A six-device-in-one landscape barrier, comprises: a barrier, a end-wing molded to the barrier for saving materials during manufacturing, being half of the length of comparable prior art and saving money for consumers by requiring less overlap at the ends of the landscape barriers and preventing animals from digging beneath the landscape barrier, when inserted into the soil vertically and bending to create a variety of corner angles, corner-angling holes cut out from the barrier for lockingly supporting a garden-plant cage and promoting bending of the end-wing to form a variety of corner angles, tongue-locking openings cut out from the end-wing, barrier-locking tongues molded to the end-wing for saving materials during manufacturing, being half of the length of comparable prior art and saving money for consumers by requiring less overlap at the two barrier ends of the landscape barriers and securely supporting solar-stake-mounted lights or a trellis for vines or climbing plants or an umbrella pole or a sprinkler head or drip line and securely connecting multiple landscape barriers together by inserting through the tongue-locking opening and wrapping over the top or under the bottom of the barrier and securely locking multiple landscape barriers together by inserting through the tongue-locking openings, wrapping in the opposite direction through the corner-angling holes, and again through the tongue-locking opening and anchoring the landscape barrier into soil and protecting garden plants from animals and saving materials during manufacturing, being half of the length of comparable prior art and saving money for consumers by requiring less overlap at the ends of the landscape barriers, a fold-over ridge folded from the top of the material-saving barrier for connecting the ridge of one landscape barrier to the ridge of an another landscape barrier to create a shield to protect garden plants from animals and to create a shield to protect saplings from animals and to create a shield to protect trees from animals and to create a barrier to protect garden vegetation from animals and to create a tonneau cover of a truck bed and providing a guide for the end-wing to slide into, at least one serpentine stake punched out of the barrier for frictionally anchoring the stake into soil by providing a serpentine stake shape and securing the landscape barrier into soil on an inclined or level surface and piercing into soil angledly or vertically, root-gripping tunnels punched out of the barrier for saving materials during manufacturing by stamping out the stake from the barrier and saving time and energy costs when the stake is stored within the root-gripping tunnel during

A system for growing plants, the system may include a substrate having one or more weakened areas or openings: one or more grow portions coupled to the substrate and situated at the one or more weakened areas or openings and having at least one seed or plant; and/or a fluid distribution portion coupled to the substrate and configured to provide fluid to the one or more grow portions. The system may further include a method of operation including one or more acts of: obtaining a weather forecast for a future time period; determining whether rain is expected during the future time period; and preventing, terminating, or restricting an irrigation cycle when it is determined that rain is expected during the future time period. The restricting may restrict a flow of liquid during the irrigation cycle or shorten the irrigation interval.

A system for growing plants, the system may include a substrate having one or more weakened areas or openings: one or more grow portions coupled to the substrate and situated at the one or more weakened areas or openings and having at least one seed or plant; and/or a fluid distribution portion coupled to the substrate and configured to provide fluid to the one or more grow portions. The system may further include a method of operation including one or more acts of: obtaining a weather forecast for a future time period; determining whether rain is expected during the future time period; and preventing, terminating, or restricting an irrigation cycle when it is determined that rain is expected during the fare time period. The restricting may restrict a flow of liquid during the irrigation cycle or shorten the irrigation interval.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a humidity and temperature control system for use in the outdoor cultivation of fruits, as typically found in an orchard setting, with the additional aid of a sunshade. Embodiments include a climate control system with an efficient and controlled introduction of water vapor into an outdoor orchard employing a plurality of fogging type nozzles, coupled with an overarching porous solar shade enclosure.

The present disclosure relates to a plastic laminate for covering agricultural crops. The plastic laminate includes an upper film having a plurality of upper film holes, and a bottom film having a plurality of bottom film holes. In use, the plastic laminate is arranged over a tunnel frame to form a greenhouse. The bottom film holes are arranged higher than neighbouring upper film holes. The present disclosure also relates to greenhouses that are made from such plastic laminates and also methods for manufacturing plastic laminates for covering agricultural crops.

This disclosure relates to agricultural canopies used primarily to control the amount of light and/or moisture and/or heat reaching growing plants within the canopy footprint. More specifically, it relates to mechanisms for pulling a flexible canopy over a support structure and then for removing the canopy to uncover the structure and the plants below. The mechanisms include an arm mounted rotationally on a base. When the arm is rotated in one direction the canopy is pulled over the support structure and when the arm is rotated in the other direction the canopy is pulled off the support structure.

A garden protection system includes a frame operable to suspend a shade cloth over a garden bed to protect underlying plants in the garden bed from inclement weather, and a housing mounted to the frame and comprising a moisture detector, a roller system, circuitry, a motor, a pulley system, a power supply, and a solar panel. The shade cloth is wrapped about the roller system, and the roller system is rotatably coupled to the pulley system. The moisture detector is operable to detect said inclement weather, and to automatically direct the motor to rotate the pulley system. And, the pulley system is operable to rotate the roller system to roll the shade cloth along a side of the garden protection system via roller brackets that are slidably affixed to the frame.

A garden protection system includes a frame operable to suspend a shade cloth over a garden bed to protect underlying plants in the garden bed from inclement weather, and a housing mounted to the frame and comprising a moisture detector, a roller system, circuitry, a motor, a pulley system, a power supply, and a solar panel. The shade cloth is wrapped about the roller system, and the roller system is rotatably coupled to the pulley system. The moisture detector is operable to detect said inclement weather, and to automatically direct the motor to rotate the pulley system. And, the pulley system is operable to rotate the roller system to roll the shade cloth along a side of the garden protection system via roller brackets that are slidably affixed to the frame.

A method for processing animal products, in particular products from poultry farming, includes: a) chemically treating by placing collected waste in contact with an ammonia-based buffer with a pH of at least 8; b) heating the material resulting from step a) in a humid medium to a temperature of at least 70 C.; c) separating the organic matter and inorganic matter in the presence of water from the material resulting from step b), then separated collection of (i) the liquid fraction having the inorganic matter, and (ii) the solid fraction having the organic matter; and d) adding the liquid fraction resulting from step c (ii), having the inorganic matter, in a basin filled with water held in a controlled manner at a setpoint temperature ranging from 20 C. to 42 C., preferably from 28 C. to 35 C., in which a protein-rich plant or bacterium is cultivated, in particular microalgae or cyanobacteria, preferably spirulina.

Non woven fabrics including at least one nonwoven layer comprising a plurality of fibers comprising a polymeric material having a melt flow rate (MFR) of less than about 40 g/10 min according to ASTM D1238 (2.16 kg at 230 C.) are provided. The plurality of fibers includes (i) one or more ultraviolet radiation protective agents (UVPA), and (ii) one or more inorganic pigments comprising an inert coating thereon.