Today we put another coat of paint on the chicken tractor. It is now a beautiful light green, and we're ready to toss some chickens in it.
We also made a batch of aerobic compost tea. First we put a few cups of compost and well water into a barrel, then added a solar powered air pump to aerate it. After a couple days of brewing, we sprayed the tea on many of the plants that had been pruned recently. We've also been soaking the roots of the trees in the orchard.
We still need to get feedback about potential workshops that people would be interested in attending. Please email us at growcology@gmail.com and we'll get right back to you.
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I'd love to see a photo of your light green chicken tractor. Any chance of getting a camera out into the garden? As for your workshops, I'm assuming these are events when physical people have to be physically present in a physical location? Not that I could get up there, but how about a session on the beneficial effects of myccorhizal fungi in soil? Are you an advocate?
ReplyDeleteAs far as mycorrhizal fungus goes, I think we are definite advocates for building a healthy soil food web in general.
ReplyDeleteThat said, there can be no blanket statement for anything in the garden... For example, I would not put any mycorrhizal innoculant anywhere near that 30% of species such as mustard greens or the amaranth, as it might just limit their growth if not kill them.
That said as well, most of my gospel literature warns against using inoculum in a soil that is potentially already rich with native fungi, as a commercially propagated exotic fungus may be detrimental to the local fungus population.
in summary, mycorrhizal inoculation seems a great remediation technique IF needed....
now you've got me thinking about organizing a workshop on the subject.
Lets do it! The pros and cons of introduced fungi, plus lets spray some different spores on bags of wood chips and grow some maitaki and portabellas...
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