The Aerobic Digest
The Aerobic Digest 6: A light dusting of fungal snow
In this issue: a new fugal feature film, a how-to from a Brussels kitchen garden, a vivid explanation of the soil crisis, and some beautiful mushroom watercolour paintings.
Pete Ashton
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The Aerobic Digest 5: Of rats and shrooms
Scroll down for a food scraps grinder I want to identify.
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The Aerobic Digest 4: Compost as the story of your life
Scroll down for a big question about soil contact. And another cat.
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The Aerobic Digest 3: Hexagonal composting is the future
Scroll down for a cat on a compost heap
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The Aerobic Digest 2: Like baking a cake really really slowly
Make oddkin with your compost heap
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The first Aerobic Digest
You have to start somewhere. Here is where it starts.
Composting
Encouraging air flow in the heap
Today I implemented something new with my active heap. Because I mulch most chunky things and am increasing the moisture content (the last couple of heaps dried out from heat) the lower middle of the heap tends to get a bit stinky. I add a fair amount of dry carbon
Theory
Maybe inmates should take over asylums?
Nice observation in Jaymo's 301-second podcast (with transcript for those can't be dealing with podcasts) that the term the inmates have taken over the asylum assumes that this would be a bad thing and that the people previously running the asylum were doing a good job.
Gender
Queering the Normal
This interview with Tilda Swinton is a delight on so many levels. I commend it to you without question. So much in there about the importance of art, and also the importance of not doing art, of just being. She's such a breath of fresh air, both cleansing
Capitalism
Owning a trampoline
One lockdown phenomena I've seen very little written about was the rapid spread of trampolines across suburbia. From my back garden there were four within hearing range, sproinging away and very occasionally falling into glorious synchronisation as eight small feet hit the springs at exactly the same time,
Cooperatives
Oikos and Co-operatives
Oikos, from the Greek for 'household', is a new term to me, and it's made up of letters arranged in such a way that it refuses to stick in my brain, so I'm having a bit of trouble getting my head around it, but
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Elinor Ostrom and the miracle of the commons
'The Tragedy of the Commons' is one of those terms that is often taken at face-value and assumed to be true. Humans, when left to their own devices, will consume and exploit everything they can until there is nothing left and they all die. The theory was devised