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Regenerative agriculture 3: my backyard trial

Kazu Nozue / 2024-11-25

I decided to test regenerative agriculture in my backyard, comparing two different crop plant mixes: California native plants vs California Habit Mix, following principals described in Helen Atthowe and Gave Brown. […] ** Chick Lupine, Lupinus microcarpus seedlings! […] ** contents…

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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…

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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…

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Native plant project v2 2020-2021

Kazu Nozue / 2021-10-06

June 2020 Sep 2020 March 2021 May 2021 June 2021 Oct 5, 2021 Oct 21, 2021 […] Grindelia_camporum stay green during summer (July 7, 2020). Purple flowers of deseart willow (Chilopsis linearis desert willow) are beautiful (June 20, 20). Blue flowers of Salvia x clevelandii ‘Pozo Blue’ Gray Musk…

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Heat pump water heater

Kazu Nozue / 2021-01-07

library(tidyverse) library(lubridate) library(scales) Buring gas produce CO2. Reducing gas usage is critical to reduce CO2 production from our house. Here is the history of our gas usage of my house since 2012 November. # reading data gasdata <-…

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Native plant project v2 March-April 2020

Kazu Nozue / 2020-04-18

March 21, 2020 […] This year Lupins and California poppies bloomed earlier than usual due to warm winter. During shelter-in place order many sidewalkers enjoyed our front yard. Some of them took pictures of plants, and others took California poppy plants and planted them to their front yards.…