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May. 25th, 2023 09:01 amTina Turner has left the stage. An unexpected side-effect of all the radio stations playing her songs in tribute is that I now have the phrase shrimply the best stuck in my head to the tune of “Simply the Best.”
We also lost no-till farmer, researcher and soil conservationist Dave Brandt this week. I learnt this from a Tumblr meme, which is also the medium through which I’d initially learnt of Dave Brandt in the first place-- he’s the farmer in a popular gif captioned “It ain’t much, but it’s honest work." It really was honest work – he’d been experimenting with and promoting ecologically-sustainable farming methods since the 1970s.
We also lost no-till farmer, researcher and soil conservationist Dave Brandt this week. I learnt this from a Tumblr meme, which is also the medium through which I’d initially learnt of Dave Brandt in the first place-- he’s the farmer in a popular gif captioned “It ain’t much, but it’s honest work." It really was honest work – he’d been experimenting with and promoting ecologically-sustainable farming methods since the 1970s.