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Building soil in the Yukon.
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My Mission is to grow nutrient dense food and teach what I have learnt to any one who will listen.
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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Permaculture...picking the lock back to Eden since 1978.
Pics of my Forest Garden
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Permaculture...picking the lock back to Eden since 1978.
Pics of my Forest Garden
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The advantages, the way I see it, would be the quality of compost itself that is produced in a larger volume, and the fact that you can do this while utilizing all your beds to grow plants. But the way you describe is also very worthy of doing. Yours would have more off-gassing, as there is less depth and so less critical composting mass., I think and it would take longer in some places to break down (maybe not in a damp temperate climate like you and I have). What your system does do, is it creates an intact ecosystem that will enable your soil food web to respond much more quickly.Curiosity question: What is the advantage of building a system like this vs. layering your compostables on the ground and covering with woodchips as a mulch? When I do that the worms borrow up from below and carry the nutrients down into the soil leaving it there as worm castings dispersed throughout the loosened soil they built their tunnels throughout. And they do it very quickly. They leave the woodchips in place which stay as a mulch cover for the fungi to more slowly break down.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."-Margaret Mead "The only thing worse than being blind, is having sight but no vision."-Helen Keller
Also, I'm pretty sure that once I had the technique down I could build one of these or something that works the same in about 1/3 of the time.
Update: I watched another Diego footer video where he adds the worms. So I was wrong about that after watching his original 'build' video.
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."-Margaret Mead "The only thing worse than being blind, is having sight but no vision."-Helen Keller
So he details that the predominant benefit is the fungi that naturally inhabits the bioreactor if build and loaded to specs.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."-Margaret Mead "The only thing worse than being blind, is having sight but no vision."-Helen Keller
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I've been very happy with the results of my Johnson su reactors. I put wire bins on top of pallettes, clad with cardboard. Fence poles removed after a day or so created the chimneys.
to keep them moist, I covered with some wool or old cotton cushions.
fine seed compost after a little less than a year without turning. The worms found their own way in. I add soil from healthy diverse biomesaas I build the piles for good microbes.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."-Margaret Mead "The only thing worse than being blind, is having sight but no vision."-Helen Keller
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Jim Lyons wrote:I’m wondering if anyone has tried increasing the number of worms added initially to the pile David Johnson recommends 100 worms. I’ve added now 5000 in the hopes that I might speed up the process and be able to use this compost after only six months instead of one year.
Country oriented nerd with primary interests in alternate energy in particular solar. Dabble in gardening, trees, cob, soil building and a host of others.
Has anyone experimented with different weave densities of burlap instead of polypropylene landscape cloth? I realize that this will change water evaporation dynamics at the outer edge, but a friend studies micro plastics and plastic fiber shedding has started to worry me.
I also realize the burlap won’t last as long.
Thanks for any info!!!
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."-Margaret Mead "The only thing worse than being blind, is having sight but no vision."-Helen Keller
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