Hello, My name is Nick Hans! I love to play music, and I think we can save the world with a handful of worms

in #farming6 years ago (edited)

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Hi folks! I've been a part of the Steem community for just about a month, and I have decided now is the perfect time to finally say what's up, and properly introduce myself on this wonderful platform.

I was born in Tennessee. I traveled extensively, and then I spent many years as a musician in New Orleans, Louisiana. Now I live in Taos NM, which is a small and beautiful town tucked away in the mountains of northern New Mexico.

I have a small farm right outside of town called Karhu Farms. I just relocated my farm from another location here in Taos. I built everything on this farm with my own two hands just this year! Karhu means bear in Finnish. We do have bears here, but I only have a picture of our farm, not a bear. Bears don't seem to like cameras too much.

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I dream big. I mean huge. By that, I mean I think that we can reclaim our food system AND reverse climate change,

And I believe we can do this through one simple thing:

Earthworms!

Let me explain. Earthworms create a microbial colony of bacteria and fungus. These bacteria and fungus can then be proliferated and spread onto the fields, where we can grow plentiful amounts of healthy, clean, and biologically active food.

These bacteria and fungus can hold water in place by the roots of our food, GREATLY reducing water consumption. This is very important in a dry climate like Taos, NM. And, most importantly, they can remove MORE carbon from the atmosphere than they create. That is called carbon sequestration.

Carbon is what turns soil black. The blacker soil gets, the more carbon you are removing from the atmosphere.

It has been estimated that if we, as a species, work together and put about 35% of our farmable land on the planet into this new (and also ancient) style of agriculture, we can REVERSE the output of CO2 by humanity, even while the big polluters continue polluting at the current rates.

That is HUGE, my friends. That means we have the power to work together and make this a reality. It puts the power of DIRECT ACTION in the hands of people like you and me. We don't have to beg and plead with big oil or anyone else to please stop, we can fight back on our own terms.

Playing good tunes, providing healthy and living food to my community, and SAVING the damn planet with a bunch of earthworms, that is exactly what I want to do with my life and what I plan to share with you.

Please join me on my journey to make this a reality on my farm as well as others around northern New Mexico and the entire, beautiful planet Earth.

Thank you for following me on Steem. Here is a video of me playing a song I wrote called "Bottle of Grain". I hope you enjoy it! I love to play music and Steem seems like and excellent platform to spread my songs to a wider audience.

THANKS for reading this!!

-Nick Hans

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A pleasure, I'm new on this platform, I invite you to visit my profile, there I introduce myself.

A very warm welcome to you Nick Hans

A pleasure, I'm new on this platform too, I invite you to visit my profile, there I introduce myself.

Welcome to Steemit! You will do well here! Upvoted!!

thank you!!

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welcome to steemit.

I love worms!!!! Ha, hi, what a silly thing to greet someone with. but really, if you love worms, you're okay in my book. This is the third time I have heard of Tao this week - what's up with that place?? I'm going to have to investigate....

Welcome to steemit! xx

Haha. Yep tellin' it like it is my friend :) Taos is pretty great. Just a little town, tucked away in the desert, and admittedly isolated from the rest of the world :). "Desert" is a relative term. This is High Desert, and it is actually quite green here. It snows alot in the winter and we have world famous skiing, and people also come here in the summer because it is so beautiful and temperate. There is a culture here that dates back thousands of years, the Taos Pueblo Indian, or Tewa, Or Red Willow people. I will write about my experience working with them at some point. There is also a Hispanic culture here that dates back many generations, somewhere around 500 years. So many people consider a trip to Taos like traveling back in time in a lot of ways. It is a warm and friendly place and I would really recommend taking a trip up here if you ever get a chance!

And Natalie Goldberg, whose quotes and work I share often here on Steem lives there! ;) I'm DEFINITELY gonna have to check out Taos!

yeah to worms I'm with you both on this one xx

Greetings, nickhans! Best wishes for a very wonderful journey here in this culturally diversified yet mostly unified community :) Be happy

By the way, there are several groups you as a newcomer can join. They will stay with you for your journey, helping and mentoring along the way.

@greetersguild invite link https://discord.gg/AkzNSKx
@newbieresteemday invite link https://discord.gg/2ZcAxsU

Thanks! I will check these out

I play guitar and eat from my gardens. Worms do help. Nice to meet you.

Nice fingerpicking there! Who are your favourite players?

Oh man! So many. Blind Blake, Papa Charlie Jackson, Johnny St. Cyr, Eddie Lang, Lonnie Johnson to name a few. Love the old stuff. Thanks, glad you liked it!

Absolutely, would love listening to more! I have been into fingerstyle for a couple of years, still working on the technique and trying to emulate my idols, Chet Atkins and Tommy Emmanuel first :)

Chet Atkins is Amazing

It's thanks to him if we have modern fingerstyle after all.. His "boom-chick" is legendary!

Hey i hope you have been enjoy it here :D

thanks I have for sure!

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