Rh Lemmer

Exactly my thoughts. A type of probiotic water. We can use an oxygenator to keep the water bubbling. Maybe add some banana peels, veggie scraps etc, and brew a fresh batch every couple days. But the water kefir sounds interesting I’ll check it out

I was also thinking about possibilities of parasites. So there is caution in this. My mind just thinks about kids that eat sand in the play pit, etc. Look, it’s not ideal, but it gets me thinking about our micro-gut biome and how it can be “fed”. Even eating unwashed carrots from the garden. It just makes sense to me when I look at monkeys/baboons (apparently we can eat everything a baboon eats if we are in a survival mode). Our health, I believe, starts in our guy biome, which essentially is our “soil”.

I just had a “shower” thought.

I often find drinking water straight from nature, up in the forests for example, as much better than municipal tap water that has been chlorinated and with possible traces of estrogen and fecal matter - stuff I honestly don’t want to put into my body. I also have the belief that store bought water has been stripped of everything beneficial,  which is also a negative for me.

So I was thinking…how can I “create” natural water.

Rain water + ?

What if, like how I feed my plants a liquid fertilizer, I make a microbally active liquid “tea” for my own consumption? Soil from an indigenous forest or from my own property (if I knew the history of the farm). Fruit peels that have been grown by me to make sure no chemicals have been sprayed on it. Maybe even a touch of worm juice, say diluted to 1:1000.

I don’t see how the water I drink from a river in the middle of a forest as different to a homemade tea.

What’s your take on this? Has it been done and explored?

Compost isnt really an option as these swales are 100m long. We planted some cover crops on the berms and I a thinking to chop and drop them to add organic matter to the soil. Maybe even spraying it with some comfrey tea to speed up the decompostion process.

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself”

Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

Hey ya'll

Need some suggestions for the site I am at. We dug some swales about a month back in a horse/cow paddock, the soil is heavy clay and is heavily saturated with water. We dug the swales to spread the effluent from the hotel's laundry water. The water is not draining completely, and this is attracting mosquitoes to start a breeding ground.


My ideas:
1. Plant trees on the swales to help suck up this water. We have cows and horses that will be grazing, so preferably something they find palatable, can stand in water and is hardy in zone 7.
2. Fill the swale with organic matter like woodchips so the chips act as a sponge and will not allow mosquitoes to breed.

Any suggestions will be appreciated!