the past few years there has been a significant resurgence in information and if you lived in Europe, you would have been exposed to it more than any other continent for years prior. I’d bet there are videos, technically I should be one of the people making them.

    There was a book on the history released recently: https://www.williambryantlogan.com/ - called Sprout Lands. It’s not a technical manual, more of a flowery piece dedicated to the discovery of the cultures that performed it and why it worked from a functional sense. Worth reading.

    And, unless it’s on FB, the only place I know of discussion for it is https://www.teddit.net/r/coppicing - maybe if Lemmy picks up and a “tree” community (not cannabis) gets going. There are probably some arboricultural forums still plodding along but we all know how centralisation went for them. Composting isn’t the right niche for it, farming, while associated, isn’t either.







  • Agreeing with this one.

    Except I made a Mastodon account to pad its numbers to make Elon feel bad and used the Mastodon account to follow Lemmy (and just used the site sans account). Once the API changes were announced, all in to make reddit feel bad with larger numbers over here.

    Phone is grapheneos, use Linux, all FOSS; why did I take so long to do this? Either this or quit all social media.