The Joule Box

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How to fill a garden bed. The Onions prevent root eating nematodes from destroying the strawberries 🍓

Stop buying soil, build living soil instead After building many raised beds over the years, trying different materials and approaches, this is the method that's worked best me.Layering wood, organic ma...

We have an impact everywhere we go.

National Park calls out ‘world changing’ impact of dropped Cheetos bag A recent park visitor to Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico dropped a bag full of Cheetos that created a “huge impact” on the cave’s ecosystem, rangers said.

Apparently, this waterproof, dense mushroom was grown into a boat 🛶 Now she’s working on making furniture and packing materials to replace styrofoam 🤓

She grew a canoe out of mushrooms. Could fungi be the answer to climate change? “Mushrooms are here to help us — they’re a gift,” college student Katy Ayers said. “They’re our biggest ally for helping the environment.”

Here’s a genius and basically free idea for a self watering pot that you can forget about four weeks 🤩 also perfect for vacations 😍

How to make a self-watering planter from any pot | Little Victorian There are lots of tutorials showing how to make a self-watering planter, but most methods make pretty ugly pots from 5-gallon buckets. So we figured out how to turn ANY pretty pot into a self-watering planter.

Perfect potatoes… that are covered in a pesticide that makes them inedible for 6 weeks while they off-gas 😲

Fact Checked👇 *Edit to add when I first watched this I had heard things about this before and thought it to be true. So I shared it to get the word out. Then a potato farmer commented and said it's outdated. So then I fact checked it. This speech was from 2013 based on research from the 90's. The pesticide Monitor has been banned from most countries by 2008-2010. So it's no longer accurate. But it was used previously. This has sprouted good discussions about our food and how it's grown etc. McDonalds makes billions of dollars and has no excuse as they can afford to do better for the environment. So the consumer should hold them to it. We can't blindly trust what's in our food or how it's made. So it's always good to do your own research from reputable sources!

Here is an example of how an arid, rocky, degraded desert landscape with little rainfall /per can be regenerated 🌱

The Story of Al Baydha: A Regenerative Agriculture in the Saudi Desert. قصة مشروع البيضاء The final update from Al Baydha Project Co-founder Neal Spackman, 9 years in. How desertification resulted from the loss of an indigenous land management sy...

Yay! One of my favorite things I do each year!

This is an excellent video. The photographer did an excellent job of editing the video too, so there were no extra wasted times because of awkward gaps. Bravo 👏 

"I Built a Wildlife Pond - here's what happened." | The Kid Should See This What happens when a plain patch of grass is rewilded with a pond, native wildflowers, and lots of brush piles and tall native grasses for local birds to

5 planets could be visible in the night sky next week On Monday and Tuesday, you may be able to catch a glimpse of Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Uranus and Mars all at once.