native-plant

Native plant project v3 Fall 2023

Kazu Nozue / 2023-12-26

(Fig.1) Possibly due to plenty of rain last winter, we had bunch of Punica granatum fruites this year (Fig. 1). We learned waiting fruits with cracks outside resulted ripen and sweeter fruits. […] (Fig.2) (Fig.3) (Fig.4) The last growing season from late winter to spring we had lots of…

regenerative agriculture

Regenerative Agriculture 2

Kazu Nozue / 2023-12-25

I have to mention an important book published this summer on regenerative agriculture, written by Helen Atthowe. titled The Ecological Farm. From a my favorite podcast on regenerative agriculture, called “Regenerative Agriculture Podcast” by John Kemp, host John Kemp interviewed Helen in the July…

data analysis

Home electricity 2019-2023

Kazu Nozue / 2023-05-02

As I planned in my past post, “The second solar system project: timeline”, I woudl like to review the performance of the second solar, as well as other important events related to electricity consumption. […] To obtain data of grid usage, I extracted important numbers from monthly PG&E…

data-analysis

List to data frame in R tidyverse2

Kazu Nozue / 2023-02-10

regenerative agriculture

リジェネラティブ農業 1

Kazu Nozue / 2023-01-29

環境再生型（リジェネラティブ）農業（またはカーボンファーミング）は自分がが今まで探し求めてきたものです。３５年前、私が大学生の頃、大学の図書館で「自然農法　わら一本の革命」（福岡正信）を何度も読んだのを思い出しました。それ以降、私は植物分子生物学を行い、最近ではデータ科学に踏み込んでいます。昨年、私が愛聴しているポッドキャストでリジェネラティブ農業が紹介されました。その中で紹介されていた”Dirt To Soil” (Gabe Brown, 2018)という本を読み、著者のGabe Brownは２０年以上リジェネラティブ農業を実践していることを知りました。ポッドキャストを聴いたちょうど同時期に…

regenerative agriculture

Regenerative Agriculture 1

Kazu Nozue / 2023-01-28

Regenerative agriculture (or Carbon farming) is what I’ve been looking for. I remember that I read “The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming” by Masanobu Fukuoka (in Japanese) many times in a university library when I was undergraduate student (35 years ago!). Since then I’ve…