With spring the plastic foils come out to protect the strawberies – from cold, rain, and even birds. Even the cherrytrees are covered once they start bearing fruit mainly because of the starlings. The good thing is that after the harvest the tarps are rolled … Continue reading Agriculture and Plastic
Obviously these honeycomb structures are some kind of greenhouse. I don’t know how they work since they are open on the ground and open to the top. I also don’t know for what kind of crop. The bad news is: it is a kind of synthetic material or plastic. The good news is: the material is usually rolled up when no longer needed and brought out again the year after.
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Silent Sunday
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It’s plastic, all right, but WHAT is it?
Bales of hay, wrapped up for storage. It seems to be a good way to do that or why else would one see them everywhere? Non-agriculturally minded me is wondering though, if the plastic is really necessary?
Linked to Friday Fun: Plastic.
I am not a modern major general but:
animal & vegetable
vegetable & plastic
very vegetable
vegetable & mineral
mineral
vegetable
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: texture.
The stone pattern is on a Roman pillar found in a villa rustica dating back to the Romans in the Odenwald.
More textured photos are only a click away.
A world without plastic?
A world without plastic?
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: things made out of plastic. For more plastic inspired photos, click here.
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