posted 3 years ago
Hey,
My bioreactor experience is limited,
when I was 3-4 week into permaculture I had not know what a bio reactor was and was trying to make a fungal material to be in the centre of a raised garden. I had watched 2 hours of an elaine ingham lecture on youtube.
I created a wire cage on top of agg pipes, formed into a platform I used black shade cloth on the external of the round wire cage, it was just short of 1m in diameter and about 1.5 height, I used 5 evenly spaced Agg pipes on with stakes in the centre of them.
Walked into the bush followed some brush turkeys
collected Mycelium, and some spores from the scratchings,
I found piles of branches for a kerb pick up.
I put the branches through a wood chipper which I modified to reduce the moisture and improve the distributer, because of the green branches.
I mixed this in a wheel barrow then cleaned out the pantry and fridges, I collected the expired, milk, juice, sauces . wiped down the fridges and pantry.
Put everything back.
Then I mixed the wheel barrow mulch with water and several buckets of coffee grounds from the church I went to and McDonalds, I used the toad in the hole method, and mixed, like cement, I shovelled this in to the bioreactor and mixed in the mycelium, spores and expired products, Because of the humidity of my region being mostly over 60 percent, I figured it was perfect and did not need to worry about spraying more mist into the system later,
I made several mistakes with this first attempt, One, was the process of stacking the materials needed to be optimised, the opening of the cage needed to be more reusable. and I needed to wear gloves when handling the fungi, the bigger issue was the Agg pipes were weak spots and would have been better not to be fixed into the system so later I restacked this and fixed those issues, as well I remade the base out of wire mesh, rebar grid, and sleeper, I also made sure to have 5 panels that could be removed step by step so it would fall into the wheel barrow with a HO,
this worked well,
I now have noticed a huge paper waste from many different sources, and Have learnt about Johnson Su,
I want to Build a bio reactor properly designed for paper waste,
Worm can not keep up with supply,
and I am done with crickets,
I plan on soaking the paper, Look online for a closed bakery or café or pizza shop, if I can get a mixer great, else wise I am thinking of finding a washing machine, or a concrete mixer, or maybe using builders liner to make a pond, or maybe trying to use a kids pool,
Soaking and breaking the paper down, to a sludge, pouring this sludge down a honeycomb sieve heating system,
and use that for the bio reactor fuel,
Or do I put all the paper into into a cage, let it rain and make the paper break down and fall into a collection point, when the weight is enough a level would flip and raise a flag to put it to the bio reactor, this then works by doing the bio reactor partially,
I understand that the paper contains toxic ink and I would only use black and white,
My other idea is to make a solar cooker, for the paper, and cremate it, taking notes from Zoroastrian technology, funnel the smoke into water to help with some plants germination, and use the remain to be scattered throughout the garden,
Please any ideas or thoughts?
