How To Use Bokashi
Bokashi is used to ferment food scraps, not just fruits and vegetables, but also meat, dairy, and anything else you have from the kitchen. Whether you’ve purchased a bin or made your own, the process is the same. Here’s a…
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How To Make Bokashi
Let’s hop right in to making our own bokashi with a video: Link mentioned at end of video: How To Use Bokashi Bokashi Ingredients First, you need a substrate, like animal bedding, sawdust, rice or wheat bran. Then, per 1-gallon…
Gardening Tips For Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall
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Effective Microorganisms Uses
I’d like to get into the uses of effective microorganisms. (If you don’t know what EM is, you can start here.) We already know that microorganisms perform many critical tasks in the world – in our bodies, in the soil,…
Major Plant Nutrients
While calcium and phosphorus are often considered the most important minerals among organic and biological gardeners and farmers, we know it’s not that simple. A granite quarry in Madrid province, Spain. All nutrients need to be there in sufficient quantities…
Calcium and Phosphorus
Calcium and phosphorus are two of the most important nutrients for plants. One of the most common “disease” symptoms in tomatoes – blossom end rot – is really a sign of calcium deficiency. Conventional gardening and farming largely ignore these,…
Supplementing Nutrients
Microbes and plants need nutrients. We can supply most of these nutrients through good mulches and well-made compost, but not only do we need the nutrients, we need them in specific amounts in relation to each other. The old paradigm….
Effective Microorganisms
Dr. Teruo Higa started studying microorganisms in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly at Ryukyus University in Okinawa, Japan. By the early 1980s, he was perfecting his liquid culture of specific “facultative anaerobic microbes” that provide amazing benefits when combined together…
Microorganism Inoculants
Do you have too much compost? I know I don’t. It’s always in short supply. Most of us don’t have too much organic matter in our soil either. In fact, most of us don’t have nearly enough. Microbes are the…
Indoor Composting
Perhaps you don’t have the room or inclination to make a full-sized outdoor compost pile. Fortunately, even a small amount of compost can be highly beneficial. This article outlines two methods of composting your food scraps that can be done…
Cover Crops
Cover crops are traditionally thought of as plants used when the garden or field is empty, such as over winter and sometimes over summer. But I like to broaden this definition to also include plants used during the growing season,…
Compost Tea
There’s been a lot of excitement in the last 15 years about the benefits of compost tea and nearly as much confusion about what it is. The benefits are all the same as those things microbes do in the garden…