I'm working thru the struggles of realization that a modern society ignores, and is oblivious to the genius workings of life, and we as individuals can come together to heal the ecosystems and ourselves simply by listening to the landscape and spending some intimate time in the soil with a shovel.

I came to watch to get you back on my algorithme. We are starting all over on raw land in my eco village so yeah getting inspired while I wait ti break ground.

@Green.Country.Agroforestry

2 ай бұрын

I would love to see what all of the other village folk are doing, if they will let you get them on camera .. a place like that can be just like an Art College, Life Sciences and Applied Physics lab all in one!

You talked about something like this a couple years ago and I actually started doing it at the cabin. I’m not sure what type of wood I used but I ended up with lobster mushrooms. They are so delicious.

@Green.Country.Agroforestry

2 ай бұрын

I nabbed a chunk of wood chips out of one of the trenches, aged one year .. I'll show it tonight on the live stream .. I have NO idea what kind of fungi are in it .. but you can tell that those chips have turned into a sponge 😊 Lobsters are such an interesting fungi - they don't go after the wood itself, but the fungi that consumed the wood .. so they are a parasitic fungi that attacks other fungi. I wonder if it would eat honey fungus ?

@karlsoffthegrid1378

2 ай бұрын

@@Green.Country.Agroforestry this stuff intrigues me. It’s great to finally start to learn about it

A wood chip swale!!! Sweet!❤😊

I'm just a bloke in N. Minnesota. I like to comment. It's part of staying connected. My thought was with just luck, it will be a rainy summer and plants will be in swamp. Hard to 'control' mother nature. "Are you telling me councilor, who is going to be President in 2025? Now/ that would be valuable information!" Taken from 'The Firm' a 1993 American Film. Keep enjoying your life Jason! I'm with the Scouts under the dinning fly. Best!

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Just ordered some onions. 😊

@Green.Country.Agroforestry

2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much! We'll get them out first thing Monday morning - reduces the odds of getting stuck in a post office box over the weekend

@Carolynfoodforest355

2 ай бұрын

@@Green.Country.Agroforestry Thank you

Was it DTG or also you Jason? Working with Nature instead of against, ah but to my dismay it seems most people want to do their "thing". I'm thinking what you're hinting us is called hugelculture? Just using what you have on hand and not worrying or trying to get wood.Thanks for sharing this glimpse into your beautiful Walking Onion patch, 👍and loving the kitty cameo.😺

@Green.Country.Agroforestry

2 ай бұрын

Hügelkultur involves large amounts of wood, big logs and entire trees as the base for an earthwork, where the logs provide a core that will decompose over many years, and planting is done atop that mound. This technique lets you plant into the soil that you already have, and makes use of decomposing wood's water retention abilities _close_ to the plants, where they can get the water, but without putting them in a competition with the decomposition. If I did not have access to wood chips at all, this would be more like hügelkultur, because all of the wood pieces would have to be much larger .. and the time needed to break down everything into soil would have to be changed accordingly. Whatever material you can get, just take its decomposition time into account, and adjust: Corn stalks, canna stalks, Jerusalem artichoke stalks are all woody, but will take a year to break down (probably faster where you are, though!) Wood chips take about 2 years, and hay, straw and grass clippings, leaves, etc. take just a few months. If you turn your walkways out every 2-3 years instead of every 4-5, you are still soil building .. and maybe even faster.

This video came at the perfect time. Thank you!!!

Thanks for sharing 💜

Have watched the Eden gardening videos amazing what nature can do

@Green.Country.Agroforestry

2 ай бұрын

Nature does it all .. all we can do is either help it along, slow it down, or get out of the way 😉

Did somebody says wood?🦠🍄

Do the woodchips require any sort of spore inoculation? Or does the mycelium find its way there on its own? Really like the ideas and info provided in this video, Thanks!

@Green.Country.Agroforestry

2 ай бұрын

It really depends on where you get your woody material from .. here, we have a nearby city that disposed of all its green waste at once, in a huge tub grinder, so there is a little of _everything_ in there. A lot of folks have to rely on what the power company guys come up with, or order a drop from getchipdrop.com .. and what you get may be just one single species .. not necessarily _bad,_ but the more samples you get, the better chance that there will be some fungi hitching a ride that will be happy to break down your chips for you. If you want to tip the scales in the favor of something edible, Grab a bag of King Stropharia spawn, and sprinkle that in between layers (after Step one, and at step two, when adding additional chips to the walkways) After about a year or so, those wine cap mushrooms will begin coming up .. and you can just sauté them in butter or olive oil, and they will taste like a portabella sautéed in wine. We really SHOULD do that .. But I'm currently a little short on mushroom spawn funds whether you get edible fungi or not, it is those fungi that are going to bank the most water for you.

@NHamel123

24 күн бұрын

Dynomyco can also help if you have the money for it