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Learn what biochar is, how it is different from charcoal, how to make biochar yourself and apply it in your garden, farm or livestock operation.
Welcome to Nutrient Cycling For Homesteads! This post series covers the many ways you can build fertility, create soil, cycle nutrients and take responsibility for “waste” streams on your property. These systems all integrate with one another to increase resilience, improve nutrition (for soil and humans) and save dollars. The posts are written from our…
DIY Air Pruning Beds – Grow Hundreds Of Trees With Well-Formed Root Structures In A Tiny Footprint What Is Air Pruning? Air pruning is a technique for developing healthy, fibrous, non-circling and non-girdling root structures in trees and and plants raised in a nursery setting that uses air to prune and shape root systems. Trees…
This Eco-System is a downloadable PDF step-by-step illustrated guide that walks you through the process of building your own Off Grid Solar Powered Automated Irrigation System for less than $600. For those of us that don’t own land or have unknown land tenure we are all familiar with the tug-of-war between putting in energy/investment/capital…
Can an eco-system make use of single-use, polluting resource and still be called an eco-system? This question drives right at the heart of what right livelihood is and what it means to be regenerative and abundant (more on that later in the article). It also addresses a few of the difficulties with paying yourself to…
What makes an Eco-System? You’re probably reading this because you’re interested in finding a way to support yourself and those under your care (or that might be in the future) in a way that actually makes the ecosystem in which we all live healthier and more abundant. And you don’t just want to scrape by…
We finally made the investment in automating our microgreen growing set up and it has demonstrated immediate time savings of several hours a week (and we’re a small scale grower). Prior to building this system we had all of our germinated 1020 shallow trays with their own white, leak-proof bottom watering tray. This, not surprisingly,…