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Category: Gardening
This is Why You Should Use Wood Chips
There are many reasons why you should use wood chips in your garden. Wood chips provide great benefits for your plants. Often available for free, wood chips can improve soil nutrient levels, suppress and kill weeds, increase soil moisture levels, moderate soil temperatures, and protect soil from damage. Also known as arborist wood chips, they…
Q&A – How do you keep ants out of your compost pile?
Ants are one of the creatures that help break down compost and you don’t need to worry about them. If you turn your compost pile regularly, the ants may visit but they won’t stay or build a nest because they don’t like being disturbed. Here are some other videos about composting: Building a Compost Pile:…
Some clips of the “swamp tour”.
Main frame is largely in place here. Lots happening all it needs is time and a bit of tweaking here and there. #broadscalepermaculture Source
Composting with the Community: How KFB is ‘the dream model’
Healthy produce starts from the ground up. Yes, that means soil! The Earth Flow in-vessel compost system turns KFB’s food and material waste into rich soil. Green Mountain Technologies, creator of Earth Flow, visited the Kent County Farm to see how KFB is using their system to support the West Michigan community. “This is, I…
Permaculture Design Process
Phases of permaculture design are: Research, Explore, Ideate and Present. This short presentation walks you through some of the key stages in making your permaculture design. Source
5 Reasons Your Compost Bin is Not Composting
A look at a few simple reasons that may be preventing your HotBin Compost Bin from getting hot and producing great compost. CLICK Here for more info: https://www.hotbincomposting.com Hot composting and making your own compost has a huge number of benefits. Home composting can be a rewarding and therapeutic pursuit to help you relax and…
Understanding Groundcovers in Your Orchard or Vineyard
We don’t always give much thought to the flora covering the ground in our orchards and vineyard. But the truth is, a lot happens both on and below the ground that helps determine the health of our fruit crop. Groundcovers like grasses, clovers, and weeds house good and bad insects, influence soil health, compete with…
Compost Still Not Fertile Enough
We repeated an experiment of growing potato plants in municipal compost for the second year. I was expecting that additional time would have helped the compost to mature a lot more so that it would be able to release a better supply of nitrogen for the growing plants. But it seems without a lot of…