Creating edible biodiversity and embracing everlasting abundance.
Some places need to be wild
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List of Bryant RedHawk's Epic Soil Series Threads We love visitors, that's why we live in a secluded cabin deep in the woods. "Buzzard's Roost (Asnikiye Heca) Farm." Promoting permaculture to save our planet.
Some places need to be wild
Some places need to be wild
Creating edible biodiversity and embracing everlasting abundance.
Some places need to be wild
Argue for your limitations and they are yours forever.
Creating edible biodiversity and embracing everlasting abundance.
Some places need to be wild
List of Bryant RedHawk's Epic Soil Series Threads We love visitors, that's why we live in a secluded cabin deep in the woods. "Buzzard's Roost (Asnikiye Heca) Farm." Promoting permaculture to save our planet.
Creating edible biodiversity and embracing everlasting abundance.
Some places need to be wild
Some places need to be wild
Creating edible biodiversity and embracing everlasting abundance.
Some places need to be wild
Eric Hanson wrote:
I have no idea if I was actually watching Dr. Steiner, but I simply remember a person using an old stocking with cooked rice and burying it under a tree for a period of time and then retrieving it with the microbes intact. Thanks for the more specific directions. Out of curiosity, is rice used because it is a supply of carbohydrates and an easy medium for growth. Could mashed potatoes or just about any grain work in place of the rice? Why do you use barley and wheat? Are they simply available or do they have properties you desire?
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Eric Hanson wrote:Redhawk,
I have no idea if I was actually watching Dr. Steiner, but I simply remember a person using an old stocking with cooked rice and burying it under a tree for a period of time and then retrieving it with the microbes intact. Thanks for the more specific directions. Out of curiosity, is rice used because it is a supply of carbohydrates and an easy medium for growth. Could mashed potatoes or just about any grain work in place of the rice? Why do you use barley and wheat? Are they simply available or do they have properties you desire?
Thanks in advance, and as always, thanks so much for your help for a neophyte like myself,
Eric
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Creating edible biodiversity and embracing everlasting abundance.
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Creating edible biodiversity and embracing everlasting abundance.
Eric Hanson wrote:One addendum to my earlier post,
I once saw a video about harvesting microbes. The basic technique was the same—harvest microbes from beneath healthy trees. The difference though was to instead of taking soil, instead dig a little hole near the tree’s roots and bury a nylon stocking or old pair of pantyhose filled with cooked rice and let it sit.
The basic idea is that the microbes will grow into the rice in the stocking. After a few weeks, you pull out the stocking and you have a bunch of rice infused with microbes which can then easily be spread into the gardens.
My plan is to dig my little holes and replace with stockings of rice so that I can harvest some more microbes later.
Please let me know your thoughts,
Eric
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Please narrow "soon" a little. We had a huge storm ~8 weeks ago and damp weather since. Would the tree that tipped then likely do the job? It's hung up at 45 degrees, so it will have to be brought down when the weather improves for safety reasons.you do need to find the downed tree rather soon after the event for best results.
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Eric Hanson wrote:Hugo,
I too am fascinated by all things fungal. Perhaps too fascinated. I am in the middle of a long term project to break down a bunch of wood chips by using wine cap mushrooms. I am also interested in eventually adding in an array of healthy microbes to ultimately turn my 12” thick bed of wood chips into a very fine mushroom compost with the appropriate bacteria to boot.
Eric
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Eric Hanson wrote:Redhawk,
I have no idea if I was actually watching Dr. Steiner, but I simply remember a person using an old stocking with cooked rice and burying it under a tree for a period of time and then retrieving it with the microbes intact. Thanks for the more specific directions. Out of curiosity, is rice used because it is a supply of carbohydrates and an easy medium for growth. Could mashed potatoes or just about any grain work in place of the rice? Why do you use barley and wheat? Are they simply available or do they have properties you desire?
Thanks in advance, and as always, thanks so much for your help for a neophyte like myself,
Eric
List of Bryant RedHawk's Epic Soil Series Threads We love visitors, that's why we live in a secluded cabin deep in the woods. "Buzzard's Roost (Asnikiye Heca) Farm." Promoting permaculture to save our planet.
Creating edible biodiversity and embracing everlasting abundance.
Creating edible biodiversity and embracing everlasting abundance.
property in Tas, Australia. Sandy / river silt soil.low ph. No nutrients due to leaching. Grazing country. Own water source. Zone 9b.
Creating edible biodiversity and embracing everlasting abundance.
List of Bryant RedHawk's Epic Soil Series Threads We love visitors, that's why we live in a secluded cabin deep in the woods. "Buzzard's Roost (Asnikiye Heca) Farm." Promoting permaculture to save our planet.
Eric Hanson wrote:dig a little hole near the tree’s roots and bury a nylon stocking or old pair of pantyhose filled with cooked rice and let it sit.
The basic idea is that the microbes will grow into the rice in the stocking. After a few weeks, you pull out the stocking and you have a bunch of rice infused with microbes which can then easily be spread into the gardens.
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Hugo Morvan wrote:I've read somewhere in the topics about soil building this comment by dr Redhawk that it's a good thing to go to the biggest oak in the forest and get some soil from around the stem and add it to your compost. Because oaks, especially old established ones have lots of different kinds of mycorrhizal fungi cooperation going on. Then add this soil to your compost, to inoculate it with those fungi (and bacteria). Which in turn will inoculate the garden when added to the garden soil. I've read in teaming with microbes, diversity in microbe species is a good thing, because if there are "bad" microbes there will always be one other kind praying on them, so a natural equilibrium will keep them in check, figured the same will go for mycelium.
Creating edible biodiversity and embracing everlasting abundance.
"The rule of no realm is mine. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, these are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail in my task if anything that passes through this night can still grow fairer or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. For I too am a steward. Did you not know?" Gandolf
Jay Angler wrote:Dr. Redhawk wrote:
Please narrow "soon" a little. We had a huge storm ~8 weeks ago and damp weather since. Would the tree that tipped then likely do the job? It's hung up at 45 degrees, so it will have to be brought down when the weather improves for safety reasons.you do need to find the downed tree rather soon after the event for best results.
List of Bryant RedHawk's Epic Soil Series Threads We love visitors, that's why we live in a secluded cabin deep in the woods. "Buzzard's Roost (Asnikiye Heca) Farm." Promoting permaculture to save our planet.
Eric Hanson wrote:One addendum to my earlier post,
I once saw a video about harvesting microbes. The basic technique was the same—harvest microbes from beneath healthy trees. The difference though was to instead of taking soil, instead dig a little hole near the tree’s roots and bury a nylon stocking or old pair of pantyhose filled with cooked rice and let it sit.
The basic idea is that the microbes will grow into the rice in the stocking. After a few weeks, you pull out the stocking and you have a bunch of rice infused with microbes which can then easily be spread into the gardens.
My plan is to dig my little holes and replace with stockings of rice so that I can harvest some more microbes later.
Please let me know your thoughts,
Eric
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