Ginger Keenan

Wanted to let you know about Free Webinar on Fri Nov 18th 11AM PST. Restoring Your Soil Biology, Increasing Yields and Reducing Costs.  My mentor, Dr. Elaine Ingham is presenting. Register here:  http://bit.ly/2gidg4A     Please Share with your networks.  Thanks -Jennifer Keenan Taylor  

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I have composted slaughter waste in a compost pile I built and turned every two days for the first week. It cannot be more than 10% of the pile contents. Everything is gone but the largest bones. That is how you get blood/bone/feather nutrients and elements into your garden! Hot compost that is actively managed to keep it aerobic. It doesn't hurt to send your worms through the pile after it cools off

After taking Dr. Elaine Ingham's couse I have been able to take winter animal bedding that was producing ammonia and turn it into something wonderful that smells like the forest after a rain storm. A question for David Goodman, what is your favorite composting story? What did it smell like in the end? Do you use a microscope to confirm/analyze what you are seeing at the macro-level?

Inline with Dr. Elaine Ingham's composting, you really do need a more balanced compost with manure (or other high nitrogen source) consisting of no more than 10% of the starting material.

My secret sauce for adding green (because I too lack green material) is to sprout a bag of oats, a bag of sunflower seeds, and to add a bag of pelletized alfalfa. The rinse water from the sprouts is loaded with bacteria and bacteria food which is the component you are missing. The alfalfa is bacteria food. You are trying to feed bacteria and feed fungal elements. They are the source food for critters higher up on the soil life food chain.

Dandridge,those greens look amazing! Our last snow pile just melted away yesterday...

I am writing to report on the first edibles of spring that are emerging. There are hundreds of acorns just starting to sprout. Just like sprouting almonds, chia, or any nut or seed, the nutritional values for sprouts is higher than the dormant form. I would guess that much of the tannins leached out over winter.

My planted perennial french sorrel has emerged and is a family favorite that we fight over

The leaves of the common daisy have barely emerged and taste AMAZING.

The daylilies have leaves that are ready to harvest.

The chickweeds looks ready to nibble on too.

What have you found that is ready to eat in zone 4-5?

Nice article

Yep, I'm still here, but I don't have the specific answers you are looking for. Hoping to get piglets in the spring.

They eat the ones that get run over in the driveway . I do have the Davebuilt nutcracker that I plan to use after I dry some this year.

Wow!!! Seriously! The acorns are forming on the shoots??? Fantastic. I did NOT expect that. I will better watch my oak stumps.