It comes to the attention of our course takers at our Well End Micro-farm that neighbouring farms are more or less making concrete of their soil. We walk along public footpaths on some of our courses and it can be clearly seen how the continual deep ploughing brings up the layer of thick sticky clay […]
Article in the this weeks addition: Farmers Weekly – Sunday 10th August The tyranny of supermarkets continues and their demand for flawless vegetables is bordering on the obsessive. Top plant breeders speak out about how the pursuit of an ideal ‘skin finish’ on our much loved potato is actually inhibiting the development of improvements that would
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If anyone knows a journalist in the Guardian Newspaper, or any journalist, who want to increase knowledge about compost toilets – please ask them to write to us. There have been several articles recently about this subject since Glastonbury and they all stop short of fast processing of human effluent. Our HH-2 system would save
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In the IPC2015 – That’s the International Permaculture Convergence 2015 that will be held in London, a joint presentation will be made by Albert Bates, author of the Biochar Solution and Richard Higgins, author of the Lost Science of Organic Cultivation. Dates and venue to be confirmed.
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Richard Higgins has developed and run the worlds fastest compost toilet system in the world now for over 18 years. The system know as HH-2 is scheduled for Africa and India in the autumn and offers the most benefit to farmers and growers anywhere. Most compost toilets systems are about pretty housings – that of
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http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/farming/farming_20140703-1028a.mp3 This discussion starts at 3.12 on transmission of TB in cattle. No one has considered soil fertility as a factor. The discussion involves the Farming Minister George Eustice and scientists from Warwick and Cambridge Universities. He says we have dozens of experts in DEFRA;………… but none of them are even considering soil fertility, or
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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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