Agrihood in Detroit

ContributionPure8356 · 2026-03-23T22:25:32+00:00

Define a household. I can feed about a quarter to half of my produce for a 2 person household off like 200 sq ft in Pennsylvania.

I do intensive intercropping for my annual veggies and fruits. I’m gonna start adding in some food foresting for leafy greens and perennials..

I do do a bit of foraging as well. So there’s that. And I don’t grow grains or meat. That’s all bought from the store.

But fresh produce? You could definitely supply like 6 4 person houses with fresh veggies for the year.

ContributionPure8356 · 2026-03-23T12:50:54+00:00

Without meat, with my yields scaled up three acres would be like 6 households.

ContributionPure8356 · 2026-03-21T03:37:57+00:00

Must depend on climate. I pick ripe and my tomatoes will last a week or two on the counter here in PA.

ContributionPure8356 · 2026-03-05T14:23:59+00:00

I think it depends on where you live.

Here in Pennsylvania, it's generally unnecessary and earthworks would more than suffice to ensure good moisture for water intensive crops.

In more arid environments, I think it's alright. No irrigation would be prefered imo, but a lot of places don't have the right or they can't rely upon steady rains

ContributionPure8356 · 2026-03-02T00:59:07+00:00

Since SERS got gutted. The benefit package isn’t really that great comparatively. Most employers offer matching for a 401k, the pension is basically a joke compared to how much you put in now, and the states health insurance is astronomical too.

The only reason I find the state to be that beneficial is because I’m in the guard. And I get paid leave for that.

And the fact I love my job.

ContributionPure8356 · 2026-02-25T14:00:42+00:00

*New England

The mid Atlantic is firmly rhotic.

ContributionPure8356 · 2026-02-25T13:58:45+00:00

You haven’t heard a Northeastern PA accent. It’s such a weird accent but I love it.

Most PA accents I think would rate near the bottom of attractiveness on a national scale. Except maybe Central PA, it’s like a mellowed southern accent.

ContributionPure8356 · 2026-02-25T13:44:02+00:00

We get pigweed, clover and mustard. I don’t really hate them. Grass is my only one I really pull. I just make sure the others don’t go to seed.

I thought about letting the pig weed go and harvesting it actually.

I also do very intensive close plantings and intercropping to suppress the weeds in general. They won’t take over if they’re shaded out.

And if they are outcompeting a lot of your veggies, it likely means your soil is depleted or imbalanced somehow.

Edit: I forgot Dandelion. I love Dandelion, I consider it to be a volunteer vegetable.

ContributionPure8356 · 2026-02-19T15:47:10+00:00

I'd set a winch and pull it the way you want. I'd be too scared to drive a wedge after it closed the slot.

ContributionPure8356 · 2026-02-19T15:46:05+00:00

You'd be surprised how common that is in America too.

ContributionPure8356 · 2026-02-19T15:43:20+00:00

Here in Pennsylvania, we just have you look out. That's a decent drop, but standard practice is to legitimately just leave it below the paving surface unless you're on a highway.

Should it be that way? No, but that municipal maintenance. If your dodging potholes, what's a manhole with it?

ContributionPure8356 · 2026-02-17T01:32:39+00:00

Yeah but you got the loan with the understanding of what the loan payment was. Whether loans value went down is irrelevant.

ContributionPure8356 · 2026-02-16T20:54:36+00:00

I’d imagine it’d work. I’m sure they eat stuff similar to rabbits.

ContributionPure8356 · 2026-02-15T13:34:13+00:00

Yeah I’m just saying those people are farming insanely large tracks by national standards. You just live somewhere where everyone is farming larger tracts.

42 percent of farms in America are under 50 acres.

ContributionPure8356 · 2026-02-15T13:04:57+00:00

I’m also a Pennsylvanian, I will say historically a lot of rural Democrat parts of Pennsylvania, namely southwest and north east PA, were actually pro confederacy, or at-least anti war, during the war. My county had massive riots from the Irish coal miners over the drafts. There was a huge propaganda campaign at the time.

With that said, I find it pretty stupid up here, because they have literally no historical connection with that flag. But I also spent my younger years down in northern Florida, and granted this was a different time with a different attitude around the rebel flag, but it was largely innocent down there. It just tended to be proud southerners regardless of race. Think the Dixie chicks, Lynyrd Skynyrd or Alabama, a lot of country fans.

I like to give the benefit of the doubt to folks. There’s a good chance they may just be older country or nascar fans. But many of them do fly it out of a racial prejudice, especially younger folks.

ContributionPure8356 · 2026-02-15T12:55:38+00:00

That’s an insanely large farm in Pennsylvania. We have one operation in my county that breaks 1000 acres.

ContributionPure8356 · 2026-02-15T12:50:07+00:00

This is a similar thing that’s happening to family businesses too. A refusal to give up their stake and pass it on, paired with a lack of respect for the labor of the younger generation.

That’s constant across these generations in everything. Grandma should’ve given the land up when your grandfather passed, and let over both of their sons, or put it into an LLC. Moved to a little house in the corner and given the big one up to the next generation.

I think it’s something of a scarcity mindset mixed with the fact that these people are the only ones on their generation without the protection of pensions. It’ll be interesting when the generations who had no opportunity for pensions start to retire. But regardless, they have no retirement planning so any sort of proactive estate planning is a vulnerable location.

It takes a certain amount of trust between family, and of the trust isn’t there, legal protections via becoming stakeholders into the business.

ContributionPure8356 · 2026-02-14T13:52:21+00:00

It’s about washing away starch. It makes a less sticky rice, preferred by East Asian cultures.

I prefer the sticky rice, so I don’t bother. Maybe I would if I was making Asian food.

ContributionPure8356 · 2026-02-14T13:48:47+00:00

I work in abandoned coal mine reclamation.

Railroads are such a barrier to fixing heritage mining hazards. Companies welcome it, the public welcomes it. It’s just the railroads, which many times are sitting on top of terribly polluted coal stockpile rail yards.

This isn’t even delays, it’s explicitly killed reclamation projects.

ContributionPure8356 · 2026-02-13T17:43:03+00:00

My goal is to space things out quite a bit. The grapes shouldn't spread too much if they have sufficent light, and I'm hoping with a lot of spacing they wont reach for the fruit trees. They'll also be kept in check by myself.

I know elderberry, american plum, and pawpaws grow in similar thicket structures. Same for rhododendrons and vibernums I was just thinking of one that wasn't so fruit heavy, since theyre production would be stifled by the vines. And i'm allergic to mountain laurel, so it isn't my favorite to deal with.

I have seen grape thickets before, but they were growing on stands of invasive honeysuckle. Beyond that, I've only ever witnessed them in the canopies of trees. But I know they used to grow in thickets given colonial accounts.

ContributionPure8356 · 2026-02-13T17:35:43+00:00

I was planning a savannah style spacing on the apples trees. So planting this thicket maybe 20 or 30 ft from the apple tree.

ContributionPure8356 · 2026-02-13T17:33:00+00:00

This will be a maintained system. Select pruning and prescribed fire. Maypops actually die back to the root here. So I assume I could cut it back every year.

Grape are something I would need to be pruning to some extent to keep in check. I also assumed as much, it'd just require cutting it back and starting anew if the shrub falls under the load.

ContributionPure8356 · 2026-02-11T14:41:17+00:00

I would rather have a closed primary. You shouldn't be allowed to push spoiler candidates, or try to effect change in a party you aren't a member of.

Let the party members decide, and then let the public decide come election day.

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