J. L. Jones

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I grew up in a rural Alabama community (as a bow, Mayberry looked big) working on family farms, learned carpentry from my father and uncles, a natural mechanic, intuitive engineer who became a mechanical engineer.
A US Marine non-com, former "real" (club) biker, worked in industry, regarded as an accomplished industrial electrician, mechanic-mill wright, pipe fitter, fabricator, and fairly competent machinist, among other stuph.
Along about 97-99 a renewed interest in organic, natural horticulture accompanied what I consider my spiritual awakening. That soon led to my stumbling upon permaculture, finding morsels here and there as this new-fangled world wide web began to develop.
My first really good, cohesive instruction was a few years ago in the form of the "Open Permaculture School" free online course, which I learned of on Permies.com and highly recommend. I hope to meet Larry Korn and Max Meyers. Their lessons provided a good base for more enlightened self-study, eventually receiving my PDC from Alan Booker at Eldenbridge Institute.
My immediate future educational an earth-works course, with which I have a lot of experience in construction earth-works and farming, having terraced pastures with a two-bottom mold board plow. My most pressing interest is perhaps, studying soil microbiology with Dr. Ingham.
My prime objectives in regenerative sustainability are both the promotion of urban homesteads and the remediation of decimated agricultural lands, into homesteads and larger scale, high production sites.
To which I have begun doing business as North Alabama Permaculture.
I need to let this go now, I'm looking forward to working with lots of fellow Permies and living in a healthier, more wholesome and equitable world.
Thanks for reading.
J. L.
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Brownsboro, AL, United States
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Hey folks. Wondering if anyone's investigated this, am I, as I haven't, yet, had the opportunity.

What is the antimicrobial effect of cedar boxes on the soil contained? Does the close proximity of the cedar negatively effect the microbiome?

If anyone has established cedar raised-beds and is also interested, I'd love to have some samples for analysis.

Thanks
4 years ago
As Anthony said, "rubbish in, rubbish out", is paramount for the compost. For soil rehab,  "typically",  you need very fungally dominant tea. Typically. However,  as Dr.  Ingham stresses time and again, you MUST test first to assess baseline soil conditions. Without it you're only guessing.

Worm casting tea isn't going to be terribly fungal. Best to produce GOOD compost tailored for fungal production, then take enough out for a couple, or more tea batches and mix in good fungal foods, I like oats, and add humic acid. Then let it have a few days to get "fuzzy" with mycelia, then brew.

Ensure your brewer doesn't have sharp corners which will become stagnant, and NEVER use an air stone,  as they will contaminate and are uncleanable. The surface disturbance is what oxygenates the brew,  requiring sufficient air and large bubbles. Dr. Ingham suggested a MINIMUM of about 2 - 3 cfm for a 200 hal brew. I'm concerned that would be in an IDEAL vessel. As I'm not wealthy I use an Ecoair 7 air pump (about $100 @ Amazon), 3566 gal/hr (7.95 cfm) @ 6.96psi which is 22.9 ft-water,  works great in 55 gal plastic drum batch.  I plan to add another when scaling up to a tote.

Large populations of beneficials with few detrimentals can not be over stressed. Apply your tea, then Carbonaceous mulch, and / or spray the mulch. Your goal is inoculation and ensuring available food. And protection from sun and wind, etc.

Good luck, if I can help, or you need testing, DM me.
4 years ago

Hi folks.

Just testin' the water, makin' my first post.  My name Is J. L., I live in Brownsboro, AL, a community just outside Huntsville .

I've been interested in permaculture since about 2000, done lots of self study and some on-line work, recently completing my PDC here locally.  

My primary goals are remediation of urban lots into productivity and returning decimated agricultural lands into reasonable scale, regenerative productivity.

Anyway, just sayin' hi and I hope to work with lots of you folks in the future.
8 years ago