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What People Get Wrong About Geoengineering + Working With Limited Compost

Growers Daily

Release Date: 05/02/2025

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Welcome to episode 143 of Growers Daily! We cover: if you should use compost as a mulch or rather as an amendment when starting a garden on poor soil, we’ll parse fact and fiction about geoengineering… Oh, and it’s feedback friday.  We are a Non-Profit! πŸ‘‡  πŸ™Œ  DONATE πŸ™Œ    Links for today:  Article about native bees vs honey bees:    What the british government is doing with Geoengineering     The blocked geoengineering plan in Cali:    The Harvard study that was abandoned:    Scientists...

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Welcome to episode 143 of Growers Daily!

We cover: if you should use compost as a mulch or rather as an amendment when starting a garden on poor soil, we’ll parse fact and fiction about geoengineering… Oh, and it’s feedback friday. 

We are a Non-Profit! πŸ‘‡ 

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Links for today: 

Article about native bees vs honey bees: https://e360.yale.edu/features/will-putting-honey-bees-on-public-lands-threaten-native-bees#:~:text=β€œHoney%20bees%20are%20super%2Dforaging,to%20rear%2033%2C000%20native%20bees.

 

What the british government is doing with Geoengineering  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/22/uk-scientists-outdoor-geoengineering-experiments

 

The blocked geoengineering plan in Cali: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/05/california-geoengineering-blocked-00161733

 

The Harvard study that was abandoned: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/03/18/1089879/harvard-halts-its-long-planned-atmospheric-geoengineering-experiment/

 

Scientists being like β€œNo thanks” in Geoengineering: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/12/solar-geoengineering-uk

 

CBC report on cloud seeding: https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/cloud-seeding-faq-1.7176435#:~:text=How%20effective%20is%20it?,to%20work%2C%22%20Cotton%20said.&text=size%20of%20hail-,The%20U.A.E.,to%20seed%20clouds%20in%20Alberta.

 

Podcast with Kelpie from Ring of Fire on biochar: https://youtu.be/a1U1zYrQrRs?si=3SmZPWXNlovvFqIb

 

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