I wanted to share a little on the potting soil we use for the plants in our #nursery:

What we are looking for is a medium that drains easily, yet retains moisture. The cost is also a factor.

Since we pot mostly perennials, I also am looking for a fungally dominant potting mix vs. bacterially dominant as you'd have with fresh compost.

Wood chips around here are easy to get by the truckload, and I use well rotted ones for the basis of my compost mix. And by "rotted" I mean "rotted": They look like soil and are completely broken down by fungus, it takes about 2-3 years.

On top of the wood chips I add about 5% by volume charged biochar. About half of this is sifted to 1/4" + and the other half of the biochar is right out of the leaf vacuum I use to crush it up. The biochar is charged with azomite, sea minerals, worm casts, and effective microorganisms (EM-1). We make the biochar right here on the farm. It serves both to provide and retain nutrients and moisture as well as provide drainage:

Then worm castings sifted to 1/8" and finer at around 5% by volume. I also raise the worms for the casts, the current system involves growing them in 4'x8' Waste Management Bagsters:

Finally about 1 quart of activated EM-1. This is 1 oz Terraganix EM-1 mixed with 1 oz blackstrap molasses in 30 oz of water:

This all gets mixed up by hand, and then we use it to pot our plants.

I mix it in a gorilla cart which will provide enough for about 25-30 trade gallon pots.

#grownostr #permaculture #fungi #plantstr #garden

Chicken coop progress report. Got all the parts in for the run yesterday. My entire body aches today. I'm wondering if there is a correlation...

Next step is getting the hardware cloth around the room and sorting out a cover of some type.

Anyone else have a #neverendingproject on the go?

#permies

Well, the same transcribed letters across all Abrahamic religions. I'm that annoying atheist that spent a lifetime in the faith studying the actual contents before disavowing them entirely.

Which is hilarious considering everyone began with the exact same source material.

Christianity vs Islam vs Judaism

We are using a KERBL door. It works very well, but due to chemtrails covering the sun, had to use the timer instead of the light senso for opening and closing. One thing you should look for is a door that will pause if accidentally a chicken is under it, otherwise it could squeeze it to death.

First day for the chickens to come outside on their own. Still a bit apprehensive.

#grownostr #compostworms #biochar #garden these guys are doing awesome in the 20 gallon garbage can. It is full of biochar, coffee and vegetable scraps.

I found a chicken snack. #grownostr #garden

Anyone want to compare podcast listening habits? I'll show you mine is you show me yours...

Yes. It has been a couple years. It is kind of lemon-y

I love how exotic they look. They are beautiful when flowering, when they have 'berries', and the foilige turns very bright red early in the fall.