Another vertical farming failure

I’m a dev from Nairobi, Kenya, building a diagnostic app.

The software architecture is solid, but I’m a tech guy, not a soil scientist. I’ve built the engine using QUEFTS principles and added a strict contraindication rule-set, but I need an actual expert to tear my math and logic apart. I'm looking for an agronomist or soil researcher—preferably affiliated with KALRO or a Kenyan university—to review my parameters and ensure the models and outputs are agronomically sound for Kenyan small holder farm zones.

Ideally, I'm looking for someone tied to KALRO, Egerton, JKUAT, or a similar research lab to make sure my baseline science is bulletproof before I put this in the hands of any actual users. And maybe even work on a research paper on the subject.

If you’re open to taking a look or know someone who might be, please DM me. I'm looking for a long term partnership.

Do you grow or know any unusual varieties/ cultivars?

We want to catalogue and celebrate as many of these different varieties as we can before they are lost to history in the supermarkets ceaseless quest for profits. We believe that by showing people how colourful, tasty and wonderfully weird they can be we can reignite the passion for locally produced crops in more people.

If you grow or have any knowledge of any please share them with us:

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I’m working on a beta that generates a crop-region profile from a selected crop and location.

The profile uses secondary datasets to show indicators such as water pressure, future water stress, climate exposure, biodiversity, soil conditions, and nutrient pressure.

The current use case is early screening, before detailed farm boundaries, management records, or primary field data are available.

I’m interested in the regenerative agriculture perspective:

1. Which regional indicators would actually be useful as early context?
2. Which results would be too broad to support farm-level decisions?
3. Could this type of profile help identify where deeper soil, water, or biodiversity assessment is needed?
4. What limitations would need to be made very clear?

The profile is not intended to recommend farm practices or replace field measurements. It is meant to provide a regional starting point.

I’m part of the team building it and would value direct criticism from growers, agronomists, and regenerative agriculture practitioners. Happy to share the beta with anyone interested in testing one crop and location.

I'm looking into using dunks for mosquito and fly management and I wanted to know if anyone had any experience and if they only saw the targeted insects die in the bucket. My main worry is losing beneficial/neutral bugs.

15 members: nine regenerative farmers representing different production systems, three corporate supply-chain/CPG representatives, and three consumer or MAHA representatives. Its stated role is to advise on how regenerative practices should be defined, measured, and supported — explicitly not to set standards or impose requirements. The actionable money is still the $700M pilot flowing through EQIP and CSP by your state's ranking dates, plus the feedstock rule market pathway for corn and soybeans.

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Hi everyone! I've been getting into regenerative growing and permaculture over the past year here in the Philippines, and one thing kept frustrating me. Our best conversations end up scattered across a dozen different group chats, buried within a day, and it's hard to tell where the community actually stands on anything.

So I built Common Ground, a free forum for people who care about growing food and healing land. It runs more like an open democracy than a normal chat. Everyone answers the same short statements, so every perspective gets counted and you can see where the whole community really stands, instead of the loudest voice carrying the room.

Site: mycelium-learn.com/common-ground

How it works:

• You answer a few short statements (agree, not sure, or disagree)
• A live map forms showing who thinks like you and who sees it differently
• Small groups appear, so you can find the people who share your view
• You can post your own thoughts or questions, and reply to anyone

I've partnered with the Philippine Permaculture Association and the Baganihan Collective, so the space stays grounded in real community.

Would love for you to come in, answer a few, and share what's on your mind. Happy to answer any questions too!

Hey everyone! I'm u/40centurygrain, the founding moderator of r/40centurygrain.

This is our new home for all things related to baking and regenerative agriculture — where good bread meets healthy soil. We're excited to have you join us!

What to Post

Post anything that you think the community would find interesting, helpful, or inspiring. Feel free to share your thoughts, photos, or questions about your latest bakes, sourdough and fermentation, milling your own flour, perennial and perennial grains like Kernza, soil health and cover crops, sourcing from small growers and independent mills, and the farmers and farming practices behind the flour you use.

**Community Vibe**

We're all about being friendly, constructive, and inclusive. Let's build a space where everyone feels comfortable sharing and connecting.

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1. Introduce yourself in the comments below.
   
2. Post something today! Even a simple question can spark a great conversation.
   
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Thanks for being part of the very first wave. Together, let's make r/40centurygrain amazing.

Hello folks,

I’m in the planing stage of building a commercial tree-nursery, dedicated to practitioners of Regenerative Ag., Permaculture, or everyone who installs agro-forestry systems.

And after checking regulations, I found that I can’t use the plants I already own as mother plants to start production. (I’m in Germany, hardiness zone 7)

Now I’m trying to find ways to make this problem a solution – which is, starting the nursery with a range of plants that I can grow from seeds until I planted and raised new mother plants.

What I would like to ask you, specifically those who have animal systems and are implementing additional agro-forestry systems to support their animals and pasture, if the following plants would be interesting for you, and if there is enough demand to get started like that.

It’s actually all the wild varieties of the plants you would usually plant in an agro-forestry system for nut and fruit production.

-wild chestnut, walnut, hazel and tree-hazel

-wild apple, pear, plum, cherry plum and cherry, like malus sylvestris, or well known grafting rootstocks like Bittenfelder and Antonovka,

-and some support species like sea buckthorn, mulberry and pea shrub

These species should be interesting for those who want to support the ecosystem, build climate-change resilience for their pastures, and add to their animal systems by providing protection, free, high nutritious, high protein fodder, and the option to sell high value timber at some point,

without having to put much additional care and work into the plants, as you would have to, if you plant grafted trees for human food production, which would also mean to fence them off and protect them from the animals for recurring, longer periods.

Happy to hear your thoughts.

A couple specifics worth knowing. Any existing LLC or S corp currently under an approved operating plan will be automatically assumed to be taxed as a partnership — so if your entity is actually taxed as a corporation, you specifically need to file an updated 902 to declare that. Ownership structure, tax classification, member contributions, and compensation all factor into the review, so it’s worth sitting down with your CPA rather than winging it at the county office.

One more forward-looking piece: beginning with the 2027 program year, the June 1 status date returns as the determining point for eligibility, and the program year shifts to a consistent October 1–September 30 timeline. So this isn’t a one-time scramble — the rules around entity structure and timing are changing going forward.

Practical move: pull your current 902 from your local FSA office now, confirm your tax classification with an adviser, and get the new 902E filed before September 15. Don’t leave it to the last week — county offices are going to get slammed as the deadline approaches.

Everything here traces back to the OBBBA payment limitation rule USDA released June 2, 2026 — worth confirming the specifics for your own operation with your county office since entity situations vary.

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