This is the ChangeUnderground, Jon Moore reporting!
Decarbonise the air, recarbonise the soil!
And they got me to thinking about my own journey to my current understanding of the little buggers and how they don’t bother me anymore.
My first ever garden as a child was a small one metre square attempt at growing wheat from my Irish neighbour’s chook feed. Continue reading →
We have a problem. I was listening to a podcast, no names, no pack drill, about the “Real” Organic movement. I can see the point. The USDA Organic Standards have been interrogated by corporate lawyers to find loopholes. So hydroponic growing, a thing laughably not organic, is included in the USDA system and relabelled as container growing, even if the containers only hold pebbles and the nutrients are coming from the fertigation. Clearly this has nothing to do with improving soil health over time, the actual point of organic growing. Other things like a concrete pad alongside a chook shed with doors for the chooks to go outside passes as “having access to fresh air, sunshine and soil”. 5000 head dairies milking three times a day with hay being trucked in and manures mechanically spread on the newly cut hay fields also can qualify as organic under the standard. Continue reading →