As suggested in this post we will try out to establish a weekly observations thread. Share whats happening in your hometown, region or country that might not be in the focus of international media!
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Location: Southern Ireland
Picture: Friendship Decline among US men and women
Thank you for your post. Have you tried making biochar onsite from surplus biomass and infuse it with compost tea? Your plot is also probably going to need any external biomass you could bring in. Would starting hugelkultur be suitable for your location?
Working on biochar now, and already started with hugelkultur. I’m also slowly importing more biomass but good stuff is expensive (and I’m not using manure for various reasons). I think I forgot to mention that I’m also growing beneficial bacteria (including oleophilics because pollution is an additional concern) and periodically adding it to the soil and compost.
I had been wanting to get started on this for years so I had a big backlog and took it on at full throttle. It will be some time still before it all really pulls together, like the hugelkultur, but that’s just the way it goes.
I’m not an expert or professional in any of these areas (I just read a lot of papers), by the way, so I welcome advice and discussion from everyone here. I find something new I never knew I needed to learn just about every day.
I have no practical experience with growing things, other than running a jungle of a grass roof, with hardwood ash (with some carbon there) and crushed basalt, random organics from biowaste and an adjacent compost heap. Insects, birds and mice seem to love it.
Your rebuilding project sounds very interesting, do you think you can post periodic updates?
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