A visitor to Well End told me recently that in the UK all children are given a vitamin K injection at the time of birth, unless you specifically refuse this offer. What supplies vitamin K. If we simply google this we find: Broccoli, frozen, chopped, cooked, boiled, drained, with salt Vitamin K: 629mcg Read More http://nutritiondata.self.com/foods-000104000000000000000-3.html#ixzz35u7XLykK In […]
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When fresh organic material undergoes decomposition in soil, both the rate of decomposition and the amount of humus formed are related to the C:N ratio of the residue. When other conditions are equal, the rate of decomposition increases as the C:N ratio narrows. Four conditions that are constant for all residue decomposition. A maximum of
7th June 2014 pod cast on Newcastle University trying to solve aphids that infest many crops. Rothamsted have also been trying to solve this problem for 50 years. http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/farming/farming_20140606-0951a.mp3 (starts at 3.0 minutes in) They are trying to make a bio pesticide by combing spider venom with a carrier molecule from
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Sustainable Agriculture London offer this dynamic course Introduction to Permaculture and Low Impact Living This is truly an Holistic course. This is advanced self perpetuating sustainable Permaculture in action. All things from the earth should be returned to the earth. We are the Good Gardeners International (reg. charity) Many people attend this course with a
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Radio 4 Broadcast President Obama is working with Mike Ryman to introduce (albeit) Synthetic minerals back into farming along with composting – congratulations guys! It’s never too late!!!! better late than never. SHAME ABOUT UK AGRICULTURE THOUGH THEY GO ON THINKING AGRICULTURE IS LIKE ANY OTHER BUSINESS – JUST FOR PROFIT . NO IT’S NOT.
excerpt from The Lost Science of Organic Cultivation page 103. Brahma Publications, 1997. Further Investigations …This system is adaptable to dry and monsoon conditions when the composting base is set upon a raft inside a bamboo tower. Each own of these towers reaching to say each of the three floors of a building. If floods
Cancer Tuesday 4th February: The BBC World News are headlining that WHO (Then World Health Organisation) have announced that the world is facing a tidal wave of CANCER. We must address the issues of obesity, alcohol and smoking. We are not going to solve this problem by the treatment route. Their (WHO) suggestion is to
“> Indigo Brave Visited Well End recently as they are a LAND Learner Centre with the Permaculture Association. They wanted to find out about our HH-2 fertility making system for their 30 acre farm. They have a TEDX talk in Nottingham
On the BBC boradcast of 4th Feb 2014 Germaine Greer is interviewed by Matthew Bannister about her wonderful work on her 60 hectare land purchase in Australia. This is no doubt wonderful work for the environment, but the slant so often given today from such an interview as this and so many others is that
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