Nathan Nelson
@nathannelson.bsky.social
Devon-dwelling biophiliac. Food systems (Food Studies Masters student at University of Exeter), farming and agroecology, trees, nature connection, cack-handed gardening, movies, dog servitude. Living in the liminal.
Belated happy foil trays of disgusting looking food day, USA.
a woman is standing in front of a brick wall with her arms outstretched and the words `` take cover '' written on it .
ALT: a woman is standing in front of a brick wall with her arms outstretched and the words `` take cover '' written on it .
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November 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Belated happy foil trays of disgusting looking food day, USA.
The Costa at my mum's local hospital now has touch screens confronting you when you enter, asking for orders, so the staff now have more orders than they can make, meaning a bigger queue. Technology making lives easier, eh.
I still remember getting a tea from the ladies in the WRVS kiosk.
I still remember getting a tea from the ladies in the WRVS kiosk.
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The Costa at my mum's local hospital now has touch screens confronting you when you enter, asking for orders, so the staff now have more orders than they can make, meaning a bigger queue. Technology making lives easier, eh.
I still remember getting a tea from the ladies in the WRVS kiosk.
I still remember getting a tea from the ladies in the WRVS kiosk.
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France plans to spend $150 million to rip out grape vines due to wine industry woes from increasing heat, drought, etc
Yet planting rows of trees around vines can drought- & heat-proof them while keeping production up w/o irrigation
I reported about this #agroforestry solution in southern France:
Yet planting rows of trees around vines can drought- & heat-proof them while keeping production up w/o irrigation
I reported about this #agroforestry solution in southern France:
Better wines among the pines: Agroforestry can climate-proof grapes, French researchers show
MONTPELLIER, France — As the world warms due to climate change, winemakers are struggling to maintain the quality of their product. But in the home of wine, agroforestry researchers are showing that g...
news.mongabay.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
France plans to spend $150 million to rip out grape vines due to wine industry woes from increasing heat, drought, etc
Yet planting rows of trees around vines can drought- & heat-proof them while keeping production up w/o irrigation
I reported about this #agroforestry solution in southern France:
Yet planting rows of trees around vines can drought- & heat-proof them while keeping production up w/o irrigation
I reported about this #agroforestry solution in southern France:
Never gets old, this. Like the first shoots of spring. Bloop! And coffee is born.
November 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Never gets old, this. Like the first shoots of spring. Bloop! And coffee is born.
Hey if you've been on social media for years and you've avoided being radicalised, high five. Give yourself a pat on the back.
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Hey if you've been on social media for years and you've avoided being radicalised, high five. Give yourself a pat on the back.
Trials using ectomycorrhizal fungi to support tree establishment in Scotland. I had to look up ectomycorrhizal fungi, I think they're mycorrhizal fungi that have seen Ghostbusters. When tree planting I always use Rootgrow mycorrhizal fungi granules. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2551605...
How mushroom-powered trees are growing Scotland's future forests
Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) is turning to fungi to help grow the forests of the future
www.heraldscotland.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Trials using ectomycorrhizal fungi to support tree establishment in Scotland. I had to look up ectomycorrhizal fungi, I think they're mycorrhizal fungi that have seen Ghostbusters. When tree planting I always use Rootgrow mycorrhizal fungi granules. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2551605...
The South West Grain Network, a group of like-minded growers, millers, bakers and others hoping to build an alternative grain economy in the South West, has a new home for their newsletter: southwestgrainnetwork.substack.com #FoodStudies
South West Grain Network | Substack
We are a community of South West bakers, millers, farmers, growers, brewers, chefs and supporters who are taking active steps into an alternative grain economy, one that is human scale, non-commodity ...
southwestgrainnetwork.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The South West Grain Network, a group of like-minded growers, millers, bakers and others hoping to build an alternative grain economy in the South West, has a new home for their newsletter: southwestgrainnetwork.substack.com #FoodStudies
This was a gorgeous thing.
Lovely to see that Lemn Sissay's gorgeous winter walk to Dent Station is being repeated on BBC4 again tonight.
BBC Four - Winter Walks, Series 1, Lemn Sissay
Lemn Sissay journeys into a world of snow-capped hills, blue skies and birdsong.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This was a gorgeous thing.
I think less of an entire area if nobody bothered to mark a business as closed on Google Maps after three years. Seems like a failure of collective effort.
November 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I think less of an entire area if nobody bothered to mark a business as closed on Google Maps after three years. Seems like a failure of collective effort.
Picked up new glasses on Sunday. Bent them sitting on them today. That's a new personal best.
November 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Picked up new glasses on Sunday. Bent them sitting on them today. That's a new personal best.
I'm not saying our dog gives her love easily but she once ran off looking for a DHL driver who showed her a bit of love. She's currently got separation anxiety for my mother, who has temporarily gone upstairs.
November 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I'm not saying our dog gives her love easily but she once ran off looking for a DHL driver who showed her a bit of love. She's currently got separation anxiety for my mother, who has temporarily gone upstairs.
Wessex Mill is doing 15% off flour until tonight in Black Friday-type deals I can get behind wessexmill.co.uk/shop/
November 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Wessex Mill is doing 15% off flour until tonight in Black Friday-type deals I can get behind wessexmill.co.uk/shop/
Got chatting with the chap who was minding our dog at doggy daycare today, I think he usually works on the farm. We talked farms. I said I'd been farming over in the East. He said he went East once when they had a fodder shortage. Weird the size of the fields, he said. 60 acres some of them.
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Got chatting with the chap who was minding our dog at doggy daycare today, I think he usually works on the farm. We talked farms. I said I'd been farming over in the East. He said he went East once when they had a fodder shortage. Weird the size of the fields, he said. 60 acres some of them.
Two more response papers to write this term, and it feels like this particular module has entirely gone over my head. I've struggled from the beginning to engage with it, and I'll be glad to see the back of it. Ah, well.
November 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Two more response papers to write this term, and it feels like this particular module has entirely gone over my head. I've struggled from the beginning to engage with it, and I'll be glad to see the back of it. Ah, well.
Currently in a 'could eat a handful of Lindor in one go' kind of place.
November 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Currently in a 'could eat a handful of Lindor in one go' kind of place.
A friend has gone to Jamaica to support Hurricane Melissa recovery efforts. Was delighted to find her husband had never heard the old joke
"Kirsten's gone to the Caribbean to support Hurricane Melissa recovery efforts"
"Jamaica?"
"No, she went of her own accord"
"Kirsten's gone to the Caribbean to support Hurricane Melissa recovery efforts"
"Jamaica?"
"No, she went of her own accord"
a cartoon monkey wearing a pirate hat and crossbones playing drums
ALT: a cartoon monkey wearing a pirate hat and crossbones playing drums
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:03 AM
A friend has gone to Jamaica to support Hurricane Melissa recovery efforts. Was delighted to find her husband had never heard the old joke
"Kirsten's gone to the Caribbean to support Hurricane Melissa recovery efforts"
"Jamaica?"
"No, she went of her own accord"
"Kirsten's gone to the Caribbean to support Hurricane Melissa recovery efforts"
"Jamaica?"
"No, she went of her own accord"
Do you have to be using the spray at the same exact time
Sex, or just touching your partner, seems to help wounds heal faster by reducing stress - but only if combined with a nasal oxytocin spray.
Sex could help wounds heal faster by reducing stress
Mild wounds healed faster if people took a spray containing the "love hormone" oxytocin and set aside time to praise their partner – but they cleared up even quicker if these individuals were also intimate with their other half
www.newscientist.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Do you have to be using the spray at the same exact time
Convinced I'd lost my wallet, just searched the car and marched Mrs N down the road to retrace my footsteps from this morning's dog walk, about to cancel all my cards then found said wallet in the trousers I was wearing yesterday and how are you this morning
November 24, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Convinced I'd lost my wallet, just searched the car and marched Mrs N down the road to retrace my footsteps from this morning's dog walk, about to cancel all my cards then found said wallet in the trousers I was wearing yesterday and how are you this morning
"Too many to put here" 🤌🏻
November 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
"Too many to put here" 🤌🏻
Still the best Trek movie, in fact, sod it, it's going on again this afternoon.
Star Trek: First Contact was released 29 years ago today.
We'll be soon halfway between the film's release and First Contact Day (2063). 😄
We'll be soon halfway between the film's release and First Contact Day (2063). 😄
November 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Still the best Trek movie, in fact, sod it, it's going on again this afternoon.
The new nature versus nurture - was that person always deep down a nasty piece of work or were they radicalised by social media, OK, basically Twitter, and you only now see their true character?
November 21, 2025 at 10:58 AM
The new nature versus nurture - was that person always deep down a nasty piece of work or were they radicalised by social media, OK, basically Twitter, and you only now see their true character?
#Dartmoor people, this training is really enjoyable, and really useful.
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#RuralSkills #Devon
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#RuralSkills #Devon
November 20, 2025 at 11:39 AM
#Dartmoor people, this training is really enjoyable, and really useful.
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#RuralSkills #Devon
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#RuralSkills #Devon
A snow-dusted good morning.
November 20, 2025 at 8:05 AM
A snow-dusted good morning.
If Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights was made in 2025
I regret to inform you that generative AI is now good. Please update your records.
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Town's Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly Chthonic Horrors
An enormous new mural near London, depicting a crowded Christmas scene, has drawn outrage and mockery from passersby.
futurism.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
If Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights was made in 2025
Someone is offering some logs on Freecycle. I've asked them what species. I hope they don't think I'm being a dick.
November 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Someone is offering some logs on Freecycle. I've asked them what species. I hope they don't think I'm being a dick.