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Following a three-hour time-off-for-personal-exploration period, an excited Sylvia returns to the campsite and announces: "I've stumbled upon a huge blueberry bush, full of perfect blueberries." "Great," others exclaim, "now we can all have blueberry jam, and blueberry pie, and blueberry strudel!" "Provided, of course," so Sylvia rejoins, "that you reduce my labour burden, and/or furnish me with more room in the tent, and/or with more bacon at breakfast." Her claim to (a kind of) ownership of the blueberry bush revolts the others. - G.A. Cohen, The Socialist’s Guide to Camping
The system of free competition is a rather peculiar one. Its mechanism is one of fooling entrepreneurs. It requires the pursuit of maximum profit in order to function, but it destroys profits when they are actually pursued by a larger number of people. - Oskar Lange, On the Economic Theory of Socialism: Part Two
Eugenia tinctoria is a must-have fruit, offering a flavor combination of blueberries, Jaboticaba, and mint. The locals are familiar with and appreciate this fruit, saying it tastes even better in the midst of the rainy season.
Adam grafted some a few weeks ago, might be worth a shot to message him and see if he will sell you one. He normally sells them on ebay for auction though. You aren't too far from his place.
sure, the phalaenopsis on your table wasn't poached, but its ancestors certainly were. the figs you enjoy? poached from the wild more than 10,000 years ago. loquat? kiwi? poached from china perhaps more than 100 years ago. the achacha you still haven't enjoyed? poached from bolivia maybe a couple decades ago. not to mention all the veggies that have been poached, like potatoes. thank goodness for humanity that it's only just recently that our society has become so stupid, as a result of lowest common denominator places like youtube, that laws against poaching have been enacted and enforced with taxpayer dollars that could have been spent on things that are actually useful, like public food forests.
Underground, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plant roots form a trade partnership to exchange resources.(source)
Highly accumulated potassium in AM fungal structures (spores, hyphae, and vesicles) and in some plant tissues implies that AM fungi facilitate potassium uptake and transport to the host plant(source)
Darwinian selection habitually targets and eliminates waste. Nature is a miserly accountant, grudging the pennies, watching the clock, punishing the smallest extravagance. - Richard Dawkins, God Delusion
I suspect, also, that some of the cases of compensation which have been advanced, and likewise some other facts, may be merged under a more general principle, namely, that natural selection is continually trying to economise in every part of the organisation. If under changed conditions of life a structure before useful becomes less useful, any diminution, however slight, in its development, will be seized on by natural selection, for it will profit the individual not to have its nutriment wasted in building up an useless structure. - Charles Darwin, Origin of Species
“I would speculate that forgetting might be the default system of the brain,” Davis said at the neuroscience meeting. “We might have a slow chronic forgetting signal in our brains that basically says, ‘Let’s erase everything,’ unless a judge … comes to intervene and says, ‘This memory is worth saving.’” - Tom Siegfried, A Leaky Memory May Be a Good Thing
A Ficus carica may be resilient to drought, but when watered regularly (farmers in Djebba water their trees up to 3,000 liters every fortnight), it becomes dependent and grows shallow, vulnerable roots.
Faouzi’s neighbor Anwer Djebbi (no relation) says his father’s garden is outside the catchment of Djebba el Olia’s springs and has limited access to water. But he says that is not necessarily a bad thing. “If you don’t give a fig much water, it will find it by itself, growing roots far down into the soil.”
nice one. i just planted two seeds i got from anderson tropicals. I could have afforded more but they were $20 US each and never any guarantees that packages arrive in Australia, customs takes alot of them.
Or, since you like sci-fi, you will be cloned out of a plant like Lyekka from Lexx.