Speaking about no-till gardening at the library
There are a few people
in my life I just can't say no to, so when our
local librarian asked me to give a talk to their Friends of the Library
group, I hemmed and I hawed, but I finally agreed. I didn't
announce it here because I figured a smaller group would be less scary,
but
Mark did record the audio to share with our readers after the
fact.
The sound quality is low
because the only electrical plug
was at the back of the room, but some of you might enjoy listening
anyway. You can either download the file (on the large side) or
listen below:
Sorry, long distance
readers don't get free Egyptian onions, nor do they get to partake of
the amazing spread the library patrons brought to share. But
maybe you'll still get a kick out of hearing me proselytizing about no-till
gardening.
Edited to add: Roland did some fancy computer work and filtered out most of the obnoxious buzz, so the file should now sound much better. Thanks, Roland!
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Mom --- I know you would have liked to have seen it live, and I almost invited you --- I'm glad you enjoyed listening online at least! You would have really liked the Friends of the Library (and librarians) there.
St. Paul does have a farmer's market, but it's small. When we have extra, we prefer to just give it away....
They have discovered another benefit of mycorrhizal networks, communication between plants to warn of damaging insects:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22462855
Well done. The talk is nicely structured and well presented. It sounds like you've done public speaking before?
The sound could stand some improvement as you say. There is a noticable 60 Hz note in there from the recording device or maybe nearby AC powered equipment. As a learning experience I wrote a program that can remove that tone and applies a low- and high-frequency filter. I'll mail you a filtered sample of the talk.
For those who are interested, an explanation of how I did this can be found here.
your blab is one of my favorite things to listen to.
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