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 farming •  7 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.

you too!

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!

Holy moly am jealous of your farm!

We only have green house while yours is massive 😊

Well, welcome then, altho you've been here for a bit

Cheers,
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Thanks so much!! I built the green house myself on a very small budget because I needed it very badly to make my farm a reality. One of these days I'll write a post on how it was built. I think it could be built again in about a week with the proper know how and all the supplies ready.

A warm welcome to Steemit, Nick. This is a great community and I know you will have a great time here.
I want to invite you to join the discord channel #steemschools https://discord.gg/TaZFW5r and we will teach and support you to grow in the Steemit Community. We can also help you choose the right topic to attract readers, to use the right tags to get more visibility, how to make quality posts and comments on Steemit, how to sell your products, business strategies and tips on how to make more money on Steemit and in life.

Thanks! I'll check it out.

great farming work you have going on nice dreams you have done well so far so good. Years back a buddy and I looked into doing an earthworm farm to sell the compost and sell the breed the earthworms to sell for fishing. I see you don’t have a Steemit Profile Picture I made a contest post on the bottom it will teach you, then after you make yours feel free to enter the contest to create mine. https://steemit.com/contest/@isteemithard/design-isteemithard-a-profile-picture-avatar-contest-17-winner-of-16

Thanks man! I want to expand my worm composting operation when I get the TIME. :) I will check your contest out!

Hi! Welcome!

Welcome to Steemit, enjoy the community and have fun! =) Upvoted.

Blessings,
Shang

Hi Nick, welcome to Steem!

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Thanks!! I am very happy to be here.

Hello Nick! Good blog and good communication. I myself have a small agriculture. I live on another continent. I like your work.
An interesting idea with the spread of earthworms. I did not know that this could bring so much benefit.
Good luck in your business!

Thank you! I would highly recommend you check out the book "Teeming with Microbes" by Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis as well as youtube content by "David C. Johnson Ph. D." and the "Johnson Su Bioreactor" to learn more about earthworms and their ability to restore soils and increase yields. I appreciate the support!

Hi, Nick...quite the "Johnny Appleseed" feeling to your intro. Cool.

Welcome! It is so nice to have you here with us. Let me know if you have any questions, and I will try to help if I can. Good luck!

Thank you :)

No problem. Have fun!

Hi Nick, you seem pretty cool. :) How long have you played to guitar for?

About ten years. I played for a long time on the streets of New Orleans w/ a band and that helped me to develop my sound a lot. Now I just play to keep myself happy and sane. Haha. Thanks for the feedback! I appreciate it :)

That's cool! :) Keep doing what you do, people like you that put your heart into things you love makes the world a little brighter :)

Thanks that means a lot to me :) I am glad to be a part of a community who are supportive and inspiring.

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welcome @nickhans to Steemit, great intro, I am so on board with you re the worms, the soil is everything, that is what needs to be nurtured and protected. Really nice farm you have and was really good connecting with you on my post earlier, I look forward to following you x

Same to you! Thank you

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Wow. Never heard of this idea before, but it's definitely got my attention! Great to have you here @nickhans i'll definitely be following you from now :-)

Thanks!! I will write more about it soon.....

Welcome to Steemit, I hope you're enjoying this platform and community so far.

That's quite an interesting post, it's amazing that you have built everything on your farm by yourself.

Me and my family have a garden where we grow some fruits and veggies. :)

Have a great day!

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Good to see you on here!

Thanks for introducing me to Steem!!

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wow, I loved your article .. A pleasure, I'm new on this platform too and your article is one of the first I see and it's so good, I invite you to visit my profile, there I introduce myself.

Cool welcome to Steem! I will check your profile out ... Thanks for the support!

You seem really cool! Glad to have you on Steemit, where you are also changing the world. And you'll make a great part of TribeSteemUp! 🤗