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Concreteblock farming; Agriculture of the future
Recently I posted a thread about the use of the regular concrete block
of 16 X 8 X 8 for gardens and farming. It is a great idea and now want to talk about it in detail as I am running experiments on this approach. In the future when petrol is scarce this is (I feel) the maximum means of farming. I am always talking about the Optimal Strategy in VonNeumann Gametheory in mathematics. And I believe all of agriculture has an OS of farming. In the future when petrol is rare and expensive and when fusion engineering realizes there will never be Fusion Electric Power Plants (Fusion Barrier Principle). Then in that future time agriculture will have to become MAXIMIZED for efficiency. And that is when I believe Concrete Block will be the theme and focus of farming. Also, this planet Earth needs to have a limited amount of human population where I am guessing the magic number is 2 billion people. I just wonder how many concrete block this planet needs for agriculture for that of 2 billion people. What a beautiful quantization of agriculture. Quantized by concrete building blocks. WHAT IT IS: It is the placement of concreteblock on land surface wherein one of the holes of the block is placed the seed or small plant. The block thence protects the plant and marks the plant where it is. The block are spaced such that a human driven push mower, either human muscle or draft animal so that the block protects the plant whenever the pushmower is drawn through the spacings. The clipped weeds and grass become the fertilizer. So, in this future farming there never needs be applied fertilizer for the clippings provide all the fertilizer. There never needs be applied herbicides because the weeds are encouraged to grow for more clippings as fertilizer. There is the problem of more people working on the farm to hand weed the block where the plant is in. I either hand weed or use a shears carefully. What IT WILL Change: In this Concrete Block future farming there will be no need for farm equipment such as tractors or combines or any other heavy equipment. There will be no need to buy any petrol. No need to buy any fertilizer. No need to buy any herbicides. There will be more people working in farming. There will be a need for horses and donkeys again. And it may also eliminate the need for most insecticides because the fields can be diversified instead of one kind of crop. Experiments So Far: On all of the tomatoes planted inside a concreteblock cover, all of them are doing fine. Those planted without a concrete block cover, over 50% are dead because of either birds pulling up the pot in search of worms or because of too much sunlight moving from indoors to outdoors. Caveat: none of the seeds planted in the concreteblock have emerged yet. So if the seed have a tougher time of emerging may have to remedy the problem by placing the block to the side until emerged. Here in the USA, concreteblock of 16X8X8 cost about $1.20 apiece. So to have an acre of these block spaced for the mower to go lengthwise and widthwise is not cheap. But then again, paying for petrol and tractor and all the other farm machinery and paying for herbicides and insecticides and fertilizer are not cheap. I remember a TV show about some NorthDakota farmers having trouble with a weed that is costing them $80. per acre to spray with herbicides just to control it. So the herbicide costs more than any viable crop. In the future, there will be not just one of these weeds beyond the price of control but many of them resistant to herbicides. This type of situation is a perfect test for the ConcreteBlock method of farming. If we take that NorthDakota infestation of $80 weeds fields and put concrete block spaced so that a lawnmower can go through easily. Then we use that weed as a natural fertilizer for the crop plant inside the block. Archimedes Plutonium, whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies |
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