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How to make Compost: Pt.1
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or7WvoOVbuM] Compost is so good, and so essential to the establishment of any system. Balcony garden, a big kitchen garden, or just the pot-plants. Surprisingly,...
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How to make Compost: Pt.2
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i30BxEvOXRs] So - the compost pile is made.... fast forward to two weeks later... the compost is composting! Despite my well-intentioned but slightly incorrect...
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How to make Compost: Pt.3
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9EGuviXznU] And so here is the final product - three weeks on from the beginning, and 9 days on from the middle of the compost making process. Pretty impressive...
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Nick Ritar’s TEDx Canberra Talk: Two things you can do Every Day to save the...
Recently Nick gave a talk at TEDx Canberra. He talked about stewarding nutrients, how we can solve the problem of peak phosphorous, and about how to grow the best cumquats ever. Yes, Nick was talking...
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Humanure Artists with Grunt: Cloacina
Portland Composting System © Cloacina As Nick found out when researching for his TEDx Canberra talk on how to save the world with humanure, it’s hard to find good pictures of poo. You may not believe...
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On-Farm Composting: the story so far…
On-farm composting is a big part of our farm’s nutrient cycling, and an essential technique for ensuring nutrient density for our veggies and tree crops. Over the past couple of years we’ve tried and...
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Vertigation: passive injection worm juice irrigation for the kitchen garden
Anyone with compost worms knows how valuable the worm juice from their wormfarm can be as part of veggie growing. The trick is remembering to add it, and having a good method of applying it. Last year...
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Farm journal: mushrooms, bacon & ladybirds
This last week at Milkwood Farm we’re kicking into the swing of Spring, and welcoming new crew to the Farm. There was a Mushroom Cultivation course held, and much home-cured, home grown, nitrate-free...
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How Brydie Became a Compost Geek
Compost. It brings health and diversity to your soil, holds moisture in at a greater rate, diverts needless landfill and is something I’m finding, you can get quite geeky about. If someone had told me...
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