Meet the woman turning Yellowknife's fish waste into gardening gold
Karine Gignac expects to start selling compost made of fish scraps, grain and wood chips this month
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In the future, Gignac envisions playing with different compost recipes, processing other animal carcasses, and extracting gasses from the composting process for electricity generation. She also wants to try using compost to remediate soil." #News#Gardening#Soil
If you plant a tree every day, in a lifetime you will plant a forest.
Our habits make us, #composting is a very rewarding habit, if you do it every day, in a matter of years you will be able to fix your topsoil, #GrowYourOwn plants, and create abundance.
You will also do your part in putting the carbon back into the #soil and help balance the #climate.
The most surprising revelation from NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover — that methane is seeping from the surface of Gale Crater — has scientists scratching their heads.
The first sign of spring in an unintentional garden the past three years- daikon radish sprouts. We scattered seeds as a soil booster and I discovered that I don't much care for the radish part, but the greens and seed pods are really tasty and make a great salad. #Spring#Soil#Gardening
Some things just don't biodegrade well here, and part of it is that we're still perfecting our composting workflow and making sure our heaps don't overdry and die in our arid environment. We're getting better all the time, and it's a learning process. But in the meantime, I've been doing a lot of research on biochar. Most of the USDA fact sheets only talk about using biochar from wood or agricultural "wastes" like cornstalks, straw, etc. However, I know for a fact that in much of South America it's common to burn animal bones, manure, and more.
So, talk to me about biochar! Do you use it? What do you burn? What have your results been? Do you combine it with other soil remediation tactics (compost, compost teas, etc.)?
What lives under your feet? First graders learned today in our soil invertebrates session! Samples from various locations on campus were tested and students counted the invertebrates they saw!
The pachysandra terminalis #dikkemanskruid is doing great, it protects the ground underneath my apple tree and makes for a thriving #soil life. #gardening
He Whenua Rongo – an Indigenous Seed, Soil and Food Sovereignty Symposium - coming up in Tāmaki 11 – 13 April.
For seed freedom and diversity, regenerating soils and restoring Aotearoa’s cultural food systems. Speakers include Jessica Hutchings and Vandana Shiva.
‘Solar-powered vacuum cleaners’: the native plants that could clean toxic soil (lighthouse-eco.co.za)
Indigenous groups see hope in the environmentally friendly process of bioremediation. But will cities pay attention?