Soil Biology
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How to Make a Compost Tea Brewer for Under $30
This video makes two things clear: We don’t need to spend thousands of dollars to make a compost tea brewer…
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Everything You Need to Know About Composting With Worms
by Rob Avis Following my recent blog post on the Do-It-Yourself Vermipod, I’ve been receiving a ton of questions from…
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Keeping Cattle: Cause or Cure for Climate Crisis?
We’ve run posts on Alan Savory’s Holistic Management a few times (here, here and here for example), but for those…
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Organic? Biological? Natural Farming?
Part I 7 week Border King maize produced with grass humus There are many articles now written about organic farming…
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Holistic Management Amongst Ted Talks’ “Ads Worth Sharing” Competition Winners
This common sense, holistic approach is indeed worth sharing. With this competition, we’re seeking to reverse the trend of online…
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Sustainable World Radio Interview with Doug Weatherbee: Life Within the Soil, Part II
If you missed it, be sure to check out Part I of this interview, and then come back to this…
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Sustainable World Radio Interview with Doug Weatherbee: Life Within the Soil, Part I
I had the pleasure of meeting Doug Weatherbee at Geoff Lawton’s PDC course at Quail Springs in California in August…
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Saving our Soils and How the Old Peach Tree was Brought Back to Life
by Niki Neave It’s not the soil itself — it’s the soil life that is the most important element. —…
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Biochar – Potential or Pitfall? Carbon Storage vs. Soil Quality
We’ve been having a pretty lively discussion on biochar in a recent post. One of the commenters, Rhamis Kent, found…
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Beware the Biochar Initiative
Turning bioenergy crops into buried charcoal to sequester carbon does not work, and could plunge the earth into an oxygen…
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Fast Hot Composting System
At Strawberry Fields Eco-Lodge (SFEL) we use a fast hot composting system that can deliver well decomposed compost within 3…
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Bio-Agriculture – a Solution to Climate Change
Carbon deficient soil at left, carbon rich soil at right. It’s not difficult, but it could make all the difference.…
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