ZambiaRoots

Christian, Soil Scientist, Root Enthusiast

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2025-04-23 14:34:29

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It is pretty awesome. The river is full of the.

2025-03-19 06:22:22

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I always think of this as the philosophy doom loop. We can't grasp metaphysical truths without cohesive epistemology and we can't arrive at a cohesive epistemology without some metaphysical assumptions. It is because of this that reading the big folks like Plato, Descartes, Anselm, etc... is so enjoyable. It's MMA for the mind.

2025-03-18 11:51:29

Don’t Tread on My Idol
“Don’t tread on me,” is an essentially American saying, and in the face of fighting a tyrannical force, or defending ones home may actually be a good saying, but often it is an idolatrous saying. Augustine says we must love self or love God. Don’t tread on me naturally tips toward self love. There is almost certainly a justifiable case for Christians to defend that statement, “Don't tread on me.” But more often than not, it is steeped in the idolatry of self, that my liberty and rights are to be beloved above all else.

2025-03-14 10:07:18

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Nice. Is there an address or location down there associated with Bitcoin Victoria Falls? I'd like to stop by if/when I make it to Livingstone again.

2025-03-14 09:20:42

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Are you in Livingstone?

2025-03-14 09:20:23

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Lusaka (Ibex Hill Area)

2025-03-14 06:09:15

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"The public is advised to remain calm when visiting Banco Unión S.A" translation: Remian calm as we take your stuff.

2025-03-14 06:06:23

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I'm missing something here. It seems to me that living outnthe sermon on the mount in our own lives and communities is an act of politcial engagement.

2025-03-14 05:32:01

Thought provoking podcast on economic development. Conversations like this always make me consider the value of my own work teaching and mentoring in Zambia.
https://fountain.fm/episode/qYkEIJRiyupAWKDVfFn7
#TGFB #Devoplment

2025-03-03 16:51:10

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There might be more important things to spend time on.

2025-02-27 18:54:05

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Awesome. Ill check it out.

2025-02-17 12:53:20

Interesting article on N loss from maize and wheat systems. Of the environmental issues facing humans I think fertilizer pollution of water is a most interesting case. It is a concrete example of negative externalities. Because of the pollution is non-point source it is extremely hard to track. This problem challenges my libertarian leanings. It seems like a situation where a free market results in a degraded ecosystem.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01542-x
#environment #agriculture #farmstr #research

2025-02-15 18:56:23

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Great photos Are these bee eaters?

2025-02-14 18:01:03

Teaching micrscopes this week. Hands on teaching of techniques never gets old.
https://m.primal.net/OgCm.jpg

2025-02-14 09:18:01

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Amen to that. We love having chickens.

2025-02-12 14:42:07

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This is wonderful

2025-02-12 06:35:31

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Same here. What did Swan do?

2025-02-11 18:18:19

The bank of Zambia will now be introducing notes of K200 and K500. Previously K100 was the largest note. #inflation #fiat https://diggers.news/business/2025/02/11/boz-introduces-new-money-k200-k500-notes-to-hit-the-market/
https://m.primal.net/ObNJ.jpg

2025-02-11 15:03:37

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They are truely amazing. I love this picture of some soil I pulled out of a pit in Washington some.years ago. Its got worm channels and worm castings if you look close enough. The faremr was using no-till production methods.
https://m.primal.net/ObAt.jpg

2025-02-11 08:49:41

Just sharing memes from my LinkedIn. #farmstr #soil #vermiculite #permiculture
https://m.primal.net/OafH.jpg

2025-02-11 05:51:25

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kelp not elp

2025-02-08 17:10:12

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Same here. I'm always looking for good agriculture and soils info.

2025-02-08 15:52:32

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I might move back to the US if that happens.

2025-02-08 12:41:25

If states adopt BTC before the federal gov will it rebalance power to the states?

2025-02-07 17:11:39

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Heart breaking to think babbies are born there.

2025-02-07 09:51:49

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I love this verse. I reference it when i teach nutrient cycling.
Genesis 3:19 ESV
[19] By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
https://bible.com/bible/59/gen.3.19.ESV

2025-02-05 18:25:53

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AMF is amazing stuff. Drought tolerance, improved Zn and P uptake, improved soil aggregation, and I'm sure a many more functions we don't know about. I'm always a little skeptical of commercial inoculums, but glad to hear its working well.

2025-02-05 18:11:28

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I wish Picknpay in Lusaka would do the same. I shop there at least once a week.

2025-02-05 18:10:29

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Awesome!

2025-02-05 13:34:04

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Agreed, I'm still mostly using LinkedIn for keeping up on new research and ideas I'm interested in.

2025-02-05 13:31:40

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I love making a camping latte with these.

2025-02-05 05:34:37

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Thats great. Sounds pretty similar to the NRCS methods when they are classifying soils. I think more of these characteristics need considered in the whole soil health discussion. Pulling a few pounds of soil and sending them to a lab for something like the Haney Soil Health test is almost never satisfactory for me.

2025-02-04 20:08:41

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What methods do you use on the morphology? Are you mostly looking at texture and structure by depth?

2025-02-04 05:55:11

I frequently consider this quewstion. "Why is Africa poor?" Here is one answer by @npub1rc6…cwq5. I think this is only part ofnthe answer but Im interested in hearing other thoughts.
https://freeblackthought.substack.com/cp/156391441
TL;DR its a lack of economic freedom.

2025-02-03 18:09:23

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More content like this.

2025-02-03 14:41:08

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🤦‍♂️ my pocket wrote this one and I cant delete.

2025-02-03 14:32:44

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gmlm

2025-02-03 05:56:37

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I only keep FB for marketplace. You can still find good used cars.

2025-02-03 05:55:53

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This is my question too

2025-02-01 16:43:35

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Of course its an Idaho farmer that does this.

2025-01-31 14:25:23

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I'm working on helping a friend get a black soldier fly farm started for producing chicken feed.

2025-01-31 14:09:19

Where can I buy USDT on Lightning preferably.using a visa credit card or US bank ACH? Other than Strike. Strike is not working with my US bank account.

2025-01-31 06:15:18

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Agreed. Physical, creative, and intellectual.

2025-01-31 06:07:54

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I think MDPI journals are pretty much pay to publish.

2025-01-31 05:54:34

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Thanks for posting this. You've inspired me to re-read this The Unsettling. This topic of farm size is one of great interest to me, and one on which I ultimately lack a satisfactory answer for myself. I have worked with many sizes of farm from market gardens to large corporate crop farms. At every scale I have seen creation mistreated and well loved. In principle I am pro-technology and anti government intervention.
It seems obvious to me that we need to cut the government and subsidies out of the agriculture system. In a previous life as an agronomist I observed a number of innovative practices that where effectively blocked because of crop insurance issues. This is just one of many ways in which gov intervention most likely harms more than it helps.
However, I find technology to be a much more difficult discussion. Synthetic fertilizers, dwarf/disease resistant crops, and tractors seem to push inexorably toward larger farms and less 'human eyes per acre'. It seems like this will happen even under free markets. While I love the idea of small farms I recognize some of the practicality of farming at a large scale, and I struggle with how to reconcile the two.
Thanks for posting about something other than BTC, nostr, or Trump.

2025-01-31 05:37:13

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This is super inspiring.

2025-01-30 19:46:23

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Why does everyone hate on LinkedIn? In my discipline its a nice plce for keeping up on the latest research. I cant find that content on nostr yet.

2025-01-30 11:21:08

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Not currently researching, but maybe i can put some.old papers up.

2025-01-30 08:35:17

I'm not sure if there are the soils nerds on nostr, but this is an interesting abstract on P in subtropical soils. Soil sampling and nutrient analysis is deep and not fully solved. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42729-024-02200-2 #farmstr #scistr

2025-01-29 21:48:39

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Awesome! We got 2 a few months ago and now got more flowers coming along.

2025-01-29 14:11:52

#foodstr brisket on a homemade barrel smoker.
https://m.primal.net/OGDa.jpg

2025-01-29 07:55:16

"The future is here. It just isnt equally distributed yet." Mark Andreessen said this on the Lex Fridman podcast. Nowhere brings this home like Lusaka. I ate a nice stake dinner with desert and drinks for 4 of us was around $100 US on the drive home we passesd through a neighborhood where $100 is a good monthly salary.

2025-01-28 10:49:05

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Very interesting. I am always trying to understand this. From my short time in Africa, it seems that the young Africans with entrepreneurial mindsets are almost punished for being entrepreneurial and then their success, unless it follows a very conventional route (e.g. bachelors to MD to doctor), is frowned upon. I am really trying to understand this phenomenon. Obviously there is so much more complexity, but these are a few observations I've made.

2025-01-27 22:35:05

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I've been using it for a few months, and it works reasonably well. It has replaced ChatGPT for me.

2025-01-27 21:04:27

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Awesome! Just added this relay.

2025-01-27 20:23:35

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I hope strike works to solve this, but I've got a similar problem that I can't figure out how to solve with strike. I have a similar situation. I live in Zambia, but I have a US bank account. If i want to send money to myself, I generally use Xoom. But Xoom offers bad exchange rates and fees. I have strike on my phone in Zambia, but because it's not a US strike account, I can not buy BTC on strike from my US bank account. I have the same issue with cashapp. The only reliable method has been to buy BTC with Venmo, then send it to strike, then cash out on the mobile money app here in Zambia. It's really cumbersome and annoying soningenerally just pay the fees and take the hit with Xoom

2025-01-27 13:32:35

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I believe in Christian education for my children, and I teach at a Christian university. However, the idea of the state mandating that the Bible be taught by people that potentially hate the word of God makes me uneasy. I am not sure why, but it does. I think, I would rather the students be given time to read the Bible on their own than have it explained by someone who doesn't believe.

2025-01-26 16:06:32

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Agreed. I think people get worried about curriculums and models of education without realizing homeschooling is about family culture. A family culture of curiosity, creativity, and discipline are far more important than curriculum.

2025-01-26 11:49:21

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My parents homeschooled me in the 90s. I am so thankful for their choice and sacrifice. I've definitely seen homeschooling go very wrong, but for me, it was great. I'm homeschooling my kids now.

2025-01-26 08:33:00

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Thanks for reading and responding, and suggesting. Cashapp locked me out since I moved to Zambia. I actually feel a bit rugged by cashapp. Ive still got some USD on cashapp, but they cant help me get it off even back to my US bank account.

2025-01-26 08:28:32

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Bitcoin does nothing, but is usefull for criminals... its sort of got to be one or the other.

2025-01-25 17:57:32

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We've been living in Zambia about a year. A muscian friend of ours publishes music on spotify and gets nothing uses @wavelake and she can pay her phone bills. Its a great way to support folks over here.

2025-01-25 05:50:14

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I listened to Citadel Dispatch with Jack, and I found what Jack was saying about the user experience so pertinent. I really want to use Nostr, but the experience seems slow and uninintuitive. I mostly use FreeFrom and Coracle on an android device.

2025-01-23 20:11:21

Just another day in Zambia #Zambia
https://link.storjshare.io/raw/jw3fracoepynuuwsgtyvaptgwd6a/production/ba2b31911d8032173b9881a0544125d88688e0d76c1aebc2e409b29235d0eeec.JPG

2024-12-19 17:42:29

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I wish this came up more in debates. Moving funds across borders is the BTC use case that's have proved the most valuable for me.

2024-12-14 09:22:00

How I use BTC in Zambia, and what challenges I still face. I am a native of the US, but I live and work in Zambia. However, I receive my salary in the US as USD. My primary form of payment Zambia is to Swipe a credit card and this works quite well most of the time, but occasionally I need to use cash or mobile money which is connected to the cell service provider here in Zambia. The options are to go to an ATM which works reasonably well, but but has associated fees and ATM machines occasionally run out of cash. I can move money from my bank to MoMo using a PayPal app called Xoom, but this app offers poor exchange rates and high fees. I have also used strike and it offers lower fees and much better exchange rates. I would use this method exclusively, but I cannot connect my US bank account to Strike as Strike is KYCed in the Zambia. What I need now is a reliable method to buy BTC directly on Lightning from my US bank account and then send to strike. Does anyone have recommendations? Coinbase does not work in Zambia. So even accessing my US coinbase is a challenge without a VPN.

2024-09-28 10:44:37

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I'm in Zambia. Strike is really convenient for sending to mobile money which is comonly used here. However, I can not deposit funds from my US bank account into strike. Under payment methods it only allows me to add mobile money.

2024-09-26 15:05:11

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I'm definitely checking this out next time I'm in Livingstone.

2024-09-13 07:53:34

A new tune out of Zambia. https://wavlake.com/track/1062c623-0760-4149-9fa0-48623d311c0a